BONUS Ask Marc Anything #5
OK, hey, folks, it's time for Ask Mark Anything.
This is the I've been told this is the fifth installment of me answering your questions that you've sent in.
There's a lot of them.
Let's see what I can do.
Let's see what I can handle.
Let's see if I can get through it all.
You've had many New York comedians from the tough crowd on your show, but not Colin Quinn.
Is there something unresolved?
Yes, there actually is something unresolved.
I do not know what it is.
Look, I've known Colin many years.
I did tough crowd a lot.
I don't know if it was because he liked me or just because there weren't that many left leaning comics around at the time.
But I texted him a few years ago and I said, look, hey, man, I'd like to have you on my show.
Do we have a problem?
Is there something?
Is there an issue?
And he said, I think there is.
And I said, well, do we do you want to try to resolve it?
He said, I don't know.
And that was that.
So I don't really know what it is.
I do.
There is a memory that sits with me that I imagine it could still be the foundation of the resentment.
Two things.
I middled for Colin many years ago, probably in the early 90s at Cobb's Comedy Club.
And I just remember like the middle that that doesn't matter.
I did very well.
But that's not the issue.
Years later, I was at the Comedy Cellar.
I wasn't really in at the Comedy Cellar.
I kind of knew Colin to say hi to.
And, you know, he stopped by the table.
I was sitting with somebody and he said he had been working on a one man show.
And I said, I literally said, why?
You can't hack the road anymore.
And he just he bit his knuckle and he got very mad.
And he said, you don't know me well enough to say that.
And it was real anger.
And then I married a woman he dated.
My second wife dated Colin for a while.
But I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
That marriage didn't end well.
Maybe she confided in him and decided I was an asshole.
There's many factors.
But those are the ones that stand out in my head.
I just don't think the guy really likes me that much.
And he doesn't see any reason to change that.
So that's that.
What specifically were the differences between your two HBO tapings?
I was at the early show, and I was wondering what I missed.
Well, nothing, just a normal thing.
The second show is going to be a little looser and a little more comfortable.
There wasn't a lot of difference in material.
I think that your crowd was probably a more lively crowd, like over-the-top, good crowd.
The second show I had to work a little harder for, but I was a little more grounded on that one.
But in terms of shows...
I don't think it was that much different.
And you were definitely in the more lively crowd.
But we are primarily using the second show for the special.
Love the show, Mark.
Was wondering what you felt about Freddie Prinze as a comedian and more so his impact on being one of the early Latino comics.
I've seen footage of him.
He was great.
It's very exciting.
There are guys that have come after him in the Latino world.
that owe a lot to him, and he definitely opened that door.
And look, he was a great comic that died too young, and the story of him dying is terrible, and we've talked about it on the show.
If you want to listen to the Alan Bursky episode, they were best friends, and the rumor was he used Alan's gun, but we cleared that up.
He did not.
Given the amount of high-quality podcasts that deal with topics you're interested in, have you considered having podcasters on as guests?
I don't really listen to any podcasts.
I don't listen to really anything but music.
But I think we've reached out to Karina Longworth to talk about old Hollywood.
Maybe I'll get up to speed with that, but maybe it's just a conversation.
Yeah.
And back in the day, we used to have podcasts.
All the guys who were starting podcasts at the time that I was have been on this show.
So, you know, you're Paul Kilmartin, Doug Benson, Adam Carolla, Joe Rogan, Chris Hardwick, Jimmy Pardo, Kevin Smith.
Jay Moore, everybody in that original crew, Jimmy Dore, all the guys who were doing podcasts at the beginning have all rotated onto this show.
They've all been on the show back in the day.
Are you going to do another series like Marin?
I loved it.
It doesn't seem that way.
I sold this series with Sam Lipsight to FX, but they're not going to do it.
But it wasn't like that.
It was a different story.
You've spoken recently a few times about how food is the only addiction you can't actually abstain from.
As a sober person, what advice do you have for developing a healthy relationship with food?
I struggle with that all the time.
And I find that if I can muster up the discipline to sort of cut out the sugar and cut out the carbs, that I can roll with that for a while.
