Figure Eights: A Music Podcast

Figure Eights: A Music Podcast

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) - Episode 83 w_ Kellii Scott (Failure / Veruca Salt / Linda Perry)

Aug 17, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min · 10 segments

Join me as I have an in depth, deep conversation with Kellii Scott from the band, Failure. Kellii Scott is the drummer for American alternative rock band from Los Angeles…

Join me as I have an in depth, deep conversation with Kellii Scott from the band, Failure. Kellii Scott is the drummer for American alternative rock band from Los Angeles Failure. During the 90’s they played countless live shows around the world and were revered as one the preeminent bands on planet earth. Sadly we would see the band break up in 1997.After Failures break up Kellii Scott became a drummer for hire and soon after joined Blinker the Star for two albums, August Everywhere and Still in Rome, then joined Campfire Girls for their 2003 album, Tell Them Hi. Scott also played on a track titled ‘Best Friend’ by Size 14 bassist Robt Ptak on his solo project Artificial Joy, Ptak put this on his own personal reverbnation page in 2013. As of 2005, he was playing drums for both Veruca Salt and Enemy. In 2008, his most recent band The Brontosaur released their self-titled album. From 2008-2012 Kellii could be heard playing on all Linda Perry’s recording sessions, most notably Christina Aguilera’s song “You Lift Me Up” and Courtney Love’s “Letter To God”. And in 2013 he worked with the Dr Dre and a 72 piece orchestra at Capitol studios for a song on his upcoming album. In 2014 the world would see Failure return with all it’s original members, tour the world and create what would be called by fans and critics far and wide one of the best records of 2015, The Heart Is A Monster. Currently, while awaiting Failure’s return into the studio for their follow up record, he is lending his talents to teaching drums.

Join me as I have an in depth, deep conversation with Kellii Scott from the band, Failure. Kellii Scott is the drummer for American alternative rock band from Los Angeles…

Speakers: Kellii ScottGuestNick LeetHost

Introducing Kellii Scott0:09 – 4:15

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You are listening to the Figure Eights Podcast.

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I'm your host, Nick Leet, from the band High On Stress out of Minneapolis, and we've got a great episode today.

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It's Kelly Scott.

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He is the drummer of the band Failure, and he has also drummed for Hole, and he's drummed for Veruca Salt, and he's worked on countless Linda Perry projects.

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And if you remember, Linda Perry had... quite a run of hits there, writing for others, and he recorded and performed on a lot of those tracks.

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So he's a professional timekeeper, he's a deep guy, and I'm really excited to have him on.

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This was a great conversation, and I'm excited because they're coming to Minneapolis in October.

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Before we get down to that, a couple bits of information.

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High on Stress will be playing Lower Town Sounds at Mears Park in St. Paul on Thursday, August 20th, this Thursday with the Scarlet Goodbye, which is Dan Murphy of Golden Smog, formerly of Soul Asylum.

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That's his band.

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Looking forward to that.

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Dan has been a previous guest on here, and I've had the honor of writing some songs with him as well.

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I love Dan.

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Dan's awesome.

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So that's coming up on Thursday.

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There's an additional High On Stress show to announce soon, but we're not quite there yet.

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But the new record is going great.

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It is called Still Here.

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You can get it on Bandcamp.

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And, yeah.

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you should check it out we got some really good press lately from the big takeover out of new york city and uh previously we got magnet magazine and it's been going awesome eight different countries we got that thing going in from a radio station standpoint so we're really excited about that and i hope you will spend some time checking that out it only took us six years oh we were on kexb out of seattle which is one of my favorite things to happen on the Sonic Reducer show.

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So really, really great start to this record.

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It's been out for a few months, but it's still kicking.

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It's still going.

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Super proud of it.

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So check it out.

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And then, as I always do, you'll hear a new track from it at the end of this episode.

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So stick around for that.

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And then also Neurotic City PR.

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I've been talking about that the last few episodes.

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I've been working on that.

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I have been working with some really cool bands.

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helping to get their music out there.

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Lips Speak Louder being one of them.

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They just opened for Tracy Bonham at the Parkway Theater and blew the roof off.

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And Trash Kickers out of Chicago.

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Matt Keating, previous guest on the show out of New York City.

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He's got a new album out.

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Check that out.

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Cindy Lawson has a new album out or coming out soon called The Reckoning.

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She's mad, folks.

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and you're going to like it.

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You're going to crank it up.

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It's great stuff.

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Boy, A Thousand Yard Stairs, which is Sam Powers, another previous guest on this podcast.

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I'm starting to see a theme here.

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He released an album, an EP, actually, from when he left Superdrag all those years ago.

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So that is...

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Out now on Bandcamp, The Thousand Yard Stairs.

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Magnet Magazine did a really nice write-up on that this week.

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And, boy, I feel like I'm missing somebody here.

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Hopefully not.

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But just a lot of really great stuff happening.

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Really good tunes, and I hope you will check them all out.

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They are all worthy of your attention.

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And it's been going really, really great.

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It's been really fun to do.

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So, not that I didn't need more music things to do, but, hell, I enjoy it.

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So...

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Check out those bands.

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Check out the new High On Stress record still here.

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And

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check out this episode.

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This is Kelly Scott from Failure.

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What are you up to today?

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