Saving Abel: The SAD Story Of The Band Behind 'Addicted'

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The sad story of the band Saving Abel behind 'Addicted.'
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Saving Abel, originating in 2004 in Corinth, Mississippi, was founded by Jared Weeks and Jason Null. The two musicians met in the local music scene, bonding over songwriting before forming the band. Null’s musical journey began with his older brother’s influence, while Weeks grew up in a musically inclined family. Initially playing as a duo called Shade of Grace, they performed a mix of Christian and romantic songs in local venues.
Producer Skidd Mills encouraged them to adopt a more mainstream rock approach, leading to the creation of their breakout single "Addicted". The duo recruited additional band members, including drummer Blake Dixon, bassist Eric Taylor, and guitarist Scott Bartlett. They recorded an independent album in 2006 and caught the attention of major labels with "Addicted", which Weeks wrote while working at a hospital. Signed by Virgin Records, their self-titled major-label debut in 2008 featured hits like "Addicted" and "18 Days", achieving commercial success and extensive touring with notable rock bands.
Their second album, "Miss America" (2010), debuted at number 24 on the charts, with singles like "Stupid Girl" and "The Sex Is Good". They supported this album by performing for US military personnel. In 2012, they released "Bringing Down the Giant" under Sony's eOne label, but it had minimal promotion. Weeks left the band in 2013 due to mental health and substance abuse issues, later entering rehab.
Scotty Austin replaced Weeks, and the band released "Blood Stained Revolution" in 2014. They continued touring despite several lineup changes. In 2021, Weeks rejoined the band, leading to the release of "Shade of Grace - Twenty Year Songs". Saving Abel recently released new tracks "Baptize Me" and "Fire", with "Fire" charting at number 36. Despite some confusion about Weeks' status, he remains the frontman, performing at upcoming gigs.

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  • @rnrtruestories
    @rnrtruestories26 күн бұрын

    Here's a shorter video just about the song Addicted on my second channel. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jIJkzKedYqSYls4.html Haven't done a ton of videos on butt-rock bands, but let me know if you want to see more

  • @bungle3912

    @bungle3912

    26 күн бұрын

    What the hell is butt rock?!

  • @doofwop

    @doofwop

    25 күн бұрын

    @@bungle3912 nothing BUT rock - some LA radio station's marketing line

  • @DanielDwightMusic
    @DanielDwightMusic26 күн бұрын

    I play bass for Scotty Austin( the vocalist for TTB and lead singer of saving abel) and fun fact I'm the first bassist for saving abel...not Eric Taylor. I love Eric and we are buddies; but yall heard me on some of the songs on that record. Beautiful day, beautiful you, drowning (face down) and a few more that were not released. I didn't get fired, I left to be in a band called "Ingram Hill" that was signed to Hollywood records. I love all my brothers in saving abel and am loving my time back with my brothers in the scotty austin band! This is a true band of brothers; brothers fight and we are all boys. God bless ALL Saving Abel fans and everyone that helped give all of us a life we could only dream of! THANK YOU!

  • @bigpoppa5732

    @bigpoppa5732

    26 күн бұрын

    I saw y'all last year with Rehab. Great show!! See ya next time. Stay up, keep grinding ✌️

  • @suicideheadaches4460

    @suicideheadaches4460

    25 күн бұрын

    Did you have any regrets when S-A hit it big? Just curious bubba.

  • @mayer5035

    @mayer5035

    25 күн бұрын

    I opened for SA When Scotty was the singer. Him and Bartlett are really, cool. Invited us to sit in on an interview, smoked us down, and gave me some numbers for gigs, and promotion guys, around Chicago!

  • @DanielDwightMusic

    @DanielDwightMusic

    7 күн бұрын

    And Saving Abel just released new tour dates

  • @jesterr7133

    @jesterr7133

    2 күн бұрын

    What ever happened to Ingram Hill? You guys were great.

  • @davetheimpaler204
    @davetheimpaler20426 күн бұрын

    I'd like to see a video on Orgy. They were huge for a short while and seemed like they were going to be rock mainstays like many of their peers but just kind of disappeared from the mainstream music industry overnight. Saw them a month ago with Cold and they're still great performers.

  • @PatCrawford-jm9rm

    @PatCrawford-jm9rm

    26 күн бұрын

    At the concert you went to did Cold play stupid girl? Or go away?

  • @rnrtruestories

    @rnrtruestories

    26 күн бұрын

    on my to do list for this year.

  • @bobthebear1246

    @bobthebear1246

    15 күн бұрын

    Cold is still around??

  • @davidcharles34
    @davidcharles3421 күн бұрын

    Saving Able played a show in San Antonio on 4-20-24. They were really good.! Jered mentioned how we all have to take care of ourselves because addiction and mental illness can be devastating. Looks like he’s strong and focused on band success.Good luck guys .. looking forward to see you again!

