I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
I still don't really feel like a bass player.
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
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.
I consider myself a bassist first.
I always got great respect as a bass player.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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 recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.