Creed Bratton

0:10We're out in the hills, Mulholland Drive with the legendary Creed Brad. Oh, wow. Or, I don't even, it's not your real name. Yeah, it is. It is now. It has been for years since the 60s. Since the days of a tune that I heard this morning that I didn't even know was yours. I was like, I know that song. I love that song. Less Clifford a day. That's the one. You see, you even know what song. I didn't even need to mention it. You are a kind of telekoneta guy. I love telekoneta guy. The deal goes, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, we forgot the lyrics. There was a bunch of lyrics that they wrote for that little part. I was like, I am in fell in love with you. And we kept mumbling it up. And he said, all right, just go la, la, la, la, la, la, la, you know. And that's that's kind of like that. That's how the greats happen. That's that's all it's in probably. Exactly. And our record like this, we got the new record here.

0:56And who are the three DVB's? Three DVB's. Three DVB's folks. That's Dave Way, Dylan O'Brien, Dan Schwartz, Val McCollum, and Brian McLeod. And that's my band and they are the three DVB's. And they are pretty awesome band. Yeah, I was listening to the record. I was listening to Rubber Tree today with that. Helms us a little video online. And it helps playing with my buddy Ed. He and I sit around the set and write stuff and play all the time. He's a good bandger player. You heard. I've seen him on the show plan. I saw him on the video play as well. Does he add a little harmony? I know he sings on the show all the time. He didn't sing on that. He just came over and played some magic when I was so glad to have him. We have so much fun to get. He's a great guy. Well, we'll talk back about the record in a second here. But the office is what you're I think well known for.

1:43These people might age. And then the rubberboard to the grassroots. Yeah. Well, of course the grassroots as well. But we'll get to the office. They give you these scripts and you must look at these lines not anymore. But at the beginning you must have been like what the hell am I doing here? These lines are insane. Like no. No. I wrote I wrote my character originally. You wrote the character. I was working on Bernie Mac and I found this guy Ken Coppers who came under a direct interview. He was a big grassroots fan. And I heard he was doing the pilot for the for the office. I love the Ricky Gervais thing. So I got he said well I'll bring you all work cast. You know I said well I don't care. I said I want to be on this show. So he put me in the background of the show. I was there a week couple of weeks and I saw what was the lay of the land. I saw all these talented people competing for some time.

2:29I said I got to do something to get noticed. So I created this character basically kind of based on a hyperkinetic crazed version of myself in the grassroots who like to stone down ends up in a dumpster and scrap and then they took pity and put him in there. And he's kind of like has psychic powers. He's really weird. And the people there are great Daniels and Ken Sabornek and everybody there at the time they said well this is a very funny guy and they pretty soon they let me do it. And that's why I already had I already kind of knew what he was about because I he's partly me anyway. Right. Yeah so there you go. But I don't write up much anymore. They write all the stuff. Right. Yeah. Who's your favorite writer to work with who who writes you the best I love them all equally. Because they're all so good.

3:15They're all amazingly good. Give me more lives. I would mess it all up if I did because they're a little bit of creed goes a long way. Right. What's your favorite scene that you've done on the show so far? Wow. It's so hard to say that's what she said. It's so hard to say what you want. You see those off air too. Oh they're stupid. Yeah. I don't know. Wait what a cup of coffee. That's what she said. You know what it's caught on though. It's like a cultural phenomenon now. Yeah. I'm so sad for the culture. It's going downhill for sure. You know what I don't I can't even begin to tell you probably the one that got me noticed was which one's Pam right someone making soup. Yeah. And then my favorite I guess is from a deleted scene from season two the booze cruise where

4:05I get to play guitar right and but they didn't make it but it was a delete scene but nevertheless that was a fun thing and if yeah I like I like to do the music stuff. And that song is on this record it's on a different record I saw that song. No no that's just that was thing called. First I can play it live maybe. I got a lot for you. Yeah. Yeah. So it has always recorded. No I haven't recorded you. Okay. Maybe on the next album. Yeah. So are you are you working on something new? I'm writing songs. I'm writing songs with a bunch of people and whether whether we'll get around to doing this. It depends on how much time I get off. Seems like I'm starting to do film work now so cool. When I'll get a chance to go tour it's so hard. It's a quality problem. Yeah. It's not a bad problem to have when you have too many acting jokes. No no.

4:50You were just talking to me about a movie though. I've been a movie guy. I'm fifty times. I'm shooting this film right now called the Gasly Love of Johnny X where I played Mickey. Mickey the famous rock star who comes from the planet X and he comes to rock star and he dies. Mickey O' Flynn. But I really know. No he's not really. He picks his name. He's Asian. He's an alien. Anyway so he dies and his son brings him life again with his resurrection suit and he tries to do one last concert and then he dies at the end of the movie again. He dies once on the way there wakes up again and then dies again. It's like amazing. Three times. Comedy? Yeah. I hear you were kind of, I am Ben. Is that a film as well? I am Ben.

5:35I'm working on. I just finished another one called Melvin Smarty which you've been doing some ADR on. That should be coming. That looks like the fun. I did that with Ken Davidian from Borat and George Hamilton, the icon George Hamilton. He flew away from the perfect storm so we had a pretty good cast. We had a lot of fun. That's awesome. We were pretty fun stuff. Back to music though. There's a story of you at the film we are getting yelled at by Neil Graham. The two short artists. She began on acid on stage just. Oh the story. I just out of it. Somebody gave me some acid. I thought it would be like a very strong pot. Turns out though turns out that I was standing there like this and they go one, two and I'll look down in my hands. There's like, there's these vortexes of light colours coming out of my hands. Hey! Play! When I go, wha- I hit a chord on the next of my stars like rubberist movie like this,

6:27I look over the speakers and out comes these notes on staff paper. And I'm looking and I go, those two notes, I just play my mind. They fall off and they break. So I walk over, I should take my walk over and I pick up the notes. I can't get my hands on them. They're going, and Bill Grant's, plooooood, dawg, oh boy! And I can't play, I can't play, I'm so gone, it's, but I see God, oh really God, you know. And at that moment I had this long, it just like that, it seemed like several hours went by, but I had this long, heart to heart conversation and I asked this question, like what does the mean, life tell me please? I went on, he kept talking, talking, talking. I kept asking, I kept asking, and asking, and asking.

7:13At the end of it seemed like an hour or so, I was no closer to the answer, God knows I tried. I really did, I tried for the whole time, but that happened, so anyway, that's just a split second. And then there were poor, so I dropped my pants. I let that old pony dance, and I just walk off the stage, I don't know why I do these things, I trust me. I don't play, I can't play this stuff man. So I walk off, but then I go back to start telling them what I know of what God told me to people lying, I was gone, I was gone, I was gone. We had to stay back one day and make up that show, and build Graham to that. Well he's dead now, God wasn't so old, but he didn't like me much. He didn't like me to start with, and he really didn't like me after that. But everyone was a little upset with that, the only time I'd ever missed a show I ever missed

8:00my life, and I never, I didn't know it was so strong. It was at the last time you were on stage? Oh yeah, we cut all those albums and records and stuff straight, we never, we didn't get high. We didn't know we were very business like about it. Amazing. Yeah. And it took you 30 years to get back into it, how come? Over 90 years. 30 year over 90 years.