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Scott Olson
Scott Olson is credited on 79 releases across 34 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
79
Pressings credited
34
Albums
5
Decades active
427
In collections
Biography
Scott Olson is an American guitarist, bassist, music producer and recording engineer. He played guitar with Heart between 1995 and 1998 and between 2002 and 2003, and in 1996 he performed with Alice In Chains on their MTV Unplugged concert. Olson was a recording consultant for Cameron Crowe's 2000 film Almost Famous. He performed with Alice in Chains again on February 18, 2005, during a benefit concert in Seattle for the victims of the 2004 tsunami disaster, and joined the band one more time to perform the song "No Excuses" at their concert in Washington, D.C., on October 25, 2006. Olson produced and engineered albums for artists such as Heart, Jerry Cantrell, Queensrÿche, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Pauline Oliveros, Powerman 5000, Unearth, Buckcherry and Dredg. Olson attended Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie, Washington. In 2018, Olson was diagnosed with progressive dementia. In August 2018, Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson and Alice in Chains shared on their social media pages a crowdfunding set up by friends of Olson to help cover his assisted living costs and medical expenses. As of 2019, Olson lives in a senior living facility in Kirkland, Washington.
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Credited work
79 releases · 34 albums · active 1985–2025
- Performance · 89
- Engineering · 36
- Production · 18
- Other credits · 2
Studios: Larrabee Sound Studios · Woodstock '99 · Last Chance Recordings · Cottage Recording, Helena, MT
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

White Pony
2000

MTV Unplugged
1996

Almost Famous (Music From The Motion Picture)
2000

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
2000

Heart
1985

Boggy Depot
1998

B-Sides & Rarities
2005

Buckcherry
1999

Catch Without Arms
2005

What The Hell Have I / Get Born Again
2017

Music Bank
1999

Tribe
2003

Stillwater
2001

Back To School (Mini Maggit)
2001

Anyone For Doomsday?
2001

A Very Special Christmas 2
1992

III: In The Eyes Of Fire
2006

Home Alive - The Art Of Self Defense
1996

Alive In Seattle
2003

The Essential Alice In Chains

Strange Euphoria
2012

Playlist: The Very Best Of Heart
2008

The Road Home
1995
Frequent collaborators
- Heart
- Deftones
- Various
- Buckcherry
- Alice In Chains
- The Lovemongers
- The Rockinghams
- Bruce Anfinson
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