Blonde Vinyl Memorial

Steve Scott is a musician, poet, and international traveller. He started off as a solo musician in the early days of Christian music. His work was sometimes seen as the alternative to alternative - stuff that was really out there. But his early albums are now considered classics. His lone album for Blonde Vinyl was his first of many spoken word/poetry-set-to-music albums. He included loops and samples of recordings he made while travelling around the world.

Moving Pictures
Solid Rock Records (unreleased, 1980)

Steve Scott - vocals, ?
(other players unknown)

Possible song titles:

Different Kind of Light	Scott
More Than a Dream	Scott
The Love You Need	Scott
Chapel of Stone	Scott
Come Back Soon	Scott

Other Information:
The long lost Steve Scot album. Recorded for Solid Rock Records, but never released. Some inside source claim that it still may be released someday. Different versions of songs recorded for this album have appeared on later albums, and those songs are listed above.

Rock & Religion Radio Special
Indepedent (January 4, 1980)

Steve Scott - vocals

01)	Intro	0:55
02)	Poem 1...Sun Poem	1:31
03)	Poem 2...Flight	1:10
04)	Poem 3...What Draws Our Gaze Down
05)	Poem 4...Janet I-Slow Motion	1:03
06)	Poem 5...Janet II-A Rumor Of Separate Worlds	1:24
07)	Poem 6...Janet III-The Other One	1:22
08)	Interview With Mary Neely	2:57	Explanation of "Janet" poems
09)	Poem 7...Lights And Shadows	1:53
10)	Poem 8...The Distance	1:01
11)	Poem 9...Prayer Of The Heart	2:06
12)	Poem 10...Meditations On The Covenant Names Of God	2:04
13)	Interview 2	3:25	Talks about why he writes poems
14)	Poem 11...This Sad Music	4:30	Recorded Live with The Scratch Band
15)	Outro	0:32

Other Information:
This is a a rare early poetry reading broadcast of Steve's The third poem is listed in the bootleg of this event, but there is no poem three read on the recording.

Love in the Western World
Exit Records (1983)
Produced by Steven Soles

Steve Scott - vocal, mouth organ
Michael Roe - guitar, vocal
Mark Tootle - keyboard, guitar
Jan Eric Volz - bass, vocal, guitar
Mark Proctor - pounding
Steven Soles - tamborine, vocal
Darla Griser - vocal

01)	Tower of Babel	2:57	Scott
02)	No Time Like Now	3:39	Scott
03)	Wall of Tears	4:58	Scott
04)	This Sad Music	5:01	Scott
05)	Love in the Western World	4:30	Scott
06)	Safety in Numbers	6:10	Scott
07)	Walking on Water Wasn't Built in a Day	3:10	Scott
08)	Flesh and Blood	3:24	Scott

Emotional Tourist
Exit / A&M (unreleased, 1986)

Steve Scott - vocals, ?
(other players unknown)

Possible song titles:

Love in the Western World	Scott
Heaven Hears the Heart That Breaks	Scott
Memory Babe	Scott
Ghost Train	Scott
Wonderful Fool	Scott

Other Information:
Another even more long lost Steve Scot album. Recorded for Island Records, but never released. Pre-release cassettes were reportly released. Different versions of songs recorded for this album have appeared on later albums, and those songs are listed above.

Rice EP
Exit / Island (unreleased, 1987)

Steve Scott - vocals, ?
(other players unknown)

Other Information:
Recorded for Island Records, but never released. Most or all of the songs on this were released on Lost Horizon

Sound Of Waves / Call Of The Wild 7"
Alternative Records (unreleased 1989)

Steve Scott - vocal
Mike Roe - guitar
Aaron Smith - drum
Mark Tootle - keyboard
Gary Landaker - bass

01)	Sound of Waves	Scott
02)	Call of the Wild	Scott

Other Information:
This 7-inch was planned by Alternative Records, but never released.

