Band/Bios
Scott Wynn - vocals, guitar, pen, paper
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Home: Moreshead, IN
Sign: Leo
Interests: words, idioms, discovery, 60s/70s Japanese guitar resurrection, songs
Music: Powerful ditties that feel like yesterday, intentional low-fidelity, smart rock
Cuisine: The Asiatics
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Being the first of his family not to work in the eastern Kentucky coalfields, instead, Wynn ended up on a tobacco farm in southern Indiana. After high school, Wynn worked in residential construction until he changed course and enrolled in college where he read some books and stuff, but avoided using microfiche machines - an academic rebel.
Being less than passionate about employment in the corporate goose-stepping realm, Wynn sought creative outlets to fill voids. Being heavy into lo-fi music and four-track recording techniques, Wynn recorded a mass of DIY songs and posted them to Myspace where, at one point, Pete McNeal (Cake, Jem, Breakestra) heard Wynn's rough tracks and reached out to do some recording. |
Pete McNeal - drums, percussion, vocals
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Home: LA,CA
Sign: Aries
Interests: Vintage drums and keyboards, music production, one-hand dunks, gaudy medallions
Musical Tastes: Old school funk, all kinds.
Cuisine: Vegetarian/Seafood/Sushi
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Pete McNeal and his production partner Dave Wilder (Macy Gray, Liz Phair) worked with Wynn towards doing a full abum. The first LP was entitled "Songs that Bang" and was a hand-numbered collectible self-distributed solely on Myspacemoving 1,000 units that ended-up in a total of 19 countries in amatter of a few months.
Mike Doughty (former Soul Coughing frontman) caught a Panderers' show and moved toward creating the label "Snack Bar" and signing The Panderers to a five song EP dealand released it as "Hotshot's Boy," which was also a pen name that Wynn has used at times. Wynn's father had the nickname "Hotshot" and during trips back to coal country throughout Wynn's life, he was known to many as merely as "Hotshot's Boy." |
Andrew "Scrap" Livingston - bass, vocals
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Home: Brooklyn, NY
Sign: Taurus
Interests:Reading, music composition, insulin balancing, frollicking, people-watching, restraining orders for people-watching
Musical Tastes: Old Metal, Symphony, Opera, new music as it's made
Cuisine: Cheesy and greasy
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Andrew "Scrap" Livingston (Mike Doughty's Band), a classically-trained composr with a Master's degree in Music Composition was recruited to play bass on "Songs that Bang."
Having both a refined classically trained music composition skills and southern roots, Livingston was the perfect bassist for the record. Greasy precision is such a desirable style. Livingston is the slur, the thomp, the thuck and pump that isThe Panderers' primal sound. Accented by Wynn's simple approach to guitar, word and vibe, all alongside McNeal's stripped-down two-piece vintage drum kit, the music has been dubbed "roots rock," "road rock," "brand new old songs" and "ambitious ditties"
Wynn, McNeal and Livingston toured as main support for Mike Doughty on an eight week US/CAN tour in the Spring of 2008. More to come. |
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The Panderers music can be purchased on this site and from most any digital music retailer on the planet.
Our most current national commercial release is on the Snack Bar © 2008 label.
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