 bradford phillip "brad" delson (born december 1, 1977) is an american musician, best known as the guitarist and one of the founding members of the grammy award winning rock band linkin park.brad delson he is also the a&r representative for machine shop recordings. ==early life== brad delson attended agoura high school in agoura hills, an affluent suburb of los angeles, with childhood friend and linkin park band mate mike shinoda. he played in various bands throughout his high school career, the most notable being relative degree, in which he met and teamed up with drummer rob bourdon. relative degree's goal was simply to play a show, and, after achieving that goal, they disbanded. after graduating in 1995, delson, shinoda and bourdon formed xero, which would eventually become the starting point for linkin park. delson entered ucla in 1995 as a regent scholar working toward a bachelor of arts degree in communication studies with a specialization in business and administration. he was a member of phi beta kappa, and shared a dorm room with future linkin park band mate dave farrell for three out of his four years at school. delson also had the opportunity to intern with a member of the music industry as part of his studies and ended up working for jeff blue, an a&r representative at warner bros. records, who offered constructive criticism on xero's demos, whic
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