![]() ![]() He’s right down the hall.” So I went and met Mark and we kind of hit it off. Mark was talking to Andy and said, “I was using John 5 for all these, TV shows and he’s just getting busier and he’s not available.”Īnd Andy said, “Well, you should use my friend Mason. This is maybe two years ago, three years ago… A producer in town named Andy Carpenter got me introduced to Mark Phillips, who’s in charge of a lot of the music for a lot of TV shows. MS: I came up to LA and I got hired by an artist up here and signed to a label as a session player and her guitar player and co-wrote a bunch of stuff. ![]() Somehow it was weird, but yeah, that was it.įJ: How did you get started professionally? I’m going to be a guitar player.” It just made sense. But there it was, a guitar. I’m not even joking, it’s like this electricity went through me, and I was like, “This is what I’m going to do now. “I want a bass guitar, bass guitar, bass guitar…” So they heard “guitar” and I woke up Christmas morning and there was a red, cute, knock-off Strat that I think my dad got at Restoration Hardware. I went to my mom and my dad and I said, “Hey, I want to play bass and I want a bass for Christmas.” I begged them and I begged them and I begged them. As it turns out both of them were guitar parts and I just didn’t know better. I liked the lower part, so I decided I was going to play bass. And there are two parts on it: There’s a guitar part and then there’s a bass part. Like, “He sounds like that record!” I think it was Green Day. I never had seen any of that stuff before and it just blew my mind. I had a friend who brought a guitar into class one day, like a BC Rich Mockingbird thing with a Digitex like multi-effects pedal. MS: I think I was maybe 14 or 15 years old when I got the idea to play. That was my exposure to music, sitting in front of that thing, plunking around on it. I grew up with a Fender Rhodes in the house. No one in my family is really a musician. We have this Orange Circle, which is just the little Old Town area.įJ: Was there a lot of music in your childhood? Mason Stoops: I grew up in the city of Orange. ![]() The Fretboard Journal: Where did you grow up? ![]()
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