THE Lowdown
SPACE ROCK
News and views from the bass world, collated by BP's team of newshounds
Rick Armstrong, bassist and son of the late astronaut Neil Armstrong, releases Infinite Corrido rs with his band Edison’s Children , and tells BP about his journey into the final frontier of the low end. ..
"I had a good friend in high school who played bass—he would play along to bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple in his bedroom. He ended up getting a new bass, and gave me his old one. I don’t remember what kind it was, but I started off learning Black Sabbath songs on that bass. I know my parents had to have been very concerned about me at that point—but to their credit they never said anything!