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Acoustic Phases is an artist that writes from the heart. His lyrics are about personal life stories and picturesque dream scapes. Come Listen to his songs of wonderment and relax.













I grew up in a little town called Annandale in the state of Minnesota. I was named Scott Charles Rode and was born in St. Cloud, Mn in the year of 1957 to a Mr and Mrs Charles Rode; my father is now deceased, God rest his soul. For the first year of my life along with my two older brothers, Mark and Curt; we all lived in a Railroad Box car, yes you heard that correctly, a railroad box car, in the town of South Haven, MN, it is about 6 miles due west on Hwy 55 of Annandale, MN. We moved to Annandale, MN when I was 1 into a big double story house just behind the United Methodist Church off of Main St. in Annandale. We all lived there till my father and a friend of his who was in the construction business built a house on the North shore of Lake John, just about 3 miles west on Hwy 55, in 1967. It was a double story house with a walk out basement, a walk out second story porch that spanned the length of the house. It was an awesome home. My parents then divorced when I was in 10th grade so they sold the house and I moved into a apt. with my Mom and my younger sister. We lived in that Apt for two years in Annandale, MN till I went off a joined the US Navy in 1976. I learned how to repair typewriters and Copiers while in the Navy and I served 4 years aboard the USS America, CV-66. Aircraft Carrier, which now lies off the coast of Norfolk, VA as she was decommissioned and scuttled a few years back. I continued to repair Office machines with a few different companies for several years after I was honorably discharged from the US Navy in 1980. I worked at a St Cloud shop called A-1 Typewriters for 2 years. That was short lived as they laid me off due to no business so I moved to Colorado in 1982 for 2 years and worked at another repair shop called Acme Typewriters just inside of downtown Denver, Co. From there I moved back to Annandale, MN to work for A-1 Typewriters again in 1984 till 1989 then in 1989 I went to a trade school to learn to be a Medical Laboratory Technician and interned at Bloomington Lake Clinic from 1990 till 1993. Which is were I met my future wife Bridgett. The two of us got married in 1991 and we now have 2 boys; Alex and Brandon. Bridgett brought 2 children into our marriage, Mike and Nicole. Then in 1993 I went back to office repair and worked for BMS out of Eden Prairie, MN. From there I got a job with Target in 1997, working downtown Mpls, MN at the Target Headquarters installing the operating system and client based software onto 10 to 15 computers a day and transporting those computers to the Target employee's desk and getting them setup on the network and ready for the new employee. I worked at Target for 7 years and from there I went to HOM Furniture as a Sales Consultant in 2004. Enough about me and my past lets get to the present. I titled my Album "Emotions at Play" My album consists of music that I have written, composed and recorded over the years. More recently though I have re recorded my music using updated technology to give my music a better overall sound and quality, still not perfect yet, in time though. Granted when you listen to some of the songs you will hear that they still need work, and I'm still in the process of making every song sound it's best. Reworking the words and re arranging the chords I play on my guitar, some going from straight picking to upbeat rhythms. I purchased a new Microphone by Sennheiser, model Evolution e815 s, the M-Audio MobilePre USB Portable Audio Interface along with my new guitar the Takamine EG530SSC acoustic 6 string with the TK-40 electronic pick-up. All these put together will greatly enhance my music for a richer cleaner sound. The guitar is probably the best guitar I have ever played. I like the way it sounds as an acoustic as well as how it sounds via recording or amplified. So sit back, click on my songs and give a listen and enjoy. Let me know what you think of my songs and my site. Thank you for stopping by and if you know someone who would also like to listen to my music, send to my site. Thanks and may my music move your soul. Scott Rode "Vote for me; Acoustic Phases" at Music Nation.
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Musical Styles

• Folk Acoustic Rock
• Folk Country

Influences

• Cat Stevens
• Elton John
• Neil Young
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Neil Diamond
• The Doors
• John Prine
• Moody Blues
• Jerry Jeff Walker
• Uriah Heep
• John Denver
• Shawn Phillips