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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 a posthumous album of new material, ''I Love You All'', is expected in 2016. ==Early life== 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."〔 At age nine, while taking folk and classical guitar lessons from Tiny Moore,〔 Miller started his first band, innocently calling it "The Monkees." He later noted, "We were really little kids, and we didn't realize you had to have your own personality... I was Mike Nesmith, of course," naming the serious Monkee known as a songwriter.〔 By 1971, Miller's lessons switched to rock guitar, and he "had pretty serious bands from seventh grade on."〔 While attending Rio Americano High School, he and his longtime friend and bandmate Jozef Becker formed bands called Lobster Quadrille, Mantis, and Resistance, as well as the first version of Alternate Learning.〔 Miller began recording his music at age 15, when he got his first TEAC multitrack recording machine.〔 He reminisced in 1993, "Writing songs like the Beatles and trying to obtain real equipment – that's been my goal in life since I can remember."〔 Some of Miller's early recordings from 1975 to 1979 were released in the 1990s to his fan club as a cassette called ''Adolescent Embarrassment-Fest'';〔 several others appear as bonus tracks on the 2014 CD reissue of ''Blaze of Glory'' (1982). Another passion of Miller's youth was art. Until college, he noted, "I was extremely serious about being a visual artist, and only so-serious about doing music. I was producing really bad music and really good art."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Miller (pop musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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