Members
Current members:
- Joe Oestreich (bass and vocals) is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. He has published essays in magazines such as Esquire and Sports Illustrated and in the literary journals Ninth Letter and Fourth Genre. Several of his essays have been shortlisted for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Best American Essays series. Oestreich's memoir about Watershed, entitled Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, was released by Lyons Press in June 2012.
- Colin Gawel (guitar and vocals) has an independent career, touring both as a solo acoustic act and with his backing band Colin Gawel & the Lonely Bones. His first EP-CD, "Chemotherapy", was released in May 2009, and the second, "Superior", was released on February 5, 2010. Gawel owns a coffee shop in Columbus, Ohio called Colin's Coffee.
- Joe Peppercorn (piano and guitar) is a classically-trained pianist and a bartender in Columbus. Aside from Watershed, he is locally known for performing the entire Beatles catalog in single sessions.
- Dave Masica (drums)
Former members:
- Mark "Poochie" Borror was concurrently in now-defunct Ohio-based power pop band Twin Cam.
- Herb Schupp (drums) was an original member of the band who was friends with Oestreich and Gawel in high school.
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