The band Fuel...

xero380 · Post by **xero380** » Wed May 19, 2010 1:23 pm

Bret Scallions is now the only original Fuel member currently in the band. I'm mixed on this whole deal but i'm kind've feeling like Fuel is equivalent to the Brett Favre saga.

whitedevilone · Post by **whitedevilone** » Wed May 19, 2010 8:41 pm

No Carl Bell=No Fuel.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Wed May 19, 2010 9:01 pm

whitedevilone wrote:No Carl Bell=No Fuel.

Tru dat. Bret Scallions has the voice, but Carl Bell writes the kick ass songs. I think it's an ironic situation considering Scallions was actually out of the band for a couple of years in the middle of their career.

VENTGtr · Post by **VENTGtr** » Wed May 19, 2010 11:45 pm

Ya, I didn't know he was back with them. The band Scallions was in, playing bass, was pretty good.

Odd how those things work out.

bassist4life2004 · Post by **bassist4life2004** » Thu May 20, 2010 3:08 am

well, if Fuel records a new record they should call it Anal Rape, because thats the only thing i feel when im buying fuel...

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Thu May 20, 2010 3:15 am

Looks like Chris Daughtry made a very good choice to turn them down to be the lead singer of Fuel back in 2006.

Naga · Post by **Naga** » Thu May 20, 2010 10:13 am

I dunno. I feel mixed about situations like this anyway. I feel like after a certain point of band reconstruction, it's no longer the same old band. It's now a new machine, and as such, it should be played as such. If former members left on good terms after the name change and are so allowing, sure... Continue the same old songs. Long as everyone's cool, why not

After a certain point, the band itself has evolved so many times, and has gone through so many different names that it's something to wonder if the band is on the same track the original creative minds. Oftentimes, this is not the case... The new ways and the new people give it a different monicker. Not to say that any change is a bad change. A band that's still running is still awesome. But really... Is the new Guns N' Roses really Guns N' Roses, or was GnR really GnR when Slash and the rest of the bunch was playing? Isn't it a new band, since just about everybody has left and gone their own ways?

JayBird · Post by **JayBird** » Sun May 23, 2010 11:24 pm

Isn't Scallions actually calling this band "Refueled"? That's what I think the working title of the whole situation of him touring with the Fuel songs was at one point.

Merge · Post by **Merge** » Mon May 24, 2010 9:06 am

JayBird wrote:Isn't Scallions actually calling this band "Refueled"? That's what I think the working title of the whole situation of him touring with the Fuel songs was at one point.

I thought the same thing, but I did some checking online and Carl Bell confirmed that Scallions is touring under the Fuel name. He's ok with it, saying "Look, Brett sang all of this stuff on the bands biggest records, so it's pretty clear that the fans want to hear him singing Fuel songs, and that is what they are going to get. Our fans are important and they deserve a Fuel, even if it isn't an original lineup. Who knows maybe someday there will be an all original reunion. I have learned to never say never."

The guitarist is Yogi, he was in Buckcherry. The bassist is Brad Stewert, he was in Shinedown.