Maureen

Know how I started playing bass? My brother was a bass player all thru high school and had band practice in our garage after school. I never really had much interest, except he taught me Smoke on the Water when I was 11. When I was in my mid-20's we were both living in Mpls. and he was working at a restaurant and made pasta in the mornings. He was in the basement making pasta and got his hand caught in the pasta machine and the only other person in the restaurant was upstairs and they were vacuuming so they couldn't hear him scream. When the guy finally finished vacuuming my brother still had to wait because the fire dept. had to actually disassemble the thing to get his hand out. It was mangled flat. So he couldn't play bass anymore and he gave me his bass. Kat lived across the street from me at the time and taught me how to tune it. John, my brother, never saw any of our shows. I don't blame him one bit.