KEN BADGER 1976-82, and, again, now. guitar, bass, vocals, songwriting
MIKE CUSHEON Nov 76- Feb 77 drums
MARK FRENCH May 77-June 77 drums
BRAD COOPER July 77- Feb 80 drums
MARK PERKELL Mar 80- May 82, and again, now. drums
MIKE YOUNG May 79- June 80, and again, now. guitar, then bass
KEN FOX June 80 May 82 bass
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The Scenics play What Goes On at their first live show in 26 years. April 13 2008 Horseshoe Tavern w/ Carla Bozulich. Song from their CD How Does it Feel to be Loved: The Scenics play the Velvet Underground. Video by Aldo Edric of 'To Be Scene' Productions.
Growing Pains, an unrecorded song written in 1980, from the Horseshoe/Bozulich gig. Many more videos on youtube.
Influences
(In no particular order) The Velvet Underground, Pere Ubu, a radio stuck between two stations, the Shangrilas, finding a penny, The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, where do the chords go when they go? Patti Smith, Little Johnny Jewel, little kids, 13th Floor Elevators, Turtles, The Byrds, jazz, noise, the Beau Brummels, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Syd, Fairport Convention, walking anywhere (city, country) for 10 minutes and just listening- {in the city it sounds like throbbing gristle, in the country it sounds like Tchaikovsky played by ghosts) the Monkees, Big Star, The Emprees and all things american garage, Ramones, Roxy Music, Eno, dub and glam production (Visconti and Ken Scott) Eric Dolphy, Dylan, the Band, early Motown, Flamin Groovies, the Original Contortions, Bowie, Cap'n Beefheart, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Stooges, NY Dolls, Beach Boys....
Sounds Like
Big Star arm wrestles with Pere Ubu, and the winner jams with Television.
With bigger amps.
bitching video by Chester Lebeaux, for "Waiting for my Man" for track one off of new CD "How Does it feel to be Loved: the Scenics play the Velvet Underground"
"Here She Comes Now" a song from the Velvets CD, live at the Dakota Tavern, April 2008, filmed by Aldo Edric of To Be Scene Productions. Sung by Andy Meyers.
"Candy Says" - our second ever performance of a Velvet Underground song that is not on the Velvet's CD. sung by Ken Badger, Dakota Tavern, April 2008, filmed by Aldo Edric of To Be Scene Productions.
Toronto Film-maker Colin Brunton took some stock footage, a Scenics song, and added some live Scenics footage from the Last Pogo, and created this music video for Do the Wait.
people have said...
"Only a madman would dare to pick his top 10 cds of 2008 in the first week of January, but this is one record that has got me gnawing on my strait jacket"
Jeffrey Morgan, Detroit Metro Times
"Stunning in the way the Byrds playing Bob Dylan was so searing. 8/10"
Johnson Cummins, Montreal Mirror
"The Scenics rock ferociously... their spirit and genius burn through"
Vancouver North Shore News
"The Scenics were truly modern. With Influences ranging from Tommy James to John Coltrane, they had a vast repretoire and such a level of intensity.
I loved them for searching out new ideas, for being fun loving, always wildly exciting, and so contradictory. They were perfect!
Gary Topp, promoter, Toronto.
"The Scenics played tunelessly for a half hour..."
The Toronto Globe and Mail, April, 1979
"They were the most creative, the most daring, the most original, and the most misunderstood-- of all the bands in that scene."
Colin Brunton, film-maker (the Last Pogo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Scenics Releases:
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE LOVED: THE SCENICS PLAY THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (CD Dream Tower Records, 2008) Waiting for my Man/ Beginning to See the Light/ Here She Comes Now/ Heard Her Call my Name/ I'll Be Your Mirror/ Real Good Time Together/ New Age/ I'm Set Free/ What Goes On/ Sister Ray
AND NOW FROM TORONTO THE LAST POGO (12" LP Bomb Records, 1979) Compilation. In the Summer / Sunshine World
UNDERNEATH THE DOOR (12" LP Bomb Records, 1980) Mony Mony/ Do the Wait/ Walking in the Desert/ One Comes Closer/ I Killed Marx/ Open Up Your Door/ I Have You/ In the Summer/ O Boy/ I'm Hurt/ Bubbles/ Great Piles of Leaves
KAREN/SEE ME SMILE (7" 45 Scenic Route Records, 1981)
THE LAST POGO (30 minute movie, 1979) featured performing I Wanna Touch , to be released on DVD September 2008. Special features to include several filmed Scenics performances from 1978.
Interviews with King Khan, The Spits, Pierced Arrows, The Dead Moon Story, Skip Jensen, Ratas del Vaticano, Chuck Violence, B-Lines, Rupert Bottenberg, CM Ruiz, The Speaking Tongues, plus an article on Stef Petticoat and a tribute to the late Cramps frontman Lux Interior. Also: Gary Pig Gold, Kirsten Easthope, an exclusive introduction by Bobby Beaton, reviews, more!
Seriously diggin' your tunes and would love to work together on a new Music Video for you guys real soon! Hit me up and let me know if you want to get started on something. Check out the latest video from Diem Studios Inc. to hit Much Music's airwaves. You could be next...
Also we're still offering 2 FREE Music Video productions if your interested... theres no catch at all! It's Christmas time that's all! So check out some of the stuff we've done here as well.
Last night in Kitchener: Once again the Scenics triumph in spite of adversity (like no monitors). Good to see Andy smiling through the pain. Maybe that's why he was attacking his amp. Probably the only band who should attempt "I Heard Her Call My Name". Honey, my mind split open! Yeaaaahhhh...
