Unique SALIVA singer Josey Scott has launched two new singles, “Who?” and “Well-known”, each of which look like lyrical jabs on the man who changed him within the band, Bobby Amaru. The songs arrive lower than two months after the present lineup of SALIVA — fronted by Amaru — launched a brand new single, “Hit ‘Em The place It Hurts”, that includes lyrics which had been apparently geared toward Scott.
Nashville producer ScatteredBrains, who labored on each “Who?” and “Well-known”, took to his Instagram to share in regards to the former monitor: “Very long time coming, about 15 yrs to be actual. The primary single ‘Who?’ from @therealjoseyscott has arrived !!! I’m past pleased with this track and Josey for locating the energy to push again and push ahead throughout a time the place he is being bullied out of his personal god rattling legacy, his creation, his band SALIVA.
“Please hear, like, share and unfold the message that there’s just one actual SALIVA and that’s with Josey on the driver seat. If the followers are prepared, Josey‘s prepared to present yall that actual shit like he by no means left !!! I do know yall uninterested in watching a canopy band play his music, we’re too.”
When “Hit ‘Em The place It Hurts” was first made accessible in early September, Amaru mentioned in a press release: “‘Hit ‘Em The place It Hurts’ is an anthem about proving folks mistaken, not with phrases, however with motion.”
Apparently referencing Scott, Amaru added: “I sincerely want him the perfect, however this track is absolutely for the followers who’ve stood by us, and for anybody who’s ever needed to combat for what they imagine in. To me, it is about resilience, loyalty, and by no means backing down. That is precisely what SALIVA ought to stand for.”
Earlier this week, Josey, who left the band in 2011 and was changed the next yr by Bobby, as soon as once more blasted his successor, accusing Amaru of “speaking out of each side of his neck” and saying that Bobby has handled Josey like a “former disgruntled worker”. He advised Rock Feed partly: “The solely downside I’ve had with Bobby is Bobby appears to say one factor within the press and act a technique within the press. He acts victimized, like I’ve performed one thing to him. And that appears to be his M.O., is he does this stuff behind the scenes, after which when he will get in entrance of the cameras or will get in entrance of an interviewer, he acts prefer it’s you that is doing this stuff. And trustworthy to God, I am not doing any of any of this stuff that he is saying that I am doing.” Scott went on to lament the truth that Amaru is “treating me like I am some sort of former disgruntled worker that I haven’t got the appropriate to have any sort of voice about this or something.”
Elaborating on the deterioration of his relationship with Amaru over the course of the final three years, Josey mentioned: “See, after I first got here again whereas Wayne [Swinny, original SALIVA guitarist] was alive, Bobby appeared supportive of me. He appeared like he was gonna assist me having my very own band and me doing my very own factor. After which as quickly as Wayne dies, he sends me — he nonetheless says within the press that he is supportive of me and there is gonna be two SALIVAs or no matter, however on the identical time sends me a cease-and-desist [letter] saying I am unable to even name myself the previous lead singer of SALIVA. I could not even have the phrase ‘SALIVA‘ on my poster. It is simply ludicrous. It is completely ludicrous. And like I mentioned, he talks out of each side of his neck, is what bothers me so badly. He says one factor and does one other. In case you’ll discover, when he got here on Rock Feed with you, he was speaking about how I used to be this unhappy individual with quitter’s regret, after which places out a diss monitor about me. And I am simply, like, ‘Okay. All proper. I see the place that is going now.’ So I’ve obtained two singles popping out now that’ll [be me] responding. The primary single is named ‘Who?’, and the opposite track is named ‘Well-known’. And I am dropping them each directly.”
Scott went on to say that he was shocked to listen to that SALIVA had launched a “diss monitor” about him. “I am simply, like, ‘That is one thing rappers do, dude. This ain’t one thing rocker guys do,'” Josey, whose actual title is Joseph Sappington, mentioned. “So I needed to [respond] in form — twice.”
This previous August, Scott made it clear that he had no intention of rejoining the band he co-founded practically 30 years in the past. Josey defined to Youngstown Studio that he did not foresee ever teaming up with the present model of SALIVA, noting that he had “butted heads” with Bobby and insisting that he did not “need to give the followers the Temu model of SALIVA,” a reference to the Chinese language e-commerce web site, “with some sort of a bastardized model that Bobby places collectively.” Josey went on to say that he needed to get the SALIVA title again and use it with members of his new band, explaining that he named SALIVA utterly on his personal and that the SALIVA title’s “rightful place” was with him, not with the Amaru-fronted model of the group. “That was what I got here to the desk with,” he mentioned of the SALIVA moniker. “I put that band collectively one member at a time. That is my title.”
Amaru, who has been a member of SALIVA for 13 years, later addressed Scott‘s feedback in regards to the present lineup of the band in an interview with Rock Feed. Bobby mentioned: “I watched that interview that [Josey] did [with Youngstown Studio]. I often do not take note of the Blabbermouth headlines or any of his interviews and stuff. However so many individuals had been sending it to me that I watched it entrance to again.
“It does not trouble me, the issues that he says about me — I am not likely bothered by it,” Bobby insisted. “I simply really feel like I see a tragic man who simply has quitter’s regret. And that is what it feels prefer to me.
“I prefer to take unfavorable stuff and switch it into positivity and create music and stuff, and a few folks similar to to be unfavorable and bash on-line or no matter, or take jabs. And for me, I like music, [and] all the time have. And I like SALIVA, love the model.”
Referencing Swinny, who died in March 2023 after struggling a mind hemorrhage whereas on tour, Bobby added: “ Wayne had a imaginative and prescient. All of us had a imaginative and prescient after I obtained within the band, was to take a damaged undertaking and revive it, and that is what I have been doing. And, sadly, Wayne‘s life was minimize brief. We love and we miss him each day. And I am solely honoring him. I did not even know that I needed to do that anymore when he handed away — I did not really feel like I needed to — and a few issues began taking place and Josey took it upon himself to simply go and name himself [and his solo band] JOSEY SCOTT’S SALIVA. And I simply felt like that was mistaken. I felt prefer it was classless, and Wayne can be rolling in his grave over that. And those that knew Wayne and know the state of affairs, they’d agree with that. And I believe, for me, it is, like I made a decision to proceed on and I simply wanna put out killer music. And I really feel just like the band has been accelerating, and he hates that. It bothers him.”
Bobby continued: “I do not know. I imply, I want the man nicely. I simply hope the man may discover positivity and put it to the music, simply maintain doing what he is doing. He has followers, however SALIVA is gonna maintain doing what SALIVA‘s doing and what SALIVA‘s been doing. 14 years — November might be 14 years for me. And I am grateful. I’m. And now we have a whole lot of cool issues on the horizon, a bunch of unannounced festivals for ’26. And, hey, man, we’re gonna maintain placing out music.”
