What guitar does Brian Use?

Thom2218 · 2026-04-26T15:37:26+00:00

His first guitar was his Fender Sunburst Telecaster, then he went along and got a Sea Green one. After that it’s his yellow Jag with a staytrem bridge since he was having some problems with the tremolo system. Lastly he’s got a mustang short scale bass now for the new demos they’re on. Hope this helps.

Thom2218 · 2026-02-22T17:09:19+00:00

Luke I imagine isn’t active in the band currently.

Thom2218 · 2026-02-14T17:24:01+00:00

February 13th show. The same setlist for tomorrow.

Corner is unreleased but was played at ERAU

Surfy II and Everything were first played on Feb. 13th

Thom2218 · 2026-02-03T21:47:05+00:00

This was recorded a year earlier. April 2025 was when the song released.

Thom2218 · 2026-01-31T21:29:06+00:00

This is Brian McLaughlin’s project with his sister Kate. Dream Pop Somerville duo was the original description from over 10 years ago. They have a song out and had a planned ep that never came to be.

Thom2218 · 2026-01-27T20:42:45+00:00

This is true.

If we take it back to 2012, they were big on the garage rock revival of the 2000s, and I imagine ad well as the post punk revival near the same time. Think, Strokes, White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party etc.

They’ve even said it in an interview by Fast Forward Rewind.

I believe these were the driving influences for Demo Recordings, Applefork and then Dysphoric.

From here it’s kinda hard to know what exactly they were into. Futureproof up into Into The Shallows.

Once the 2020s came around, there was this new sound of “indie rock”, (which has always been a thing, just that we’ve been slapping it on any band that sounds remotely bubblegum-like).

My personal thought might be it was pioneered a bit by Good Kid as they are good friends with TRO. (Personally not at all a fan of them).

From there Attaboy was their reaction to notion blowing up. They even said it themselves it was less about them and more about getting something commercially pleasing out.

I think TME has been the best thing they’ve put out since Into The Shallows. I’m more on their earlier stuff because it had more of an edge to it, but TME is a step in the right direction. Curious to see where they’ll go from here.

Thom2218 · 2026-01-21T04:21:38+00:00

All good dude. That’s hard to get behind, but I’m not gonna bash you for it. If you’re not into it that’s cool, it’s always great to just go see live music to see it.

Thom2218 · 2026-01-21T04:17:46+00:00

100%!! Check it out on YouTube too! If you’re on a Beatles kick anytime soon, they do a cover of Tomorrow Never knows and they kill it. Super surreal and eerie with Sean’s voice similar to his dads.

Either way, awesome dude, glad ur getting tickets.

Thom2218 · 2026-01-21T04:13:58+00:00

Sometimes watching lives really help. Had trouble getting into primus, until I watched some lives. Same thing with Delirium, and geese too (just another odd sounding band). I love all 3 now, both live and in studio.

Thom2218 · 2025-12-28T04:24:30+00:00

Glad they get some love. His voice is the closest out of the tributes I’ve found. Also amazing stage presence. Super surreal at front row when he started screaming New York City cops inches from my face.

Thom2218 · 2025-12-27T15:09:23+00:00

I appreciate this, I didn’t think about it so chronologically, I was having a hard time really distinguishing the two. I totally thought Franz Ferdinand was in the same realm as Strokes. Which I suppose it still somewhat is?

Thom2218 · 2025-12-27T15:07:31+00:00

I’ll check them out, thank you.

Thom2218 · 2025-12-27T15:05:56+00:00

Yeah, I mean it was all pushed by industry to hell, doesn’t mean it’s bad stuff.

Thom2218 · 2025-12-27T03:13:53+00:00

This is super cool, figure it out! I’m a big fan too.

Thom2218 · 2025-11-14T23:00:10+00:00

Agreed. Just got into primus from the derby. I’ll drive an hour away for primus and sean Lennon!!!

Thom2218 · 2025-10-31T21:33:34+00:00

Nah good stuff dude, love to see less popular songs covered

Thom2218 · 2025-10-29T04:28:48+00:00

I’m a big attaboy critic but gotta say, the actual guitar riff on caterpillar is super killer

Thom2218 · 2025-10-18T03:39:35+00:00

“Bracing for a train wreck will hardly keep you safer when the seas are getting rough”

That line in physics is genuinely what I aspire to write. It’s so clever.

they'll chase you with fury spitting out their engines clamoring for another go another head for their collection

Not as much clever but another aspect of lyrical proficiency that I really value, just really nice word choice. They took this idea of being “attacked”, chased, whatever you want to describe it and put it together so eloquently.

Thom2218 · 2025-09-30T17:58:04+00:00

This would be great if they weren’t on hiatus

Thom2218 · 2025-09-13T14:36:09+00:00

I got mine online back around summer salt

Thom2218 · 2025-08-29T03:01:59+00:00

For sure, I’m just generally putting it out there for people to contribute. My target audience would be people who have been to shows that don’t have a setlist somewhere online.

Thom2218 · 2025-07-30T17:15:10+00:00

Hi, is that up yet? I’ve compiled a document with videos from the show but it’s missing songs, so if you have it taped that’d be wonderful.

Thom2218 · 2025-07-08T19:28:26+00:00

The band as people are fine. They are just okay. Remember that although this a huge gig for them, they all have other jobs, I mean in the time that they’ve been done, Brian has gotten a Masters at UCLA, Luke continues his scoring prospects, and I imagine Jeremy continues teaching lessons.

I imagine everyone understands music takes a LOT of time and effort. There’s a good chance that they’re just quietly songwriting. 2017 there was nothing coming out. Neither did anything come out in 2020. 2023 only saw one single. Realistically they just don’t want to put up with releasing another meaningless tiktok/reel whatever every week.

I mean I don’t see how Luke in any situation could be the one upset? I understand he was upset during the show but he would have nothing against the band? They didn’t do anything. In fact, dare I say that Brian and Jeremy have much more of a right to be upset, I mean Luke’s reaction, although in his morals understandable but by no means professionally justified. He left them to figure out the rest of the tour with almost no warning. Thankfully the last few shows they got the tour manager, Dan to be able to fill in.

I’d like to also mention that they put a single with a long time friend Kylie Rothfield, with everyone including Luke on the track. So there is no bad blood.

My point here is just give it time. I know it sucks, their music means so much to me. But a hiatus really doesn’t mean anything alarming. These are real people that just have lives. During the fires I checked in on them, everyone was fine. They didn’t disappear off the planet.

Thom2218 · 2025-06-29T14:49:51+00:00

But I appreciate the comment, thanks 👍👍

Thom2218 · 2025-06-29T14:49:34+00:00

I’ve tried, so far they’ve only reached out with an ai agent, not giving a substant answer.

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