AXIOM MUSIC GROUP
Scott Hall
Axiom Music Group was founded by
Scott Hall. Scott was the original bassist and former manager for
Christian hard rock and heavy metal powerhouse BRIDE. As an international
recording artist, BRIDE toured the world, achieved numerous #1
hit singles, won multiple Dove
Awards (Gospel Music equivalent of the Grammy) and earned multiple
Dove Award nominations during Scott’s tenure as BRIDE’s
manager.
After managing BRIDE,
Scott’s services were enlisted in the mid 90’s by the
internationally acclaimed Atlantic Records and Warner Brothers
recording artist Turley Richards. Scott
was a board member for Turley’s non-profit music ministry,
provided artwork design and photography for two of Turley’s
self-produced CD’s, updated his press kit and promoted concerts
for Turley including his fulltime music ministry kickoff concert at
Louisville’s Southeast Christian Church. Scott also worked in the
mid-90's with Comedian Chris
Elrod. Since 1989 Chris's hope-filled and hilarious message has
touched over 30 million people world-wide through speaking engagements,
television appearances, magazine articles, audio recordings and radio
broadcasts. Chris was also a regular contributor to Charisma magazine.
Scott handled recording contract negotiations on Chris's behalf with
some of the largest Christian record labels. Scott also acted in an
advisory capacity for Chris regarding his concert bookings and public
relations.
Scott’s Christian Music roots go back to the early 1980’s
and the local Christian music scene in the Louisville, Kentucky and
Southern Indiana area of the United States. Scott first became
acquainted with Christian rock music approximately 1983 while
photographing local Christian musicians and bands at Metro Louisville
area coffeehouses and other live performance events.
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Once it was
discovered that Scott was also a musician he was periodically asked to
“sit-in” during rehearsals with the artists he had been
photographing. Ultimately he was asked to join Dale and Troy
Thompson’s band BRIDE (formerly named MATRIX). BRIDE
signed to Pure Metal Records, entered the studio and recorded the 1986
release Show No Mercy. Scott played bass guitar and sang
background vocals on the album. Scott unexpectedly became a published
songwriter when No Matter The Price (a composition he co-wrote
with Troy Thompson) was included on the Show No Mercy album. No
Matter The Price was a last minute addition to Show No Mercy
when the record label cut one of the songs originally slated for the
album.
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before the sessions began for BRIDE’s sophomore album,
1988’s Live To Die, he did receive a second songwriting
credit when Metal Might (another composition he co-wrote with
Troy Thompson) was included on the Live To Die album. A
note of interest…a close examination of Live To Die’s
liner notes reveals that Scott Hall is credited with writing the lyrics
to perennial live show favorite, Hell No. This is a
mistake. While Scott did suggest the song’s title and the concept
for the chorus…”We won’t go to Hell, No we
won’t go”…it was actually Dale Thompson who wrote
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Scott’s
departure from BRIDE was amicable and he remained in close
contact with the band all the way through the completion of their three
album commitment to Pure Metal Records and beyond. Ironically, it
was Pure Metal’s failure to honor their contractual obligation to
BRIDE by refusing to pay songwriter royalties to the
members of the group, that led to Scott’s next level of
involvement with BRIDE.
In early 1990, Pure
Metal Records and the entire Refuge Music Group catalog was purchased
by Christian Music’s prestigious Star Song Communications.
This turn of events took BRIDE out of the Christian heavy metal
underground and put them right into the mainstream of Christian
music. Dale and Troy knew that they must respond by demonstrating
to Star Song that they were ready for the big leagues. They needed a
proven manager. They needed someone who had knowledge of the business
side of the music business. They needed someone who would
represent their interests. They needed someone who knew their
strengths and weaknesses. They needed someone they could
trust. They needed someone who believed in them at a time when
virtually no one else did. They chose Scott Hall. The
following are a list of BRIDE’s many achievements while
managed by Scott Hall:
Scott has also been involved in many other aspects of the
music business including music publishing, concert promotion, talent
search, seminars, radio and contributing articles to publications. Here
are a few of the highlights:
Scott Hall also wrote Chapter 23
of BRIDE
- The Book.
