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Flea
Fleas are insects that form the order Siphonaptera. They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth16 October 1962
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.