Phil Gammage’s early years in music are told in a website on the Colorado New Wave/Punk scene called scarletdukes.com. The author on many of these posts on various bands is named Icepick Phil, and there is a good chance that this writer is also Phil Gammage, since Gammage has been in a band called the Scarlet Dukes. The reportage is certainly from someone who was there to see this music happen, that’s for sure.
The Last Call Records website also mentions two other bands that Phil Gammage has been in recently: “As the nineties have progressed, Phil Gammage has continued to grow as both an artist and musician. On the 1998 Voodoo Martini release Exotic and Mysterious, the Sounds of Voodoo Martini, Phil explored Latin and lounge rhythms as both a composer and vocalist/guitarist. He has also worked with New York City jazz musicians in a new project called the Scarlet Dukes.”
The 2008 album Rogue Escapades by the Scarlet Dukes is another Phil Gammage recording that Allmusic has listed but not otherwise discussed.
In 1995, Phil Gammage founded PreFab International Recordings as a way to present his music on the Internet; their site can be found at: www.scarletdukes.com/prefab/index.shtml . Many records by Phil Gammage, the Corvairs, Certain General, the Scarlet Dukes, Voodoo Martini, and others can be found there.
(March 2015)
