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NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth16 October 1962
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
ensemble high music particular playing private technique theory
The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
apparatus good playing
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
great listening music playing
Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
changed instrument life loved music pick playing sent teach
When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
bass became chili later met original player playing weeks
Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
certain gig home love lying music playing rocking staring town
I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
great growing high junior marching music played
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.
Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
bands cool hold
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
develop
Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
based good intuition sounds toward
All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
academics athletics changed education equally life music treated
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
life love triumphs
I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.