I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.
Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.
The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.
I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who had a stereo in his dressing room. So while I was in school or when I was in there working with Dr. Smith and the robot, half the rest of the cast was in my trailer listening to their records that they would bring.
All I thought about when I was a kid was getting my guitar and entertaining people.
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.