  • @jamesmccomb6217
    @jamesmccomb621726 күн бұрын

    Do Theory of a deadman!

  • @Jake..galipeau

    @Jake..galipeau

    19 күн бұрын

    Would love that

  • @bobthebear1246

    @bobthebear1246

    15 күн бұрын

    That's one band that started out good but ended up sucking really hard.

  • @tenebrousoul9368
    @tenebrousoul936826 күн бұрын

    I'm a disabled veteran. It's really *easy* to get addicted to pain pills

  • @rnrtruestories

    @rnrtruestories

    26 күн бұрын

    this seems to be a thing I've heard from a lot of people. They offered me pain killers after routine surgery but I wanted to stay away from that stuff.

  • @tenebrousoul9368

    @tenebrousoul9368

    26 күн бұрын

    @@rnrtruestories I broke my spine in three places, and surgery isn't an option. I had to switch to medical marijuana for pain treatment. The Army's answer was : "Here, choke down these Percocets. ". Honestly, I'm much better off today without the pills.

  • @gypsydildopunks7083

    @gypsydildopunks7083

    25 күн бұрын

    A couple years ago a dentist prescribed my niece (late teens early 20s) thirty 10mg oxycodone with a refill after pulling her wisdom teeth. My sister took them away after a couple of days, wise decision. And what the Hell

  • @floydsemlow8253

    @floydsemlow8253

    21 күн бұрын

    I was addicted myself, but Kratom saved me ❤ been years now Thank God

  • @SmokeWithMeInCT
    @SmokeWithMeInCT26 күн бұрын

    We need a video for THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH

  • @mitchpattimusic
    @mitchpattimusic26 күн бұрын

    I lived in the Florida panhandle in 2008 and this butt rock stuff was everywhere lol. Saving Abel came through pretty often if I remember right. The local radio stations (x1015, 99 Rock, TK101) actually did a good job of getting involved with the local scenes, playing local music, promoting shows, and interviewing smaller bands on air at decent time slots.

  • @bobthebear1246

    @bobthebear1246

    15 күн бұрын

    LOL "butt rock" 😂 What does that even mean?!? 🤣

  • @NashvilleDrumCoach
    @NashvilleDrumCoach26 күн бұрын

    I know Jared to this day and he’s a solid dude. His wife is a sweetheart and his daughters are rad.

  • @DukesMusic84
    @DukesMusic8426 күн бұрын

    King or ironic that he wrote a song named Addiction on an actual prescription pad. You can't make this stuff up.

  • @jesterr7133
    @jesterr71332 күн бұрын

    I played at the New Daisy back in the day. It was my favorite place to play. I never played at Newby's, but I definitely went to plenty of shows there.

  • @bobthebear1246
    @bobthebear124615 күн бұрын

    I loved "Addicted" and still do. As a middle-aged gay Bear, this was one of the songs I used to love to sing at Bearaoke at The Cuff in Seattle in 2009-12. And, yes, I used to sing the uncensored version as it damn well should always be.

  • @MistaTofMaine
    @MistaTofMaine25 күн бұрын

    I'm so addicted to all the rock n roll true stories i view 🎶

  • @JUKE179r
    @JUKE179r26 күн бұрын

    Cheers from the UK!

  • @WallyTony
    @WallyTony25 күн бұрын

    I remember their name but nothing they made. I honestly felt like I was seeing every album cover for the first time in this.

  • @marcohavokkhaos
    @marcohavokkhaos21 күн бұрын

    Bringing Down the Giant is my favorite song by them

  • @edwardmeradith2419
    @edwardmeradith241925 күн бұрын

    Some lovely drumming

  • @allanvanuga9196
    @allanvanuga919625 күн бұрын

    Great video.

  • @gregoryporch8395
    @gregoryporch839525 күн бұрын

    I thought 18 Days was an underrated song, only heard it maybe 5 times on the radio but I remember it. I thought "Addicted" sounded tropey, by the time it was out opiates were a serious problem on the street & several of our favorite rockstars from the 90s already sang about & died around that stupid drug.

  • @stargazer4625
    @stargazer462526 күн бұрын

    I can remember them . They would come on Sirius radio back around 2004 or 05

  • @smathfury
    @smathfury24 күн бұрын

    Please do Geggy Tah next!!!

  • @stephenkemp3372
    @stephenkemp337225 күн бұрын

    Poor man's Nickelback.

  • @o0GreyKnight0o
    @o0GreyKnight0o26 күн бұрын

    Can you please do an episode on the band Neurosonic, there big hit was "So many people". Love the videos, keep it going. Thanks!

