​Why did I choose to be the bassist?

I didn't choose it. It chose me.

​I have told this story a thousand times, but it is very much the foundation for who I am now.

On the very first day of the second semester of my sophomore year at Walden III High School, I became a bassist in the Horicon Horn Band (HHB). January 29, 1979 was that day. I was 15 years old. I had never played the bass guitar before, but I desperately wante…