![]() ![]() “Save Me from Myself,” on the other hand, uses a stammering guitar line throughout that finally bursts into flames as the song crescendos during the chorus. Though the former eventually opens up to sunny days with a friendly chorus, the track’s verses set a somewhat angst-ridden tone that can be discovered throughout the entire album. Tracks like “All Is Said And Done,” and the album’s lead single, “Save Me From Myself,” are easily some of the moodiest songs that the band has ever penned. That new Vertical Horizon record has now turned into Burning The Days, a release that features the band in their most aggressive light yet. While staying busy writing songs over the past few years, he began to realize that his work was turning into a new Vertical Horizon record. I’m always trying to get better.”Ĭonstantly trying to “hone his craft,” as Scannell put it, has led to good things for the songwriter. I’m also helping Daniel Powter work on his new album. I need to be a better producer, too, which is why I’ve been doing some work with Richard Marx. I want to work to get better at what I do, especially songwriting. “I’ve done a lot of producing work, really trying to hone my craft. “Even though Vertical Horizon hasn’t been working that much, it hasn’t been a break for me,” he said. While the band itself hasn’t been busy, Scannell himself has managed to stay active. We weren’t ‘breaking up’ or ‘going on a hiatus.’ We just haven’t been extremely active lately.” ![]() “We were just so worn down after all that,” he said, referring to the situation with RCA. ![]() That feeling of discontent led to the band stepping away from Vertical Horizon after the release of Go. The disconnect felt between the band members and the label eventually took its toll on everyone, according to Scannell. We needed to feel that connection to continue to do what we want to do as a career.” You have to be in love with music and you have to be strongly connected when you make music. We all felt disconnected from one of the reasons why we got into music, and that was to feel a connection. then took their time in letting us go from our deal. “We were sent to work with Clive Davis and it’s safe to say we were not Clive’s favorite band. “When we were going through our breakup with RCA, we kind of got lost in the shuffle,” Scannell said. Though VH’s follow-up album - a slightly more rockin’ effort titled Go - did eventually see the light of day (twice actually: once in 2002, and again when it was re-released in 2005 with Hybrid Recordings), Scannell is quick to note that sometimes, a record’s success may be more dependent upon the nature of the beast that is corporate music than one could ever imagine. After running into a series of unfortunate events with their record label at the time (RCA) and the merger of Sony/BMG, Vertical Horizon never got a fair shot at releasing an immediate follow-up to their 1999 smash album, Everything You Want. Scannell knows a thing or two about bands being on hiatus. “So when I met Neil for the first time, and he told me that story, it was the most amazing thing. “Rush is absolutely my favorite band of all time,” Scannell said. It’s true: one of Rush’s biggest fans became one of Rush’s biggest reasons to return to music. As fate would have it, he happened to fall in love with a song by Vertical Horizon called “Everything You Want,” and - according to Scannell, who would later meet and become friends will Peart - the song inspired the drummer to get back into music. As questions arose concerning whether the band would ever manage to return, Peart - who took off on his motorcycle for a journey that lasted somewhere around 55,000 miles - found himself listening to pop radio more than usual. If there is any one person that a Rush fan should thank for reuniting the prog-rock giants after the band took a long hiatus in 1997, it’s Vertical Horizon’s frontman Matt Scannell.Īfter Rush’s drummer, Neil Peart, saw both his daughter Selena and wife Jacqueline pass away within a matter of a year, the legendary rock icon took some much-needed and much-deserved time away from the Canadian trio.
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