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365:." In a 1988 interview, Miller stated, "It's a theory of probability that's a mathematical discipline that more or less has been applied improperly to real-life situations. It's just that idea of a set of rules that gets misused that intrigued me about it ... kind of a telling comment on life in general—that you just have to have some sort of set of rules, but who knows what the set of rules should be." That theme, according to Miller, was what many Game Theory songs were about: "Always be wary of the superstructure of whatever situation you're in. It may just be that the whole game that you're into is something very bogus and you should get out." 515: 725: 374: 791: 598: 569:" placed the narrator at the cusp of a quarter-life crisis, as a self-conscious young adult whose mixed feelings established that he "doesn't know where he fits, or to how to live on his own, in a post-collegiate milieu." The theme continued with allusions to finding one's own direction and leaving the nest, as in "Curse of the Frontier Land" ("A year ago we called this a good time"), and "I Mean It This Time" ("Give me all the gin I need, for I may not be this strong when I call my parents and tell them they've been wrong.") 396: 848: 31: 961: 819:
One problem is that Game Theory's obvious debt to Alex Chilton ... and their association with Mitch Easter ... got them lumped in with a whole genre of pop-for-pop's-sake smarty-pants, too coyly clever for their own good. But Game Theory has always rocked harder and thought bigger than the other "quirky popsters."
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By 1991, Quercio had left Game Theory, opting to return to Los Angeles to form the band Permanent Green Light. With Jozef Becker remaining as drummer, Miller recruited three new members to join Game Theory in 1991. This new line-up had rehearsed several times as Game Theory before Miller decided that
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Among college audiences, a contemporaneous review pointed to the band's originality in a genre "so codified that a little change in tradition is apocalyptic," citing the band's experimental notes as quirky and bizarre, yet "such loving care is taken with the obvious influences that you appreciate the
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announced their commitment to reissue Game Theory's recordings, remastered from the original tapes. Noting that Miller's work with Game Theory had been out of print and "missing for decades," Omnivore stated that they were "pleased to right that audio wrong" with a series of expanded reissues of the
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Good — even great — pop songs are Scott Miller's specialty ... creating essential California rock 'n' roll for the 80s – tense, bristling energy, ingenious hooks and haunting melodies that ought to spell commercial potential. But the albums have remained stuck in the cultist-critic-college DJ loop.
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cited it as "some of the gutsiest, most distinctive rock 'n' roll heard in 1987," with "sumptuous melodic hooks ... played with startling intensity and precision," while simultaneously noting that the band "elected to shinny way out on an aesthetic limb" with "a thoroughly perplexing conglomeration
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wrote that the band had improved with each successive EP, both featuring "some stellar material." Notable songs included "The Red Baron", cited as "heartbreaking ... an anguished acoustic lost-love song leavened by keyboardist Nancy Becker's mocking 'fifty or more' backing vocal," as well as "Shark
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In 2013, after Scott Miller's death, the group's surviving members from this period (including both Irwin and Gill) briefly adopted the nickname "Game Theory 1.0," coined by Juhos during planning of the band's July 2013 reunion performance in a memorial tribute to Miller, to describe the pre-1985
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described it as "true to the wordy awkwardness ... of the nerd stereotype, and yet true to the visceral power, the sexual charge, in guitar-based Anglo-American pop. The songs, and the people depicted in the songs, attempted to have fun, to act on instinct, but they knew they were too cerebral to
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described their sound as "still visceral and vital" in 2013, with records "full of sweetly psychedelic-tinged, appealingly idiosyncratic gems" that continued "influencing a new generation of indie artists." Between 1982 and 1990, Game Theory released five studio albums and two EPs, which had long
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The early Game Theory was described as a "pseudo-psychedelic pop quartet" for which Miller sang and wrote "almost all of the material." On the first three releases, Miller shared co-writing credits on "The Young Drug" with Alternate Learning's Carolyn O'Rourke, and on "Life in July" with Nancy
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The surviving original members of Game Theory reunited on July 20, 2013, to perform a memorial concert in Miller's hometown of Sacramento. Game Theory's 2013 line-up included Nancy Becker (keyboards, backing vocals), Fred Juhos (bass, piano), Michael Irwin (drums), Dave Gill (drums), and lead
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compilation. Juhos's contributions were criticized as failing to mesh with Miller's, and Miller later mused, "It's funny that his stuff wasn't popular. We all had the impression that no one was ever going to get into my stuff and that his one or two would be the ones to catapult us to fame."
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that Miller had left behind in various stages of completion, "including fully-formed songs and many other ideas, sketches, lyrics, even musical gestures and snippets of found sound." A preliminary decision to release the album under Scott Miller's name, using the title
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Prior to the group's 1989 "mini-tour" of the Northwestern United States, Ray was a victim of random street violence in San Francisco, resulting in a serious eye injury. Ray ultimately left the group in 1990, and the group briefly continued as a trio.
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By mid-1982, Scott Miller had assembled the first iteration of Game Theory, with himself as lead guitarist and vocalist. The group consisted of Miller, Nancy Becker (keyboards, vocals), Fred Juhos (bass, guitar, vocals), and Michael Irwin (drums).
