Former Saliva singer Josey Scott has been very vocal in recent months about his feelings for the band’s current incarnation, namely singer Bobby Amaru. When asked about potentially reuniting with his old band, Scott previously told Web Is Jericho (via Youngstown Studio) that he didn’t “want to give the fans the Temu version of Saliva with some kind of a bastardized version that Bobby puts together.”
In a new interview with the Carr Stereo Podcast, Scott was asked about the back-and-forth he and Amaru have engaged in through the press. “Well, it’s just heartbreaking,” he said. “The one word I could put to it is it’s heartbreaking to see something that you created from the ground up, that you were a founding member of, and then to get treated like you are this lowly, disgruntled old employee is just crazy to me. Like Will Ferrell says, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.”
Scott continued: “I don’t know how to explain it. You never know the darkness that lurks in a man’s heart. You don’t know how people are going to react. I heard somebody say the other day, they said, if you wanna see how somebody really is, give them fame and money. And that’s true, because we certainly were given a little bit of fame and money, and we came apart at the end of the runway, like any other plane that was trying to land with no landing gear.”
Scott also addressed a potential reunion of sorts that fell flat after the two singers performed together at the 2022 Blue Ridge Rock Festival in Alton, Virginia. “To have those waters muddied by somebody who wasn’t even in the picture in the beginning, who was a child — this guy was a child when we were releasing ‘Click Click Boom’. This guy was a kid. He was still trying to kiss a girl and go on a date. He was 15, 16 years old. So to have those waters muddied by that person, it’s just heartbreaking.”
Scott’s full interview can be viewed below.
