Scott's second solo album "Happy In Galoshes" was released on November 25, 2008. It spawned three singles: "Missing Cleveland", "Paralysis" and "Tangle With Your Mind".

On September 12, 2008, an Electronic Press Kit was posted for the album. The video showed interview parts with Scott and producer/multi-instrumentalist and writing partner Douglas Grean and featured snippets from several new solo songs, including the Prince-influenced "Big Black Monster", and the Palo Alto cover "Some Things Must Go This Way", which was recorded in 2001. One frame in the video showed a computer screen, which mentioned the following song titles, some of which were already confirmed/mentioned in the past: "At The Prison" (produced by Steve Albini), "Big Black Monster", "Be Not Afraid", "Breath Again Again", "Crash", "Distant Shore", "Happy" (the collaboration with Pharrell Williams), "I Know It's Late", "Killing Me Sweetly", "Lift Me Up", "Learning To Drive" and "The Man I Didn't Know". The first single "Missing Cleveland" and another song "Paralysis" were posted on the internet shortly after the video.

On April 30, Scott posted on his MySpace blog: "I've been crazy busy since coming off tour and never get the chance to sleep in anymore! I have been working on my solo record, which will be a double album due for a November release. Its gonna be awesome, with many different musical influences like rock, punk, r&b as well as an eclectic blend that we've come up with over the years. Can't wait for everyone to hear it."

This news came within a week after he called in on Howard Stern's radio show to announce that he was recording his second solo album at Chicago's Electrical Audio Studios with producer Steve Albini and plans to release it in November. No Doubt drummer Adrian Young is also participating on the project.

Softdrive Records, Scott's label, released it's first album, The Actual's 'In Stitches' on May 29. 'In Stitches' is The Actual's followup to 'Songs On Radio Idaho' from 2003.

Scott also released a solo song 'Learning To Drive' on the soundtrack for the William Friedkin movie 'Bug'. The song is a re-make of the Stone Temple Pilots-outtake with the same title and was previously called 'Beautiful Day'. The soundtrack was eventually released on May 22th, after being pushed back from November 2006.

Scott has been working on a new solo record (shelved for now) as well as Velvet Revolver's second album, Libertad. In addition to that, he is also working on his auto-biography "Desperation #5" with writer David Ritz (slated for late 2007), co-starring in a new Joe Carnaham movie and launching his own clothing line through Von Dutch. His auto-biography was eventually pushed back to a April 2009 release through Scribner. The clothing line has not been launched and Scott didn't make it into the Joe Carnaham movie.

Scott re-launched his record label Softdrive Records in August, after signing a distribution deal with Sony/Red. The first release on the Softdrive label would be The Actual's album 'In Stitches'.

In December, Scott had a song called 'Beautiful Day' running during the end credits of William Friedkin's movie 'Bug' featuring Ashley Judd. The song is a new version of an STP-outtake with the title 'Learning To Drive' that leaked to the internet a couple of years before. The song would eventually be released on the movie soundtrack in 2007 under the tite 'Learning To Drive'.

On September 8, Scott performed an acoustic set with Douglas Grean at Legends Of Notre Dame in Indiana. The set featured three new solo songs: 'The Man I Didn't Know', 'Killing Me Sweetly' and aforementioned 'Beautiful Day'. Scott said he had written more than a dozen tracks for the new solo album, including "The Man I Didn't Know," "Beautiful Day," "I Know It's Late," "She Sold Her System," "Big Black Monster," "Killing Me Sweetly" and "Happy," a collaboration with Pharrell Williams, originally slated for 'Libertad'.

Also in 2006, DJ Chris Bohn released a 12" single with two cover versions of the David Bowie classic "Fame". The vocals on "Back Of The Limo" and "Too Many Lines" mixes were provided by Scott.

On May 12, a night off from the running Velvet Revolver tour, Scott performed on the TV show Last Call with Carson Daly. He sang a new song called 'The Man I Didn't Know' with a band that included Douglas Grean on guitar and Panhead on steel drums.

On November 11, Scott joined Cyndi Lauper at the Trump Taj Mahal for a taping of VH1 Decades Rock Live. He sang 'Barbarella', 'Money Changes Everything' and 'Time After Time' with her.

Velvet Revolver release their debut album 'Contraband' through RCA Records on June 8th. The album contains 13 original songs, with a limited edition release featuring the bonus track 'Bodies'. This track is a live version of the Sex Pistols song, performed on June 19, 2003. In addition to the Velvet Revolver originals and 'Bodies', the band also record b-side covers of Aerosmith's 'No More, No More', Nirvana's 'Negative Creep', Cheap Trick's 'Surrender' and Queen's 'Tie Your Mother Down'. The latter one was never released.

Masters Of Reality release their compilation cd "Give Us Barabbas", which features a previously unreleased studio version of the song "Jindalee Jindalie", featuring Scott on vocals together with Chris Goss.

Scott continues working on solo material with writing partner Douglas Grean. He helps out Swedish singer/songwriter Emma Ejwertz who is recording with Douglas in Scott's L.A. studio. Scott sings and plays on two of Emma's songs: the Nirvana cover 'Heart Shaped Box' and the original 'Mr. Sweetheart', which he co-wrote and also plays keyboards on.

