Shea Bliss
Shea Bliss snuck into the Seattle music scene through the back gate some years ago and has been milling around in the yard for some time, jumping on the trampoline. Having known Shea for nearly a decade, Daniel G. Harmann invited him inside and offered him a seat at his table.
“All you can eat and drink, no waiting. As long as you bring the Rock,” offered Daniel with open arms.
Shea wiped his feet and dropped his well-worn suitcase full of years spent playing with Zera Marvel and Graig Markel in Tagging Satellites and their respective solo ventures, a brief guest seat with Transmissionary Six, a long worthy slog with Jeffrey McCallum’s Fastgirls (later dubbed Go Go Sugar) and some experimental years with a considerably unknown Christmas Island.
He plays a lovingly neglected, 70′s era white Slingerland with add ons from drum stores and antique malls. Shea’s not particular about what kind of sticks he uses but really really wishes they were all hickory. As long as the left one goes in the left hand, and the right one in the right, he tends to play pretty well.
Shea says he’s never been nervous on stage or in the KEXP studio. “I pretty much lost the butterflies after having to lead a 50 person marching band as drum major and twirl a baton in front of thousands of peers and a panel of eagle eyed judges. After that, playing in a band with my friends on a 10 x 10 stage is like a surprise birthday party. It’s a blast and you wouldn’t want to be anywhere else at that moment.”
