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| '''Brian Bell''' (born [[December 9]], 1968, Iowa City, Iowa) is a American guitarist and songwriter. Active since 1989, is best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the American alternative rock band [[Weezer]]. However, since [[The Red Album]], he has taken over lead guitar. Bell joined Weezer in [[1993]] following the departure of founding member [[Jason Cropper]]. In addition to his duties in Weezer, Bell also has his own band, [[the Space Twins]], as well as a new project called [[The Relationship]]. | | '''Brian Bell''' (born [[December 9]], 1968, Iowa City, Iowa) is a American guitarist and songwriter. Active since 1989, is best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the American alternative rock band [[Weezer]]. However, since [[The Red Album]], he has taken over lead guitar. Bell joined Weezer in [[1993]] following the departure of founding member [[Jason Cropper]]. In addition to his duties in Weezer, Bell also has his own band, [[the Space Twins]], as well as a new project called [[The Relationship]]. |
| ==Biography==
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| ===Early life===
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| Brian Bell was born in Iowa City, Iowa to parents Tom Bell, a geography professor at the University of Tennessee, and Linda Menasco, an elementary school assistant principal. He was raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. He first gravitated to music at the age of four when his parents took him to an Elvis Presley concert at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium. Soon after, Bell became obsessed with his father's record collection, playing them constantly. At a young age, Bell asked his mother to let him take piano lessons, refusing to let him take guitar lessons until high school because she "wouldn't believe that he would practice." Eventually, during his freshman year in high school, his parents allowed him to take guitar lessons from Knoxville musician Ben Bolt.
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| ===Carnival Art===
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| At the age of eighteen, Bell moved to Los Angeles, California, and enrolled at the Guitar Institute of Technology. Soon he became a member of [[Carnival Art]], a fledgling alt rock unit who had already released an indie album in 1989. After Bell joined as the bass player, the group released two more albums, two EPs, and several singles through 1993. Unfortunately, the band had extremely small record sales and were eventually dropped by label [[Beggars Banquet Records|Beggars Banquet]].
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| It was around the time Carnival Art was disintegrating that Bell became acquainted with the members of [[Weezer]], "They started playing on the scene, and I instantly saw something unique in them. I didn't necessarily want to be in their band. They were for some reason, were in with the wrong crowd and playing at the wrong venues. I wanted to help them out any way I could and I wanted to play a show with them." Bell particularly found himself amazed with "[[Say It Ain't So]]." He believed it possessed a rare "classic" sound and expressed surprise that songs like that were still being written.
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| ===Weezer===
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| One night in the late summer of 1993, while driving home, Bell decided once-and-for-all to quit Carnival Art. When he got home he found on his answering machine a message from Weezer bassist [[Matt Sharp]]. Sharp [[Hammerhead|called again the next day]], "Matt was just beating around the bush, and [[Rivers Cuomo|Rivers]] took the phone from him and said, 'Do you wanna join our band?'"
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| Bell then joined [[Weezer]] in 1993 during the recording of ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]'', replacing [[Jason Cropper]]. Since then he has remained a member of Weezer. Besides doing backup vocals and playing rhythm guitar (as well as lead guitar on the ''[[Pinkerton]]'' classics "[[El Scorcho]]" and "[[Why Bother?]]"), Bell takes on many of the multi-instrumental duties during live shows. When songs call for the use of a keyboard or harmonica, Bell often plays them.
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| For several years leading up to 2009, Bell has been writing songs and recording for a side project called [[The Relationship]]. Demo recordings have leaked through the web over the last couple of years, and The Relationship opened a few California shows on Weezer's 2008 [[Troublemaker Tour]]. It is rumored that an album, ironically titled "Release Me", has been completed as of December 2008.
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| ===Other projects===
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| Bell and Weezer drummer [[Patrick Wilson]], collaborated on a cover of the Velvet Underground song "Heroin", for the 2006 film ''Factory Girl''.
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| In November 2006, Lyon introduced a limited edition guitar series called "the Brian Bell Limited Edition guitar package," each of which had been hand-signed by Bell, and were in the same "strat" body style that Brian prefers to play.
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| =Movie career= | | =Movie career= |
