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History:

Scott started his music career with his three triplet brothers singing country songs at fairs and charity events. At first they called themselves 'The Moffatt Brothers', but quickly changed this to simply 'The Moffatts' when they began recording. They had no real reason for starting with country in perticular, it was what they listened to and also their mom - Darlana - sang country.

In 1992 they recorded their first album, It's A Wnderful World, and in 1995 the follow up The Moffatts was one of the top selling country albums.

In 1996 the band released a much less known Christmas album available on cassette only, independently. A Moffatt Christmas. But with that, their country singing days ended.

Changing record label and style, The Moffatts recorded a pop/rock album - Chapter 1: A New Beginning - in the end of 1997. For the first time they played their own instruments to their songs, Scott chosing to play guitar which had been his favoured instrument since age 5. They broke through the pop market in Germany, and then swept over Canada and Asia, establishing their name for years to come. They released a more rocked up version as their first and last US release: Chapter 1: A New Beginning US version [1998]. It contained some new and more edgier songs, while poppier songs has been removed.

The Moffatts live-material grew steadily more and more towards rock/alternative, also showing in the b-sides on their singles. Their third and last pop/rock album was more rock than it was pop, and was dubbed Submodalities, which fittingly means 'any visual change of image'. It came out in 2000 and didn't get as much attention or airplay as the previous albums.

In late August of 2001, The Moffatts finished their second Canadian tour with songs off Submodalities and hits from their long career, and announced their 'hiatus'.

It quickly became obvious that the band weren't coming back anytime soon, as two of Scott's triplet brothers - Clint and Bob - began playing in a new band called Pusch, and gave concerts in the beginning of 2002. In the summer of that same year, Scott announced his return as lead singer and guitarist as well as keyboard player of The Boston Post.

To be continued...