In June, Scott officially joins Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner to form Velvet Revolver. They appear on the soundtracks for 'The Hulk' and 'The Italian Job' and perform two shows before recording their debut album 'Contraband' in the last few months of the year.

In late 2002, Scott did some press to announce that he has been working on new material for a second solo album. He recorded the songs 'Big Black Monster', ' If Only I Could Fly' and 'Drop That Baby' at his home studio with producer Josh Abraham in August. He plans to perform at some charity shows to preview his new work, but this never happened.

Scott sings on 'Coming Down', the closing track of the self-titled album by New Zealand band Pacifier, who renamed themselves 'Shihad' shortly after the album's release.

Scott records the song 'Murder (You Know It's Hard)' with the Crystal Method. This song is released as a single, and later Scott is quoted saying that the guys from Crystal Method totally hacked and chopped what he had recorded for them. Scott's cover of Depeche Mode's 'But Not Tonight' appears on the 'Not Another Teen Movie' soundtrack.

Also in 2001, Scott lends his vocals to the 'Fred Durst's Reality Check Mix' of the AIDS awareness and charity song 'What's Going On?'.

On September 26, Scott performs 'Five To One' and 'Break On Through (To The Other Side)' with the remaining members of the Doors for the taping of their 'VH1 Storytellers' episode. This performance was later released on DVD.

Also in this year, Scott and Dean DeLeo appeared on the "Tom Lord-Alge" remix of the Wallflowers song 'Letters From The Wasteland'. When the Wallflowers played in Atlanta, GA on October 2, 2000, Scott joined them on stage for 'One Headlight'.

Scott sang on DJ Hurricane's version of the Queen classic 'We Will Rock You'.

In May, Scott also went to The Village (studio) to produce "upcoming rap group" The Underdogs with engineer Doug Ryder, although no information is available on the songs he worked on with them. The Underdogs seem to have evolved into very successful producers themselves in the years since then.

Scott also sings on the track "Lush" by the band Cinder. The was slated for release on the album "Break Your Silence". Scott co-wrote and produced "Lush" and produced 8 other songs on that album. The album was eventually never released, due to Cinder's label Geffen Records being bought out and numerous unreleased bands were dropped. The only copies of this album are bootlegs, either recorded live, or copied of the original CDs given out at certain events.'Lush' was released on a promotional cd by 3SixtyRecords in 2004.

Scott recorded the songs 'Let's Go All The Way' and 'Drop That Baby' with The Wondergirls (featuring Ashley Hamilton). 'Let's Go All The Way' is released on the MTV Celebrity Deathmatch soundtrack and while the Wondergirls recorded a music video for 'Drop That Baby', neither the song nor the video were released in full length, until ContactMusic released a promotional cd featuring the song.

Scott also worked with the band Big Blue Missile, with whom he recorded the Zombies classic 'Time Of The Season' (for the 'Auston Powers: Spy Who Shagged Me' soundtrack) and the David Bowie cover 'Ashes To Ashes'. He performed 4 songs with Big Blue Missile (Still James, Chris Wyse, Frank Reina and Cosmo Jones) at the Sundance Festival in 1999. This marked his first performance with business partner Douglas Grean.

Another band he collaborated with this year was Limp Bizkit. He co-wrote and sang on 'Hold On', released in 2000 on the album 'Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'.

In April, Scott released his debut solo album, '12 Bar Blues' through Atlantic Records. He started a short U.S. tour with his band called the Action Girls, featuring drummer Victor Indrizzo, bassist Martyn LeNoble, and guitarists Daniel Lanois and Aaron Embry. The two singles released from the album are 'Barbarella' and 'Opposite Octave Reaction'. The music video for 'Barbarella' (directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris) was premiered on MTV Live on March 18. Scott also performed on the Late Show with David Letterman on April 3. His solo tour was cut short on June 1st, when he was arrested in New York.

Scott also worked with Limp Bizkit on 'Nobody Like You' and the unreleased song 'Dollfish', and sang on the song 'Coda' by Ashley Hamilton's band F.I.N.E. 'Coda' was released on the F.I.N.E. album 'Against The View'.

Scott released his first ever solo song, 'Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down' on the 'Great Expectations' soundtrack. The song features Sheryl Crow on accordeon and was later released in 1998 on Scott's first solo album, '12 Bar Blues'. Earlier in 1997, Scott appeared on Ringo Starr's album 'Vertical Man'. He sang backup vocals on the songs 'La De Da' and 'Mindfield'.

In 1996, Scott recorded the song 'Jindalee Jindalie' with Masters Of Reality. The studio version can be found on a radio promo cd and the 2004 compilation 'Give Us Barabbas' A live version (recorded at the Viper Room in Hollywood on November 1, 1996) was released on the Masters Of Reality album 'How High The Moon'.

Scott wanted to record an album with his side-band The Magnificent Bastards, but this never happened. The band did release two songs. One original, 'Mockingbird Girl' was put out on the 'Tank Girl' soundtrack and was also released as a commercial single. The Bastards recorded a music video for the song. The other song they released is a cover of John Lennon's 'How Do You Sleep?'. It was released on the 'Working Class Hero' soundtrack.