My apologies - I thought he was referring to the median age here at the outpost - which apparently requires Carbon-14 dating to establish. 
Well, I just started on this bass stuff in December, after wanting to learn how to play since 1984...
I have always loved listening to Leon Wilkeson's bass lines in so many of Skynyrd's songs. Even now the beginning of "Simple Man" gives me the chills. Probably the biggest thing which got me interested was a friend of mine in high school, who was a couple of years younger than me. His dad was the conductor for the Fayetteville Symphony and I'll bet Doug's played for 30 years now. He had some sort of Flying V in '83 and he was always horsing around with it, playing in his church group, etc. Then I went to college, then go interested in old motorcycles, and finally realized that whenever I go see shows, I find myself most interested in what the bass player is doing. So, I though, "WTF" and bought an Ibanez, then the Dano, which I love. I think since the week before Christmas only 2 or 3 days have gone by where I didn't have the bass out. It's been a blast indeed. Should have done this in '84!
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