{{short description|American musician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Scott Ayers | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = United States | genre = Noise rock | occupation = Musician | married_to = | instrument = guitar, keyboard | label = Anomie, Charnel Music, Trance Syndicate | years_active = 1985–present | associated_acts = Pain Teens, Walking Timebombs }}
'''Scott Ayers''' is an American musician, best known as the guitarist and keyboardist for the noise rock band Pain Teens based in Houston, Texas. He has also released solo albums under the moniker Walking Timebombs and is involved with bands local to Texas, including Anarchitex, Exterminating Angels and Geltab.<ref name="ihrtnayers">{{cite web |last=admin |url=http://ihrtn.net/zh/2011/04/pain-teens-special-scott-ayers-interview/ |title=Pain Teens Special – Scott Ayers Interview |publisher=I Heart Noise |date=March 28, 2011 |accessdate=April 2, 2013}}</ref>
== History == Scott Ayers began playing guitar at the age of thirteen. He was initially inspired after hearing ''Are You Experienced'' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and later became interested in the compositions and musicianship of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. As an adult, he studied anthropology at the University of Houston.<ref name="examinerayers">{{cite news |first=Trevor |last=Wallace |title=Engineer Extraordinare Scott Ayers |publisher=examiner.com |date=September 3, 2009 }}</ref> After Pain Teens disbanded in 1995, Ayers began issuing music under the name Walking Timebombs. In 1997 he released ''Walking Timebombs'', which captured a live performance of Ayers accompanied by former Pain Teens' drummer Frank Garymartin.<ref name="deadangel33">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.korperschwache.com/dead/archive/interviews/scottayers_interview.html |title=Blabbing with Scott Ayers |publisher=Dead Angel |date=April 1999 |issue=33 |accessdate=April 2, 2013}}</ref>
== Discography ==
===Pain Teens=== *''Pain Teens'' (1988, Anomie) *''Case Histories'' (1989, Anomie) *''Born in Blood'' (1990, Trance Syndicate) *''Stimulation Festival'' (1992, Trance Syndicate) *''Destroy Me, Lover'' (1993, Trance Syndicate) *''Beast of Dreams'' (1995, Trance Syndicate)
===Walking Timebombs=== *''Walking Timebombs'' (1997, Charnel Music) *with Tribes of Neurot: ''Static Migration'' (1998, Release Entertainment) *with SubArachnoid Space:''The Sleeping Sickness'' (1999, Elsie & Jack) *''Sapsucker'' (2001, Anomie)
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