But I go on the road or I go through periods where I just can't stop with the sugar.
It's hard.
But usually what I do to get back on track is to either get an app –
Like Fitness Pal or one of the other ones to count calories or Noom.
Or I just do a full sugar detox for as long as it takes me to lose a lot of weight to where I don't look healthy.
And then I start eating again.
So I don't know if that's a healthy approach, but that's what I do.
What did you think when the drunk woman interrupted you at the Nashville show just before talking about your grieving process?
Did it throw you off?
No.
I've been doing this a long time.
You know, I can handle people talking.
It was not, sometimes a weird thing happens with people in my audiences is that if they've had a couple of cocktails or they've already got some sort of parasocial relationship with me, they just start talking to me like it's just the two of us.
And it's annoying.
And I did have to shut her up and shut her down and, you know, try to make her realize the situation.
But it was alcohol.
And, you know, I think we got back on track.
Yeah, it's annoying.
But I mean, you know, I've been doing it a long time.
I can,
I can move past it.
Midweek late night food choices aside, have you changed your opinion on Columbus?
What did you think of used kids records?
I don't mind Columbus.
I don't have a problem with Columbus.
I don't remember going to used kids records.
Maybe I did.
It doesn't stand out in my mind much.
Yeah, there was an interesting story, but the crowds were great.
And I think we had another good meal there.
But that the late night thing that was got a good story out of it.
Have no problem with Columbus.
I loved your talk with Abigail Disney and your subsequent discussion of documentaries with Brendan.
Just curious where you see Werner Herzog's docs falling on the journalism propaganda continuum.
I think Herzog does point of view documentaries from his beautiful and sort of dark point of view.
I think that he does documentaries as an expression of the way he sees the world.
I think propaganda is an odd word for it.
I don't think he's
aspiring to do anything but what he's interested in.
But I think it is fully his, it's an auteur approach, which is what we talked about.
I don't think his agenda is anything but to explore what interests him.
So I don't know.
I don't see it as propaganda.
How often do you get recognized in public?
Can you describe a typical interaction?
Well, fairly often, but not as often as somebody that can't live their life.
And my fans are usually pretty polite and they understand the dynamic that they know a lot about me.
I don't know a lot about them.
Most of them are gracious.
Most of them are not annoying.
Sometimes everyone wants a selfie, but they always say that they don't want to bother you.
that it doesn't bother me.
It's not that big a deal.
The best interaction I can have with a fan is when I'm walking down the street and someone's walking towards me with earphones in or ear pods and they look at me and they point at their earphones and they nod their head.
That's the best.
that they're listening to me right then.
Do you know or have any history with Tina Fey?
Will she ever be a guest on the podcast?
She's been invited.
I have no history with her.
I think I've met her once.
Do you ever edit before sending raw WTF conversations to Brendan to edit?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
Wow, you do not understand how this show works.
Also, do you ever make timestamp notes while talking with guests?
No.
So that Brendan knows where the higher low points are in a conversation he's about to edit.
No, I don't touch anything.
Brendan, no, he gets the raw stuff.
That's his thing.
I do my thing.
I'm not even going to assume that I would know where or what to do with either of those things you ask.
That's Brendan's half.
And he's a genius.
What's the most uncomfortable conversation you've had?
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
There's been some rough starts.
I think Patricia Arquette was a rough start.
Nick Cave was a rough start.
But usually they level off.
I don't know that there's been any tremendously uncomfortable conversations that lasted the whole time.
Have you been talking to anyone seriously about being in a play?
I have not.
I'm waiting for offers.
Why do you hate Sacramento so much?
I've been listening for years and you've never had a nice thing to say, nor have you done a show here.
I did do a show near Sacramento, didn't I?
Didn't I just do a show there recently?
You've talked about the time Paul Mooney outed the entire audience as racist.
But that's about it.
He didn't out them.
It was just an understanding of what he was doing.
That's a good story.
Now that you do theaters, you can avoid Punchline and Laughs Unlimited.
Never did a Laughs Unlimited.
The whole town isn't a strip mall, you know.
I know.
It seems okay.
I dated a woman from there that was not a good experience.
But I do feel like I did a show in Sacramento.
