How did you first become interested in making music?

When I was a little kid and the movie "Back to The Future" came out my friends and i all decided to start up a band. We had practices afterschool and everything. You know how in the movie Michael J Fox does that song "Johnny be good"? well there was this kid named Carey in the band so we made a version of it called "Carey be good" and we recorded it in a basement. I wish i had a copy of it. We mostly had toy instruments. I think my friend Mike had like a "back to the future" toy guitar and he wore this Michael Jackson thriller style red jacket with a million zippers, oh and we even had a "Fraggle Rock" drumset. Anyhow I was the only one who owned a real electric guitar, but it was missing a couple of strings and i "played" it without an amp. We performed shows a couple times at school in front of classes, and there is a picture in my 1st or 2nd grade yearbook of us rocking out and the caption says "Stars of the Future".

Are you going to be playing live shows or touring any time soon?

No. I have played shows before, but i don't anymore. I don't even like live music really. I hate going to see bands play. It's always really loud and you usually can't even hear what they are singing about because the vocals aren't turned up loud enough. Always when i went to shows it was only to meet girls or because i knew some girl i liked would probably be there. Then it's really annoying when the bands play because you can't talk, and you have to wait anxiously for those few and far in between parts so you can make your move. Aside from all that, I think that as an artist/ solo musician you have to present yourself in an almost mythical way and not give away too much of yourself. Once you play a show for like 5 people in a shitty dive bar, that all gets ruined somehow. I want to be viewed as an artist not just in a theatrical sense , but for who I am as a human being and what makes me interesting, my outlook on the world, pop culture, humanity and romance, etc. that made people believe in what i do and want to be a part of it.

Besides, I'm not a goofy/joke around kind of person, and when performing there is a great temptation to make a fool of yourself and do silly and stupid things to get a quick cheap reaction from the crowd. That being said, i still think if you're in a band you should play out as much as possible at first, but if you're a singer or solo musician you need to go a different route since there isn't all that much you can do to make an entertaining live performance without doing ridiculous things. I've had a lot of offers from bands who wanted me to play with them over the past couple years, sometimes even huge cd release shows, but i always turn them down.

What would you say the theme of your album is? and what made you decide to call it "Springtime in Paris"?

The theme is illusion vs. reality, and it should be obvious after listening to the album to figure out which one i prefer. Basically the songs are all about pretending and preserving an illusion of something or someone in your mind the way you want to see it/them in order to stay happy, regardless of how miserable the cold hard reality is. Sometimes people will ask me "why is it called Springtime in Paris? Have you ever even been to Paris?". As soon as they ask that i know they just don't get it.

What's your favorite song on the album?

Lost Andjealous is the best song musically in my opinion, and has the most meaning for me. It's the song that would be a top hit if i would have had the money to make a higher quality recording and the money to promote it heavily. but I don't...that's why i'm lost AND jealous. Someday I'll come out with an album and people will talk about how lame it is and someone will chime in about how great Brandon Adamson's "older stuff" is. They'll most likely be referring to that song. I actually came up with the term "Lost And Jealous" as far back as when i was little. It just stood out naturally to me as a kid as words that sounded the same as los angeles so i would always say it. I got the idea for the song from the movie "Leaving Las Vegas" when Nicholas Cage is staying at a place called "The Whole Year Inn" but when he looks at the sign he reads it as saying "The Hole You're in".... and Just for the record I don't even like that movie. Anyway the other songs on the album i really like are "Outer Space" and "Moving Day". Almost everyone else says "Moving Day" is the best on the album, which is interesting considering i wrote that song, wrote the lyrics and recorded it all in one afternoon. "Outer Space" and "Lost Andjealous" each took 8 whole years to finish.

How do you feel about your prospects for album sales?

I'm not really interested in selling albums. I don't think that's really a great way to make money, and it's a lot of work. I'm much more interested and involved in getting my songs licensed for film and tv. That's where the money is unless you are going to tour like crazy and since i have no interest in even playing live i'm not going to do that. Who are your musical influences?

There are so many.... lots of 60's bands (Pretty Things, the Zombies, etc), interesting 70's songwriters, lounge singers, Japanese pop music, video game and anime soundtracks, anyone who writes good minimalist pop songs really.

How's the new album coming along?

I have about 6 songs written for it so far. I would like the recording quality to be better on this album, but my main concern is that if it is too well produced that the music will somehow lose some of its charm.