Scott McCaughey

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Scott McCaughey
Scott McCaughey, 2011
Background information
Genres	Alternative rock
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Guitar, Bass Guitar, keyboards
Associated acts	R.E.M., The Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, Tired Pony

Scott Lewis McCaughey is an American singer and songwriter and the leader of the Seattle and Portland-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5.^[1]

He is also bassist for Robyn Hitchcock's most recent touring band, The Venus 3, along with Bill Rieflin and Peter Buck.^[2] In June 2003 Scott recorded a song with Moween (Peter Schoemaker/Bram van den Berg) at the IDQ studio in Utrecht, called "Move on". To be found on http://www.moween.eu. In 2008, McCaughey formed the side band The Baseball Project with Buck, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon. Their first album, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails, celebrates many aspects of baseball culture, and includes a song in tribute to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix.^[3]

From 1994 through 2011, he worked with R.E.M. both on stage and in the studio. While originally brought on as a second guitarist for the Monster tour, McCaughey remained with R.E.M. in various capacities, contributing to the band's studio albums New Adventures In Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal, Around the Sun, Accelerate and Collapse into Now. Additionally, he has received credits for his work on the live albums R.E.M. Live and Live at The Olympia album as well as their 2003 greatest hits collection, In Time. When working with R.E.M., McCaughey played guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, and sang backing vocals.^[4]

References

External links

Universal Trendsetter - A Scott McCaughey fansite

v t e The Minus 5

Peter Buck Scott McCaughey John Ramberg Bill Rieflin List of The Minus 5 members

Albums	Old Liquidator The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy My Chartreuse Opinion Let the War Against Music Begin Down with Wilco In Rock The Minus 5 Killingsworth

EPs	Hello EP The Emperor of the Bathroom At the Organ

Compilations	I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin Vol. 2)

Related articles	West Because We Hate You The Baseball Project Tuatara Wilco Young Fresh Fellows

v t e Tuatara

Peter Buck Dave Carter Jessy Greene Kevin Hudson Barrett Martin Scott McCaughey Elizabeth Pupo-Walker Steve Berlin Joe Cripps Craig Flory Justin Harwood Skerik Mike Stone

Discography	Breaking the Ethers Trading with the Enemy Cinemathique The Loading Program East of the Sun West of the Moon The Here and the Gone (with Coleman Barks)

Related articles	Mark Eitzel West The Baseball Project The Minus 5

v t e The Baseball Project

Peter Buck Scott McCaughey Linda Pitmon Steve Wynn

Albums	Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (2008) Homerun EP (2009) Volume 2: High and Inside (2011) The Broadside Ballads (2011)

Related articles	R.E.M. The Minus 5 Tuatara

v t e R.E.M.

Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe

Personnel	Nathan December Buren Fowler Peter Holsapple Barrett Martin Scott McCaughey Bill Rieflin Ken Stringfellow Joey Waronker

Managers	Bertis Downs IV Jefferson Holt

Studio albums	Murmur Reckoning Fables of the Reconstruction Lifes Rich Pageant Document Green Out of Time Automatic for the People Monster New Adventures in Hi-Fi Up Reveal Around the Sun Accelerate Collapse into Now

Compilations	Dead Letter Office Eponymous The Best of R.E.M. The Automatic Box Singles Collected In the Attic In Time iTunes Originals And I Feel Fine Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011

EPs	Chronic Town Not Bad for No Tour Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes Live from London Reckoning Songs from The Olympia

Other albums	Man on the Moon r.e.m.IX R.E.M. Live Live at The Olympia

Singles	"Radio Free Europe" "Talk About the Passion" "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" "Cant Get There from Here" "Driver 8" "Wendell Gee" "Fall on Me" "Superman" "The One I Love" "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" "Finest Worksong" "Orange Crush" "Stand" "Pop Song 89" "Get Up" "Losing My Religion" "Shiny Happy People" "Near Wild Heaven" "Radio Song" "Drive" "Man on the Moon" "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" "Everybody Hurts" "Nightswimming" "Find the River" "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" "Bang and Blame" "Strange Currencies" "Crush with Eyeliner" "Tongue" "E-Bow the Letter" "Bittersweet Me" "Electrolite" "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" "Daysleeper" "Lotus" "At My Most Beautiful" "Suspicion" "The Great Beyond" "Imitation of Life" "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" "I'll Take the Rain" "Bad Day" "Animal" "Leaving New York" "Aftermath" "Electron Blue" "Wanderlust" "#9 Dream" "Supernatural Superserious" "Hollow Man" "Man-Sized Wreath" "Until the Day Is Done" "Mine Smell Like Honey" "Überlin" "Oh My Heart" "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"

Other songs	"Gardening at Night" "Perfect Circle" "Begin the Begin" "Ages of You" "Turn You Inside-Out" "Texarkana" "Country Feedback" "First We Take Manhattan" "Ignoreland" "Star 69" "New Test Leper" "All the Right Friends"

Videos	Succumbs Tourfilm Pop Screen This Film Is On Parallel Road Movie In View Perfect Square When the Light Is Mine R.E.M. Live This Is Not a Show R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX

Related articles	Discography Tours Peter Buck Athens, Georgia Automatic Baby College radio/college rock Hindu Love Gods The Baseball Project Tired Pony Athens Andover "I Belong to You" I.R.S. Records Warner Bros. Records Hib-Tone Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute to R.E.M. Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People "Homer the Moe" Scott Litt

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Name	McCaughey, Scott
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Short description	American musician
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