Scott Miller (pop musician)
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Scott Miller in 1983, during recording of Game Theory's Distortion EP.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Scott Warren Miller |
| Born |
April 4, 1960 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 15, 2013 (aged 53) |
| Genres | Power pop, jangle pop |
| Occupation(s) | Pop musician, songwriter, music critic |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1979–2013 |
| Labels | Rational, Enigma, Alias, 125 Records |
| Associated acts | Alternate Learning, Game Theory, The Loud Family |
| Website | www |
| Author | Scott Miller |
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| Genre | Music history and criticism |
| Published | December 2010 |
| Publisher | 125 Records |
| Media type | Print (trade paperback) |
| Pages | 270 pp. (first edition) |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 724510113 |
| Text | Music: What Happened? online |
Scott Miller (April 4, 1960 – April 15, 2013) was a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as leader of the 1980s band Game Theory and 1990s band The Loud Family, and as the author of a 2010 book of music criticism. He was described by the New York Times as "a hyperintellectual singer and songwriter who liked to tinker with pop the way a born mathematician tinkers with numbers", having "a shimmery-sweet pop sensibility, in the tradition of Brian Wilson and Alex Chilton."
In 2014, Omnivore Recordings began releasing a series of reissues of Miller's entire Game Theory catalog, which had for decades been out of print. A biography of Miller by Brett Milano was published in October 2015, and Miller's posthumously completed Game Theory album, Supercalifragile, is expected in early 2017.
Scott Miller was born in Sacramento, California in 1960. He was of Scottish and Irish ancestry, and his mother's family had lived in the Sacramento area since at least the 1850s California Gold Rush. His father, Vaughn Miller, was an Army veteran of World War II who had a long career working for the State of California.
Miller was an only child, whose musical interests began "sometime as a six or seven year old, listening to the Monkees and the Beatles". However, his earliest musical influences were wider-ranging, springing from his father's "immense record collection – lots of Broadway show tunes. But the things I was really interested in were these New York folk scene records ... the Womenfolk being really prototypical. And after that it was the Beatles all the way. They were gods walking the earth to me."
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