Out of the Grey's
                Interview with Mark and Laurie-January 1997
        (Christine was sick, so only Scott appears here, talking)

Mark: 
How're you doing there Scott?

Scott: 
Doing great, good morning Mark.

Mark: 
You look good and while we had not seen you, you went and had another 
child on us.

Scott:
Went and had another child, went and made another record, and we're now 
standing at 4 records, 3 children.

Mark:
So you're trying to-

Scott:
We're trying to outpace the children with the records.  Yeah, we think 
that once the children outnumber the records, that the career is pretty 
much over.

Mark:
Is this it with the kids, or are you planning to have some more?

Scott:
Well, I don't know; we're praying about it.

Mark: 
Is she [Christine] going to make it to Caffe Milano tonight?

Scott: 
Well, I hope so. Christine woke up, uh, she had that killer sore throat 
that's been going around.  It started to go away, then we were up late at 
the studio last night and it started to come back.  So she thought it 
best to sleep a little bit: which is probably not possible with the kids 
anyways.

Mark: 
I was just thinking that.

Scott: 
I think she's going to be okay for tonight at Caffe Milano.  We're going 
to bring a little band with us this time and have a good time with the 
folks.

Mark:
I was just thinking...when I first saw you guys...it was you, and her, 
and that guitar.  I thought when I first saw you guys (and I'm sure many 
people have told you this) "you see them and you're like: Wow! it just 
sounds like there's a band up there."  I guess it's the way you bang on 
that guitar.

Scott:
I guess it's the banging thing.  I'm just motivated by stage fright, I 
guess.

Mark:
Now, you really get into that.  Does that come natural for you to be so 
intense on your guitar?

Scott:
I don't know.  I guess I'm just a nervous guy, and it just kind-of
comes out that way.  But I can't stop it.  I've tried to tone it down a 
little bit.  I remember one time, when we were out opening for Steven 
Curtis Chapman, a few years back, after we had played, I overheard some 
guy saying "What did you think of that Out of the Grey?"  And the other 
guy said, "They were really good, but that guy was jumping around too 
much."  So... I tried toning it down a little bit after that.

Mark:
All because of that one person!?

Scott:
Well, you know, I'm easily affected by those things.

Mark and Laurie:
Awww.

Scott:
Well, it made me think.  So I tried toning it down, but I wasn't able 
to... I just can't stop that wiggling.

Laurie: 
You look like a spider.

Mark:
OK, let's play some music here

(He plays "All We Need" from DIAMOND DAYS"

Mark:
Tell us your children's names.

Scott:
Julian is going to be five in February, Carina is..a little girl that 
is...2 1/2 and we have a four month old little girl named Chloe. So every 
day is very eventful and very long.

Nathan (caller): 
Hey Scott.

Scott:
How ya doing man? What's up?

Nathan:
What do you usually do on the weekends?

Scott:
You know, I have to say that lately I've become my father - I like 
sitting around and watching sports.

Mark:
Did you catch the Sugar Bowl?

Scott:
I didn't really go to a college that had a football team, so I never 
really got hooked on college football. But when my friends get excited 
about it, I'll watch a game with them.

Mark:
You said you were in the studio last night?

Scott:
Yep, just finishing mixing our fifth recording.

(Mark plays "The Dance" from Out of the Grey's self-titled debut)

Mark:
Your name is Dente.

Scott: 
It's an Italian name that means - the direct translation is "to the 
tooth."

Mark:
For real?

Scott:
For real.

Mark:
Hey now, tell us about your new album, which Brown Bannister is 
producing.

Scott:
We're doing our first recording with Brown Bannister, and like I said 
before, this is our fifth album.  It'll be out in March.  The album is 
entitled, "See Inside."

Laurie:
Is it different from all your other recordings?

Scott:
Well yeah.  There's 10 new songs.  It's a more energetic record.  We're 
just thrilled with it.  We like every song so far.  We wrote almost all 
the songs. Christine wrote a song with Brent Bourgeois and there's 
another one we co-wrote with Phil Madeira, and there's another we 
co-wrote with our dear friend, Charlie Peacock.

Laurie:
So does your album have a theme?

Scott:
I knew you were going to ask that!  I think there's a lot of familiar Out 
of the Grey themes.  If you were to go through our lyrics, you'd find 
familiar themes.  The thing we keep coming back to is that it's a 
struggle living in this world.  So it's once again, Scott and Christine 
struggling to live like Christians in a foreign land.

Mark:
I like this.  It's sounds very transparent and vulnerable.

Scott:
We're trying to be real.

Mark:
I'm going to play my favorite Out of the Grey song of all time...

Scott:
Let me guess!

Mark: De- what?

Scott: 
I can't guess ... "Wishes"?

Mark:
No, this.

        (He plays "He is Not Silent" from their self-titled debut)

Jeff (caller):  I'm coming out tonight for sure.  We got that GRAVITY CD 
and my wife plays that song, "So We Never Got to Paris" over and over and 
over again.  I tell you I know every word of it.

Mark:
Can you sing the chorus of it?

Jeff:
*Singing* "So we Never Got to Paris" and built a cafe of our dreams...

Mark:
Scott, what do you think, when people sing your lyrics to you?

Scott:
It's one of the most exciting things.  It's really kind-of cool.

Mark:
What's your wife's name?

Jeff:
Deanna.

Scott:
Well, we'll try to fit that song in for you.

Jeff:
Sure, great.

Mark:
I want you to tell the story of how you and Christine got together.

Scott:
We were going to college in Boston. And Christine - well she gets mad 
when I tell this part, but she's not here, so what can she do!? - She was 
seeing my roommate at the time, and y'know I was thinking, "this is 
kind-of a nice girl" so I convinced her she didn't need to be seeing my 
roommate anymore.   So we started having coffee and going out together - 
not really in a romantic kind-of way- and I wasn't a believer at the 
time.  And eventually we came to that point where she was not really 
letting it go any further, because she didn't want to be hooked up with 
somebody who didn't know the Lord.  And so she gave me a Bible for 
Valentine's Day that year, and I put it on the shelf with all of my other 
spiritual books and said, "Oh thank you very much for that."  But 
eventually, that Bible came down off the shelf and the Lord really 
started speaking to me through the gospel and kind of hit me over the 
head with that real truth.  And not much longer after that, I started 
going to Bible studies and meeting real Christians and realized that 
there was something really missing in my life.

Mark:
So she was a missionary-dater.

Scott:
She was a bit of a missionary-dater at the time, which we don't 
recommend, by the way.  But the Lord can redeem some very tricky 
situations, and He chose to redeem that situation and there's been no 
turning back ever since then.


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