Scott Miller's most recent recording is What If It Works?, his 2006 collaboration with Anton Barbeau. The album was billed to "The Loud Family and Anton Barbeau", since most of the songs feature Joe Becker on drums and Kenny Kessel on bass (and Gil Ray and Alison Faith Levy appear on one track), but it's mostly Scott Miller and Anton Barbeau with backing.
There are four Scott songs, four Anton songs, one co-written song ("Kind of In Love"), and three covers, including this Cat Stevens song which features Alison Faith Levy on piano and Gil Ray on percussion. It's like a Loud Family supersession! (not here -- this is a recent appearance by Mr. Islam!).
One of Scott's songs on What If It Works?("Total Mass Destruction") is a leftover from the TTOOL era and one of Anton's songs ("Pop Song 99") was also a leftover, but most of the songs were composed and recorded with the collaboration in mind. The result is an album that's quite fun and listenable, but hardly earth-shattering.
The duo and band played a couple of gigs in Northern California to support the album, including a December 2006 show in Berkeley that, as of this posting, was the last scheduled Bay Area appearance by Scott Miller or Anton Barbeau. Anton has relocated to the UK, and Scott has been musically MIA for the past few years, other than documenting the last fifty years of music via "Music - What Happened?".
As far as other GT/LF bandmembers, Gil Ray has made a solo album (I Am Atomic Man) for 125 records, Joe Becker and Alison Faith Levy have recorded and performed with the Sippy Cups, and both Loud Family and Game Theory have myspace pages.
And Lolita Nation and Interbabe Concern still rock. THE END.
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Bless you, Steve. You know what you're talking about.
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