Q: hey bill I have a crippling fear of doing bass fills live and my friend who is the guitar player said i have to just do it. how true is this in your opinion/experience?
A: if you don't wanna do it then you're not gonna do it well. it's like being in a waiting room. if you've been in there for 9 hours, you're gonna wanna go buck wild and flip off the walls and do backflips etc, and this is fine because after 9 hours you should know the shape of that room. But if you are in there for 2 min and then someone says 'ok you gotta start doing flips man' , .....that could be a little risky if you don't know what the room is all about yet. by room i mean the song. once you know a song well then you will be able to take care of the song, and then do all your back flips, and you'll know all the twist and turns of the song so you'll know when you gotta be home by. if you know the song then you're gonna know when and where you have time to have your feet not be on the ground. if you don't know where those bumps are, you could jump at the wrong time and everyone will fall in the river