At the Pittston, PA show on February 16, 2005, Scott agreed to sit down with Kelly & I for a "quick interview"...but once we got talking about stuff, Scott quickly overshot our time limit and didn't seem to give a damn, which is par for the course with the good natured guy that he is. Michael gave us the heads up that we'd need to wrap it up about 20 minutes after the fact since it was getting time for their set...but since Scott had been pretty long-winded (Not that we minded at ALL, but do ya think he got that from me?! *lol*) with some of his earlier responses, even running long, we still didn't get to finish the whole interview.

Of course, there were some "Creed" related questions, and upon reviewing the way things went, it started to seem like Scott brought up the Creed conversation first, and that a lot brought that back into the conversation during the interview-however, you need to keep in mind that this was before the Alter Bridge "now" versus Creed "before" debate had been absolutely beaten to a pulp. I was waiting on some additional info, and also have the site upgraded before I posted this, but since there are still a few hold ups with things-and the boards have been rather d-e-a-d everywhere, I'm optimistic that this will perk up a little interest to get us along with a bit of "new stuff" until the boys head back on the road or do SOMEthing exciting for us to report on. lol

This video of this interview wasn't really taken with the purpose of being posted, or else it would have been done differently--(it probably wouldn’t have been set up looking like we were interrogating the poor boy!! HahhA!!) Kelly just set it up as a back-up in case the audio recorder had failed. Once it was done and over and we got to watch through it--we decided to go ahead and post the video since the audio quality on the video was actually better than the original audio recording. I have to say though--its definitely better footage of Scott than the VERY few clips we got during that 60 questions crap! Lol

I tried to edit down the majority of the entire interview to be just Scott's responses without alot of the hub-bub in between (with the exception of a follow up question or two, plus bit of laughter here and there!). I will write out the question that was asked, and then post the link to the file for you to download and view. Each clip varies in length-some are insanely short, while others go on for quite a while.

Scott deserves a major "Thank You!" for being as incredibly gracious as he always is...for being an honest and good-natured guy, and for wholeheartedly supporting this site from even *before* Day One. Many thanks also go out to Michael, who was a good sport for letting me pick on him a little bit towards the end of the interview. Ohhh...and we must give props to Mr. Mark Tremonti ("...on lead guitarrr!") for inadvertently providing the backing tracks on the video, as well. *snort* "Ow Owww...break it down now!" Yes, there was a brief moment where Mark broke out of the "doo dell ee doos" and went into this cool groove that caused Kelly & I look at each other and actually pay more attention to listening to Mark in the other room than to Scott's answer to the question we had just asked! Whoops...! (but then he went back to his "doo dell ee doos" and we quickly zoned back in on “the important one.” *snickers*) Kelly & I hope that you guys enjoy this as much as we did... It was a fantastic experience that we came away with some incredible memories of and I hope to be able to bring you the conclusion of the interview at some other point in time!

Happy viewing!! *waves*

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Question One: Being that you started playing at an older age and had other musical interests prior to the drums--tell us about how you started drumming:
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Question Two: When did Crosscut come into play? (I think this question was an unexpected blast from the past for him! *chuckles*)
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Question Three: Tell us about your musical influences, past & present: (And for the record, this one always makes me giggle--the "noisy Tony" was "Brian's Tony", not Tony Adams...)
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Question Four: Garrett (from Submersed) has openly talked with us on several occasions about what a great inspiration you were in him getting started on the drums and that's it's a "dream come true" for him to be touring with you. Your thoughts on that?
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Question Five: Do you find you're able to learn a lot from some younger drummers like Garrett?
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Question Six: You've gotten the reputation as somewhat of a good-natured jokester...and it seems that Garrett has a great collection of drumheads with some terrific drawings. Who do you have the most fun picking on?
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Question Seven: As we've been talking about influences, I get a lot of emails and comments from drummers who absolutely idolize you, wanting to know what you play, how to meet you...all that sort of stuff. Do you have a hard time imagining yourself as "that rockstar"...being someone else's "Will Calhoun?" How have you managed to stay so humble?
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Question Eight: (With the previous answer of being "odd" and "tough to comprehend"…) Do you feel a lot of pressure to live up to your fans expectations?
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Question Nine: How do you keep your double bass chops up, and can you offer up any tips for double bass playing?
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Question Ten: What is your role in the creative process of Alter Bridge, be it with songwriting (lyrics), or the actual instrumental compositions?
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Question Eleven: Discussion about experiences with being "held back" creatively...I was trying to steer back away from some Creed talk, but yeah...wasn't gonna happen. I did try to be "nice" about it.... (BTW--The beginning of this where Scott starts talking is that cool groove that we were diggin'...you can kinda hear Kelly & I laugh about it. I think she said, "nice lil' tune goin’ on in there!" lol Yeah...we completely zoned out from Scott talkin' there for a few seconds...oops! hahah...)
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Question Twelve: Do you feel that Weathered in a way was a "sell out?" Like something that was put out there just to *be* out there…do you feel that it was top quality?
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Question Thirteen: You mentioned production--how was it different working with Ben Grosse this time, versus John Kurzweg in the past?
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Question Fourteen: Continued conversation regarding drummers, production work and radio air play--
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Question Fifteen: Everything is very "Mark & Myles show" right now, so when do you think we'll be seeing more of you in the drum publications?
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Question Sixteen: Your first magazine cover--what was that like? How weird was that for you?
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Question Seventeen: What’s the difference for you the first time hearing Creed on the radio versus the first time hearing Alter Bridge on the radio? Is this project more considered "your baby"?
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Question Eighteen: Now, you guys have Alter Bridge and I think most people agree with the idea of Alter Bridge NOT doing Creed songs in concert--of course, Stapp hasn't taken that road, and quite frankly, butchered a few songs on national television. What do you think about Stapp going out, getting new members and say, putting out a new album with the Creed name--can he use the name?
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Question Nineteen: Now, the final question on that topic, the Greatest Hits cd that got put out--if you could have put it out differently, or on your own terms, what would you have done differently with it?
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Question Twenty: What's your favorite song on One Day Remains and your favorite song to play live?
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Question Twenty One: Certainly some things are different now from the days of being a bachelor on the road, to being a husband and father on the road, so how have you and April managed to keep somewhat of a normal childhood for your daughter so far? How has she changed your life?
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Thanks for watchin'...........hopefully, there will still be more of this interview to come in the future, but this is the end of the video portion 'cuz yeah....we ran outta time. Hope you guys have enjoyed this as much as we did!!