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Octa-Bio
Born Regan Balman in
Lakewood
Washington, "Octaman" is an unusual talent. In
his early teen years he was a gifted honor student needing to be placed
in special accelerated classes for reading, writing, math, foreign
language and especially music, going from first chair clarinet to
playing guitar in the advanced jazz program.
Ostracized within his family for being
different, this true life Cinderella was despised
by his
father and
siblings. He was
made
to
push a broom at the family boat dealership for many years
without advancement...
The rebel soul gravitated
toward
music. Long before he was 18 years old he had already worked in
every
major club in the Pacific northwest as the favorite roadie for the
legendary band "The Boibs" (now "The Beatniks"). They invited him
to
play guitar on stage with them for shows in the U.S. and Canada.
The
band broke up just after being listed in TV guide for an upcoming "Star
Search" program they were about to appear on. It was but the
first of his many roller coaster rides nearly to the top...
At age 20, a New York City
television production company held a mass cattle-call audition in
Seattle seeking cast members for a new live cable TV comedy show
similar to "Saturday Night Live." Among thousands of applicants,
Regan
was asked to come back for a second and third audition, until he was
ultimately chosen as one of the eight cast members for the show.
A
conflict between producers resulted in the show being canceled before
it aired...
At the tender age of 21 he
quickly became the hottest new professional stand-up comedian in
Seattle, making a splash at the Seattle International Stand-up Comedy
Competition. Right then he was invited to join the same band he
had
worked for, this time as a full time member on bass guitar, playing all
the top venues in the Puget Sound at the age of 22. Produced by
the
manager for the Steve Miller Band, they recorded in London Bridge
Studios in Seattle, but the band then broke up over pressures from
creative differences...
Things took a turn for
Octaman
at age 23 when he married the Anti-christ . She forced him to
quit
playing bass for the Jamaican reggae singer "Azeem" and into radio
broadcasting school for a "more stable career." He was quickly
hired
to do his own nation wide broadcast for the nationally syndicated heavy
metal show "Z-Rock", by virtue of the one and only demo tape he had
ever sent
out. Z-Rock was then sold before Regan could take to the
airwaves...
After brief radio stints
at KJR,
KVI, KZOK, KJUN, KTOL and KBLE, he was named General Sales Manager of
KENU 1330 AM in
Enumclaw. Following a difficult divorce, and not wanting to work
in a
small town right next door to a slaughter house, the vegetarian Octaman
left the radio business...
Next he joined a
three-piece
rock band featuring the original drummer from "Pearl Jam", enjoying a
private recording session with Eddie Vedder. He next cut a
studio album and went on tour as singer/songwriter/bassist for the
powerful music trio. He was quickly discovered by a scout for
Atlantic
Records, who said it was "the greatest rock and roll band I've ever
seen." Atlantic
hired a law firm to search out and find Regan living in the
foothills
of the Olympic mountains in a native American style tee pee. The
band
broke down when pressures from potential success forced the other band
members into hospitalization...
Without missing a beat,
Regan
took his seven piece reggae band "Word Posse" on tour, opening for
I-Jahman at the Roots Mountain Reggae Festival, Clinton Fearon and the
Boogie Brown Band at the Tacoma Freedom Fair, and other shows.
The
band included one member from the hit reggae band "Big Mountain", and
none other than the original Bob Marley and the Wailers' own
percussionist. Authentic to the core, the roots reggae band
stalled out just before their biggest show, due to
conflict between other band members...
"Fall down seven times,
get up
eight" - so goes the shoe commercial. Regan began to get the
picture
that he must be "Octaman" - having at least eight talents, and now
making his eighth climb up the mountain of show business. If you
aren't getting the picture by now that this is a unique and
multi-faceted entertainer, having excelled in comedy, television, radio
and several kinds of music, please take into account that during all
these efforts to find his audience, Octaman has had to work some very
odd jobs, having over 65 different employers before turning 25
years old. He's done everything from detailing to delivery
driving,
dish washing to ditch-digging, even barge scraping - during the worst
storm in
Washington's last 100 years. This is the true story of a truly
humble
small town underdog...
The now guitar virtuoso
"Octaman" has just produced a solo CD that is already loved by
many. "Rock
of Offence" was written and produced by Octaman alone, or rather, all
eight of him. He plays all the parts heard on the album; drums,
bass,
guitars, sax, keyboards, percussions and all vocals.
Right now, he is getting back on stage as a
solo vocal/guitar act, precisely because he wants to put himself in a
positition where other people cannot derail his success. He's
been often disappointed, but his audiences never
have
been. On stage he is engagingly witty, and his great music is
spiritual, powerful and lyrically meaningful. Outspoken, funny
and personable, there is no performer in the world like
Octaman.
"I'm Octaman because there's 8 of me"
singer/songwriter/guitarist/musician/editorial writer/
radio
broadcaster/comic/actor/"genius, name it"
"Wherever
there's injustice,
I and I and I and I and I and I and I and I will
be there!"
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Octaman
is a unique brand of
music; the first and only
artist in the world writing topical music from the True Bible
perspective concerning:
- The
Presence
of the Returned Messiah
- The
Jews
right to Israel as their homeland
- The
need
for
the approaching Kingdom of God
- The
True concept of consecration
to God
- The
True
nature of Life, Death and the HereAfter
- The
True
benevolent purpose of "Judgment Day."
- The
True
purpose of God: restoring the earth
- The
True
cast-off condition of "Christendom"
- The
True
nature of "spiritism"
- The
False
doctrine of the Trinity
- The
False
notions regarding the "Rapture"
- The
unconscious state of the dead
- The
resurrection of the dead
- And
much
more!
The
Greatest Preacher of the 19th AND
20th centuries
(and
NOT the
founder of
the
Jehovah's
Witnesses)
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