There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.
I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.