| | LAST NIGHT WE WERE LISTENING TO SOME BANDS IN SANTA BARBARA
 And it is so weird to know how fast time goes by. 25 years ago, we used to play in Santa Barbara all the way down to Oxnard in my band called, "Teaser". We had really great players - the singer, Paul, was with Van Halen way before David Lee Roth, and Mike Eadie was lead guitar and Alan Edelman was the drummer. The musicians were really good, but Paul was kind of all show and pitchy.
I was a different bass player. I played fretless and would walk around the crowd and I remember one time when I was mad at everybody else (I presented an original song and Michael Eadie rejected it - jerk) so I went inside one of the frat rooms and played wirelessly from inside the living room. They were so mad at me because they couldn't find me and whenever a song ended, I would start the riff for "Dazed and Confused". I think that was about my last night with the band.
We played the frat and sorority parties at UCSB, and played a club in Oxnard. We would play all night and then we would get like $100 to split four ways. The only fun I had was because I had a fretless I would run my finger up and down the neck and go WOOOOO.
My favorite bass of all time ever to play with a rock band was my Hofner Violin Bass. That thing was hollow body, 3/4 scale and had no sustain so it was a thumper. It was so much fun.
I have played guitar since I was 8 years old, and once you know guitar you can pretty much automatically play the piano, and I've been playing piano since I was 18. When people come over to the ranch and see all of the instruments, that's why. I want to start a band again :) |
| | Posted 1/16/2008 11:37 PM - 623 views - 13 comments
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