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was a double CD set, with the second disc featuring 21 bonus tracks. A concurrent double LP release, with its first run in a limited edition on dark green translucent vinyl, included a download card providing the full 48-track CD program.
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Game Theory's penultimate recording sessions took place in April 1989, when Nancy Becker, the group's original keyboard player and backup vocalist in the early 1980s, returned to record new versions of three songs for the compilation
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In late 1989, the line-up of Miller, Quercio, Ray, and Jozef Becker recorded a demo in San Francisco, co-produced by Miller and Dan Vallor, with four songs that included "Inverness" and "Idiot Son" (both later to be performed by
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Over the decades, the increasing difficulty of finding copies of Game Theory albums contributed to the band's inability to transcend what Miller described as "national obscurity, as opposed to regional obscurity." In 2013,
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LP, released on Rational Records in 1982. Due to a lack of funds to both press the album and print a jacket, a thousand copies of the LP were packaged in white plastic trash bags with Xeroxed cover art glued to each bag.
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The group became known for its fusion of catchy musical hooks with musical complexity, as well as for Miller's lyrics that often featured self-described "young-adult-hurt-feeling-athons," along with literary references
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music for simply reaffirming everything that's right about pop. It's one of the most important reasons for liking Game Theory, because any band with good taste is worth saving from obscurity."
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in October 1984, but before the album's 1985 release, the group went through a wholesale change in personnel, with only Miller remaining. According to
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In 1989, Miller convened another new version of Game Theory, which toured in 1989 and 1990. The line-up consisted of Miller (lead vocal, guitars),
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ambitious as pop fare goes nowadays, with difficult time signatures, criss-cross rhythms, off-beat chordings, and surreal, vertiginous lyrics."
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had been the lead singer and songwriter of Alternate Learning, which issued an EP in 1979 and an LP in 1981. Alternate Learning was based in
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Becker. Miller also included three songs that were written by Fred Juhos, and later defended the decision to record Juhos's songs as a
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campaign, created to fund the pressing and other expenses involved with completing the album, was fully funded within two weeks.
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albums of all time." The reviewer noted, "Nowhere are Miller's eccentricities more consistently tuneful and genius-like than on
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wrote of "Miller's indelible output" and "Game Theory's transcendent tunes" as a "legacy ... ready and waiting for discovery."
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was life after college, which Miller paired with the intuition that "freedom had a strong aspect of being bad news." The song "
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Miller was the group's leader and sole constant member, presiding over frequently changing line-ups. During its early years in
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by calling both albums "a rare commodity ... a pop record that can actually make you laugh and cry and squirm all at once."
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you, and you had to organize what his moves could be, and what your moves should be, to give yourself the minimum amount of
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began a series of remastered reissues of the entire Game Theory catalog. Miller's posthumously completed Game Theory album,
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With Dave Gill replacing Michael Irwin on drums, two 12-inch EPs followed. In 1983, the group released the six-song EP
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wrote, "One listen to this latest demo ... and you can't help but wonder if pop music can get any better than this."
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For over 25 years, from the time of their initial release on Enigma until after Miller's death, the albums
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Game Theory's final touring line-up, 1989, in Albany, California. L-R: Quercio, J. Becker, Ray, Miller.
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the differences in sound and energy warranted a new name for the group, which began performing in the
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had been making preparations to reunite Game Theory before he died unexpectedly on April 15, 2013.
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Scott Miller chose to name his new band "Game Theory" as an allusion to the mathematical field of
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of the Loud Family. Guest performers included Steve Harris of Urban Sherpas (lead guitar), and
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as producer for the band's remaining releases. Easter was also credited as a guest musician on
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producing. The first three releases, originally released on Rational, were anthologized by
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Other friends and former collaborators involved as performers and co-songwriters included
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Reviewers wrote, and Miller later confirmed, that a recurring theme in the lyrics of
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was released in August 2017, first to Kickstarter backers and then publicly through
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On May 5, 2016, it was announced that the project, now under Miller's planned title
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Practical factors also got in the way of greater success. Soon after the release of
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First Game Theory line-up, Davis, CA, 1982. L-R: Irwin, Juhos, N. Becker, Miller.
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The first in the series, an expanded version of Game Theory's 1982 debut album
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as the sixth and final Game Theory album, would be released in early 2017. A
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For the band's October–November 1986 national tour supporting the release of
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Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982
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on CD, with additional bonus tracks. Alias also released the CD compilation
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Game Theory band photo, 1983. Unused outtake from original cover shoot for
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In September 2015, Miller's wife Kristine Chambers announced that she and
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Departing from chronological order, Omnivore's February 2016 reissue of
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had teamed to produce a finished recording from the source material for
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Game Theory reunion in 2013. L-R: N. Becker, Juhos, Gill (inset), Irwin.
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make it so, except with like-minded small circles of puzzle-solvers."
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Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed
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All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul
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in London. Sessions with Game Theory members Nan Becker, Dave Gill,
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Game Theory, Sacramento, 1982. L-R: Irwin, N. Becker, Juhos, Miller.
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in 1985, while similarly aligned local bands moved to Los Angeles.
