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{{Brian|No, I now have the same car that I've had since '90. It's a '90 Volkswagen Fox, but it looks much older because of all of the delivering that I've done in it. I bought it because of how much room it had to put in equipment. Unfortunately, people that design those cars don't think about those type of things and they make them with these big windows that you can see everything in. I had two of my favorite guitars stolen from it. One was a '67 Gibson, and the other was a Travis Bean.}} | {{Brian|No, I now have the same car that I've had since '90. It's a '90 Volkswagen Fox, but it looks much older because of all of the delivering that I've done in it. I bought it because of how much room it had to put in equipment. Unfortunately, people that design those cars don't think about those type of things and they make them with these big windows that you can see everything in. I had two of my favorite guitars stolen from it. One was a '67 Gibson, and the other was a Travis Bean.}} | ||
{{Interviewer|Tony Lopez|WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING TODAY?}} | {{Interviewer|Tony Lopez|WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING TODAY?}} | ||
{{Brian|I'm playing a '66 Telecaster Thinline. It was the first year they made them. Then I'm playing a sort of put together '59 Les Paul Jr. I had to find them in less than a week because we were heading out to Europe to do the Redding Festival and all of these other big shows. I was totally rushed. I was kind of bummed on the Les Paul Jr. when I found out it wasn't totally original. It's hard to keep it in tune and I found out that all Gibsons are a little off and it's impossible to get them perfectly in tune, but I've always dreamed of having a Telecaster. I was really depressed about the guitars I lost, and I called up [[Rivers Cuomo|Rivers]], and he said that I should just get the guitar that makes me the most happy. I went to the place off of Sunset Strip and it's basically this museum of vintage guitars. Very nice, but very pricey.}} | {{Brian|I'm playing a '66 Telecaster Thinline. It was the first year they made them. Then I'm playing a sort of put together '59 Les Paul Jr. I had to find them in less than a week because we were heading out to Europe to do the [[Weezer concert: 08/23/1996|Redding Festival]]{{sic}} and all of these other big shows. I was totally rushed. I was kind of bummed on the Les Paul Jr. when I found out it wasn't totally original. It's hard to keep it in tune and I found out that all Gibsons are a little off and it's impossible to get them perfectly in tune, but I've always dreamed of having a Telecaster. I was really depressed about the guitars I lost, and I called up [[Rivers Cuomo|Rivers]], and he said that I should just get the guitar that makes me the most happy. I went to the place off of Sunset Strip and it's basically this museum of vintage guitars. Very nice, but very pricey.}} | ||
{{Interviewer|Tony Lopez|WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO THESE DAYS}} | {{Interviewer|Tony Lopez|WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO THESE DAYS}} | ||
{{Brian|My tolerance for listening to music is very low. On the last tour I was into listening to the Portishead Dumby record. Then sometimes after show I would only want to listen to music that was the furthest thing from what I just got done playing on stage. That was really nice jazz like, Coltrane, Monk, the piano player, Bill Evans. I've always listened to a lot of Tom Waits. I recently got this record called Barry Black, which is very much instrumental. It has the singer from [[Archers of Loaf]]. It's his side project. It has Ben Folds playing on it. I find that highly creative. Aphex Twin, which is electronic symphony music. Basically anything that doesn't go out of it's way to follow any trends and would be timeless music regardless of what era it comes from.}} | {{Brian|My tolerance for listening to music is very low. On the last tour I was into listening to the Portishead Dumby record. Then sometimes after show I would only want to listen to music that was the furthest thing from what I just got done playing on stage. That was really nice jazz like, Coltrane, Monk, the piano player, Bill Evans. I've always listened to a lot of Tom Waits. I recently got this record called Barry Black, which is very much instrumental. It has the singer from [[Archers of Loaf]]. It's his side project. It has Ben Folds playing on it. I find that highly creative. Aphex Twin, which is electronic symphony music. Basically anything that doesn't go out of it's way to follow any trends and would be timeless music regardless of what era it comes from.}} | ||