Bass Player

SIKTH SENSE

“In a youthful way, we thought to ourselves, ‘Lets make Sikth absolutely mental!’”

“I started playing bass in 1993, when I was 12, and my first bass came from a junk shop. It had a Fender-style neck and someone had tried to make the body. It had a single Jazz pickup and a square bit of plastic with a knob—it was pretty terrible—but once I proved to my parents that I could play it a bit, they got me a Bass Collection. Remember them? It was a pearl-white passive four-string, and obviously I

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