What happened to Fuel?

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What a great band. Brett had such a distinct voice. Just got a listen to them via pandora...cool stuff.
 
Carl Bell is a control freak. It basically went down like this.

1) Bret Scallions wanted more input in writing for the band, to which Bell said no.
2) Scallions left. Bell didn't care because he considered himself Fuel.
3) Bell finds replacement he can fully control and writes full album of generic Rectifier rock
4) The CD is released but no one cares anymore.

I saw them on Something Like Human tour and they were very good. Played well and Scallions was a great frontman. As much as Carl Bell loves himself, Scallions was huge to that band.
 
I saw them live at Mississippi Nights awhile back. Great live band, awesome live tone, they had me gas'ing for a K&K Triamp for a long long time. Brett Scallions is a pretty cool guy, but he spits EVERYWHERE when he sings..it's crazy.
 
I love their song Jesus or a Gun
Check it out if you haven't heard it.
 
I like Fuel a lot . I saw them in a bar when brett was in the band still . It was an awesome show . I thought Toryn Green was pretty good , but he posted on myspace that he has'nt heard from carl in a while and they are not playing .
I saw vids of brett singing with the Doors and I did'nt think it was a good match , but whatever ..
 
I think the band itself is still out there under the name. But without the singer it's just not the same band. Honestly, the guitar player and other members of Fuel are a dime a dozen and easily replaceable, not the case with a great frontman.


I thought that some of the former members of Fuel were trying to form a band with a former member or 2 from a local Philly band called Octane?


It looks like the best thing Dougherty did was turn down Fuels offer to be their singer.
 
The band I was in at the time opened for them right after Sunburn was released. They were a very good band and put on a great show. I remember Carl Bell being somewhat of an asshole, but the rest of the guys were great.
I think their demise just points out what can happen if you become a legend in your own mine--Carl Bell.

I think Shimmer was a great, catchy tune..Actually liked most of Sunburn.
 
Sunburn was one hell of a great album. Agree with the one poster on Jesus or a Gun....awesome song. Guitar player had some issues though. Easy come - easy go (Thornley).

Steve
 
Fuel was a cool band. I didn't know Brett had split, that's too bad. :thumbsdown:
 
The last I had seen about them was that Carl wasn't going to pay anyone else their royalties from the last album. It all boils down to Carl being a douche.

I liked the first half of Angels & Devils with Toryn singing, but Brett made that band with his voice.
 
RockStarNick":2jetln61 said:
Shy High, is that the Whiskey Bar?
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No, it's a place called JR's Bourbon St. Rockhouse in Rhode Island.
 
Ah, cool. The Whiskey Bar in NJ has an identical stage setup with the american flag behind the stage! haha.
 
so what happened with them and OCTANE? i used to hang with the guitar player Greg,back in the day,still run into him once in a while
 
Singer problems. I helped them audition singers a few years back. I worked on their songs with about 30 frontmen. Great band, great tunes, great singer (hard to replace).
 
I agree! I miss Brett!

The new singer blowwwwwwws

who's with me on this one?
 
While I realize this discussion about FUEL is a really OLD post, but I just came across it and found there was so much MISINFORMATION listed here about FUEL that I had to log on to this site & attempt to set the record straight since a few of these remarks come from Assclowns who don't have a clue of what they are talking about. I have known FUEL way before that was a FUEL....they were, "Real To Reel" & "Small The Joy" before FUEL....I am a superfan & had the privilege on many occasions to hangout, travel and get to know the guys in the CLASSIC VERSION of FUEL: Brett, Carl, Kevin & Jeff....please pay attention-here goes:

First off, if Brett wanted more input in the songwriting, how do you stop someone from writing songs? Jerk the guitar out of their hand?? Do you think the label gives a damn who writes the songs?? The label wants hits! Period. They could care less who writes the songs. As I have heard, Brett would submit one song per record. Bell would submit 40. If you submit one song and the other guy submits 40, naturally the other guy’s songs are gonna make up most of the record. And Bell had historically written all their big songs from day one, lyrics and music, and written all the songs that have made their career. Second, when Scallions left, he said he wanted a solo career and had other issues. Bell, and all the other members begged him not to quit. It’s career suicide for all of us Bell said. He quit anyway (BTW this is the same EXACT scenario when Gene/Paul tried to talk Peter Criss from quitting...and you see the clusterfuck that turned out to be for Peter!) Furthermore, as I’ve heard it, Bell shared his songwriting publishing money with the band. Hundreds of thousands of dollars each for all the members. And as the sole songwriter of those songs, he didn’t even have to give it to any of them. Yeah, someone that gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to his bandmates that he doesn’t have to give them sounds like a real douche bag, huh?? Wow, I wish I had “douche bag” friends like that. Then when Brett wanted the band he quit back, Bell gave it to him, and allowed himself to be kicked out of his own band along with the songs he wrote. Yeah, Brett was a great vocalist at one time, and the combination of Bell’s songwriting and Brett’s voice worked great. No doubt. However, the Carl Bell I’ve met is one of the nicest and most humble guys you would ever want to meet. Maybe you met him on a particularly busy day. Anyway, I don’t know where you guys on this site have gotten your info, but you might wanna check your source. You’ve been misinformed. Or, the opinion you have formed is not based on the the real facts if they were facts at all. Huge Fuel fan, huge truth fan.
 
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