The Loud Family was a San Francisco-based power pop band formed in 1991 by songwriter and guitarist Scott Miller, who previously led the 1980s band Game Theory. The Loud Family released six studio LPs and one live LP from 1991 through 2006. After Miller's death in 2013, three Loud Family members participated in recording sessions for Supercalifragile (2017), Miller's posthumous Game Theory album.
The Loud Family performing at Hotel Utah, San Francisco, about 1999. Left to right: Alison Faith Levy, Scott Miller, Gil Ray, Kenny Kessel. (Photo: Robert Toren.)
Scott Miller (pop musician)
Scott Warren Miller was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as leader of the 1980s band Game Theory and 1990s band The Loud Family, and as the author of a 2010 book of music criticism. He was described by The New York Times as "a hyperintellectual singer and songwriter who liked to tinker with pop the way a born mathematician tinkers with numbers", having "a shimmery-sweet pop sensibility, in the tradition of Brian Wilson and Alex Chilton."
Scott Miller in 1983, during recording of Game Theory's Distortion EP.
First Game Theory lineup, Davis, California, 1982. L-R: Irwin, Juhos, N. Becker, Miller.
Miller and Gil Ray, prior to first show of new lineup, 1985.
Alex Chilton and Scott Miller, Berkeley, 1986.
