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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 255683" data-attributes="member: 9240">Nothing that impressive.  I'm actual a bass player, by nature.  I started playing guitar at 8 and while I loved it I just never got anywhere with it.  Then, in 9th grade the husband of the flower girl at my parents' wedding, who was a working guitarist, heard me picking out the bass part to Sunshine Of Your Love on my acoustic and asked me if I wanted to play the bass (I had no idea it wasn't the guitar part I was playing).  I'd thought about it before and told him I wouldn't mind giving it a shot.  Next time he visited he gave me an old Hofner bass (not a Beatle) he'd had in his closet for years.  I took to it like a fish to water, and never saw the guy again.  I was never without a gig from that point until I stopped playing out when I got married.  I still dabbled with the 6 string and was always decent.  Then, in the late 90's my wife and I started attending a local church where I met a guy who's now my closest friend.  He played guitar and asked if I was interested in playing on Sunday nights.  I brought my acoustic one time and it was like we'd been playing together forever - twin sons of different mothers with voices that were very different but blended perfectly.  We wound up putting a thing together outside of the church gig, which we wound up running for about 13 years from '99 on, and while he had the better voice and songwriting talent, it turns out that once I matured I became the better guitar player. I guess if you had to pigeonhole me I'd say that my playing floats between alt-country, americana on through to classic rock and blues, though where bass goes I'm all over the map, from pure jazz to heavy rock and everything in between.  I fingerpick, but with limited dexterity and in a way that would make anyone who knows what they're doing shake their head.  When I was playing (I haven't played much in the last 2 years) I was more a couch noodler than wood shedder and most of what I learned just fell under my fingers as I was watching TV, and I'd realize I recognized something and then work it until I could do it.  I'm big on doing "my version" of other folks' songs, so the idea of banging out something by the guys you mentioned is well beyond me.  And while I can appreciate them, Kottke is the only one I've ever really been into.  Right now my "modern" listening consists of folks like Ryan Adams, Wilco, Dawes, The Lone Bellow and the like, though you always stand a strong chance of hearing Bob Dylan, The Band, Tom Waits, Gram Parsons/The Flying Burrito Brothers, or something similar coming from my car when I'm on the road.</blockquote>

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