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Yeah, man. I'm a huge Primus/Les Claypool fan. He's the one that got me into playing six string bass. I'm still a guitar player, but I love the fucking bass.

I've never heard of BYOB or Otep's Battle Ready. I'll have to check that out. I may have heard of Otep. Is that the grind band with the chick singer?

Can't say I know what it's like going on a military mission, but I've been involved in some pretty dangerous and seedy shit living in the city that care forgot, New Orleans. Sometimes it felt like being in a war zone. It was worse pre-Katrina, though. But I'd always throw on some Triumph or Yngwie Malmsteen or Hammerfall. Either that or something like Onyx. They're a gangsta rap group. It just felt right in a lot of situations. Cruising through the fucking PJ's wondering if my car was going to get shot up.

Glad to be out of that. Now my only "missions" are in Halo and Half Life!

Stay strong, bro and get back to Texas safe. But beware, them crazy assed motherfuckers from n'awlins is all up in Texas right now! You might just be going from the fire to the frying pan, so to speak.

Yeah, man. I hear you about the guitar v. bass thing. I know a lot of bass players that said that. But I've always said if you can play one you can play the other. I really like jumping on a six string bass. I don't know if you've ever played a six or seven string bass, but if you can get good on that it shows on the guitar. The string spacing and higher action really warm your fingers up. I can actually play faster on the big neck of a bass than on my guitar. But then when I switch and get that slender neck in my hands I feel like I just fly, man. I wish I never would have sold my bass, but I had to sell it among other equipment to make this move to L. A. Damn I miss that thing...