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'''Scott Alexander''' is | '''Scott Alexander''' is an Ohio-born musician who moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s. He met [[Mark Eitzel]] in 1983 and soon after formed the first incarnation of [[American Music Club]] with Eitzel and [[Brad Johnson]]. | ||
Alexander played with American Music Club for about a year before he left to do something more modern and didn't like the band dynamic any longer. He self-released a synth-pop solo album called ''Sad Songs'' in 1986 and soon after ventured into the direction of art video music that abandoned pop song structure.<ref name="boomkat">{{cite web | url=https://boomkat.com/products/so-sad-48c2d6f3-d25c-4248-a73d-4e09067a93db | work=boomkat.com | date=2016 | author= | title=Scott Alexander - Sad Songs | accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref> | |||
Alexander moved from San Francisco to Germany in 1991.<ref name="boomkat" /> He also runs a jazz archive website, [http://www.redhotjazz.com/ The Red Hot Jazz Archive]. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||