I was plucking with my two fingers like Hillel had taught me, then one day at school, sitting under a tree, I saw Ray rock the bass. The other popular band at Fairfax, besides Anthym, was Star. They were all black kids that were into the funk, and Ray was their bassist. I watched Ray bumping the low strings of the bass with his thumb bone, letting it bounce like a basketball BOOM the thumb came down……then his middle finger answered his thumb by digging under the high strings and pulling em up sharp POP thumb down BOOM finger up POP.…BOOM POP BOOM BA BOOM POP POP. Hot damn kill it Ray FUCK WOW
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