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Erik first recorded in the Chicago area in '69 for an album on Capitol records by Food, which morphed into Otis Plum, which then morphed into Jambalaya, who recorded on A&M records in 1973. Shortly thereafter, Erik recorded with caberet-type singer Mo McGuire in Chicago, then moved to LA. He quickly hooked up with Flo & Eddie, who as the Turtles had so many hits in the sixties. After two albums and three years of F&E touring, with the likes of Jefferson Starship & the Doobie Bros, he dove into the divergent LA recording scene, playing, composing, and produciong.Playing and co-producing a Peter McIan album, producing the Japanese rock group Carmen Maki & Oz, and playing bass on albums by Frannie Golde, Tonio K, Cheryl Dilcher and Butterfly Records. He also played some shows with Del Shannon, Jackie Green, and Wolfman Jack, and wrote and recorded music for the hit TV shows Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Vegas, and Loveboat.

Then, re-joining the rock wars in '79, he recorded an album with Carl Palmer in Munich and London, after which he returned to LA and hooked up with Alice Cooper, spending three years recording and touring with Alice. There is a comprehensive interview covering these years at Alice's UK site: http://www.sickthings.co.uk/interview/erikscott_aug_05.php. Back in LA, he played on albums by Kim Carnes, and wrote songs covered by Ted Nugent, Triumph, and Alice. He went to Australia and played/co-produced Sharon O'Neill's "Maybe", for which she won Australian Female Vocalist of the Year 1981. It was shortly after this that Erik got together with writer Mark Baker, writing, arranging and recording songs for a group which they formed, recruiting vocalist Mark (Marcie) Free. Adding guitarist Danny Jacob and drummer Jan Uvena, this group became Signal, whose one album became a bit of a melodic rock cult classic overseas.

Shortly before this, while recording "Idle Tears" back in 1986, Erik had started working with writer-guitarist Dan Pritzker, and in '90 Dan formed the multi-genre, multi-racial blend of a band called Sonia Dada, who debuted with triple platinum success in Australia, and received critical and serious regional success in the US. During the following 15 years, Erik contributed low notes, production and some composing for five critically acclaimed studio albums and a live one. Eski , occupied fully with Sonia Dada, took only time to record one song for Pops Staples, the Title song to his Grammy winning "Father Father" CD, and one song for Mavis Staples, which was honored by the Handy Foundation as Blues Gospel song of the year 2004. (Eski note: " These two songs were the only times I ever recorded for Pops or Mavis.")

With Sonia Dada on extended hiatus, Eski has spent the last few years recording some soulfully spacey instrumentals, collected into an album "Other Planets", released January 2009. More stuff, pics, and discography can be found found at www.erikscottbass.com. Erik has recently turned his focus to recording soulfully spacey instrumentals. His debut solo album, “Other Planets” will be released in January of 2009.