Scott Shriner Fan Interview 2008: Difference between revisions

{{Interviewer|Ed Patenaude|What kind of gear do you use when you tour?}}

{{Interviewer| Greg, weerez.com |Do you own an upright bass?  Have you ever used one during any Weezer practice/recording sessions?}}

On Maladroit and Make Believe, I played the same 2 basses. But on album 6, I recorded a total of 8 different basses. Warwick Thumb, Dirty Blonde, Rickenbacker, my '65 jazz bass, a Guild Starfire and even a WAL...no shit….and my '62 P bass of course. Also a '72 P bass I just got.  The '60 P bass got a rest on this record.  My first bass was a Peavey t40 then I got a '74 Jazz bass (the one I always regret selling) I got a Steinburger that changed my life (until it got stolen) and I got my Music Man Stingray. Then ….I got into an old Warwick Thumb (one of the real early ones) another bass I regret selling. I had a cool Spector bass for a while it sounded amazing. I smashed it at a Vanilla Ice show in Ventura, CA. Playing with Ice will make you do crazy shit!! God love him. Uhhhh do you really want me to go on? I will go on and on. THEN I got another Music man Stingray…great basses indeed. Then I lost everything in the deep hole of my life known as 1999.}}

{{Scott|Hey, man. Great question. I started traveling with a KORG MS2000 on the Maladroit tour but didn’t ever bring it on stage- just played around backstage. Right before we left for the Make Believe tour I got the idea that W should get a Moog Voyager. They road well and sound huge. Bri played it on a couple of songs. When we got home, I was hooked and started learning about Modular Synthesis. Also as a fan of the old Prophet synths, I got a Dave Smith keyboard that I love. We will be bringing them all on tour next year.}}

{{Scott|Hey, Anson. I felt the same way forever until I started hearing bass players like Chris Squire, Paul McCartney and Sting.  I wanted to be able to do everything possible to get different sounds out of an electric bass. It came in handy with Weezer. I love the warmth and bottom I get with fingers and I also really enjoy the attack, aggression and palm muting sound with a pick.}}

{{Interviewer| Kim, NJ |Out of The Blue Album, Pinkerton, and The Green Album - which one album do you wish you could've been a member of the band for? Why?}}

{{Scott|Hey, you guys. Thanks for the question. I was purely a fill in at first.  The band was getting ready to demo songs for Maladroit, so they didn’t want me to learn any old songs.. Rivers showed me the songs on the spot. I guess learning them on the fly helped prove myself, but I think it was fate.  I just played how I play. I  came in as myself. It worked. Be yourself. }}

{{Interviewer| Jonas Hansson Stockholm, Sweden & inthegarageallthetime (Blake Ferrin) Salem, OR |I'm a guitar player who recently turned to bass. When you joined Weezer and were learning the bass parts of Matt resp. Mikey; did you mimic their styles, or did you make things your own way right from the beginning?}}

{{Scott|Hey, Jonas. Great name. I listened to both of them and I played how I play. That’s how I've learned bass my whole life. Listening to other musicians- guitar and bass and horns and everything- learning it and making it part of me. Matt had a particular style that's much different than my own, so I did what I could with it. He’s great and so is Mike!}}

{{Interviewer| lordofthemanor, albumsix.com|Of the many tracks that weren't chosen to be on Make Believe, which were your favorites? Are there any you wish made the album?}}

{{Scott|I really liked a lot of the songs that didn’t make the record. One of my favorite was called “I'm Losing My Mind” we also did a cover that I can’t mention but I have the master safe and sound.}}

{{Scott|Hey Marc thanks man.  "Say It Ain't So" has always been my fav. It’s the song that made me love Weezer. But when I heard Hash Pipe with the chugging guitars, I thought it was the coolest band in the world. You know what I mean!}}

{{Interviewer| Cory Boston, MA |In the liner notes of the newly released Alone there's a brief background on the history of the song "This is the Way". It talks about how when you guys voted it went up against the song "Daydreamer" everyone voted for "This is the Way". Had the song evolved at all when the band made the decision or was Rivers' home demo all you had?}}

{{Interviewer| Ryann Rowland (runnersdialzero), Illinois, US |With you now contributing to Weezer's sound and songwriting, what are your goals and what do you hope to say lyrically and musically?  Also, you seemed to be a very important factor in Weezer's new found comradery, which I think may very well have saved the band. I saw you on the Foozer tour and you guys were incredible and seemed to be having a lot of fun. Thank you.}}

{{Scott|Thanks, Ryann. That makes me feel great! I've been working on a lot of music for Weezer but I have yet to add anything lyrically- it is a goal of mine for album 7. Before, I thought I would write to try to fit in with what the band was into at the time. I gave that up and played what I felt like and it wound up being CDW. Funny how that works}}

{{Interviewer| Greg, weerez.com |What was it like doing The Howard Stern show?  Are you a fan of the show?}}

{{Interviewer| David Lawson & Joseph Churpek |Everyone involved in Weezer has written songs for projects beyond the band except you. Do you write music on your own or have you thought of ever fronting your own side-project (a la Pat's Special Goodness or Brian's The Relationship)?}}

{{Scott|I went to MI- that’s like a vocational school for musicians. That’s it besides high School. My wife just got her MFA, so I always say that she is the educated one in the family. What would I be into? Maybe game design?  I love computers. I love games.}}