Am I wrong?
Am I out of my mind?
I feel like I did a small theater in Sac.
Huh.
I don't know.
Do some research, but I think I did.
What's it going to take to get you to interview Trey Anastasio from Fish?
He's an interesting dude, and I feel like you could go in blind with no Fish knowledge and still have a great interview.
I guess, but that I feel would be disrespectful, and I'm not going to dive into Fish at this point in my life.
I don't have room.
Would you ever consider talking to Dick Cavett?
I think you both have a similar interviewing technique.
You both are great listeners.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like I did interview him on Air America once.
I'm open to it, but I think he's in New York.
I think he's old.
I don't know.
I'm not adverse to that.
I've met him a couple times.
He's a character.
What's the change to the purple logo on the full Marin?
Well, it's so people can differentiate between the free feed and the WTF plus feed.
When you subscribe to WTF plus, the free feed doesn't automatically go away if you're subscribed to it.
So if they look identical in your app, it's confusing.
When your time on earth is done, do you want to be cremated or buried and why?
I think I want to be buried in a wood box like a Jew.
I don't know.
I just want to decompose like normally.
They got this new thing where I think you die and they put you in a box with some organic stuff and you turn into compost.
I think that might be good.
I want to be composted.
I don't want to rot in the box and have the grave sag.
It's the creepiest thing about graveyards is the sagging turf on top because the coffin has given way.
Who is your biggest celebrity crush?
Right now?
For years, it was Anne Hathaway, and that really hasn't gone away, to be honest with you.
I also, Mandy Moore had a profound impact on me.
I don't know if, kind of crushy, but Anne Hathaway still, still Anne Hathaway.
Is that okay?
Have you ever considered making an audio version of Waiting for the Punch?
I think that hearing selections spoken by the actual participants would be a great audio book.
We actually did that for the first chapter.
It's episode 852.
So you can listen to that now if you want.
As for doing more, it's always possible to do that, but it takes a lot of time.
A lot of time.
We thought about it, you know, as we thought about doing it when the audio book came out.
But it's like it's a massive bit of lifting for Brendan.
What newish artist band have you discovered this year and wanted to go deeper in their catalog?
Well, I definitely took a liking to that Silk Sonic stuff, which was Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars.
Is that who it is?
I got Wazeblood's first couple albums years ago, and she's got a new one that I just bought.
I'm looking forward to that.
I liked the Lizzo record.
I bought that.
That was pretty good.
I enjoyed it.
I liked that second Billie Eilish record a lot.
And who's this Paramore person?
I've never heard of her, but she comes up on my Instagram feed.
I'm curious about her work.
Sharon Van Etten is not new, but I had to listen to a lot of her stuff to talk to her.
That was good.
You know, rabbit holes, though.
Have I been...
move to go down a rabbit hole.
No, but those are the kind of pop artists that I've sort of got hip to.
There's been some jazz and stuff, but they're old timers.
And I kind of, you know, constantly move records through.
So how's that?
Is that all right?
I'm 41 years old and you are a huge part of my current sobriety.
It will be three years in March with no booze.
So thank you for validating so much for me that I could actually conceptualize a life that
without alcohol.
Can you talk a bit about the first few days, weeks, months of your sobriety?
I know you have spoken a lot about the cocaine psychosis.
What were some of the struggles with alcohol specifically?
Dude, it took me so many times.
The first time I got sober was in 19...
And, you know, I had 23 years sober last August.
So it took me 88, 98, 2008, 2018.
Took me 35 years to get 23.
So a lot of in and out.
But when I finally locked in, you know, it was rough because you're just totally obsessed with drinking.
So what I did was I just, because of the nature of my life, I went to like two or three meetings a day.
I found a crew of guys that had the same amount of time as me and women.
I was dating a woman who was sober.
So I just lived and breathed sobriety, did 90 and 90 and just locked in and went to a meeting every day on, you know, for the most part for five years.
So, you know, the quality of life just shifted and a lot of it revolved around
Meetings and being with sober people.
Totally.
Was there a particular moment or situation that cemented for you that sobriety is the way?
Love the show.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I was about to die.
