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Brandon Miles

Brandon Miles

Bassist and founding member of Athens-based indie rock band Futurebirds, formed in 2008 at the University of Georgia.

Jun 19, 2026

9:48
So, Brandon, let's get your take on that.
9:54
Yeah, you've talked into the bass player here, so I don't do too much straightforward writing for the band.
9:59
But every day I'm usually grabbing an electric guitar unplugged every morning and I sit there and it's kind of my coffee routine.
10:05
I sit on the porch with the cat and I just strum through that.
10:07
So there's always kind of some musical ideas every day, whether they end up being a voice recording or not, you know.
10:15
But yeah, just to mess around with it and just stay fresh and just, I don't know, explore musical ideas or different tunings or stuff.
10:22
I'll set that thing in like a crazy tuning and just make myself learn new patterns and stuff just to kind of get my brain out of seeing the usual patterns for,

27 MINS LATER

37:35
Brandon, can you write in D is there an ideal emotional state when you tend to be most, I guess, productive as an artist?

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