Chelle: Ah, so you’ve always lived in the Southern California area. Do you have any brothers/sisters? Brian: I have 4 younger brothers and they all play music. Chelle: That was my next question – if any of them are musically inclined. Brian: Yeah, everybody in my family plays music. My dad played classical guitar. My mom played piano her whole life and was the organist in the church and all that stuff. And she played accordion on the radio when she was 7 years old. So it’s a very musical family. But here’s the weird thing...if you wanna know how much music is in our blood...like I said, my 4 younger brothers all play music, but when I was 30, my mother told our family that she had a kid before she was with my dad and put him up for adoption up in Northern California. And she was asking our permission to search for him. We were like ‘Wow, we have a brother we don’t know about!’ So she went through an agency and tracked him down and contacted him. He was kinda interested in finding out who his real mother was anyway...it turns out that he’s the only guitar player in an entirely non-musical family. He’d always wondered where his music came from, and he thought, well it must have come from my adoptive family and sure enough he meets a family of FIVE musician brothers. And he works for Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs, the place that makes the gold ultradisc CDs. So he worked for a CD company and played guitar and had NO music in his family out there at all. So that was really crazy. Chelle: Wow, that’s cool. How long have you been playing guitar? Brian: Uh, let’s see...I started when I was about 12, so I guess about 28 years...cuz I hate to say it but I’m FORTY.. Chelle: No way... Brian: Yeah, really. I guess you can put that in the interview (laughs). I don’t try to pretend I’m not 40, but at the same time, since I don’t look 40 I don’t usually go around advertising it. Chelle: Have you ever played any other instruments? Brian: What’s weird is my mom played piano and gave piano lessons and I just never got into piano at all. I kinda feel bummed that I didn’t learn it, I just wasn’t into it. I played trumpet in 4th and 5th grade school band and I quit that, which I also wish I could still play that. And then in the past 10 years I’ve kinda messed around on violin. I’ve got a violin, I play it for fun once in a while. I taught myself out of some books. And then I goof around on...I have a ukelele. I actually jammed in a band where I played ukelele about 10 years ago. It was a kind of a side shoot from my rock band, we did this little ukelele band. It was pretty fun. Chelle: Cool, you should talk Dave into letting you do that... Brian: (laughs) Yeah, it’s funny cuz there’s a lot of stuff Dave doesn’t know about me...like I didn’t really tell him I play ukelele. But he does like playing old bluesy stuff, so ya never know. Chelle: At what age did you decide you were going to play music for a living?