Growing up Bass Player

Finding a Drummer

We had no trouble finding a drummer who could live up to our expectations. Well I should not say any trouble, we only found one guy who was interested in joining us.

He was in my option an excellent drummer and almost as important; he was easy to get along with and did not abuse alcohol or drugs.

Finding a bass player proved to be more difficult. Understand that I was in a small community so we didn’t have a lot of musician to draw from. Combine that with the fact that at the time being a bass player was not the very glamorous a job. Bass players were told “just stand in the back and don’t play too loud”. All the really cool people played guitar. No one was beating down our door to audition for the position of bass player.

It was at this point, I raised my hand (not really but you know what I mean), and said “Why don’t I play bass”.

And so we began, a three piece group. We went to work in the basement of the guitar players house learning enough song to get us through our first job.

Replacing the drummer