Lost Horizon
Alternative Records (1989)
Produced by Mike Roe, Charlie Peacock, and Steven Soles

Steve Scott - vocal, mouth organ
Mike Roe - guitar, vocal
Aaron Smith - drum
Mark Tootle - keyboard
Gary Landaker - bass

Benjamin Bossi - saxophone
John Flanagen - guitar
Rick Estrin - harp
Bongo Bob Smith - percussion
Steve Griffith - vocal
Jim Albegg - banjo, guitar
Jan Eric - guitar, bass guitar, vocal
Mark Proctor - drums
Steven Soles - percussion, vocals
Mike Butera - saxophone
Daryla Griser - vocal

01)	Not a Pretty Picture	4:07	Scott
02)	No More Parades	3:59	Scott
03)	Something's Got to Change	3:33	Scott
04)	What is the Mystery	4:44	Scott
05)	Call of the Wild	4:18	Scott
06)	Touch	5:34	Scott
07)	Shadow Play	4:19	Scott
08)	Wall of Tears	5:29	Scott
09)	Love in the Western World	5:00	Scott
10)	Emotional Tourist	4:03	Scott
11)	When Worlds Collide	4:18	Scott
12)	Ghost Train	3:29	Scott
13)	This Sad Music	5:16	Scott
14)	Ship of Fools	3:40	Scott
15)	Minor Characters	3:56	Scott
16)	Sound of Waves (12" Version)	7:10	Scott

Other Information:
This album contains tracks from Emotional Tourist and Rice EP, as well as remixes from Love in the Western World. Alternative Records wasn't sure that CDs would sell, so the last 4 tracks listed above are not on the casseette version.

Magnificent Obsession
Alternative Records (1990)
Produced by Mike Roe, and Charlie Peacock

Steve Scott - vocal, guitar
Mike Roe - guitar, vocals
Aaron Smith - drum
Bruce Spencer - drum
Mark Tootle - keyboard, voice
Charile Peacock - keyboard
Gary Landaker - bass, rhythm guitar

Steve Griffith - bass
Bongo Bob Smith - percussion
Eric Kleven - bass
Mike Butera - saxophone
Mark Proctor - wind chimes

01)	Love in the Western World	3:52	Scott
02)	Heaven Hears the Heart That Breaks	3:12	Scott
03)	Memory Babe	3:39	Scott
04)	Ghost Train	3:25	Scott
05)	Tower of Babel	3:09	Scott
06)	No Time Like Now	4:49	Scott
07)	Farthest Star	5:41	Scott
08)	The Love You Need	5:09	Scott
09)	Wonderful Fool	4:22	Scott
10)	Flesh and Blood	4:36	Scott
11)	Heaven Hears... (Remix)	3:36	Scott
12)	Come Back Soon	3:59	Scott

Other Information:
This album is a companion to Lost Horizon, featuring unreleased tracks and alternate versions of other tracks. The last 2 tracks listed above are not on the cassette version.

The Butterfly Effect
BVCD3522 (1992)
Produced by Steve Scott

Steve Scott - vocals, samples, keyboard sequencing

01)	Sun Poem	2:52	Scott
02)	Slow Motion: (a) Slow Motion / (b) A Rumour of Seperate Worlds / (c) Signals	8:43	Scott
03)	No One Else to Blame	2:07	Scott
04)	Butterfly Effect	4:53	Scott
05)	No Memory of You	12:18	Scott
06)	Ghost / Explanation	3:46	Scott
07)	Lights & Shadows	5:10	Scott
08)	Flight	3:04	Scott
09)	"It's As If" / Snapshots at the Taj	2:38	Scott
10)	Who Among the Angels?	4:51	Scott
11)	Jubilee Fragment	3:13	Scott
12)	The Beautiful Light	9:51	Scott

Empty Orchestra
Twitch Records (1994)
Produced by Steve Scott

Steve Scott - All words and music

01)	[Untitled]	3:21	Scott
02)	[Untitled]	4:57	Scott
03)	[Untitled]	5:13	Scott
04)	[Untitled]	6:37	Scott
05)	[Untitled]	4:15	Scott
06)	[Untitled]	5:00	Scott
07)	[Untitled]	4:50	Scott
08)	[Untitled]	5:19	Scott
09)	[Untitled]	4:32	Scott
10)	[Untitled]	5:40	Scott
11)	[Untitled]	3:30	Scott
12)	[Untitled]	2:39	Scott
13)	[Untitled]	4:38	Scott

Other Information:
This album is collection of instrumental music and printed poems. The poems could be meditated upon while listening to the music, or even used as background tracks for a poetry reading.

Poems printed in the CD jacket are:

Third Floor Meditation
A Different Story
Old Year / New Year
The Voice
Rainbows at Midnight
Hitchhiking Down West Coast
A Section From Margins
Mime
Two
Passages of the Heart

We Dreamed That We Were Strangers
Glow Records/Rad Rockers (1996)
Produced by Steve Scott

Steve Scott - vocals, slide guitar, loops/sequences

01)	From Genesis to Revelation	3:38	Scott
02)	Tiger Sky	4:24	Scott
03)	Interlude	3:37	Scott
04)	The Lost Child	6:33	Scott
05)	Afterimages	5:47	Scott
06)	We Dreamed That We Were Strangers	8:08	Scott
07)	Dark Interval	1:51	Scott
08)	Hands	4:03	Scott
09)	Afterimages (Unspoken Remix)	3:47	Scott
10)	Beneath the Skin	5:50	Scott
11)	The Witness	12:16	Scott

Other Information:
This album is collection of spoken word poems over music.

