Los Angeles
After spending three months in Hollywood recording Supertramp on the A&M lot, and receiving more production work from the company as a result of the success of Supertramp, Scott decided to permanently move his family to Los Angeles in 1976, renting a house just by chance across the street from Frank Zappa. Subsequent to that move he produced albums with David Batteau, The Tubes, Devo, Kansas, Level 42, dada and others.
At the behest of Zappa’s wife Gail, Scott was asked to check out a demo featuring ex-members of Frank’s band, Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo, along with Bozzio’s wife Dale who had formed a band eventually to be named Missing Persons. With Scott at the helm and thanks to massive airplay from the fledgling rock radio station KROQ, the band went on to record one of the biggest selling EP’s ever, which eventually led to a deal with Capitol Records, who then released their first album entitled Spring Session M. After not being able to find a suitable manager, Scott also assumed that role.
After “artistic differences” caused a split, he went on to produce and manage other acts including Christine in the Attic and Cock Robin, although neither went on to achieve the level of success of Missing Persons.
Scott’s previous relationship with Warren Cuccurullo, who went on to join Duran Duran, led to his mixing an MTV Unplugged episode as well as doing engineering work on the Thank You and Pop Trash albums.
In 2000, Scott reunited with former Beatle George Harrison to work on the reissue of his catalog, included the huge hit All Things Must Pass. He was also responsible for the organization of Harrison's entire tape library during that period.
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