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was distinguished as "harsh, dense, and metallic-sounding," and "
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In 2020, Omnivore concluded the series of reissues by releasing
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Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen (2002).
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Kaleidoscope Eyes: Psychedelic Rock from the '60s to the '90s
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movement, but remained in northern California, moving to the
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with dense experimental production and hyperliterate lyrics.
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in Winston-Salem, NC. L-R: Ray, LaFreniere, Miller, Ziegler.
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of brief instrumental shards and stabs". Miller told the
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was to be the band's first album of new material since
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Game Theory, 1985, during break from touring to record
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tour. L-R: Ray, Thayer, Miller, LaFreniere, Gassuan.
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The contributors also included 1685:"Interview with Scott Miller of the Loud Family" 1582:"Star on hold: Faithful following, meager sales" 533:, recorded in July 1984, marked the entrance of 487:LP was released in France, on the Lolita label. 2282: 2280: 1987:Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide 1951: 1949: 1874: 1872: 1870: 1868: 871:EP, and having appeared as a guest musician on 816: 695:Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide 627:in 1985. The tour over, Ziegler left the band. 2591:Supercalifragile by Scott Miller's Game Theory 2564:Supercalifragile by Scott Miller's Game Theory 1925: 1923: 1921: 1910:(Photographer's notes). Tumblr. Archived from 1746: 1744: 1742: 1740: 1555: 1553: 544:The album was well-reviewed, appearing in the 2989: 2220: 2218: 1757:. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 447–448. 1612: 1610: 1430: 1428: 1267:Omnivore's November 2014 expanded reissue of 914:In a 1990 interview promoting the release of 470:Pretty," which featured guest lead guitar by 8: 2770: 2768: 1818: 1816: 1814: 1776: 1774: 1140:died on January 24, 2017, at the age of 60. 263:, Game Theory was often associated with the 16:1980s power pop band founded by Scott Miller 2100:(LP insert). Game Theory. Rational Records. 1678: 1676: 995:(vocals), with Alison Faith Levy (vocals). 233:band, founded in 1982 by singer/songwriter 2996: 2982: 2974: 2925:(Press release). Los Angeles, California: 2725: 2723: 1569:(CD booklet). Game Theory. Enigma Records. 491:was a compilation of selected tracks from 431:EP in December 1983 (released 1984), with 18: 1979: 1977: 1975: 1706: 1704: 1702: 403:Nearly thirty years after the release of 315:Transition from Alternate Learning (1982) 45:, Shelley LaFreniere, Guillaume Gassuan, 2225:Moore, Robb (Fall 1990). "Game Theory". 2051:. Penn State. p. 34. Archived from 1648: 1646: 1644: 843:Touring and final recordings (1989–1990) 3177:Across the Barrier of Sound: PostScript 2802:"Game Theory's Blaze of Glory Expanded" 2553: 2551: 2549: 2547: 2463: 2461: 2459: 1879:Wuelfing, Jr., Howard (February 1987). 1424: 1337:Across the Barrier of Sound: PostScript 1306:, as well as an interview with Easter. 1222:Reissues on Omnivore Recordings (2014–) 749:(drums), Guillaume Gassuan (bass), and 541:, along with Quercio and Jozef Becker. 2523: 2521: 2480: 2111:Wuelfing, Jr., Howard (January 1988). 1484: 1460: 1458: 1456: 701:was ranked No. 16 out of the "Top 200 524:. L-R: Gill, N. Becker, Juhos, Miller. 3240:Musical groups from Davis, California 3235:Musical groups disestablished in 1990 2847:Omnivore Recordings (July 14, 2014). 2753:Omnivore Recordings (July 14, 2014). 1078:, and Shelley LaFreniere, along with 794:Game Theory in Arizona, 1988, during 572:After commencing a national tour for 306:quotes ("One More for St. Michael"). 7: 3265:2017 disestablishments in California 1786:"Game Theory: 916 Pop Band Goes 800" 1683:Durkin, Thomas (November 12, 2003). 922:Transition to the Loud Family (1991) 385:The first Game Theory album was the 3131:Pointed Accounts of People You Know 2850:Omnivore Game Theory launch trailer 2502:Gottlieb, Jed (November 10, 2015). 1319:Omnivore followed with reissues of 1275:Pointed Accounts of People You Know 493:Pointed Accounts of People You Know 422:Pointed Accounts of People You Know 369:Early Davis-based years (1982–1985) 246:been out of print until 2014, when 35:Game Theory publicity photo in 1986 3230:Musical groups established in 1982 2929:. 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Index

Game Theory 1986 members Miller, Thayer, LaFreniere, Gassuan, Ray
Scott Miller
Donnette Thayer
Gil Ray
Davis, California
Power pop
jangle pop
Enigma
Alias
Omnivore
The Loud Family
Hex
Alternate Learning
Scott Miller
Gil Ray
Suzi Ziegler
Donnette Thayer
Michael Quercio
www.loudfamily.com/game.html
power pop
Scott Miller
jangle pop
MTV
Omnivore Recordings
Supercalifragile
Davis, California
Paisley Underground
Bay Area
Real Nighttime
James Joyce

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