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-Oh you forgot about it?

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♪♪

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- I am Jeff Barlow, and
I'm the guy who draws

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the band in one song.

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♪♪

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If you look through this book,
you'll see this is where I

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started as an urban sketcher.

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I went on a hike to
Yosemite and instead of

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bringing a camera, I
brought a sketchbook

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and got 12 sketches
instead of 300 photos.

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And that trip is tattooed
into my soul because

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of those drawings.

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I look back and I remember
what it felt like

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to be there that day.

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And then a friend of mine
in a band called Quarter

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Past Eight had a gig
and he said, “Hey, we're

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playing tonight.

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You want to come see us?”

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I was like, “Absolutely!”

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So I went to the gig and
I thought, hey, it's an

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urban sketch opportunity.

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I'll bring the stuff with
me and I'll draw the gig

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while they're playing.

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And the drawings were terrible
because unlike urban sketching,

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where you pick a building or
a landscape and you draw,

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musicians won't hold still.

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They're all over
the place, right?

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And so they'd move.

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And I was like, which way
does the guitar really point?

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And so I had kind of a an
inner monologue, sarcastic,

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like, if you're going to be
loose and sloppy, I'm going

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to be loose and sloppy.

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And it's like next song, I'm
going to draw the drawing

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in the length of that song.

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and I did it and I
looked at it and it had

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a certain energy to it.

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And after doing it a few times
over a year or so, I decided

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this is really a fun thing.

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I'm going to pick it up.

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And I've been going to about
a show a week ever since.

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[crowd chatter]

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♪♪

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♪ I'll see you
over the weekend ♪

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- The biggest thing
that I've learned

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is how to minimalize, right?

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How much of the person
needs to be there

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for it to be that person?

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I've learned a lot about
different brands of guitars.

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I could draw a Fender Strat,
a Telecaster, a Gretsch,

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Les Paul, an SG with
my eyes closed.

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A Fender P-Bass, Rickenbacker
Bass, just like that.

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♪♪

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I have these paint pens that I
use once in a while that drip.

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And at first that got
me really frustrated.

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I thought, "Oh no, it's
ruined my drawing.”

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Now I just let them
drip and I'll wipe them

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and that kind of stuff.

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And it brings a sort
of a new energy to it.

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♪♪

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My wife does these things
called jelly prints.

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It's this process where you
have this piece of gelatin

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and you can rub paint on
it and then put stencils

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on it and peel them off.

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And it creates this
layered effect.

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And I took them and I drew on
them with black and white pens

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and I was like, “Okay,
this is really cool.”

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Added bonus, they are 12
by 12, so they look like

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record album covers.

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So I can be like, see, if
you want to use my art

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as a record album cover, here's
what it would look like.

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♪♪

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The Seattle music
scene is wonderful.

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I've met so many just really
nice, really down to earth,

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really smart, really talented,
really dedicated people.

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And I'll go to a show and I'll
see people in the audience.

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And then next week
I'll go to a show

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and the people who are in the
audience are on the stage

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and the people who
are on the stage

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or in the audience, right?

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I think all musicians in Seattle
trade money with each other

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every Friday night, I think
is probably what happens.

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♪♪

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It's a family of hundreds, if
not thousands of musicians

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in Seattle that just,
they just make it happen.

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It's wonderful.

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- Thanks Seattle.

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[crowd cheers]

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If my drawings can help
other people be introduced

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to that music as well, I
think that's wonderful.

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I would love that
to be a result.

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And the selfish part of me is
waiting for one day to pick

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up the phone and say,
"Yeah, Jeff, this is Paul.

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I'm coming through town.

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Do you want to draw me a band?"

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So Paul?

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Paul?

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I draw bands.

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When you come through
Seattle, I'm ready.

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Sorry for breaking the
fourth wall there.

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-No, I think that's our ending.

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You just gave us our last shot.

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♪♪