Really, I was doing coke.
regularly.
I was fat.
I was sweaty.
I was bloated from booze.
And I was bitter.
And I had surrendered to the fact that I was stuck in a marriage that I didn't want to be in.
And my career was going to go nowhere.
And I just had to suck it up and live with that.
And Coke and booze was the way I was going to go.
And then someone stepped in from AA and said, you know, I can help you.
And primarily because of her and the fact that I was in love with her
And I wanted to be with her.
I would have followed her anywhere.
So I followed her into sobriety.
And now she doesn't like me at all.
But I am grateful that she got me sober.
I ended up marrying her.
And that didn't go well.
But nonetheless, despite however horrible I was or however horrible that relationship became, I am grateful that she got me sober.
So took a woman.
Please share the story of your crazy drug-fuels night with Tom Rhodes.
Well, there's only a couple that I think you're referring to.
There was the one where I just went over to his house, and I had a bunch of Coke and no one to do it with, and I woke him up to come do Coke with me, and we went out in the park, and we did some blow, and then I left him.
And he had to go back home and be awake by himself with his girlfriend.
He likes that one.
I think that he said...
What did he say about me?
Not a very nice thing.
He said, you're the kind of guy that if you were drowning, you'd take the lifeguard down with you.
Not a great thing.
There was another night where it was me and Jack Boulware, and we were staying at the Beverly Laurel Motor Hotel before they redid it.
And that was where I used to stay when I came to L.A.
and party.
I don't remember where we ran into Tom or what it was, but it was like...
Oh, that was the funny one.
It was like, yeah, we told him to come over and we were going to hang out and have a drink.
That's what we said to him.
We said, you know, come to the hotel.
We'll have a drink.
So, you know, me and Jack went back to the room and then Tom shows up like an hour later with a boom box.
And he's just like, let's go.
And he put the boom box down.
We're doing blow.
We're drinking.
It goes on for hours and hours.
There's wrestling.
There's insanity.
There's rock music.
And after a full night of drinking and blow, I said, I got to crash.
you know I think I'm ready to crash and Tom goes I thought you said we were having a drink that was funny do you ever have guests that cause you to think wow this person is way more of a jerk than I expected how do you soldier through an interview with someone you don't like
I don't know.
I kind of put that aside and try to understand the person.
You know, a lot of times I find out people are jerks after.
After I have an amazing, pleasant conversation with them.
I hear like, that guy's an asshole.
I'm like, I didn't have that experience.
So, you know, I'm always looking to like the people I have on, even if I'm judgmental of them.
And I'm always surprised.
So I don't really interview people that I think are jerks.
like you say, wow, this person is more of a jerk than I expected.
See, I don't know that I'm going to have a lot of jerks in.
Or if I do, I think like, well, they're probably not really a jerk and I'm probably projecting something.
So, but either way, I'll soldier through anything.
We're going to sit here for an hour no matter what.
I don't care who you are.
Could you ever see yourself writing musical comedy bits or using your guitar up on stage while performing stand-up comedy?
No.
No.
And that's an old school thing with me.
We used to call them...
Back in the day when comedy was just, you know, comedy clubs and comics and there was no alt comedy and there was no, you know, you just, you do stand up or you don't.
There was a, there were these two segments.
There was prop acts and there were guitar acts.
And you didn't really want to mess with either of those.
I remember Kennison, who played guitar as well, just could never figure out, he always used to say, I could never figure out a way to get it in there.
But he ended up doing Wild Thing, which was,
embarrassingly funny.
I'm not sure he intended it to be funny, but, but there was no way to integrate it.
If you come from that old school thinking, like, you know, you can't be a guitar act.
See a lot of what happened was, especially in new England, once they shut down happy hours, um,
There was this influx of guitar acts into comedy because they were happy hour acts.
And look, there is a history of musical comedy and there's people that have done it.
But I come from this sort of road school 80s thinking around this, around pure comedy.
And it's just there's no way to do it.
Don't want to be a boat act.
That's another one.
But sometimes great comics end up on boats.
But prop acts and guitar acts, they were no-nos.
And I guess it's still in my head.
