“There are people who listen to music and don’t even know what the bass sounds like,” she tells Bass Player. “She said, ‘I’ll teach you how to play bass – just don’t tell the drummer you’ve never played before.’ I had a piano teacher who’d told me I should play the bass because I always made a lot of movement with my left hand. I wound up joining them in Phoenix and also played bass, along with Adrian Belew and his bassist, on Big Bottom. When they came back, their bass player [Annie Holland] neglected to come. “Vicki Peterson called me and said, ‘We’re looking for a bass player.