BREAKING NEWS! LOST OCEAN FOUND IN GIGANTIC STORE! - BY N.L. BELARDES February 20, 2005 10:10 am - I’m thinking Coldplay in the 1970s would have hair like these young Bakersfield guys. And with Alex walking amongst them Friday night at Gigantic, I was having an entire retro moment from my lost 1970s youth of polyester Northern California hillsides. Enough about that, enter Skyler, keyboardist for the new band, Lost Ocean, a band not lost at all, but with a full, rich sound that with further development will transform these young guys into a hip Bakersfield sensation. A little tentative at first, Lost Ocean fired themselves up on the fuel provided by Skyler as he worked more than one set of keyboards, slamming chords, fingers rolling, curly hair tossing, and he was loving it. Enrique of The Dalloways looked over at me and we were thinking the same thing: this Skyler kid rocks! “Oh yeah!” I met Skyler and Chris (Drummer) after the show. They’re quiet kids with a lot of talent. I hope they get their website up soon, and an EP of some of their songs. With that rich keyboard sound, headphones will be the place for me to really get into their mysterious Antillian, seven isles of Oceana sounds…which really translates into: the lost ocean of keyboards that a lot of bands just don’t’ incorporate into their music these days has been found. These kids will be exciting to watch as they develop and come into their own. Bakersfield needs a hard-rocking Coldplay type of band that can appeal to another side of the Southern Central Valley’s complex tastes.