Skooshny

 

 

Before and after their involvement with SS-20, Bruce Wagner and David Winogrond were in a band called Skooshny.  The Allmusic article on the band by Bryan Thomas says:  “Skooshny is an L.A.-based psych-folk-pop trio who originally came together in 1971, a time that singer/guitarist Mark Breyer later said was ‘too late for the Byrds, too early for R.E.M.’”  Skooshny released numerous songs beginning in the mid-1970’s but did not put out an album until Skooshny (1991), a retrospective album that collected their material from 1975 to 1981. 

 

Mark Breyer and David Winogrond had been in a Chicago-area band called Brevity; when they relocated to Los Angeles, they connected with guitarist/keyboardist Bruce Wagner who answered an ad that they ran in a music magazine.  David Winogrond also did some work outside SS-20 and Skooshny; he was the drummer for one of the earliest L.A. punk rock bands, the Germs, though not the original drummer.