This is a picture of me in 1981, playing bass at a Klein outdoor party. I was seventeen, and a freshman at UT Austin. This is the first bass I ever owned, an Ibanez Roadster, and I bought it just a couple of months before this gig. I traded it in for one of the Fender Precision basses that I still own.

Mike Ruocco submitted this picture to Are You Hot or Not, and I got an 8/10 (not too bad, I thought).

I’ve got two Fender Precisions, both 1970’s models, one fretless. I’ve also got a Yamaha BB1200, and I just had a custom G&L L-2500 5-string bass made, in Belair Green. I play through a Gallion-Kruger head and a 4x10 Hartke cabinet.