![]() ‘Ultimately, we decided to come back because besides family and friends, making music is still the reason I get up in the morning. ‘You can either reconnect with that passion that made it all happen in the first place or fall away from it and become another piece of wreckage,’ he adds. When business gets in the way of art, it’s a dangerous time. And after several years of dealing with these issues, my connection was quite tenuous. ‘As a songwriter and musician, ultimately I’m always trying to stay vigilantly connected to the muse of music, the reasons I started doing this in the first place. ‘Without the label behind us, it just floundered and sort of withered on the vine, which was a heartbreaker for all of us,” he says. Vertical Horizon’s official press materials say that ‘the band’went their separate ways to pursue other interests,’ but Scannell’Vertical Horizon’s frontman and chief songwriter’says the hiatus happened after the darker side of the music business started taking its toll. Released from their contract in 2004, the band signed with Hybrid Records, which re-released the John Shanks-produced album as Go 2.0 in 2005. VH’s follow-up album Go was slated for release in 2002, then 2003, but ultimately got lost in the proverbial shuffle. But with the restructuring of RCA upon the merger of Sony/BMG, their lack of label support led to just as hard a fall. When they initially signed with RCA, the band experienced a meteoric, dream-come-true rise, with several years of nonstop touring and the hits ‘You’re A God’ and ‘Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning’), which was later refashioned as a Top Ten country smash for Garry Allan. They’re currently on the Hot AC charts again with ‘Save Me From Myself,’ the first single from the new album which features Neal Peart from Rush on drums. Going indie again (albeit with distribution via EMI) after massive success, then extreme frustration with major label RCA, brings band founders Matt Scannell and Keith Kane back to their roots in the early and mid ’90s, when they launched their career and built momentum with the self-released sets There And Back Again, Running On Ice and Live Stages. With the release of Burning The Days, Vertical Horizon’s first album in four years (on their own label Outfall Records), the Washington, D.C.-bred band comes full circle in a whirlwind career that’s included five Top 20 singles, including their #1 hit ‘Everything You Want’ (one of the most played radio songs of 2000) from their double platinum album of the same name.
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