"If Scott Amendola didn't exist, the San Francisco music scene would have to invent him."
- Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian

"...drummer/signal-treater Scott Amendola is both a tyrant of heavy rhythm and an electric-haired antenna for outworldly messages (not a standard combination)."
- Greg Burk, LA Weekly

"These guys know the difference between playing their asses off and 'jamming'."
- Seattle Weekly

"Amendola has complete mastery of every piece of his drumset and the ability to create a plethora of sounds using sticks, brushes, mallets, and even his hands."
- Steven Raphael, Modern Drummer Magazine

"Amendola, certainly the most accomplished and inventive drummer on the local scene, maintains a constant flurry of percussive sounds - drums, cymbals, tom-toms - smoothly shifting dynamics and rhythmic emphasis."
- Phil Elwood, San Francisco Examiner, January 29, 1998

"Scott Amendola... knows how to pour on the juice, but he also cultivates a ritual tribalism."
- Nils Jacobson, www.allaboutjazz.com

"Scott Amendola is quickly becoming my favorite drummer in all of drummerdom...Always innovative and inventive, he doesn't beat around the bush (no pun intended), he doesn't seem to beat a single square inch of drum that doesn't deserve to get beaten, but he's always fooling around, always in your face, going crazy with that irresistible smile on his face."
- Steve Palopoli, Good Times, November 20, 1997

"Drawing on blues, hymns, spirituals, and compositional tactics employed by Wayne Shorter and Charles Mingus, Amendola engages his players fully so that each piece develops its own particular chemistry, growing from the drummers elaborate but well-defined beats."
- Andrew Gilbert, East Bay Express

"Scott Amendola be trippin'. His sound is like being slapped in the face with a rare steak doused in a great wine sauce. Get messy..."
- Greg Burk, LA Weekly