Stereo Embers The Podcast 0367: Stephen Fredette (Scruffy The Cat)

“Boom Boom Boom Bingo”

Scruffy The Cat dominated the College Rock scene of the late ’80s with a run of fabulous albums like Tiny Days and Moons of Jupiter, plus two stellar EPs High Octane Revival and Boom Boom Boom Bingo. If you don’t have these four releases-get them. They’re the most perfect blasts of rootsy indie pop you’ll ever hear. The six member Boston outfit, which formed in ’83 lasted just under a decade, breaking up in 1990. Over the course of their career they went Top 5 on the CMJ College Radio Charts, were played on MTV’s 120 minutes, were critically lauded by pretty much everyone, including the Village Voice and The Chicago Tribune, cracked the Billboard Top 200 and toured with Los Lobos, The Replacements and Yo La Tengo. The six member Scruffy personnel consisted of Charlie Chesterman, Stephen Fredette, MacPaul Stanfield, Randall Lee Gibson IV, Stona Fitch and Burns Stanfield. Omnivore put out two great anthologies that celebrate the band’s legacy and as far as alums go, Scruffy is down two men with the deaths of Chesterman and Gibson, but the music remains and it sounds as fresh as ever. As for Stephen Fredette, he’s a marvelous and accomplished artist who did all the Scruffy covers, and he just had his first gallery show in the Boston area. And he’s been working on some songs….

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