What is your favorite 1930s to 50s film noir?
Do you have a favorite director from that era?
I've watched a lot lately.
But I'm a big fan of Out of the Past.
And I like The Killing as well, oddly.
But I've watched quite a few recently.
Um, but I, out of the past, I love, I love Bob, Bob Mitchum in it.
I love Kirk Douglas in it.
I think you say his name Jacques Tournier, maybe.
Uh, but, uh, but I, I'm, I'm real partial to that movie.
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
Uh, I, I, I've always, uh, loved that movie.
Also Sunset Boulevard, if you can consider that a noir, uh, is kind of a great movie.
Why hasn't Dennis Leary done a WTF?
I thought I'd missed the episode when I saw him as a guest on Marin.
Yeah, he was... The production company that he used to be involved with, his production partner, Jim Cervico, produced Marin.
I think Dennis just doesn't want to get involved in the conversation about his joke theft in the 80s.
And he knows that there's really no way not to really talk about that.
So I think that's probably why.
What did you eat while you were in Nashville?
I was in and out in Nashville.
And I ended up just going to a food hall, sadly, down the street from where I was staying.
If you had the chance to interview Warren Zevon, what would you ask him?
I would ask him to forgive me that I don't know because I don't know a lot of his music.
Like I know the Werewolves of London record.
I know a few of the songs that he wrote that other people did.
But I'm not a big Warren Zevon guy.
But I know I should be.
So I would apologize for not being.
I would say, Warren, could you just cut me some slack?
I haven't dug into the catalog as much as I should.
But I know you're great.
And he would probably say, no, no, I won't.
And go fuck yourself.
Enjoy every sandwich.
What is the weirdest or funniest pre-show ritual you've ever seen another comic do?
I don't know if there was anything weird about it, but there was something interesting about comics who needed to drink before they got on stage.
Because it requires a certain amount of timing.
And I was always sort of impressed with it.
I remember I was with Hedberg.
on his first Letterman.
You know, I was backstage with, we had the same manager, and I think Todd Berry was with us.
And I just watched him time it.
You know, he had to go on, and I think he drank an entire half pint of Jack Daniels, literally so it would hit him when he got out there.
And I've always been somewhat impressed with that.
It was always very hard to balance drugs and alcohol to make your performance better.
If you needed it,
To be on stage, you had to learn how to time it.
Alan King in his dressing room at Conan always required a half pint of Tanqueray, I believe it was.
There were just dudes that knew they needed it to lube them up.
I was never like that.
I just like being high.
So I've done it.
There is a difference.
between just being a high person and also like, I need this to be on stage.
I wanted to be on stage on every drug and booze, so I knew what it felt like, but I didn't need it.
What's your favorite what?
What's my favorite boot brand?
I would have to say that I'm fairly committed to whites out of Spokane.
Is that how you say it?
Spokane.
Whites boots out of Spokane, Washington are the boots I tend to, what do you call them, fetishize?
Is that it?
I started with Red Wings.
I got Brian the Bootmaker from downtown.
He's made me a couple.
But whites, there's something about whites, man.
As a longtime listener going back to the early years, I love your podcast, but was also wondering, do you write songs with lyrics?
I do not.
I wrote one song about Lynn that I played on this show.
It's at the end of the Michael J. Fox episode.
That's episode 1176.
But that's, I don't write lyrics.
Have you tried to get Questlove on the show?
Yes, a lot.
Second part of the question.
What stops you from getting deeper into hip-hop or getting more hip-hop guests?
I'm relatively deep into hip-hop.
That's not even true.
I mean, I try to listen to new hip-hop.
I'd like to have Tyler, the Creator, on or Kendrick Lamar on or Jay-Z on.
You know, I would... It's just... It's not... We're not... I'm not in their rotation.
We've tried to get Kendrick on.
I mean, I just...
Look, I'm not I can only do what I can do.
And I ran into Krestov the other night at the comedy store and he said hi.
And I always like it felt OK.
But I mean, I tried to get him on to talk about the movie.
And, you know, I don't know.
I'm not magic, folks.
What happened with the Bono interview?
Look, man, that I thought that was going to happen.
