A lot of people don't know that about Scott. We're talking about the eighties, and now an actor. You know, it's funny, Don Johnson and Bruce Willis both had top five hits back in the eighties. They're cool and all, and had good songs like "Heartbeat" and "Respect Yourself," but I just don't think they are very good singers. They're better at acting.
The music career was fed from the acting?
Yeah, but Scott Grimes is a whole different ball of wax. He's an incredible singer. He loves music. He would do music full time if that could pay the bills for him, but he's been singing since he's a kid. Just trying to give Scotty some props there, he's a great actor.
I think that's part of what I love about that album that "Sunset Boulevard" is on (Living on the Run). I recognize some of those eighties influences we were talking about earlier. ("Sunset Boulevard" video below)
That's very good. That was on purpose. A lot of those songs Scotty and I wrote in the early nineties, but we both still have that love of eighties music. It was very much influenced by some of the people we grew up with and love: like Bryan Adams, of course, that's Scott's favorite; REO Speedwagon; Styx; Journey; and that kind of stuff. So, yeah, it was done by design.
And those songs were very old. We had them for years and to finally get a chance to do something with them was a blessing. "Sunset Boulevard" has turned out to be a surprise hit for us. It was a top-twenty hit on the Billboard AC (Adult Contemporary) chart. It did quite well, sitting there right alongside Rob Thomas.
We wrote that in like twenty minutes, just goofing off back in 1999. That song was six years old before it was even a hit. And it's nothing that we put a whole lot of work into, like I said. It was something where we were goofing off and wrote it very quickly.
I think we've written better songs since then, so I hope that "Sunset Boulevard" doesn't go down as our biggest hit. We've got stuff much better than that.
So you are going to get back in there and put something else out?
Oh yes. We've been working. We probably got about 50 songs that we've written since then, but right now Scott's got a great opportunity. He's in London making a movie (Robin Hood) with Russell Crowe, who is an old friend of his.
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