Scott

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Scott is a sales consultant at Definitive’s Seattle Experience Center in Bellevue. With a background in video production, Scott is an expert in all things home theater with more than 24 years of experience in the industry and 23 years on the team here at Definitive. Scott remembers two transcendent media memories: Star Wars and Rachmaninoff. “Star Wars was released a week after I turned 9. I had no interest in going, but my mother insisted. In silent protest, I sat through the opening crawl without reading it. But as soon as that huge Star Destroyer got done flying overhead across the screen, I was forever obsessed. Shortly after college, I saw a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at Cleveland’s Severance Hall. There is a crescendo at the climax of the third movement that was so emotionally, viscerally powerful that my eyes instantly welled up and my goosebumps nearly tore a hole in my suit. The wall of sound that energized that concert hall and the emotional power of it has always stuck with me.

 As for the album I chose, given my Rachmaninoff memory, this may seem an odd choice, but it is Iron Maiden’s ‘The Number of the Beast’. I was a metal head in high school (still am, though my tastes have expanded to other genres) and the combination of melody, power, aggression, musicianship, and the wild iconography just really got to me. As a 56 year old father of two, I do kind of laugh at myself with my Funko Pop collection of all the different “Eddies” (Iron Maiden’s fearsome mascot), Iron Maiden coffee tumbler, and the Eddie sticker proudly displayed on the rear window of my car. I don’t think you ever really outgrow the stuff that got to you in high school. Nor do I want to.”