More Than a Dream
Rad Rockers (1997)
Produced by Slack Shankar

Steve Scott - vocals, keyboards
Tracy Tootle - vocals
Mark Tootle - keyboards

01)	More Than a Dream	4:17	Scott
02)	Ghost Train	7:44	Scott
03)	Different Kind of Light	5:14	Scott
04)	The Sound of Waves	6:06	Scott
05)	A Selection From 'Margins'	3:50	Scott
06)	Chapel of Stone	7:38	Scott
07)	Walking on Water Wasn't Built in a Day	5:47	Scott
08)	Delta Remix	3:40	Scott
09)	The Descending of the Dove	7:31	Scott
10)	Put Your Hand to the Plow	7:07	Scott
11)	Jubilee	7:25	Scott
12)	Come Back Soon	5:40	Scott

Other Information:
This is a collection of previously unrecorded material and alt versions, some intended for the unreleased album Moving Pictures. However, these are newer recordings of those songs - the back cover says "All New Recordings - Recorded 1997."

Awaiting The Dawn
Velvet Empire Records / Flaming Fish Music (1998)

10)

Steve Scott

Nervous System

4:10

Crossing the Boundaries
Glow Records (2000)
Produced by Slack Shankar

Steve Scott - music and words
Gaylen Stewart - images

01)	Chirping in the Distance	2:28	Scott
02)	Something to Work With	2:34	Scott
03)	The Question	2:55	Scott
04)	Landing Signals	2:07	Scott
05)	Trading Places	1:35	Scott
06)	New Creations	4:10	Scott
07)	The Collection	3:59	Scott
08)	Unknown Columns	1:36	Scott
09)	As It Is Written	2:23	Scott
10)	Slow Motion Reflections	3:28	Scott
11)	Angel of the Disappearing Species	4:10	Scott
12)	The Market Place	5:00	Scott
13)	Real World	3:00	Scott
14)	Under the Influence of Light (Clear as a Bell)	2:32	Scott
15)	The Resurrection of the Body	5:49	Scott

Other Information:
This album was a multi-media exhibit in conjunction with painter Gaylen Stewart. The booklet includes sixteen full color art / collage paintings from the exhibit.

Love in the Western World (CD re-issue)
Millenium 8 (2000)
Produced by Steven Soles

Steve Scott - vocal, mouth organ
Michael Roe - guitar, vocal
Mark Tootle - keyboard, guitar
Jan Eric Volz - bass, vocal, guitar
Mark Proctor - pounding
Steven Soles - tamborine, vocal
Darla Griser - vocal

01)	Tower of Babel	2:57	Scott
02)	No Time Like Now	3:39	Scott
03)	Wall of Tears	4:58	Scott
04)	This Sad Music	5:01	Scott
05)	Love in the Western World	4:30	Scott
06)	Safety in Numbers	6:10	Scott
07)	Walking on Water Wasn't Built in a Day	3:10	Scott
08)	Flesh and Blood	3:24	Scott
Re-issue bonus songs:
09)	Different Kind of Light	3:48	Scott
10)	More Than a Dream	3:57	Scott
11)	Call of the Wild (live)	3:56	Scott
12)	Love In The Western World (live)	4:40	Scott
13)	When the Fight is Over (live)	4:43	Scott

Emotional Tourist (retrospective album)
Arena Rock Records (2010)

Steve Scott - vocals

How Many Words for Sorrow? (working title)
? (2010)

Steve Scott - vocals

According to Steve in an HM magazine interview, "I'm creating/finishing up more sound loops from my travels to accompany another spoken word project (working title: How Many Words for Sorrow?)"

What a great site! Looking for reviews/ comments on Steve Scott's The Boundaries for a collected edition to be released in 2010. or any Boundaries-related material like the The Butterfly Effect. Thanks.

Comment posted by Gord Wilson, gordrw@yahoo.com, alivingdog.com. on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 08:07 PM

`more than a dream' = new versions of songs some of the songs originally were intended for `moving pictures' Chapel of stone for example. All new 1997 recordings there though.....

Comment posted by steve scott on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 08:07 PM