Myth of Logic
Myth of Logic is the creative vehicle of Scott G. Davis of Saint Petersburg, FL, and is influenced to some extent by progressive rock of all eras, but primarily that of the 1970s, the main influences being stated to include Genesis, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rush, Kansas, Yes and Saga.
Scott began playing the guitar at the age of 13, and at the same time began experimenting with keyboards. His love of progressive rock developed after he was taken to a series of concerts featuring prominent progressive rock acts of the late seventies (Emerson Lake & Palmer, Pink Floyd and Yes) by his father.
He soon began playing guitar in some amateur local bands, but it wasn't until his sophomore year of high school (1981) that he became a member of his first serious band, a three-piece called Hydra. They played covers of songs by bands such as The Police, Kansas, Genesis, The Tubes, The Babys and many others, but their primary obsession was Rush.
They developed a repertoire of about 20 songs by RUSH, which they gradually honed to perfection, and in doing so they acquired the tools to begin crafting their own songs as well, which they proceeded to do in earnest. These early years allowed Scott to acquire skills such as playing while singing, and how to utilize synthesizers and related technology.
Hydra ended amicably in around 1984, and the band members have stayed in touch ever since. Scott went on to play in several northeast Kansas bands, playing guitar, bass and keyboards - and sometimes all three in the same band. Then in 1992 he had a chance to join a local band called Alchemy.
This band had existed since around 1980, but apart from a track titled 'Sparks', which closed side two of a vinyl compilation album called 'Homegrown 1980' released by KY 102 FM, a long standing AOR station in Kansas City which supported the local rock scene around Topeka back in the day, they don't seem to have ever released any material, and the band folded about a year and a half after Scott had joined. It seems that stresses and strains of the music business had beaten the drive out of them, and Scott was shattered by this.
Sometime in the early 1990s, not long before he had joined Alchemy, Scott had a vision of the band he had always wanted, and his time in Alchemy was almost the perfect realization of that dream, so when it folded, he just resigned himself to living his life, storing his ideas and generally ignoring the music that he had been working on. He left Topeka and went on the road with a long chain of modestly successful cover bands playing every just about single corner of the country.
However, all the while he was harboring a desire to produce his own progressive music - full of the textures and flavors he had always wanted to hear. Finally, in 2021, after much gentle prodding from a friend named Jim Beilman, a bassist who had played with Scott in another band he had been in just prior to Alchemy called Perfect Strangers, something ignited, and the mothballed music and ideas just came pouring back out. Scott had no idea of the cause or the source of this sudden inspiration.
The debut album Surrounded By Ghosts is thus the first chapter of an intended trilogy called Here & There, and was written and recorded in Saint Petersburg, FL at Boyz Club South Studio and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. The album follows the story of a guy called Robin, and is one of adventure, discovery and redemption - featuring a man trapped and fighting for his life who must find a way to defeat a seemingly invincible foe and escape from his prison. it was released on CD and all major streaming platforms via Abulia Records on 11th November 2022. The album was followed by Pictures From A Previous Dream in September 2023 and the final chapter in the trilogy is set to release on September 15, 2024.
