Talk:Scott West (musician)
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Grounds for Non-deletion per Wikipedia's criteria. If an artist meets at least one of these, they should be included. Scott West meets 5 of these criteria and all can be easily verified.
1. Scott West & Sex On Sunday contains at least one member who was once a part of or later joined a band that is otherwise notable, namely Sex On Sunday 2005 debut album includes members of platinum bands Tesla and Cake: Brian Wheat (Bass) with Tesla (5 times Platinum Recording Artist), Frank Hannon (Guitarist) with Tesla (5 times Platinum recording Artist), Troy Luccketta (drums) with Tesla (5 time platinum recording artist, Gabe Nelson (Cake) (3 time platinum recording artist). Both Brian Wheat and Frank Hannon performed with the Scott West & Sex On Sunday band LIVE in 2005 and 2006. Frank Hannon's official myspace mentions Scott West as does the Sacramento News and Review's review of the "Sex On Sunday" Cd, which cites Tesla's Brian Wheat, Frank Hannon and Troy Luccketa and Cakes Gabe Nelson, when the Cd was first released
2. Has become the most prominent representative of the local scene of a city (Sacramento) and this entry still meets all ordinary Wikipedia standards, including verifiability. Scott West & Sex On Sunday were voted Best Local Band in Sacramento (DMA with 1.9 million people) by the Readers of the Sacramento News & Review in their September 2006 Readers poll. They also were voted Best Album and Scott West and Jackie Greene were voted the top two local musicians for Best Musician in Sacramento. Verify at http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=211818 for the 9-28-06 issue of Sacramento News & Review Best of Sacramento issue.
3. Scott West has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent from the musician/ensemble itself and reliable. Non press release articles in The San Diego Theatre Review of "Sex On Sunday" CD by Cuauhtemoc Kish (contact Cuahtemoc from The San Diego Theatre Scene website email link to him at mrcqk@aol.com found at SDTheatreScene.com); New York City's Village Voice published an article on Auld Lang syne on September 11th, 2007 by New York City music critic Maria Lila, which cites Sex On Sunday's Auld Lang syne as the top contemporary recording. You can verify Maria Lila's article in the September 11th, 2007 Village voice or the many republished wire service versions of this article in many major newspapers around the USA and Canada including Toronto's NOW Magazine, The Santa Fe Reporter, The San Diego Reader, St. Louis Riverfront Times, Spokane Washington's The Inlander, The Real Detroit, The San Jose/Silicon Valley Metro, San Francisco Weekly, The San Diego Reader, Rochester City Newspaper, Sacramento News & Review, Portland Willamette Weekly, Pittsburgh's City Paper, Phoenix New Times and many, many other American Newspapers and websites. Hybrid Magazine published a review of Sex On Sunday in 2006. These are just the ones I found on the internet with a quick search, there are thousands of search listings that I didn't have time to read.
4. Scott West has won or placed in a major music competition. Scott West & Sex On Sunday were selected Sac MusicSeen Selection for The 2007 Sacramento International Film & Music Festival for their music video of "Standing On The Moon" and Scott West & Sex On Sunday was also named one of the top 3 entries in the 2007 SAcramento Film & Music festival. The Sacramento film & Music Festival was voted the best film festival in Sacramento and is noted as one of the top film festivals in California.
6. Scott West & Sex On Sunday's singles "standing On The Moon, "I Could Never Go For You" and "Room 413" were placed on rotation on National Public Radio's National Blues Show, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Entercom Radio, so Scott West has been placed in rotation nationally by a major radio network. Al Franken's National Best of Left rdio program featured 4 of Sex On Sunday's songs as theme music in 2006: See Best of the Left Podcast Podcasts for The Al Franken Show Music Theme Music: Scott West & Sex on Sunday - Oh Boy, Fallback, I Could Never Go For You and Standing On The Moon.. at http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/8095 -->
5. Scott West has toured extensively on a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country (The USA), reported in reliable sources. Myspace 2004 USA Tour Info (California, Nevada and Oregon tour)
Brian Silva 20:12, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Brian Silva Brian Silva 20:12, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
