There can be absolutely no discussion on what bass Doug will play: the Bicentennial. That bass set him off and one day he will give an interview in his Californian sea view mansion (with his "fiancee" two decades younger than him unobstrusively in the background crooning "Honey, the Van Halens are coming for dinner, he wants to play his demos to you, shall I invite some girlfriends for the pool party?")and lounging back in a spacious designer sofa Chris will say in that mellow Californian accent with only a slight trace of Dutch: "You know, it's innuhresting, but in my formative years in Holland, not only was I skinny as a rake (the fiancee in the background: "You still are to me, hon!"), I also played a Thunderbird, even took it to our first TV gig, you know how the rest is history ... Kimberly (= the much younger fiancee) just auctioned it off for charity last week ... I feel I owe society something in return for how good life has been to me and besides those Warwick endorsements have served me well ... These day people don't even remember how some late English bassist called John Entwistle came up with the Chrizzard bass shape I'm known for, back then they were all called Buzzards ...".
