Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.
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As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.
It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
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.
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