I started playing bass at the age of 17 on December 1, 1992. A few weeks before I started playing I watched Tommy the Cat from Primus for the first time on TV. I was so addicted to the bass in the video, though at the time I had no clue what instrument he was playing. When I found out, I asked a buddy of mine to borrow his as he was also left-handed. Since the only thing I knew about a bass was the Primus video I watched, I started playing chords and slap/popping the strings right away. I pretty
much still do the same thing to this day but with a little more precision, and a properly tuned bass! Later on I learned about playing root notes and stuff the way a bass is normally played so I kind of learned backwards, but that’s what us lefties do right, everything backwards!

To this day I still play, will always play, and wouldn’t be the same person if I didn’t catch that video of Tommy the Cat.

Later days,
Kenneth

Ernie Ball MusicMan StingRay 5-String
Ernie Ball MusicMan StingRay 5-String Fretless
Micheal Kelly Dragonfly Acoustic 4-String
Handmade neck-through 4-String fretless (F Bass and Carl Thompson hybrid)

Digitech Whammy Bass II
Electro Harmonix Q-Tron+
Jim Dunlop Cry Baby 105Q Bass Wah
Jim Dunlop M-88 Bass Octave
Line 6 Bass POD XT Pro

Peavey T-Max head
Peavey 4x10 cab
Peavey 2x10 cab