The Wipers
Wipers started as purely a recording project. Sage planned to record 15 LPs in 10 years without touring or promotion. He believed it would be possible to avoid live shows, press, pictures and interviews, and this – coupled with the mystique of his unorthodox music – would encourage a deeper, more imaginative engagement with the recordings. Sage looked at music as art rather than entertainment and thought music should have a personal value to the listener, rather than being a commodity. It proved difficult to fulfill this idea, as few labels were interested in the band's music.
In 1979, Sage established his own record label, Trap, and asked several Portland punk bands to record singles. Some of those early bands were The Stiphnoyds, The Neo Boys and Sado Nation. Sage later re-released some of the material on a compilation record entitled The History Of Portland Punk.
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