What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of The Creative Exchange. Today's a special one.

I have Brian with me. Brian, who are you? Why are you here? What do you do?

Well, I was just a boy and played guitar and was very bored. Not very bored, but I was

working a job that I hated. And in my spare time, I like to do nerdy things, like take apart guitar pedals and see if I can

make them sound better.

So I started doing that.

At the time, I was trying to be like the professional guitar player, right?

I was going to, actually, to Nashville, where you used to live, and playing on Broadway, and people were checking out the stuff I was using to actually to Nashville, we used to live, and playing on Broadway and people

were checking out the stuff I was using and saying, you know, let me borrow that, you

know, I'm going to buy that.

So it's like selling one off here, one off there, and then selling eBay.

At one point, I actually went to a Brad Paisley concert, or early on, walked up to the stage.

My wife at the time, my son's mom, he, she was actually mad because I was going to do this.

So I walked up to the stage, through the pedal at Brad Paisley.

Is there, is there video proof of this?

This was a long time ago.

Okay, okay. You know, I'm an old man.

This is amazing. So this is before iPhones. I mean, there's no, there's no really good way to get

footage. But I literally threw the pedal on stage towards Brad Paisley. He looked at the pedal,

looked at this crazy guy that was, you know, throwing an object at him

and motioned over his tech to come and get it. And so I found out through, you know, like, various ways, like, who's the guitar tech? How do I possibly see if Brad's going to play this pedal?

So I found out the guitar tech was, found out how to get a hold of them.

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