Scott Gross  Scott Gross is an American musician, guitarist, composer, producer, audio engineer and writer known as a member of the band From Autumn To Ashes and owner and founder of Hit And Run Studios in Long Island, New York. Before From Autumn To Ashes he was in a local band called Who's To Blame with Francis Mark. Gross was one of the songwriters in From Autumn To Ashes and also wrote lyrics for the first two albums along with Perri and Mark. Scott got into music after listening to the Pearl Jam album Ten and his mom bought him an electric guitar for Christmas. Who's To Blame was a local band from the Long Island, New York area. The band consisted of Francis Mark, Scott Gross, Mike Pilato, and others. Scott and a friend started talking about a new project while they still were in "Who's To Blame". They wanted to do something much more inspirational and complex. Something new for people to grab onto. That project became FATA. Scott and Fran were just out of high school when FATA started in September 1999. The line up to that time was: Scott Gross, Francis Mark, Steven Salvio, Benjamin Perri, Mike Pilato. On March 5, 2000 they've released their first demo called "Sin, Sorrow and Sadness" via Tribunal Records. After a while, before their debut was released, Steve left and Brian Deneeve joined the band. Mark said the following things about Salvio's department:  "Basically the way that went was, we had another guitar player in the band, Steve, and he was a bit older than us. He was 27–28 years old. He had a career, like a real job that he planned on sticking with for the rest of his life. We started the band, it was just to have a good time, it wasn't serious. He thought he would be able to stick with job. Then when we started touring extensively, I quit school and all the other guys quit their jobs, we were like, 'Ok, you gotta quit, we gotta go.' And when it came down to it, he just couldn't do it. So he left, and we found this guy who has absolutely nothing else to live for but this band." Gross recorded one demo and two albums with From Autumn To Ashes, before he left. When he asked to leave From Autumn To Ashes due to ongoing psychological problems and drug abuse he took a break from being a musician. He said in an interview: "I was tired of the rock n rock lifestyle, the endless touring and I didn't want to do music just to be popular."