Whiting Tennis

Whiting Tennis lives in Seattle and is currently playing shows as a three or four piece rock group to a following of three or four friends. A new record, "Three Leaf Clover" which was recorded in Manhattan, was released on Tarnished Records last April.Three Leaf Clover is now available for purchase via InSound .The live group typically plays material from that record as well as new songs that will be recorded this year. See photos at: http://www.slide.com/r/kB4elgNKuD__PeCfoM0U7oymWTnimDkN?prev ious_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original History: Whiting moved back to Seattle in 2004 after living in New York City for 12 years. While in New York he played in a group called The Scholars, and self released "Hello Dolly" in 2000. The Scholars were: Whiting on guitar and vocals, John Devore on Drums, and Hiroshi Kimura on bass, who replaced the original bass player, Pete Moe. Gerald Menke, a fantasic NYC steel pedal slide player, occasionally sat in for shows and recording. Before The Scholars formed, Whiting played in The Klugmen, (later called Savalas), which featured the hilarious and talented frontman Kevin Landers on vocals and sometimes guitar. When that band petered out, Whiting basically canibalized that group to form The Scholars. The original idea and form of The Scholars came about when Whiting met Nathan Johnson, the drummer for the Seattle Rock band Flop (fronted by Rusty Willoughby), who had moved to New York after Flop was dropped from Sony. Nathan and Whiting drank lots of beer and decided to start a band that would only gig in libraries. That group only played in Whiting's Dumbo painting studio, but was full of promise. Nathan eventually moved to northern Europe.