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How did you get started on bass?

ANTONIO I started playing bass at 13, after listening to Load, the Metallica album. Jason Newsted’s bass on ‘King Nothing’ totally kidnapped me.

BRYAN I started on guitar but never loved it: I always wanted to play drums or piano, but about five years ago, I was in a hip-hop and electronic band. We all switched around on instruments and the bass was either coming from synths or samples. I felt like the group really needed a solid bass player to make things hit harder, and to free us up for more improv live. At the same time, I found out that my favorite band around Louisiana, Lost Bayou Ramblers, needed a new bass player. I was lucky enough to get the

Ramblers gig, so I became a bass player and loved it immediately.

“As many bands will know there were complications whichCam Walker

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