Skycycle (rock band)

Skycycle
Origin	Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Alternative Rock, Industrial Rock
Years active	1995–2000, 2002
Labels	MCA
Members	Steve Isaacs Sven Shenar Kelly Castro Chris Cano
Past members	Rob Brown † (10/15/2010)

Skycycle was a Los Angeles based alternative rock band, led by former MTV VJ and singer-songwriter Steve Isaacs. The band is perhaps best known for their contributions to the 1998 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island soundtrack.

While touring as the main character in The Who's Tommy for sixteen months, Steve Isaacs was planning to form a band after he finished touring in January 1995. He came up with the band name Skycycle while reading an article in Entertainment Weekly about the two-wheeled rocket in which Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon in 1974. Isaacs initially started out playing with drummer Rob Brown, playing their first show on October 31, 1995. Two years later, he was recommended bassist Kelly Castro formerly of Caterwaul by a friend, and met guitarist Sven Shenar at work.

Skycycle released a self-produced demo tape named Siren in 1997, and after playing a show in the L.A.-based club The Dragonfly on Halloween night that year, MCA Records A&R executive Tom Sarig offered them a record deal, leading up to the issuing of their six-song debut EP Breathing Water in January 1998. The band insisted on Ken Andrews to be the producer, recorder and mixer, for being "the perfect guy to put in just that special touch". In the same year, Skycycle performed and produced the songs "The Ghost Is Here" and "It's Terror Time Again" for the Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island soundtrack.

Skycycle continued to record a full-length album named Ones and Zeros in 1998, which was mixed and produced by Tim Palmer and contained several songs Isaacs wrote touring in the rock opera Tommy as part of his "pop opera" Strawberry. According to Isaacs, "The title and overall concept of Ones and Zeros refers to the future of society via the information superhighway and the way that we're able to take the wealth of the world's knowledge – history, science, entertainment, art and commerce – and reduce everything down to ones and zeros." After finishing recording the twelve tracks in January 1999, the band was pressured by MCA to reformat the album and to rerecord certain tracks before the album would be released, which the band considered "substantial and unwanted input from the recording label". The changes were ready by July 1999 and the album was initially scheduled for release on August 21, 1999, while the song "Last Girl on Earth" was released as a single and received substantial radio airplay.

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