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The Bent Scepters Live At Spiral Lounge CMJ Music Festival
How can you not love this band? They make a perfect blend of rock, psychedelia, power pop and even add a country/blues harmonica to the mix! This special set from the CMJ Festival stands out. Their stage antics alone will keep you entertained. The songs are all feet tapping music and they keep you moving. By the end of the sets they are pretty much blasting into the stratosphere. That Farfisa keyboard really gives the 60’s garage feel. I am of course blown away at the nifty songs, change ups, and the fact that this band is tight! They will not fail you.
Who Are The Bent Scepters
The Scepters are a Midwestern band formed in 1991 as a side project for the members of the group. They came into New York to play the first ever CMJ Music Festival in 1997
In 1995, the Scepters signed on with a management company in Los Angeles, which found them a record deal with Frank Zappa’s long-dormant Bizarre/Planet Records, a label that had previously released work from artists as diverse as Alice Cooper and Wild Man Fisher. This led to the release of a new CD “Blind Date With Destiny,” which included eight songs from the original disc and eight brand-new ones. It was in 1997 that the Scepters went to New York to play the CMJ Music Festival. It was also one of the very first Internet video broadcasts by OnlineTV.com at the Spiral Lounge and the very first time ANY band was taped at the CMJ Music Festival.
The group continued touring from coast to coast and every small town in between. After leaving Bizarre/Planet the band was picked up by Ginger Records, a power-pop label from Chicago. In 1999, Ginger released the band’s third full-length album, “Hellevator Music,” which topped many critics’ year-end top-ten lists.
Their song “Gassed” is featured in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode All the Comforts of Home from Marvel Cinema Universe. The boys have not gone unnoticed.
“Though the band has been lauded for its studio output, it truly reached its pinnacle in a live setting. Typically fueled by copious quantities of beer, trucker pills and cheap merlot, the Scepters never failed to deliver a hair-raising performance––with Doug Roberson’s professorial yin and Patrick White’s lunatic yang orbiting high above a locomotive rhythm section, all led high priest Dan Roberson’s leering cad-about-town vocal delivery.”
While the Scepters officially disbanded in 1999, the band has been known to play the occasional reunion, the most recent of which occurred in June of 2019—a show that featured the Scepters’ “classic lineup” onstage together for the first time in more than 20 years.
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The Bent Scepters Video Stats:
Date of Recording: Sep 3, 1997
Video: NTSC Color
Audio:Stereo
Time: 25 min
Digital File Size: 255Meg
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