The Patchwork Quilt Fallacy

About Me

The band started in Los Angeles with Karl Strauss and Shelah Kelso writing and recording songs together as The Patchwork Quilt Fallacy. After playing in several other bands in LA, they both realized the east coast colleges would provide them with more opportunities to tour and reach out to their fans. So the duo relocated to Northeastern Pennsylvania and began to find band members with a passion and drive for lifelong musical success that matched that of Shelah and Karl.
Scott John Miller replied to an on-line ad posted by Shelah and Karl. He instantly connected with the music and shortly after was adding his own influences on the bass guitar. The three members of The Patchwork Quilt Fallacy each have years of on stage experience. Scott has opened for Sponge and Traci Gunns and Karl has performed exclusively for Linda Perry. The Patchwork Quilt Fallacy has opened up for national act Reel Big Fish.
The Patchwork Quilt Fallacy is currently playing shows and promoting the release of their first album, The Great Escape EP. If you live in New Jersey or eastern Pennsylvania, you can also hear them on the Sunday night "Backyard Bands" segment of 95.1 FM WZZO.
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Member Since: 10/5/2005
Band Website: Under construction
Band Members:Shelah Kelso: Vocals, Piano

Karl Strauss: Guitar/Backing vocals, Drums

Scott John Miller: Bass

Extra special thanks to Eric Astor for his excellent work recording "Singing to the Lonely" at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood, CA. All other songs recorded and mixed at Karl and Shelah's personal studio, "The Shack".

Ricky Ahner played drums on the studio and live recordings of "We All Just Absorb"

Influences: SHELAH: tori amos, sarah mclachlan, silverchair, the smashing pumpkins, alice in chains, nine inch nails, 90’s alternative/rock including MTV music videos at 2 am and VH1’s "insomniac music theater"

KARL: the smashing pumpkins - "siamese dream" and "mellon collie and the infinite sadness", nirvana - "nevermind", korn - "korn", jimmie’s chicken shack - "pushing the salmonella envelope", the juliana theory - "love", silverchair - "diorama", guster - "lost and gone forever", third eye blind - "third eye blind", deathcab for cutie - "transatlanticism" and "plans", Alice in Chains - "Jar of Flies".

SCOTT: fugazi, skillet, pink floyd, linkin park, mike watt, POD, 100 portraits, blind melon, violent femmes, descendents & ALL, sponge, bad brains, inspecter 7, live, the downs family, smashing pumpkins, embrace, and johnny cash

Sounds Like: Music based upon emotion and dynamics that incorporates the many types of rock music. Namely alternative rock, soft rock, and hard rock.

CD Review by North East Music Organization (NEMO) editor Scott Flax::

"You often hear it asked: Where can you find good new music and artists? Stop right here and take a listen. I have had the benefit of seeing these guys play out, and was so entranced by the age versus talent, forget that, just the talent at any age. Shelah [Kelso], Karl [Strauss], Scott [John Miller], and maybe the new adition of Kevin [Vanderhoof], comprise this very talented organization of notes, chords, instruments, and players. They are songsmiths that have little local equal. I find it impossible to single out any of the 5 pieces on this disc to say any stand out. They are all equally entrancing. The production is very good, the songs are tasty, the vocals are wonderful, and the harmonies, exquisite. Buy this CD. Go see them live (they have CDs for sale at every show). This is new music from young craftsmen that needs exposure."
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

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FREE SONG DOWNLOAD

We have a live acoustic version of "We All Just Absorb" available to download for FREE! It’s the first song on our myspace player. So....what are you waiting for? -Your friends in The Patchwork ...
Posted by The Patchwork Quilt Fallacy on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:06:00 PST

New Pictures Posted From Music Video Shoot

Hey everyone,We just posted pictures taken at our music video shoot for "Singing to the Lonely". The band and Director/Filmmaker Brandon Wunder, filmed the first part of the video over...
Posted by The Patchwork Quilt Fallacy on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:04:00 PST