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A-mazed

I got into bass after I turned up at a local rock school about 20 years ago, guitar in hand—and somehow left playing bass with a band. It’s that classic thing of being the least assertive guitarist in the room! My first bass was a Yamaha fretless, which I had on loan for a few years until its owner sold it to

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