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At my 50th Birthday
Bash, sponsored by my friend SterlingBall (and
Ernie Ball Music Man instruments, which I play exclusively), Cowpilot
opened for "Biff Baby's All Stars",which we had
no business doing but it seemed like a goodidea at the
time. But it was fun, even though looking out intothe audience
was kind of scary at times. (Chuck Rainey and Dave LaRue
were watching me play bass - weird.) Before the
show, during the show and most certainly afterthe show,
there was great revelry and I believe we hadsome
drinks. (Not Sterling - he's clean these days.) And
we were up
around the stage and I began to think it would be a
great idea if certain people signed
my bass. Hey, it was
my birthday! It was a good
crowd! And Tom Elliot had
a silver Sharpie! It was destiny. So the bass
was signed by: 1.
Sterling Ball (owner of EBMM)2. Scott
Ball (the infamous Dargie)3. Tony Spinner (often with
Toto)4. Derek
Brooks (artist relations, EBMM)5.
Dudley Gimpel (genius designer, EBMM)6. Steve Lukather (do I need to
explain Luke?)7. Dave LaRue (scary bassist, good
dude)8. John Ferarro (famous
drummer) And later by
my wife and child. I eventually retired the bass,
but it was just too good to not
play, so it's
back...even if the signatures
are wearing off. It's a
bass! I have to play it! .
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