Les Carlsen

Les Carlsen is a rock music and Christian rock singer, songwriter and producer from the USA.

He grew up in Seattle and began in music in 1965. His first group was The Topics who played mostly high school dances.

He then started an underground group with almost the same line up, The Worm who played a late night after-hours club in Seattle called The Vault. When The Worm surfaced from there, they changed to The Front Page, a name their new manager gave them. They played on the Pat O’Day dance circuit in mostly roller rinks and attracted hundreds of kids, due to radio ads that promoted the circuit. They reformed in the the 2010s and played as an oldies revival band without Carlsen)

When the stage musical "Hair" came to Seattle Carlsen auditioned and made it in the show. He spent two years traveling with Hair and during that time managed to write original songs that were recorded on Revelation Records with his group Joshua (later re-mastered and released as [r14573627]).

His next group was Fred Shwartz with two guitars, bass and drums, and a country rock feel. I really enjoyed performing with that band, and we made some great music together. The band opened for T-Rex, Blue Oyster Cult, Y and T! ​

He decided to work with his wife, Joyce Macek, whom he had met and fallen in love with when they were in Hair together years earlier.

They formed Willow in 1975,

In 1976 they changed a few band member s and toured the west coast playing lounges and restaurant chains as The Carlsen-Macek Band (and sometimes as Wonderband). they became very popular in the Northwest club scene in the early eighties. Because of that, they were selected to open shows for Heart, Three Dog Night, The Beach Boys, Quiet Riot, Steppenwolf, Cliff Richards, and BB King.

They changed their name to Sticker

He subsequently re-discover Christianity and formed a hard rock Christian band, Bloodgood, in 1985. Bloodgood was one of the earliest Christian Heavy Metal bands and toured at a time when the music was not accepted a story best told in the documentary film "Trenches of Rock", produced and directed by Paul Michael Bloodgood.

Carlsen is still performing today.