you first meet Brian?It was around 1989. His first solo album was coming out. I was rehearsing with a band in West L.A. I heard that Brian Wilson was rehearsing in the studio next door. I thought, This is my only chance. I think I knocked at the door, and I think he was the only one in there.
Was your mind blown when you got the job?Oh my God. Todd Rundgren, Neil Young, and Brian Wilson, especially Brian Wilson and Todd, those are my heroes. To be able to play with one of my heroes, it just blew my head off.
o have the lucky breaks. And same thing with me. I was trying to get signed for 20 years, and it didnt happen. Then, almost by luck, the fact that I was playing with the Wondermints got me into the Brian Wilson eye. Everything else sort of came from that big lucky break with Brian Wilson.