For Denny and Kenny Scott, the accomplished songwriters and performers in L.A. five-piece Echo Jet, a good song is all about melody, an interesting, non-clichČd lyric, and professional production. Those are qualities abundantly evident on the band’s self-titled debut recording, led by monster single “Wave.”
“Our writing has always been very melodic,” Denny notes. “We grew up on that kind of songwriting—bands like INXS, early U2 and Tears For Fears, who had that combination of cool guitar lines with cool melodies and interesting lyrics.”
Actually, Denny’s being too modest. Hook-laden rockers like the ones they mention did more than influence them. After years of slugging it out in the biz, the two brothers now count many heroes as peers—people like Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish, Beck) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne). In fact, the two Navy brats, still in their teens at the time, decided to turn their musical hobby into a career after hanging out with radio hitmakers The Outfield.
