

Collaborators - Dave Sitek, Brian Lee Hughes. Along with a relocation to Los Angeles in 2014 the band has re-spawned a few times into their current incarnation of Tim Hellman on bass, Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone on drums. John Dwyer, Brigid Dawson, Petey Dammit, Mike Shoun Past members - Lars Finberg, Patrick Mullens, Jigmae Baer.

In time OCS morphed into an actual band, and worked under the usual flurry of names, most notably as the Oh Sees or the Ohsees, and eventually as Thee Oh Sees, featuring Dwyer on guitar and vocals, Brigid Dawson on vocals and tambourine, Petey Dammit (sometimes listed as Petey Dammit!) on guitar, and Mike Shoun on drums. Petey Dammit / Platinum 2 51LP / 86Win 88Lose Win Rate 49 / Vex - 19Win 13Lose Win Rate 59, Lee Sin - 12Win 10Lose Win Rate 55, Elise - 6Win 8Lose Win Rate 43, Kayn - 6Win 4Lose Win Rate 60, Poppy - 5Win 5Lose Win Rate 50. 25 show at The Granada, 1020 Mass, guitarist Petey Dammit talked to our own Alex Garrison about living in Lawrence, being broke but happy, and hippo milk. Led by SF expatriate Jason Finazzo, the Birth Defects initially featured former guitarist for Thee Oh Sees Petey Dammit, ex-Bleached bassist Jonathan Safley and drummer Jason Gerkin (who played. Dwyer, who hails from Providence, RI, has been active on the San Francisco indie scene since the late ’90s, working with several bands, including the Coachwhips, Pink & Brown, Yikes, Up Its Alive, and Swords & Sandals, among others, and he formed OCS (which is an acronym for Orinoka Crash Suite, Orange County Sound, or whatever Dwyer decided it was on any given day) initially as a vehicle for the experimental instrumentals he was producing in his home studio. The band was one of the most talked about shows at last year's Scion Garage Fest, furthering their reputation as high-octane live performers. Thee Oh Sees are the latest incarnation of songwriter, singer, guitarist (and Castle Face fearless leader) John Dwyer’s ever-evolving pop-folk psychedelic group.
