The Fifth House Down was a strange name for a band back in the day, but today it would probably be the in thing. The original band members were, Odell Solverson ( trumpet and keyboard ), Mark Olson ( lead vocal ), Susan Banta ( bass and Trumpet ), John Drake ( drums ) and Roddy Dull ( lead guitar & vocal ).
Odell in his first year of college was the only member out of  high school when the band started. The band played everything from Chicago to Blood Sweat and Tears. The complexity of the songs were probably simplified but the rush of playing the music was still there. The group would eventually loose Odell to a
tough college schedule and the band would ad Dean Olson as the bass player and vocalist. With the changes in musicians the band would shortly change it’s name to EDGE. This band proved to be the foundation for many groups to come for most of the original members. You can find out more about how
the music and the musicians changed by first viewing the Edge Band page on this site.

  The live pictures of “ The Fifth House Down “ were taken in the spring of summer of 1970 at Wauzeka High School in Wauzeka, WI.