Musician and writer Scott Miller has died, according to his official site.
“Scott passed away on April 15, 2013. He was a wonderful, loyal friend as well as a brilliant musician, and I will miss him for the rest of my life,” his webmaster, Sue Trowbridge, wrote. She did not provide a cause of death.
Miller, born in 1960, formed college-rock act Game Theory in the early ’80s with Fred Juhos, Nancy Becker and Michael Erwin. The band’s shifting lineups released four studio albums before label Enigma went under, leading to a fresh start for the musician with ’90s project the Loud Family.
A prolific musician, he was also an exhaustive listener, offering a well-received critical overview of 53 years of rock history in 2010 book “Music: What Happened?” With that project accomplished, he had set his sights back on music.
“Scott had been planning to start recording a new Game Theory album, ‘Supercalifragile,’ this summer, and was looking forward to getting back into the studio and reuniting with some of his former collaborators,” Trowbridge wrote.
The webmaster has made a number of Game Theory releases, currently out of print, available for free download.
” My main goal is to prevent people from trying to capitalize by selling these long out of print albums for lots of money. I want everybody who would like to hear these albums to be able to do so without paying outrageous prices,” she wrote.