![]() ![]() It also featured the melancholic ballad “Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning).” There was a moment of clarity: if I gave them the power, I could just as easily take it away.” “I was really frustrated with myself for enabling this dynamic and I didn’t know how to get out of it. “I had put someone in my life in a position of power I had given them the ability to make decisions for me or influence my ability to make decisions in a way that they didn’t deserve,” Scannell said. The album also featured “You’re a God,” which reached No. I just wanted her to be better and feel better and I felt like the man who could do that for her.” It’s a very classic story where I kept seeing her turn to people who were bad for her and treated her unkindly without much respect. “I was in love with someone who just thought I was a friend. “It’s a song written out of sheer frustration,” Scannell said. In 1998, Vertical Horizon finally signed with RCA Records for their major label debut album, “Everything You Want” (1999), which featured the No. I can imagine them listening to that record saying, ‘How are they doing this without us?'” Around the same time we crossed the 70,000 units sales mark in SoundScan network, so those two things perked up people’s ears, literally. “We sent it off to all of the A&R people who had passed on us. “The ‘Live Stages’ record begins with voracious applause by the audience,” Scannell said. That live album, “Live Stages” (1997), turned heads when execs heard the crowd reaction. … We were frustrated that we weren’t getting just naturally welcomed into the fold of the major label system, so we made a live record down in Winston Salem, North Carolina at a place called Ziggy’s recorded over two nights.” “A lot of the major labels were passing on us and we wanted to get to the next level. “You hear us literally learning how to use a recording studio,” Scannell said. They relocated to Boston to record their debut album, “There and Back Again” (1992). Pretty soon, they started getting calls from fraternities and sororities across the country wanting to book them. We would play shows during the summer months, so people would hear us, make recordings of us, then bring those tapes back with them to college wherever, Seattle, St. “There were so many students who would be coming in for a summer internship and heading back to college in the fall. “This was in a pre-internet time and tape trading was a thing,” Scannell said. They began passing around tapes and students took them back to their schools. At that time, we were making no money whatsoever, so they would feed us everything we could eat and carry home, so Heads basically fed us throughout that time.” “We played at The Tombs with some regularity, there was a BBQ place called Heads and we would do a weekly gig there. ![]() “We played at The Bayou quite a bit,” Scannell said. Soon, they began playing together at various bars and clubs around Georgetown. ![]() Right after that, Keith said, ‘Hey, do you want to jam sometime?'” “Keith played a song and I absolutely loved his voice and the spirit with which he played, then the guitar made its way around the circle and I played … my version of version of ‘All Along the Watchtower.’ It was fun. “A circle of people gathered around who knew how to play guitar,” Scannell said. He still remembers the moment he met guitarist Keith Kane at a college party. “I studied some music history … Both Keith and I gave ourselves a year after we graduated to give the music thing a try and we were frankly expecting it to fail miserably, then we would go on to Plan B, but that never happened, fortunately.” “I was prepping for Plan B, to be honest with you, major in psychology and I had a minor in English,” Scannell said. “It’ll be nice to be back at the old stomping grounds,” Frontman Matt Scannell told WTOP.īorn in 1970, Scannell grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts before enrolling at Georgetown. Thirty years later, the alternative rockers join Train at Wolf Trap on Aug. Vertical Horizon was formed as a college band at Georgetown University back in 1991. WTOP's Jason Fraley previews Vertical Horizon at Wolf Trap (Part 1)
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