Mean Motor Scooter is a kinda fuzzy, kinda surfy garage-rock band
Mean Motor Scooter is a
kinda fuzzy, kinda surfy
garage-rock band from
Fort Worth, Texas. Founded in
2015 by singer and guitar player
Sammy Kidd, drummer Jeffrey
Friedman and bassist Joe Tacke,
the band hit the ground running.
The trio played 31 shows in 2015
throughout Texas, including shows
at the Dallas Music District Festival, with bands like Leopold and
His Fiction and Aaron Behrens.
Mean Motor Scooter released its
self-titled EP in August of 2015,
which was put out on a limited
edition cassette by Dreamy Life
Records. In 2016, the band continued the momentum, playing 48
shows, including three unofficial
showcases for SXSW and Oaktopia, the Fort Worth Weekly Music
Awards Festival, Fort Worth Rock
Assembly V and legendary Dallas
venue, Trees.
In April, Mean Motor Scooter released the singles,“Naked Brunch”
and “Such a Seducer,” which received a lot of positive local press
and were mentioned in some “Best
Of 2016” lists. That same year, the
Fort Worth Weekly awarded Mean
Motor Scooter “Rock Band of the
Year.”
Mean Motor Scooter began recording their first full-length album, Hindu Flying Machine at
Cloudland Recording Studio in
Fort Worth, October 2016. During that time they were asked to
record songs for both the Dreamy
Life Records’ Group Therapy Vol.
4 compilation and the Fort Worth
Weekly’s Frequencies Vol. 8, the
Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards’
compilation.
The group recorded “Mechanical Man” for Group
Therapy Vol. 4 and “Surfing Pizza” for Frequencies Vol. 8. Both
were released in 2017.
Before finishing the recording of
Hindu Flying Machine the trio decided it was time to bring in another member. Rebekah Elizabeth
was added on the combo organ.
Mean Motor Scooter played their
100th live show in July of 2017,
at the newly opened Main at South
Side. In June the band was awarded “E.P. of the Year,” “Band of the
Year” and “Artist of the Year” by
the Fort Worth Weekly.
On October 13, 2017, the Hindu
Flying Machine album was released and Mean Motor Scooter
signed with Dirty Water Records USA. That November, the
band went on their first tour
through Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas with The
Darts and Escobar (FR).
Throughout 2018, MMS
amped up the momentum
yet again and continued to
play shows both local and
abroad. The band flew out
to Phoenix, AZ in April,
2018 to play a label festival
at Crescent Ballroom on behalf of Dirty Water Records
USA.
In July 2018, Mean
Motor Scooter once again
flew out to Phoenix, AZ
to begin their second tour
along with The Darts, The
Atom Age and Bee Bee Sea.
The tour started in Phoenix
and continued through to
coastal cities in California,
including Costa Mesa, Los
Angeles and ending at San
Fransisco.
After returning from the
tour, Mean Motor Scooter
went back to Cloudland to
begin recording the next
set of releases set for early
2019.
You can found more about the Mean Motor Scooter on February 2019 Issue at here
You can found more about the Mean Motor Scooter on February 2019 Issue at here
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