Scott
Butler -
bass and
vocals
Scott
grew up in
rural
Michigan.
Early music
influences
were his
older
sisters'
record
collections
(Elton John,
The Beatles,
Led
Zeppelin,
Deep Purple,
etc) and
nights spent
huddled
under the
covers with
an AM radio,
listening to
distant pop
stations. In
6th grade,
after
hearing Van
Halen's
first album
and Jimi
Hendrix's
"Star
Spangled
Banner" for
the first
time, he got
his first
guitar - a
Sears
"Airline"
Strat copy
with a
snazzy
sunburst
finish - and
an old
Heathkit
amp. When
Scott first
picked up
the guitar,
he copied
his guitar
hero Jimi
Hendrix, and
taught
himself to
play "upside
down and
backwards",
flipping his
right-handed
guitar over
and playing
it
left-handed
with the
strings
reversed.
Within the
past year or
two he's
become a
"switch
hitter", and
can play
either way
(he prefers
to play
Seth's
material
"rightside
up"). Scott
has played
bass almost
as long as
he has
played
guitar, and
was in a
number of
mid-Michigan
bands before
moving west.
Scott has a
massive
music
collection,
is a fiend
for rock
trivia, and
listens to
just about
everything.
His bass and
guitar
influences
include
Eddie Van
Halen, Joni
Mitchell,
Vernon Reid,
Jaco
Pastorius,
Jimi
Hendrix, Pat
Metheny,
Chris
Squire, and
Paul
McCartney.
Scott plays
a Fender
Jazz bass
and uses
Ashdown or
Roland amps.