Scott Weinrich

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Name = Wino


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Robert Scott Weinrich
Alias = Wino
Born = birth date and age|1961|09|28
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Origin = Maryland
Instrument = Guitar Vocals
Genre = Doom metal
Stoner metal
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Associated_acts = The Obsessed Saint Vitus Spirit Caravan Place of Skulls The Hidden Hand
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Robert Scott "Wino" Weinrich [ [http://www.rockmymonkey.com/interviews/07/04b/TheHiddenHand.php : RockMyMonkey.com-P.O. Box 828 Olympia, WA 98507 [phone] ] ] (born September 28, 1961 [ [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/141b095c-a290-478e-a6ae-b1d3f7899835.html MusicBrainz] ] ) is a doom metal guitarist & vocalist and founding member of The Obsessed. His raw and deep vocals in Saint Vitus, as well as his guitar work in The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan and The Hidden Hand, made him a big personality in the metal scene and one of the most influential vocalists/guitarists in the doom metal genre overall.

Biography

Wino's musical career started out in high school when he started his first band, War Horse. He went on to form The Obsessed in the late 70s. This version of The Obsessed would release a 7" entitled "Sodden Jackal" in 1983 on Invictus Records and have a track featured on Metal Blade Records's "Metal Massacre VI". They also recorded an album entitled "Live at the Wax Museum" in 1982. In the mid 80s he disbanded The Obsessed and moved to California to sing for Saint Vitus. During this time Wino also anonymously played bass for The Mentors [ [http://rockdetector.com/officialbio,9160.sm Rock Detector] ] and filled in on vocals for local doom band Lost Breed. In Vitus he covered vocal duties as well as additional guitar work on some tracks. Vitus put out three studio albums: "Born Too Late" (1987), "Mournful Cries" (1988) and "V" (1989), a live album ("Live" (1990)), and the "Thirsty and Miserable" EP (1987) with Wino. After Vitus signed to Hellhound Records, Hellhound put out "The Obsessed" (1990), a collection of archived Obsessed recordings. This prompted Wino to leave Vitus and reform The Obsessed, who now had a record deal with Hellhound Records. This incarnation of The Obsessed released some 7"s and two more albums: "Lunar Womb" (1991) and "The Church Within" (1994) (the latter was picked up by Columbia Records) before calling it quits in 1994. They also released a documentary video that year. Wino then formed Shine which released a single 7" with two songs. The band later became Spirit Caravan with ex-Wretched (another Hellhound act) vocalist Dave Sherman on bass. Spirit Caravan put out two albums "Jug Fulla Sun" (1999) and "Elusive Truth" (2001) and the "Dreamwheel" EP (1999) before disbanding in 2002. Wino joined ex-Pentagram guitarist Victor Griffin in his outfit, Place of Skulls, for one album, "With Vision" (2003) before leaving to start his most recent band, The Hidden Hand. The Hidden Hand released a 7", three studio albums, one DVD/CDEP, and a split 12" with Wooly Mammoth before Wino disbanded the group in August 2007. He's currently planning a new project called Shrinebuilder featuring Al Cisneros (Om and Sleep) and Scott Kelly of Neurosis (former Om and Sleep drummer Chris Hakius was initially part of the project but is no longer involved) and is also planning to record an album of solo material in 2008. [ [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=89148 BLABBERMOUTH.NET - Doom Legend SCOTT 'WINO' WEINRICH To Release Solo Album ] ]

Wino recently contributed vocals and guitars on the track "The Emerald Law" for Dave Grohl's project, Probot. He can be seen playing guitar in the Probot video for "Shake Your Blood," which features Lemmy on bass and vocals. He has also collaborated with ex-Death SS guitarist Paul Chain for some of his solo work. Wino worked with Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, Sabbath drummer Bill Ward, Fight guitarist Brian Tilse and Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford in the band Bullring Brummies, who are featured on the "Nativity in Black" Black Sabbath tribute album. He also played guitar on a demo for the band "Gypsy Moth" and can be found singing and playing on the Mystick Krewe of Clearlight split CD with Acid King. Both The Obsessed and Spirit Caravan have released anthology-type albums featuring rare tracks, "Incarnate" (1999) and "The Last Embrace" (2004) respectively.

Bands

*The Obsessed (1977 - 1986, 1990 - 1995) - guitar & vocals
*Place of Skulls (2003) - guitar & vocals
*Saint Vitus (1986 - 1990) - guitar & vocals
*Spirit Caravan (1996 - 2002) - guitar & vocals
*The Hidden Hand (2002 - 2007) - guitar & vocals

Contributions

*Probot - guitar & vocals on "Emerald Law" on their self-titled album, guitar on "My Tortured Soul (live)" on "MTV2 Headbangers Ball, Vol. 2", and guitar in the video for "Shake Your Blood"
*Solace - guitar & vocals on "Common Cause" on their album "13"
*The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight - vocals & E-bow on "The Father, the Son and the Holy Smoke " (split CD with Acid King)
*Paul Chain - vocals on "Bloodwing" and "Nibiru Dawn" on "Unreleased Vol. 2"
*Bullring Brummies - guitar on "The Wizard" on "Nativity in Black"
*Wooly Mammoth - guitar on "Mammoth Bones" on "The Temporary Nature"
*Sixty Watt Shaman - guitar on "All Things Come to Pass" on "Reason to Live"
*Victor Griffin - backing vocals on "Late for an Early Grave," guitar & backing vocals on "The Pusher/Iron Horse" and guitar & vocals on "Haywire" on "Late for an Early Grave"
*Shepherd - guitar on "Thursday" and "Saturday", vocals and guitar on "Sunday" on "The Coldest Day"
*Lost Breed - vocals on "Nation's Song," "False Glory," "Lost Breed," "Soul Chariot" and "Coffin Cheater" on "Wino Daze" EP
*Wall of Sleep - guitar on "From the Bottom of These Days" on "Sun Faced Apostles"
*Joe Lally - guitar on "The Resigned" and "Billiards" on "There to Here"

References