It's really all a sexual thing; the reason I play bass. I thought,

"What would be the most phallic, penis extending instrument I could play?"

At first when I was twelve, it was the clarinet -- hey, when you're 4'8'', that's some extension. As I grew up and older, clarinet just didn't cut it any longer. I needed something bigger, stronger, and beefier. In high school, I experimented: trumpet, saxophone -- ah! trombone!! Then, I was given the opportunity to play bass in our high school jazz band.

Bass. I would never outgrow the bass. Bigger, fatter, funkier, growlier, and heavier, with plenty of bottom. Not the twang of guitar, the crack of the drums, the ping of piano, or the tootiness of horns. Electric bass -- in a rock band!!! I had become a man. Dig it!