Scott Blasey
| Scott Blasey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 52–53) Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Rock, alternative rock, garage rock |
| Instruments | Guitar, Vocals |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Associated acts | The Administration The Clarks Donnie Iris and the Cruisers The Infamous Dicks/Scott, Rob and Greg of the Clarks |
| Website | www |
Scott Blasey is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist for the Clarks, a position he has held since the band's inception in the mid-1980s. Aside from the Clarks, he also has a successful solo career, and three studio albums have been credited to him.
Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania in 1964, Scott Blasey graduated from Connellsville Area Senior High School in 1982. He then began attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania. There, he met guitarist Rob James, bassist Greg Joseph, and drummer Dave Minarik. Blasey, James, and Minarik first began playing together as "The Administration." When Joseph joined the three in 1986, they became "the Clarks." Initially a cover band, the quartet soon started writing and performing original material, with much of the writing output being by Blasey and Joseph.
Blasey graduated from IUP in 1987. Soon afterward, the Clarks entered the recording studio. Their first studio album, I'll Tell You What Man..., was released in 1988. The song "Help Me Out" received some Western Pennsylvania radio airplay, and was a local success. I'll Tell You what Man... was followed by The Clarks in 1991, which introduced "Penny on the Floor." Love Gone Sour, Suspicion, and Bad Debt (1994) and Someday Maybe (1996) followed, introducing "Cigarette" and "Mercury", respectively.
In 1995, Blasey's first solo album, Don't Try This at Home, was released. It was recorded at Studio L in Weirton, West Virginia, and was a moderate success. In a very favorable review, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that his "grasp of the nuances of rock 'n' roll's moral landscape has put him at the front ranks of the regional music scene for years." It went on to say, "What Don't Try This at Home reveals exactly is the full range of Blasey's emotional timbre unencumbered by the bombast of Top 40 considerations." Acoustic versions of some Clarks songs, like "Mercury", "Courtney", and "Flame", were included. In all, five of the songs from Don't Try This at Home ended up on The Clarks' album Someday Maybe.
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