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BY SALLIE TURNER
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Keith Kane and Matt Scanned,
J* 8' ■aduates of Georgetown Uni-
rsity, began playing acoustic gigs
roughout the New England area,
Jentually joining with John Alagia
Jd Doug Derryberry, who recorded
iew tracks for Vertical Horizon. In
R , ^92, the band saved up enough
olackstr-^ney to record their first album,
Hand Back Again.
The album, which was recorded
ScannelTs high school, scored
e group a job touring with the
en up-and-coming Jackopierce.
Bring with Jackopierce helped
e band develop a strong grass
ots following that eventually pur-
ased 70,000 copies of their inde
pendently released album.
Running on Ice, the group’s sec
ond album, released in 1995, in
cluded Carter Beauford of the
Dave Matthews Band and backup
vocals by Cary Pierce and Jack
O’Neill of Jackopierce. According
to the band’s Website, Vertical
Horizon employed a variety of
drummers and other musicians to
tour with them but made no per
manent additions to the band un
til 1996.
The group finally found their per
manent drummer, Ed Toth, through
Scannell’s mom, who was looking for
a Vertical Horizon album at the record
store where Toth was working. Toth
permanently joined the band just in
time to record and release the group’s
third independently produced album.
Live Stages.
Live Stages is a recording of many
of the group’s older songs, with a
more electric sound. Scannell said
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more electric and heavier sound to
their lyrics.
“The live record was a turning
point for us,” he said. “There was a
lot of development, a lot of growth
in a very short time, and I think it re
ally shows on [LiveStages].’’
Vertical Horizon said its focus
was and continues to be songwrit
ing, even though their sound has un
dergone some major changes over
the past seven years.
Kane said they try to put the fo
cus of their music on the lyrics,
melodies and chord progressions.
“We’re not into huge produc
tions,” he said. “Just real emotions
and real situations.”
The band added Sean Hurley on
bass guitar for their latest album,
scheduled for release in June. Every
thing You Want marks their first ma
jor label release.
The new album is a change from
Vertical Horizon’s humble begin
nings of playing acoustically at
nightclubs to small audiences.
Scannell said the songs are still
simple, recorded with sincerity de
spite the change to a more electric
and louder sound.
Kane said one of the reasons for
the increase in the use of electric gui
tars was his desire to hear a lot of
noise.
“After six or seven years of tour
ing, toughing out relationships,
struggling, you begin to feel a little
more realistic about life,” he said.
“That realism, that anger sounded
really good on an electric guitar.”
The band will play tonight at
Shadow Canyon with Sly Letter
opening. Their performance is
scheduled to be a mixture of both
old and new stuff, but the empha
sis will be on the new material.
Ed Toth said the new album and
new sound are a step towards
widening the scope of Vertical Hori
zon’s appeal.
“If we allow ourselves to keep
moving forward, we’ll be able to
cover a lot of ground and have fun
doing it,” he said.
Vertical Horizon
Everything You Want
CD courtesy of RCA
Records
Everything You Want, the
first major label album release
by Vertical Horizon, brings
forth a major change in the
sound of this once acoustic
band.
Their first album, 1995’s
There and Back Again, was a
mix of acoustic songs and
heavily romanticized lyrics.
The newest release is all
electric with a much harder
sound. The romanticized
lyrics remain, but during
many songs on the album, the
lyrics cannot be understood
over the music.
The loyal grass-roots fol
lowing of Vertical Horizon can
expect a shock by this album,
which has an energy level un
like the band’s previous inde
pendent CD releases.
One has to wonder if the
band’s signing with RCA is the
cause for the change in the
music.
The title track, “Everything
You Want,” is sure to please as
it tells the story of the lovelorn
lead vocalist. Matt Scannell.
Fans will have to adjust to
the change in their music,
which is not altogether bad
but definitely different.
The future of Vertical Hori
zon’s music is hard sound that
fits into the mainstream of
rock today. (Grade: B-)
—Sallie Turner
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