I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.
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Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.
Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.
Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.