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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 like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.