The Strange is a 4 piece garage, rock, metal band from out of Santa Cruz circa 1998.
Members are Tony Torvik on drum/voxs, Scott Glaholt on bass/vox, Devon Rogers on guitar/vox and Dave Marino on guitar/vox. They rehearsed and sweated out long resin coated writing sessions at "the vault," a garage band room near 7th and Brommer.
The Strange played many local shows, parties and out of town gigs at venues large and small with sibling bands like Space Boy, Vincent's Ear, Herbert (Automatic Animal), Galadriel, Lonely Kings, Dot Commies and more. They toured with Year Of The Spider for 18 shows in 19 days from Santa Cruz up through the Pacific Northwest and back in 1999. The Strange soon after went into hibernation after their guitarist Devon fell in love with Portland while on tour. The Strange was able to do a couple of reunion shows, once on a Willamette River Halloween Boat party and later at the Blue Lagoon on Pacific. As of 2012 nothing has been planned for another reunion show but be on the look out for the ogre in the hills....
http://www.myspace.com/ogreinthehills