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I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

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

I still don't really feel like a bass player.

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

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.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

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.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.