From then until Now.

Well this is something I planned on sharing, when the moment came. This will be a long just to let you know.

It started in November 2007 after finishing up the whole Georgia EP, I was basically done with music. For a few reasons, but none of the reasons were because of my success I have had since Sept 2006 when I started City Like Drive. I am very appreciative to all those who have told a friend, came to a show, and for being a human. But while talking to my friend Justin around Thanksgiving of 2007 when he came to visit from Chicago, I told him I was basically done with everything in my music career. This was the day I finished writing The Georgia EP, he's always been supportive regardless of what I did. I don't really know completely what lead me to wanting to end it. I would say it was things in my personal life, and looking towards my future. I guess for success in any situation you have to sacrifice something right? Music was what I put on the table to sacrifice, because it caused a few things in my life that I would've wished went differently.

Then in December 2007 I went on tour in about every city in Texas besides Houston and El Paso, also played in Oklahoma and Missouri. It was fun, but me and the guy I was on tour with Joshua Aaron (now called Irony Rains) he is a good friend of mine. I told him about what I was thinking about ending it. The tour went great though Denton and Corpus Christi TX will always be good memories from that tour. We got back right before Christmas, and I went back to living life.

At this point I didn't want anything to do with music, because I have already ended it in my head. All I cared about doing or wanted to do was wake up by 10am and go drive in the country of my hometown, because nothing is greater than sunshine on snow in the country, besides falling in love. I began to focus on nothing. Earlier in 2007 I was planning on touring the East Coast, and Georgia/Florida. That didn't happen, due to me not wanting to. I still played shows here and there. One show I will remember is in Jerseyville IL, most of the people there didn't really know any of my songs, but it was a very fun show. Which made me want to get out and play a lot more. But I didn't.

Fast forward to the Spring, I began thinking of what I could do that could change my mind, or help me sink further into whatever it was I was in, in my head. So I finally decided to move to Chicago IL. I put it off a lot. Then in June 2008 came my birthday, went out to a local bar with some friends. It was a really great time, I played "Sweet Home Alabama" with the band that was playing at the bar that night. I felt like a magician because I completed the song flat on my feet. Then came July, where I completed the task of finding an apartment in Chicago. It was in a nice part of the downtown area in the "Bridgeport" area, kinda near Midway Airport, but closer to the loop. Moved there in August. I love Chicago but shortly after being there, I began or well continued my thinking, I also grew a fondness to Subway? haha. Mainly because there was a 24 hour one a few blocks from my apartment. Then I started listening to some demos that my friend Clint had recorded for a band I was trying to vamp back up with a few other friend, I decided to move back to my hometown from Chicago after not being there for no longer than a month. There were a few reasons why, nothing too major. It just didn't feel right, maybe because I was somewhere else with my life in my head. I came back to my hometown had Clint join City Like Drive, he is a very great guitar player and songwriter. We recorded some demos, played one show. I had been thinking about City Like Drive, my personal life, my future. Which is why I talked to Clint about departing with CLD, and it would return to just me. Which had nothing to do with him to be honest. I hope to start a full band with him sometime in the future, it would be amazing. But for CLD I felt like I needed to do something.

So here we are not almost a year since the Georgia EP and my last tour. I have played maybe 10 shows in that time period. I have written many songs, which I can't wait to share. I have realized whats good in my life and I have always knew what I wanted. Most people say they don't know what they want in their life, but they do. They just don't know how to get it.

I look forward to the future. I have a lot on my mind, but I always do, and who doesn't? We are humans. The future of City Like Drive will be a good deal. I will be releasing an EP in January called "The Brighter Side" EP, which will lead up to my full length release in the Spring 2009 called "Compromise in Small Things". Rather it will be released on an Indie Label, or by myself, I don't really care. I have had options on the table as well as any band/artist that has done well at a few points and such. Nothing really interested me.

Thanks for being amazing.
I can't wait for the future.

Scott Phares.