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Saliva frontman won't rejoin his band, shades current lineup as 'Temu' version
Singer Josey Scott would like to come back to Saliva, but just not the current incarnation of the rock band. The singer/songwriter, 53, was the band's lead singer during the band's inception in 1996, all the way until 2011. After recording seven albums during a 15-year time span, Scott decided to leave the band to 'be a father and get sober and clean up [his] life and find [himself] mentally and spiritually and philosophically,' as he told Tulsa Stream Music. From there, Bobby Amaru has taken over lead vocals for the band and continues to front them to this day.
In a recent interview with Youngstown Studio, Scott made it clear that he had no intention of rejoining the band he co-founded. He specifically points to tensions with Amaru being the reason.
'Me and Bobby have just butted heads,' said Scott as transcribed by The PRP. 'And he's talked crap about me in the press and just done all these sort of… I don't wanna talk ill of… My mother used to say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say about somebody, don't say anything at all.' But it's just — I don't know. I don't want to give the fans the Temu version of Saliva with some kind of a bastardized version that Bobby puts together.'
Scott is referring to an interview Amaru did with Youngstown Studio in 2024, where the singer eluded to coming into Saliva 'when the other person quits and basically abandons and leaves everyone high and dry and they just disappear for a decade and stuff.' This is also
Scott is hoping for a 'Hail Mary' in order to get the band name back, but he's made his thoughts about Amaru clear in the meantime.
'He's not Saliva,' said Scott. 'He has never been Saliva. He definitely went out there and did his thing and filled in the space.'
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