The bass is the instrument that is unnoticed, but no one can live without.

As I was playing a beer bottle smashed against my guitar.

Yes.

So even though I'm in the crowd choking Bruce to the ground, like this...

The best.

I got back on stage, picked up a guitar, and finished the song.

That is when you captured my heart. I remember.

You said, wow, one day maybe you'll play in my band.

Okay, here we go. We're going to get to the tough. I've been waiting 25 years to ask you these questions.

And here's your new book.

I have lots of deeply penetrating questions and concerns.

Your spirit is squeezed into those pages.

It's the origin story of me and do.

All right. So let's an origin story. So we'll. All right, so let's, let's an origin story.

So we'll start with Nick and Linda.

Oh, yes.

Take me to Nick and Linda.

My parents, I love that you remember that, yeah, they're without, you know, I always say that you and Courtney were my grunge parents and that my parents, I live in omnipresent shadows

of my cool Montreal parents, both music journalists,

culture journalists, activists, like everything good 70s,

60s counterculture raised me with the idea

that the golden thread to a purpose in life

...