In a brand new interview with Rock 100.5 The KATT FM‘s Cameron Buchholtz, unique SALIVA singer Josey Scott mirrored on his one-off look together with his former band in September 2022 on the Blue Ridge Rock Pageant on the Virginia Worldwide Raceway in Alton, Virginia. Scott carried out three songs with the group on the occasion, which additionally noticed SALIVA play with its singer of the previous decade and a half, Bobby Amaru. Scott, whose actual title is Joseph Sappington, stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Sure. That was a very, actually particular second. I had no concept how particular it was going to be. I believed there can be many extra reveals like that that we might get to do collectively. You by no means know when someone is gonna go away this world. None of us know when our card is gonna get checked. So, I used to be proud to get to have that second with [founding SALIVA guitarist] Wayne Swinny [who died six months later at the age of 59], that final, intimate second. ‘Trigger it is very intimate, taking part in music on stage with a man. And to do the issues that we have carried out collectively over time and to see the issues that we have seen and to share the issues that we have shared has simply been a magical, constructive, lovely journey. And to pay homage to that with Wayne Swinny was simply such a blessing and such a deal with. And I’ll maintain it shut in my coronary heart till my final day on this earth. And to get to, once more, pay homage to that each evening with these new guys [in my current solo band] is a blessing as properly.”
Requested what his relationship with Bobby is like at this level, Josey stated: “I have never spoken to him for the reason that life celebration for Wayne Swinny [referencing the ‘A Celebration In Loving Memory Of Wayne Swinny’ event, which was held in April 2023 at Lafayette’s Music Room Memphis, Tennessee]. I actually type of do not actually give it some thought a lot.”
When Buchholtz famous that it’s “a bizarre state of affairs” to see Scott performing SALIVA songs underneath his title and the present model of SALIVA persevering with to file and tour with none unique members, Josey concurred. “Yeah. It is my title. It is a title that I got here up with,” he stated. “It might be completely different if one other bandmember got here up with it again within the day and we have been, like, ‘Oh, yeah. That is a cool title. We should always go along with your title.’ That is my child from again within the day. So, it is just a little extra private. It is form of no completely different than a track I’ve written or one thing of that nature. It is simply actually near my coronary heart, and it is the model. And it is simply type of unhappy to me that the model is getting used differently than I would love it for use. However hey, everyone’s bought their very own path and their very own manner that they do issues. And that is why we pay attorneys.”
Final October, Amaru and SALIVA bassist Brad Stewart have been requested by Joshua Toomey of Discuss Toomey if there had been any “confusion within the market” over the truth that Josey had been performing together with his solo band within the final couple of years underneath numerous names, together with JOSEY SCOTT – THE ORIGINAL VOICE OF SALIVA and JOSEY SCOTT’S SALIVA. Brad replied: “There’s, really.” Bobby concurred, saying: “Yeah, I feel he is simply type of made it complicated. Josey‘s simply being Josey, what he all the time was. He all the time thought he was like a one-man factor, and he is doing what he is gonna do. I feel for us, although, we spent a number of time, I spent a number of time, too, once I bought within the band simply listening to a number of ‘noes’ from radio stations and from managers and a number of harm management, and that stuff that simply type of actually… I am not speaking shit; I am simply being actual. That is what it was. I bought within the band, and there was a number of roadblocks — a number of roadblocks — and the whole lot all the time led again to 1 individual inflicting these roadblocks. I feel it is simply one other roadblock.
Continued Brad: “And bridges burned into the bottom that you simply’re attempting to form of rebuild, in a number of methods, at radio and locations that there was a number of self-sabotage that was occurring there that was unlucky. And for lots of the instances that [Bobby] spent within the band earlier than I joined in 2015, it was all about form of rebuilding bridges, man. And, ‘Hey, this isn’t the SALIVA, although, that did or no matter occurred with you guys on the station or some place else. We’re sorry, however this isn’t the identical band, and we’re right here now to rock and we’re able to do it. After which we’re gonna kick some ass.’ And so it was a number of that — it nonetheless is, even in some locations.”
Added Bobby: “Even for somebody like [Josey], you go away for therefore lengthy and also you come again, he is gotta be humbled at this level with among the reveals he is doing. ‘Trigger we hear about it and stuff. We’re simply type of, like, no matter, let him do what he needs to do. However you are not gonna use the [SALIVA] title — do not use the title — as a result of then all it does is it simply steps on the whole lot that I and we have labored laborious for the final 13 years.”
In Could 2024, Scott was requested by Tulsa Music Stream if it was his hope and need that he and the members of his new band — together with his stepson Dylan Edney on guitar — may finally carry out underneath the SALIVA title. He responded: “After all that is my hope, as a result of I’ve all the time wished the title to form of go full circle and are available again house. Whether or not that occurs stays to be seen. I feel there’s issues that I feel are truthful and issues that the opposite camp thinks are truthful. And we’ll see. We’ll see the way it all shakes out.”
Requested if he was in communication with the band which is continuous to carry out underneath the SALIVA title, together with Amaru and Stewart, about coming to a decision on the utilization of the SALIVA title, Josey stated: “Uh, sure,” earlier than including, “Mainly, all I have been attempting to do that entire time is appease the opposite facet. I am going to go away it at that.”
He continued: “On the finish of the day, as I’ve all the time stated, this enterprise is just not about band names and it is not about personalities, it is not about Josey Scott and it is not about Bobby Amaru. It is about songs, songs, songs, songs. On the finish of the day, once we all put our head on the pillow at evening, it is all the time going to be all about songs.”
Josey‘s new band performs all of SALIVA‘s hits — “those that individuals, in fact, anticipate to listen to,” he instructed LehighValleyNews.com.
In September 2023, Stewart and Amaru spoke to Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station about the truth that Scott launched into a tour underneath the JOSEY SCOTT’S SALIVA banner which noticed him performing a number of the band’s basic songs with none of the opposite unique SALIVA members. Brad stated: “It is an attention-grabbing factor as a result of we have been doing this model of the band [with Bobby on vocals] since Josey initially left 11, 12 years in the past. So we have type of stored the fires burning and put out new data and new music and stuff. So it is an attention-grabbing state of affairs that we’re in now, to be fairly trustworthy, so we’re simply attempting to determine easy methods to make it work for each components of it — each variations of it, I ought to say.”
Bobby commented: “I feel it is good that [Josey‘s] attempting to attach with followers and tour and play music. I feel it is an superior factor. He ought to have been doing it way back.”
Referencing Swinny, who died whereas on tour with the group, Amaru added: “I feel what we’re doing right here [with the current SALIVA touring lineup] is we’re simply attempting to do what Wayne would have wished and we’re honoring Wayne.”
In Could 2023, Josey weighed in on the announcement that SALIVA‘s surviving members would keep on following the loss of life of the group’s final remaining unique member, the aforementioned Swinny. Josey instructed Rock 100.5 The KATT: “I am very shut with Bobby and I do know in my coronary heart and in my soul that Bobby will do the honorable factor. He by no means hasn’t carried out the honorable factor. And I simply belief in his steering the ship at this level, and I do know he is gonna do the correct factor. And I do know it is all gonna work out; it is all gonna be nice.”
Earlier this yr, Josey headlined the 2025 installment of the “Nu Metallic Revival Tour”.