“I had three days to learn the entire set… One rehearsal. I met Pink at soundcheck right before the first show then I’m playing in front of thousands and thousands of people”: Eva Gardner on trial by fire with pop megastars and returning to the Mars Volta

Eva Gardner.

With the Mars Volta, Veruca Salt, Pink, Cher, and more, Eva Gardner has become a mainstay of the LA scene. The bass guitar is in her blood, as her father, Kim Gardner, was a four-string linchpin of the 1960s British Invasion.

You’d think Kim would have been all for his daughter getting into the family business, but that wasn’t initially the case. “I started to show interest in the bass when I was about 12, but my dad wasn’t really into the idea,” Gardner tells Bass Player.