Conversation so far:
What did Mike Judge try?
He graduated in 1986 from University of California, San Diego.
What did he try and do next?
In 1987, he moved to Silicon Valley to join Parallax Graphics, a startup video card company with about 40 employees based in Santa Clara.
What did this mean to him?
The people I met were like Stepford Wives.
They were true believers in something, and I don't know what it was").
What did he attempt to do next?
Judge quit after less than three months and became a bass player with a touring blues band.

Question: What did this do to him?
Self-contained rewrite: What did being a bass player do to Judge?