Scottish McMillan

I have lived in a quiet suburb of Chicago my whole life, which started in 1969. Having been a depressed kid who wasn't as smart as his parents wanted to believe, I found music was a great sedative. Unfortunately, my late teens also brought new, exciting sedatives into the picture.

Fourteen years of general wastedness later, I cleaned up and made a CD, called "Vice Verses". One song from the CD was nominated by wwwJustPlainFolks.com for Best Lyrics in the Male Singer/Songwriter field, and I was ranked by their discriminating judges as one of the Top 5 Best Live Performers in the USA (out of about 15,000 participants). Also, at one point, www.AmericanIdolUnderground.com rated Whatever Remains in the top 50 most popular songs in its class.



In the following year, I formed a trio and played most major venues in Chicago, including the House of Blues, Schuba's, Cubby Bear, and more. The trio lasted about two years, before the players left for other interests. In 2003 and 2004, I went twice around the UK with the Chicago Music Explosion, and in 2004, I had a great tour through the Eastern US. I continued gigging pretty regularly around Chicago when, in 2005, I got my Jeep broken into after a show, and lost ALL my gear, and lot of other stuff, amounting to about an $11,000 loss. I still had an acoustic guitar, and spent the next year and all my money rebuilding what I had worked so hard to build up.



Meanwhile, I got asked by Chris Steinmetz of Stonecutter Records to be part of a project called Acoustic Chicago, which now features lots of great Chicago-based "acoustic" talent. Through Chris, I worked with drummer/percussionist Ernie Adams (Al DiMeola, Ramsey Lewis, MANY more), 7-string bass guru Bill "The Buddha" Dickens, and drummer Vance Okraszevski. This CD/DVD collection is now available for purchase, and is selling like ice at the equator! :-)



GET YOUR COPY TODAY. (Watch "Infinity Grooves" video below!)



As for my BAND. I've got my "Rock Rig" up and running again (and sounding better than ever), and also a new drummer, Ryan Aiello. We're called RIGHT RONGLY, and we will rock you OUT. Like Soundgarden, Primus, and Keller Williams in a belnder on "puree", we shatter the "novelty act" paradigm int he first ten seconds of every show. I'll still be playing my "So-Low Acoustic" shows, but less and less over time, as I will be focusing more and more on RIGHT RONGLY.



We've got the website (www.rightrongly.com) bought and paid for, but until it's up and running (not even close), you'll have to settle for our MySpace page.