“Well, I just sold him a Fender Telecaster,” the store owner replied. Taken aback, Brion said that indeed he had, keeping the circumstances to himself. “Have you ever met Mac Miller?” asked the owner of a music store he frequented in Los Angeles one day.
But Brion said he later got wind of a larger plan at work.
The younger man, whom Brion described in a recent interview as seeming nervous and a little shy, gave no indication that he wanted anything more from the interaction than stimulating conversation. A few years ago, while visiting a friend who was trying to get sober, Jon Brion, the producer and composer known for his work with Fiona Apple, Kanye West and Paul Thomas Anderson, was introduced to a young musician who was fighting an addiction battle of his own.
