it's lovely to see everybody spread out all over the place this is the closest I've come to any kind of human interaction for a can of G&T right now that's awesome that's awesome especially considering you're in LA with me and it's only 9:30 in the morning I've been
getting really and like re getting reacquainted with the streets the streets like everybody else as soon as I heard has it come to this and um you know and let's push things forward all the singles and then the album finally arrived and everyone who got the album
within minutes was just saying this is a classic and so I went home and I put it on in the first time that the first strings come in and he starts talking about Romans and like you know stand tall young soldiers I started crying openly like seriously it was so
emotional for me I remember like riding in my car with my friend marina going to Valley College and blasting a grand oh come for free like it would blood in the parking lot and we thought we were so cool I think I'm missing out of something this is this is gonna help you
through what Apple music it's that it's here we're here being in the streets lock down your Ariel I mean now I have the time to do it listening to have you been listening to anything particular let's have contemporary music great is the weirdest lockdown ever what have you
been doing out in the peaceful countryside of Oxfordshire I've been playing bass a lot more I've been playing yes and yeah so I'm like reverting back to my teenage years where everyone else went out and listened to have be hardcore and I stayed in and played
guitar and sowed the seeds for an incredibly successful career as a superstar artist which like all successful careers was built around those people going outside finally crack the code for successful artists it's pretty much the other night I got I got quite drunk and thought that everyone
wanted to hear me playing covers turns out I was brung me know when you're drunk me think that yes so you assume that oh they definitely want it want me to pick go and pick up the guitar and start playing stuff I think I was playing like machine and Incubus and how
do you play rage on acoustic morning morning who's incredible that was when Brandon boy was at his the apex of his snek ability he was just like in my room in college we are getting great information you have like gauges Chris pictures of him with gauges the ears the
big earrings like my way did you have any did you have them because Brandon boy happen it's it's likely yeah in fact look I have a tattoo I have the tattoo that Brandon Boyd has so I was that was kind of nerdy theater kids just with Gloria and Bianca so I listened to oh my god you are listening
to Bjork on high school and I also ate yeah and people like Bjork is lame and I was like oh I didn't know when you're at school sing like that and you're the only person who likes a nice I had that with so many people this is in the well I was obsessed with new metal they were
kind of like but I can remember I distinctly remember this moment I was like obsessed with one biscuit I like I went to the Family Values tour I remember dressing and like you know like a like a white tank top of backwards rag but I also have like black hair like I
dyed my hair black because I also thought I was Gotham's also like really into Manson and I remember watching MTV in 2001 and I was so into new metal and then I was watching Total Request Live and The Strokes last night came on the TV and I just didn't remember literally
like ripping my jelly choker like like my like neck and like unscrewing my gauges like everything this is so good I don't know how you guys feel but it's just been this has been the thing I look forward to I hate the choir because I live with my family so I can't really say this
because I look all times no but I mean outside of hanging with my wife and kids which obviously has been a silver lining to this weird thing without any interruption this is the thing I look forward to the most is just getting to see friends and super talented people in
this environment just getting to feel like we'll get back here again you know just being able to even chat to you guys like this is very cool and I haven't seen you guys in so long I know we should do that every night in any tutorials and people you