How many albums has Jeff Scott Soto appeared on throughout his 40-odd-year career? Twenty? Thirty? Fifty? Who knows? Jeff Scott Soto doesn’t. “Over a hundred, easily,” he says, after a moment’s thought. “I kind of stopped counting.”
The Californian could be the Hardest Working Man In Music. Like a hard-rock Forrest Gump, he’s spent decades turning up in unexpected but interesting places, balancing a stop-start solo career with stints singing for Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen, prog supergroup Sons Of Apollo, cult Swedish hairballs Talisman, and a ton more. He’s certainly the only person to have played with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and former members of horror-punk demons the Misfits (in fleeting and long-forgotten late 80s project Kryst The Conqueror).
