Blenderhead

Blenderhead was a punk rock band signed to Tooth & Nail Records. They released three full-length albums from 1992 to 2001.
In 1992, Bill Power (formerly of Point Blank, Ashes to Ashes, and Gloria) met Matt Johnson and Ed Carrigan at a Louis Palaou crusade. These three were the only "punk-looking people" at the event, so they decided to start talking to each other. Johnson and Carrigan were in a funk-punk band at the time called Don't Know.
Power eventually recruited Johnson on drums to start Blenderhead. Brian Gray (who had played in Mortal and Rocks in Pink Cement) moved to Seattle and joined the band on bass guitar. Bili Repenning joined on guitar. Blenderhead booked their first show at a hall and then got The Crucified to come up and play as the headliner. Brandon Ebel and his brother were both at that show. This line-up recorded one song called "Invasion of the Brainsnatchers" for the ACM Journal: 3rd Anniversary Compilation in 1992. A local radio show played this song, with the DJs referring to the band as "The Blenderheds." This became an ongoing joke with the band - their debut CD even opened with a recording of this dialogue.
After a couple more shows, Gray quit and formed The Blamed. Repenning also quit the band as well at some point. Blenderhead was able to convince Ed Carrigan to join on bass and Eben Haase to join on guitar. Carrigan and Haase were also members of Don't Know. Some of the band lived at a place called "House-O-Funk," which was a group house that also had house shows. In 1993, this line-up of the the band recorded their debut EP for Morphine Records.
Power stayed in touch with Ebel and even sent him a copy of the Fearless Donkey Songs From The Rain Factory Volume 1 compilation CD when Ebel was working at Frontline Records. When Ebel started Tooth & Nail Records, he contacted Power about putting Blenderhead on a compilation he was working on called Helpless Amongst Friends. Wish for Eden and Focused went on a west coast tour after releasing their Tooth & Nail Records debut albums. Power promoted the shows for that tour in Seattle, putting Blenderhead on the bill. One of the shows was at the House-O-Funk attend by Ebel, who was in town to visit his family (around Christmas time). After the show, Ebel offered Power a record deal for Blenderhead. At some point before 1994, Paul Henry of Don't Know also joined the band on bass, leaving Power to focus solely on vocals.
While the band was recording their first album for Tooth & Nail Records, Power convinced Ebel to let him run the label's mail order from Seattle. Power worked at Tooth & Nail Records from 1993-2003. Right before the band went in to record their first album, Power became very sick and could barely record his vocals. Some of the vocal takes had to be re-recorded during the mixing stage. Power says that a lot of the aggression of the vocals for the first album was because his voice was extra harsh from being sick.