Scatterbrain (band)

{{Short description|American funk metal band}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Scatterbrain

| image = Scatterbrain Elektra.jpg

| caption = Scatterbrain in 1991

| background = group_or_band

| origin = Long Island, New York, U.S.

| genre = Funk metal, thrash metal, comedy rock{{cite news|url= http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/psychostick-returns-funk-metal-to-its-silly-roots/Content?oid=1284704 |first= Chris |last= Haire |title= Psychostick returns funk metal to its silly roots |newspaper= Charleston City Paper |date= August 12, 2009 |accessdate= April 24, 2015}}

| years_active = 1989–1995 (reunion: 2007)

| label = {{hlist|Relativity|Elektra|Pavement}}

| spinoff_of = Ludichrist

| website =

| current_members = Tommy Christ
Glen Cummings
Paul Nieder
Guy Brogna
Mike Boyko

}}

Scatterbrain was an American band from Long Island, New York that played a combination of, among others, heavy metal, thrash metal, funk, and punk, with humorous, ironic lyrics. It was founded in 1989 by Tommy Christ and Glen Cummings after their group Ludichrist broke up.{{cite book |title=The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal |date=1995 |publisher=Guinness Publishing |isbn=0-85112-656-1 |editor=Colin Larkin |editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |edition=Second |pages=314/5}}

They performed distinctive live shows which might combine a Mozart medley, a Motörhead cover, cross-dressing, and a chicken costume. Their most popular song, "Don't Call Me Dude", was a top-twenty hit in Australia.{{Cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Scatterbrain&titel=Don%27t+Call+Me+Dude&cat=s|title=australian-charts.com – Scatterbrain – Don't Call Me Dude|website=Australian-charts.com|accessdate=November 22, 2019}} Its video, directed by George Seminara, received regular rotation on MTV's Headbangers Ball with Riki Rachtman, and is featured in Beavis and Butt-Head{{'}}s "Blood Drive" episode. The band contributed a rendition of LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" to the soundtrack of the 1992 film Encino Man.

In 1992, Cummings parted ways with the others, moved to Nashville, and founded the rap rock group Stone Deep with members of The Hard Corps. Christ, Neider, Brogna and Boyko wrote and recorded the band's third release, a seven-song EP titled Mundus Intellectualis (1994). The band stopped writing, recording, and touring in 1994.

In 2007, Christ, Neider, Brogna and Ludichrist drummer Dave Miranda reunited to perform several Scatterbrain / Ludichrist reunion shows.{{Cite web|url=https://myspace.com/scatterbraindudes|title=Scatterbrain | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos|website=Myspace.com|accessdate=November 22, 2019}} Cummings did not participate.

In a November 2024 interview, Cummings revealed that there is a third, unreleased Scatterbrain album titled Hot Garbage that was recorded for, and rejected by, Elektra Records.{{cite web |last1=Dicks |first1=Britton |title=Glen Cummings Interview |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/blastedbybritton/permalink/596068032994446/?rdid=VeBmAhjWgY6h6Dp8# |website=Facebook |access-date=December 9, 2024}}