I mean, it got pretty far along and like beyond like this is tentative.
And, you know, it was very close.
It felt like to happening.
And what they told us, I mean, after I went to see the show, the one man show here, is that he stopped doing long form interviews while he was out here because he wanted to save his voice for his stage show.
Um, I don't know.
So I'll believe him.
It's fine.
We've been talking with them and there's a open communication about doing it in the future, but I'm not, I'm not, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna make myself crazy or go above and beyond, you know, when someone strings along for a while, even whatever the reason, even if it's a good one, uh, for not making it happen, you know, you're sort of like, all right, well, I'll meet them halfway when it happens.
It seems like you have to be fucked up to understand what Courtney Love is saying, honestly.
What was the conversation about?
She just has a lot of narratives going on in her mind at all times, and she just kind of bounces from one to the other.
I've had other guests like that.
There are people, their brains are just like bingo cages and it's just sort of they're pulling up numbers, man.
And if you kind of know what they're talking about and you receive it and it clicks and you understand what fragment they're referring to, then you can get it.
If not, you don't.
But yeah, it wasn't hard to understand.
It just there was no follow through with a lot of it.
But she's Courtney Love, man.
One of a kind.
Okay, I'd like to hear about your guitars and amps, how many you have, your favorites, your opinions on gear, why you prefer some over others, when and where you acquired them, and how long you've had them.
Oh, my God.
That sounds like an entire show.
So, to be honest with you, I've accumulated some stuff.
I've got, over the years...
All right.
I would say that the one I started out with, I have a Vibreverb, a Fender Vibreverb.
It's probably a 2004 Vibreverb.
It's an old tweed version of it, a reissue that I don't use much.
It's too clean.
It's too big.
At some point, I bought a Fender Blues Junior, which is a great amp.
It's a...
It's got a secondary gain on it, so you got a lot of control.
It's all tubes.
It breaks up pretty well.
I bought that when I was at Air America the second time.
I actually made them buy it for me when they had me relocate.
And then at some point, those were the two.
And then I accumulated, or I got...
I got a Fender... I got a Headstrong Deluxe, which is, I think, a reissue of maybe a 58 Fender Deluxe, but not Fender.
It's like a kind of... It's his version of it, but I think it's historically correct.
I don't play it much because it lags in a live situation.
I didn't know this until I started playing with a band that sometimes amps lag, and they get thin, and their sound drops out.
So I don't play that one much.
Then I bought a 53...
Fender Deluxe and a 65 Fender Champ from Howie over at Rivington.
And I spent money on those.
And I don't generally spend money on gear.
But I'll tell you, those two amps are the best.
I had Austin Hooks tinker with them a bit but not disrupt anything, just clean them up and tighten up that wiring somehow.
I don't know about electronics.
But right now, I primarily play through the 53 Deluxe.
So those are the amps.
Then this guy, Ed Phil, who was a guitar player in a band.
I can't remember the name of the band, but he is part of the Boston kind of punk scene back in the day.
He sent me this Frankenstein amp that he made, but it's not, I got to solder something.
I haven't gotten around to it, but those are mostly, those are the amps.
But like I said, I play primarily through that 53 Deluxe cranked up and I kind of like it dirty like that.
Now guitars, that's all other thing.
What have I got here?
I've got like a 86 or maybe a, yeah, like an 86 telly that I, I got when I was on comedy central doing short attention span theater.
They had a prop room that all this stuff left over from other shows.
And I think the Higgins boys and Gruber used to use the, the guitar as a prop.
They had something painted on the back of it.
So when they were going through it, I just stole it.
And I took the thing off the back.
I scraped it off and it's an okay guitar.
Yeah.
I've got like an 87, is that possible?
Maybe an 87 Stratocaster.
That's not great that I've had forever since I bought it, but it's not, it wasn't a good year.
And the rest of the guitars, I've got another, I have a Mexican Tele.
Tobacco one with a white binder on it that my friend, I don't know if we're friends, but he's a guy I know.
Yeah, sure we are.
Alex Miller has it, and I've not been able to get it back.
I don't know if I'll ever get it back.
But the guitar's in rotation here.
Well, I had that gold top.
