![]() ![]() ‘A lot Sixties garage rock and early rock’n’roll. But regardless, the interview went ahead and I began at the beginning, asking what had got Pete and his brother first interested in music… Pete is happy to be interviewed but we have to do this as he’s setting up the merch-stall, so on occasions he does get a little distracted. Arrangements are set, although on the evening itself I find the band rushing around in the short time they have between their soundcheck and doors-opening, trying to feed themselves and organise various other things. I’d always regretted the fact that I hadn’t interviewed Scream when I saw them in 1987, so this time I wasn’t going to miss my second chance. Since then, the band have continued to play live on a more regular basis, including dates in Europe, but it wasn’t until this year that they announced their return to the UK. Over the next couple of years, more gigs were played and in 2011 a new record, the ‘Complete Control Sessions’, was released featuring the first new material since ‘Fumble’. But the call of Scream was never far away and in 2009, the original line-up reunited for another one-off show in DC. Along the way he also found time to play in the bands Goatsnake and Earthlings. Franz played again with Dave Grohl as a guitarist in Foo Fighters during 1997-98 while Pete also worked as their tour manager. They played a US tour in late 1993 to support the late release of ‘Fumble’ and a one-off show in DC during 1996. However, Scream remained friends and did reunite on occasions for various reasons. Skeeter went AWOL and Dave decided to take-up an offer to join Nirvana (they enjoyed some minor success of their own…) Pete and Franz decided to stay in LA and soon formed a new band, the much-respected by sadly under-acknowledged Wool. Despite recording most of the tracks for another album, ‘Fumble’ (eventually completed and released in 1993) the band broke-up in the middle of a US tour after grinding to a halt in Los Angeles. Even though their sound was beginning to include hard rock influences by this point, they were still an incredibly powerful and exciting band to see and it’s one of those great gigs I’m really glad that I saw.Īfter their ‘No More Censorship’ album in 1988, they continued to tour, including further returns to Europe, but by 1990 personal problems were beginning surface within the band. It was at this time that I saw them play an incredible show at the George Robey in North London. In 1987, after the release of their third album ‘Bang The Drum’, they became the first Dischord-related band to tour in Europe, with a new drummer in their ranks, a certain Dave Grohl. They recorded and released the awesome ‘Still Screaming’ LP on Dischord in 1982 and from the outset were intent on touring and establishing themselves as far and wide as possible. Brothers Pete and Franz Stahl, drummer Kent Stax and bassist Skeeter Thompson originally came together in 1979, but the band first started to make serious inroads in the punk scene during 1981. ![]() Scream were one of the earliest and longest-lasting bands to emerge form the Washington DC hardcore scene. ![]()
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