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I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.