Scott Garrett (musician)

Scott Garrett (March 16, 1966, Washington, D.C.)^[1][2] is an American drummer. He is known as the drummer for Wired All Wrong and Coloursound, and has been support drummer for J since 1997.^[3] He was also temporary drummer at the last few shows of God Lives Underwater.^[4] Bands Garrett played with include Neverland, Pop's Cool Love, The Cult, The Mission UK and Dag Nasty.^[3][5]

Biography

Scott Garrett grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland. Before age 10 he began drumming under the tutelage of William Frank Reichenbach Sr. legendary jazz drummer for Charlie Byrd, the Stan Getz album Jazz Samba, and co-developer of the jazz-samba drumming style and American wave of Bossa Nova enthusiasm.

From Reichenbach's training and exposure to the drum style in the D.C. area Go-Go Scotts's approach to meter and rhythm developed.

Technique

In technical terms, "Go-go's essential beat is characterized by a syncopated, dotted rhythm that consists of a series of quarter and eighth notes (quarter, eighth, quarter, (space/held briefly), quarter, eighth, quarter)... which is underscored most dramatically by the bass drum and snare drum, and the hi-hat... [and] is ornamented by the other percussion instruments, especially by the conga drums, timbales, and hand-held cowbells.

	basic go-go beat The most important part of the go-go beat is the bass/snare pattern.
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Discography

Albums

• Pyromania (July 24, 1997), Oricon Albums Chart Peak Position: #9^[6]
• Blood Muzik (December 27, 2001) #34^[6]
• Unstoppable Drive (November 27, 2002) #18^[6]
• Red Room (May 19, 2004) #24^[6]
• Glaring Sun (December 7, 2005) #39^[6]
• Urge (March 14, 2007) #39^[6]
• Ride (April 23, 2008) #36^[6]
• On Fire (March 21, 2012) #24^[6]
• Freedom No.9 (October 23, 2013) #31^[6]
• Eternal Flames (September 2, 2015) #15^[6]

EPs

• Igniter #081 (July 18, 2002)
• Crack Tracks (August 21, 2002) #28^[6]
• Go with the Devil -Crack Tracks II- (July 9, 2003) #26^[6]
• Stars From The Broken Night (August 5, 2009) #20^[6]
• Here Comes Nameless Sunrise (December 16, 2009) #36^[6]

Live albums

• The Live -All of Urge- (December 19, 2007) #62^[6]

Compilation albums

• Blast List -The Best of- (December 22, 2004) #43^[6]
• Fourteen -The Best of Ignitions- (January 26, 2011, self-cover) #28^[6]

Singles

• "Burn Out" (June 25, 1997), Oricon Singles Chart Peak Position: #6^[7]
• "But You Said I'm Useless" (October 22, 1997) #31^[7]
• "Perfect World" (July 25, 2001) #19^[7]
• "Go Crazy" (March 20, 2002) #23^[7]
• "Feel Your Blaze" (October 30, 2002) #17^[7]
• "Nowhere" (April 14, 2004) #18^[7]
• "Get Ready" (July 6, 2005) #32^[7]
• "Break" (November 9, 2005) #22^[7]
• "Fly Away/Squall" (July 12, 2006) #43^[7]
• "Twister" (February 7, 2007) #24^[7]
• "Walk Along ~Infinite Mix~" (August 22, 2007) #42^[7]
• "Reckless" (March 19, 2008) #31^[7]

Home videos

• Pyromania Tour'97 ~Crime Scene~ (VHS: October 22, 1997, DVD: December 18, 2002)
• Film The Blood Muzik 80min. Riot (June 26, 2002), Oricon DVDs Chart Peak Position: #34^[8]
• The Judgment Day -2003.1.4. Live at Budokan- (March 26, 2003) #51^[8]
• Blast List -The Clips- (December 22, 2004) #158^[8]
• Crazy Crazy ~Live & Document~ (March 26, 2006) #59^[8]
• Crazy Crazy II ~Road on Flames~ (December 6, 2006) #48^[8]
• Live And Let Ride (April 2009)
• Crazy Crazy III -With The Unfading Fire- (March 17, 2010) #49^[8]
• -Complete Clips- (November 13, 2012) #220^[8]
• Crazy Crazy IV -The Flaming Freedom- (March 26, 2014) #147^[8]

References