We Are Scientists is an American indie rock band formed in 2000 featuring
Keith Murray (guitar and lead vocals), Chris Cain (bass guitar and backing
vocals) and previously Michael Tapper (drums and backing vocals). The
band's name is not taken from the Cap'n Jazz song of the same name. It was
inspired by an awkward conversation with a U-Haul employee who was
inspecting a van that the band had rented. The U-haul employee, attempting
to make polite conversation, asked the three bespectacled band members if
they were brothers. They said no. He asked if they were scientists. They
told him that they were musicians, not scientists. To this day, they
regret telling the truth. In their own words, the band creates "rock music
of the thoughtful, sometimes epic, often loud, vaguely danceable,
implicitly humanist variety".
History The band formed while its members attended the Claremont Colleges.
Keith Murray and Chris Cain attended Pomona
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Alternative Pop - Rock,
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