Vertical Horizon Whatever Happened to The Band Behind Everything You Want

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Vertical Horizon: Whatever happened to the band behind everything you want? • SIGN UP for 10 of the Craziest Stories in Rock N' Roll [Secret Playlist]: https://bit.ly/3vVPAEF • Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? Fill out our google form! • https://bit.ly/3stnXlN • ----CONNECT ON SOCIAL---- • Instagram: / rocknrolltruestories • Facebook: / rnrtruestories • Twitter: / rocktruestories • Blog: www.rockandrolltruestories.com • #verticalhorizon #everythingyouwant • I cite my sources and they may differ than other people's accounts, so I don't guarantee the actual accuracy of my videos. • The band Vertical Horizon would be A staple of rock radio in the late 90’s and early 2000’s They would have a platinum record and several hit singles, but whatever happened to the band? That’s what were going to explore in today’s video. • Vertical Horizon would be formed in 1992 by two George Town university students named Keith Kane and Matt Scannell. The duo started playing music for fun and to drink beer, but it soon took on a life of its own. Scannel (scan-L) would graduate with a bachelor of psychology at Georgetown and work at at adult daycare center for alzheimer patients. He had planned on going to grad school and studying to become a therapist but soon music took over. Washington DC was synonymous with the so called straight edge punk rock movement led by groups like Fugazi during the early years of Vertical Horizon’s formation in the early 90’s. The duo would start out as an acoustical act rejecting what was popular in washington at the time. • Scanneli would tell the LA Times Fugazi was kind of the D.C. scene, period,”“but we tried not to think too much about that at the time. We started doing the acoustic-based thing right around the time that Hootie [ the Blowfish] came out, and it was heartening to see acoustic music coming back to the forefront. We knew that if we had good songs, then we’d be OK.” Keith would come up with the name vertical horizon at a party one night thinking it was perfect for that moment in time. • The duo started playing coffee shops around Washington and became regulars at a small bar named Dylan’s performing sets consisting of covers of folk-rockers America and Duran Duran. It was at Dylan’s the pair started gaining a steady following, but it wasn’t a lucrative gig for the pair who recalled to the LA Times • “We’d play for 700 people and we would get 25 bucks at the end of the night. I then realized that no one’s gonna be nice to you. You have to get your own business in order.” • While their sound was far removed from punk rock they did take a page out of the punk rock attitude of DIY. Scannel took it upon himself to not only lead the band, but manage the group while also booking them gigs and marketing the groupand getting t-shirts and CD’s made to sell at gigs. Scannel would try to learn everything he could about the music business reading the Donald Passman’s book “All You Need to Know About the Music Business” • The group would release three independent albums, who sold a combined total of 70,000 copies thanks to home grown mailing lists, drop offs at record stores and of course concerts. • The band would catch their break when The Dave Matthews Band’s drummer, Carter Beauford, would play on their 1995 album Running on Ice He would know people at RCA who he introduced to the band and the label would sign vertical horizon in 1997. It was around this time that drummer Ed Toth and bassist Sean Hurley joined the group. • As part of the band’s agreement with RCA the label would re-distribute the group’s first two studio albums, 1992’s There and Back Again (1992), 1995’s Running on Ice (1995) in addition to a live LP they put out in 1997 titled, Live Stages while the band would retain ownership of their masters. • It was in 1998 the band entered the studio to work on their major label debut everything you want. One of the label’s first order of business was to push the group to use more electric guitars on the album to make it more commercially accessible. RCA vice president david bendeth of A R would tell the LA Times • “I went into the studio with them during an early session,” , “and I said, ‘Let’s get some Marshalls [amplifiers] in here and just go crazy.’ They were like, ‘Great, we’ve never done that before.’ They wanted to move on and try something different.” • They would go on to say • “We’re talking Georgetown graduates that had grade-A educations right down the line. They had a lot of savvy early on,” “Matt and Kevin weren’t just two guys out of high school bumming around coffeehouses with guitars. They also had smart people in their camp they relied on who gave them good advice.” • Released in June of 1999 everything you want would sell 2 million copies1stateside. The first single we are was a modest success peaking at number 27 on the modern rock track charts, but it was the second single the

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