The Goats (3)

The Goats consist of Ed Portnow on drums, Michael Dowers on guitar, Art Behrman on bass, and Jim Sadler on keys and samples. Ed comes from solid punk back ground. He was a primary motivating factor in the infamous metal/punk/artcore band, the Dehumanizers, Ed also has been in The Manatees. Michael (a rock star of the Seattle folk scene) joined Ed in The Manatees in 1999. Sometime in 2003, they simply ran out of energy and dematerialized. He and Ed agreed to continue to meet and work on a series of tunes that Michael had been developing over the years. This would become The Goats. In the meantime Ed played with his jazz band, The Bastards of Jazz and the side project with label owner Erik 4-A called Monkeys With Machine Guns. This is how Jim Sadler came on board. He joined The Goats in the late summer of 2004 after being in many Seattle bands including Vis-sVis, Sex Therapy, The Flyin' Saucers, Go Man Go, The Deep End, The Mercury Four he also currently plays with The Soul Proprietors About that same time, Art Behrman a very long time friend of Ed's, had been doing time in the indie rock/pop/emo ghetto. Art has been in early line ups of the art-rock bands Engine Kid, Bare Minimum, Fairgrove, and Tableland. Thru the years he's played shows with the Jesus Lizard, The Spinanes, Crain and Shiner. He would be the final piece of the puzzle and make The Goats line up complete.