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At the Bar with Urith Myree, Bassist of "Domitory Effect

No seriously! It's so chunky I am having trouble choosing excerpts!

3) When did you start playing bass?

I was 7 years old. One of my uncles had a bunch of musical instruments and I wanted to actually play something, not just be a backup singer, which is what he was steering me towards. This uncle is an electrical whiz, and made a grid of different colored lights that he installed on our ceiling. He had it rigged so that different lights responded to different frequencies/instruments in the music, and I noticed that every time the deep purple lights would go on, everything in the house would shake. I said, "I want to do THAT." It turned out to be the bass. I had him tell me which instrument in his room was the bass, and when he wasn't around I would sneak into his room and try to teach myself how to play it. I was born left-handed, and taught myself to play that way. Since no one was around to tell me that it was right-handed bass and the strings were upside-down, I was unaware that it was wrong. By the time I did find out, I didn't want to change it up.MORE

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