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We Are the Quiet Children

from Scambot 1 by Mike Keneally

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XII.

They finish their 45-minute set and huddle in the center of the stage. Holding one another, leaning forward and touching heads, they hum a low G major chord together for 30 seconds: their show-ending ritual.

Moved by this display of...something, Scambot and Kootch offer to buy drinks for the band. Moved by free drinks, the Quiet Children ask Scambot and Kootch if they’d like to visit the band’s rehearsal space, and listen to them getting a little experimental.

Their rehearsal space is attached to the bar; McCackery’s offers it for free, in return for their wandering out onto the stage now and then. Sweet arrangement.

Their room is strewn with electronic gear, dozens of guitars, drums, horns and basses, Partch-type percussion devices and keyboard equipment dating from the 17th Century to the late ’70s. They want Scambot and Kootch to know what kind of music they’re really into. They touch heads and hum for 90 seconds, uninterrupted, and begin to play.

Montage: interspersed with shots of the band playing their music, we see Corporal Quaigo and his team of ex-SWAT members preparing to storm the rehearsal space.

The largest and strangest Quiet Child, Dan the Football Fan, launches into an exciting, pleasantly understated drum solo. Scambot and Kootch nod knowingly at one another. Scambot notices one of the Quiet Children looking at him in a way that feels familiar. He enjoys a delicious handful of salted nuts, and a grenade blows a hole in the wall of the room.

Sixteen of Quaigo’s men begin stuffing themselves through it, all saying “Hup! Hup!” in unison.

“Whoa!” says Scambot as he, Kootch and the Children pile through the door, through McCackery’s and out into the street. Run, they do, through side roads, over small green hills. Through a bowling alley with bullets flying. Over a fence and down an airport runway; some crazy mishap as a plane taxis in the snow towards its arrival gate. A string of baggage carts goes flying like beads. Scambot scampers everywhere, his spindly little arms waving around. Chasing and bullets and yelling
and running and chaos.

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from Scambot 1, released June 15, 2009
Started as an improvisation by me on guitar and Marco Minnemann on drums, recorded by Mike Harris at the Manor, 2006.
MH recorded me doing bass, more guitars and keys at the Manor, 2008, then Marco overdubbed a second drum kit at his place while I shook a water bottle; later he overdubbed cymbals and gongs in his living room.
Manor ‘09, the final MK overdubs were engineered by MH.
Thank you Layne Sterling for the TOMY.

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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