  • @vednev6931
    @vednev693125 күн бұрын

    I’m sure they are rad dudes, I remember walking past them playing on a bar stage while they played 18 days a few years after they’re peak. Just a random memory.

  • @mattgrundy27
    @mattgrundy2726 күн бұрын

    Mediocre generic 2000s rock. Great vid as always brother.

  • @rnrtruestories

    @rnrtruestories

    26 күн бұрын

    thanks

  • @bigjermboktown6976

    @bigjermboktown6976

    26 күн бұрын

    You definitely said that right. As most of that 2000s Rock was

  • @lalaland3830
    @lalaland383026 күн бұрын

    Saw these guys twice. Not bad performance but Addicted was so over played. They have other great songs that make this band.

  • @Matchaddict82
    @Matchaddict8226 күн бұрын

    Never heard of them prior to this video pauses it to check that addicted song man it’s worse than nickelback lol Typical sleazy 2000s Buttrock

  • @thinkingjack
    @thinkingjack25 күн бұрын

    Butt rock has a very quick expiration date.

  • @bobthebear1246

    @bobthebear1246

    15 күн бұрын

    Define "butt rock" 🤔

  • @kebobezlarington6159
    @kebobezlarington615925 күн бұрын

    "Sad story" was bait --rep

  • @Renegade_222
    @Renegade_22213 күн бұрын

    The problem with censorship is #/!&@*¥£π∆> Screw radio.

  • @The_R-n-I_Guy
    @The_R-n-I_Guy26 күн бұрын

    I don't like when a band changes singers but keeps the same name. It worked with AC/DC and a few others. But Motley Crue, Black Sabbath and others lost a lot of fans with their new singers. Not that the singers were bad. They just weren't the voice everyone thought of, so it didn't work. The singers voice is what I think of when I hear a band name. If you get a new singer. Change the name. I know people will be offended by that But that's just how I feel.

  • @dixoncider5046
    @dixoncider504625 күн бұрын

    "The first song he learned was Freebird".... right.

  • @TKARP
    @TKARP26 күн бұрын

    How the hell is this a SAD story?

  • @a.mnmemories4289

    @a.mnmemories4289

    21 күн бұрын

    Ummm.....how else is he supposed to get you to click on the video?

  • @vinerwe
    @vinerwe20 күн бұрын

    Never heard of em. Funny how they thought they might be a Christian band and then became the furthest thing from that.

  • @jesterr7133
    @jesterr71332 күн бұрын

    I'm suprised you didn't cover the drummer getting arrested for being a chomo. That's part of the reason for the lineup changes.

  • @hsatin20
    @hsatin2024 күн бұрын

    It is so funny. These guys are such blatant generic sell outs. They practically admit it and they acknowledge that people confuse them for all the other generic bands around at the time. These guys helped usher in the death of rock with their generic sound.

  • @waltermiller249
    @waltermiller24926 күн бұрын

    Christian rocks sucks!! Even if the music is good, the lyrics ruin it

  • @tylove7992

    @tylove7992

    26 күн бұрын

    Only the heavy-handed ones. There's a lot of good ones you couldn't even tell are Christian rock like "Zao", "Living Sacrifice", or "Coheed And Cambria"

  • @Matchaddict82

    @Matchaddict82

    26 күн бұрын

    That’s rude. Just because it’s not what you believe does not mean it “sucks”

  • @Matchaddict82

    @Matchaddict82

    26 күн бұрын

    @@tylove7992starflyer 59 is the best Christian rock band (even tho it’s really one guy )

  • @waltermiller249

    @waltermiller249

    26 күн бұрын

    @Matchaddict82 I does to ME!! You suck for calling me out just because I don't agree with you. Get a life, just another religious extremist pushing your lies on everyone else

  • @Matchaddict82

    @Matchaddict82

    26 күн бұрын

    @@waltermiller249and you don’t think it’s “extreme” calling everyone an “extremist” and telling them they “suck” good music is good musics. I haven’t pushed any “lies” on you. You need to seek help major anger / issues you seem very unhappy with yourself and the world around you. You needed to push your neckbeard atheist agenda you are the only one to bring up religious topics… so something to think about there bud

  • @tytytytyty811
    @tytytytyty81125 күн бұрын

    Oh god this song was fucking horrible

  • @dixoncider5046
    @dixoncider504625 күн бұрын

    Imagine hiring session musicians to record your music for you. Never heard of this band but it's just full off cringe and embellishment

  • @frazerrhughess
    @frazerrhughess25 күн бұрын

    Are you being paid to make videos about these terrible bands we all want to forget

  • @tieukhavu8832

    @tieukhavu8832

    17 күн бұрын

    These Bands I don’t even know back then

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