I had a 56 reissue gold top that I got for doing a gig for Fender, and I broke the headstock off of that.
That was two P90s.
I love that thing.
Skills, Vivino's guy, glued the headstock back on.
We'll see what happens.
I've got a 335 Tobacco Sunburst 335 Memphis Gibson that I got from Peter Lenheiser at Gibson because I pestered him for two years to give him one saying that I would play it on TV.
I just want free guitars.
And then I did a thing for Brendan Small and Gibson and for shooting it, a video thing, I got a...
A black Les Paul Deluxe because my buddy Dave in high school had one of those.
So I have one of those.
And I got the gold top when we premiered it at the NAMM show as print payment.
That's a good way to go.
I've got a TV Yellow reissue of a Les Paul Jr.
TV Junior, it's a single cutaway with a single P90.
I play that a lot.
Right now I've got the bass string off it and tuned to an open G for Keith style.
I've got a J45 acoustic that I bought that's pretty new, Gibson.
I've got a Gibson FJN acoustic, which was a model of guitar made in the 60s.
that has a very weird, short, fat neck.
I think it was designed, and it's got flamenco pick guards on it.
You don't see them around much.
They only made them for a few years, and Jackson Brown seems to buy all of them.
I don't know why, but it's like a classical guitar neck, and it's short and fat.
I think the idea was to transition classical guitar players to a more dreadnought folk body, but I got one of those, and it's kind of an amazing guitar.
I've got a little K acoustic, like a Sears guitar,
that I only play blues on, but I don't play it much, it just is hanging around in my den.
But the guitars I play,
I bought, when I was with Dean in Rhode Island, I think at Empire Music, is that what it's called?
I bought a 1960 Les Paul Jr., a double cutaway single P90.
Great guitar, I play that.
I got a Banker custom, his Leslie model, which is basically a Les Paul Jr.
with two P90s that were wound with the actual pickup winder that was at the Gibson factory back in the day.
That thing's a great guitar.
I've got this Stratocaster, this Relict custom shop Stratocaster that's sort of astounding.
I think it's a late 60s model, and I don't usually buy Relict stuff.
But that was, you know, that debacle up there where, you know, Emerald City Music just completely iced us and belittled us.
And in sort of a reactive way,
I went over to, was it Thunder Road?
Is that what it's called?
Thunder Road Guitars.
And I bought this Strat and it's great.
What else is there?
I've got Jay Mascus sent me one of his tellies, the glitter, the glitter, the blue glitter telly.
I don't play it too much, but I like looking at it.
I think that's most of them.
There's another telly around, I think.
There's a Nash telly that is a swim line.
Is that what you call them with the F-hole?
So yeah, I use that.
I love that thing.
I use that on the HBO music that we're going to use for my special.
There might be another guitar or two somewhere.
I feel like there is, but I think that's most of them.
But like most of them...
I paid for the banker and I paid for the junior and I paid for the other junior.
But the rest, and I paid for the strat.
But most of them I try to do deals.
I don't use any pedals.
I've been sent a lot of pedals over the years.
I've played with them a bit, but I don't have the patience.
I have one of those things where you play and you can record over yourself.
What's that called?
I don't even remember.
I never learned how to use it because I don't have the patience.
And like, I don't know, pedals, I don't know.
I just go straight into a tube amp.
So does that answer it?
Is that enough gear stuff?
And I play with very thick picks.
I play with an Ed King pick from V-Picks.
V-Picks, it's pretty interesting, V-Picks.
You should go check that out.
I play with a fat, fat, large triangle pick.
Ed King was the original guitar player for Lynyrd Skynyrd and the guitar player for Strawberry Alarm Clock.
And apparently he played with pieces of shell.
Until the guy at VPIC made him a signature pick.
I've also got a Billy Gibbons signature pick, but I don't play with that.
But I think that kind of sums up where I'm at.
I'm very into P90s through tubes, cranked up, no pedals.
Dig it.
All right, there you go.
That was Ask Mark Anything, and I think I addressed almost all of these, and it was a pleasure.
I hope they keep coming, and I hope I gave you the answers that were satisfying to you.
All right.