About the tracks in the music player:
Tracks 1-4 are samples from Erik's new CD "Other Planets"
Track 5 is live with Alice Cooper and 31,000 Detroit fans.
Track 6 is a song from Sonia Dada
Influences
Bass: Paul McCartney, Pino Palladino, James Jamerson, Chuck Rainey, and u gotta love Tony Levin.
Production: George Martin, Bob Ezrin, Chuck Plotkin to name a few....
I am always influenced at the time by the people I am working with, and there have been many who have influenced me to the good...in life and as well in music, here and abroad.
AWARDS:
Grammy Winner for Best Contemporary Blues Album "Father, Father" by Pops Staples; written and performed on the title track 1994.
Mavis Staples, "Have a Little Faith", Best Gospel Blues Song for 2004.
Erik played, and co-produced "Maybe", Sharon O'Neill's album which won her Female Singer of the Year at the 1981 Australian Music Awards.
TELEVISION & MOVIES:
He has performed on The Tonight Show, The Tomorrow Show, Conan O'Brien, American Bandstand, Solid Gold, Midnight Special, Top of the Pops, Kathy & Regis, Good Morning in Chicago, Hey Hey It's Saturday, and The Tonight Show in Australia, "And quite a few whose names I can not remember, Congressman."
Erik has played, co-wrote and/or produced in: "Nothing to Lose" with Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence; "Waterproof" written by Barry 'Benny & Joon' Berman, featuring Burt Reynolds; a couple of National Lampoon's Vacation movies with Chevy Chase; and some others he can't remember.
Sounds Like
MEDIA:
"Test Pattern" with Sonia Dada
"If there is a break-out musician on this album it is Erik Scott, a fine bass player who has always done outstanding work. This album has several tracks that put him in a class with Jaco Pastorious, Stanley Clarke, and James Jamerson of Motown fame." Review by Stew Strauss of TripleARadio.com
****Note form Erik, "What a great compliment. But if I found myself in a room with those guys I would simply be quiet and pay for dinner....well, maybe I wouldn't be too quiet."
"Erik 'Eski' Scott is the perfect artist for the groups many moods, delivering dreamy medium-register drones, sweet fretless counter melodies, down and dirty swamp boogie, plaintive double-stop ostinati, and everything else the bands' lushly arranged compositions call for" Review by Bill Leigh, Editor of Bass Player Magazine
LISTENER APPRECIATION
****Note from Erik, "Over the years there have been many wonderful comments from listeners, on message boards, and emails, I would simply like to acknowledge these. I suspect that I speak for most musicians and performers when I say such expressions of approval are not taken for granted. They renew and reinforce, Thank You."
Best known for his work with Sonia Dada, Alice Cooper, and Flo & Eddie, Erik has also recorded
with dozens of other artists, including Carl Palmer, Kim Carnes, and Pops and Mavis Staples.
He co-wrote and played on the title track "Father Father" from Pops' Grammy winning album, and played
on the title track from Mavis' "Have A Little Faith", which was awarded 'Best Gospel Blues Song' 2004
by the WC Handy Foundation.
Erik has just completed an instrumental CD,"Other Planets". Song previews and a video are available. In addition to the bass being a main melodic voice, along with steel guitar and keyboards, bass-generated sound effects are used to create a spatial sonic landscape, in pieces like the title cut "Other Planets", for which a video can be seen below.
CD Credits for "Other Planets", unfortunately some credits were omitted accidentally.
The following was left off when the art was redesigned:
Album mixed by Erik Scott
Except Tracks 1, 5&6, mixed by Tom Size.
Track 8 mixed by Erik and Scott Steiner.
CD Mastered by Tom Size at Tomland.
Hi Erik Scott ~ Eski, Heaven & Earth is on hiatus now as Stuart Smith and Richie Onori have joined forces with bassist Steve Priest to reform "Sweet". For those of you unfamiliar with the band, Sweet originally formed in the early 70s and went on to sell over 40,000,000 albums with 11 International Top Ten Hits such as "Ballroom Blitz", "Little Willy", "Love is Like Oxygen", "Fox on the Run", "Teenage Rampage", "Action", "Blockbuster", "Hellraiser" and many others.
This reincarnation of the band reformed last year, playing their first show in June, and went on to play festivals throughout Canada and the States and had played to over 300,000 people before the year was out. During this tour last year they recorded a live CD available on Amazon entitled "Sweet, Live in America" which has received rave reviews - pick up a copy and please Add Sweet As Your Friend On Myspace!
Awww thanks for that comment, you're not doing bad yourself Erik, after all the years of rock and rolling...its the music that keeps us young hun xxxxxx
