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Scott Rowley

“I made my own bass and used bicycle brake cables as strings…” How Richard Bona went from homemade guitars to being hailed as “the African Jaco”

PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL ON 6/17/00. Richard Bona performing.

Richard Bona is tired. Tired of posing for photographs, tired of being shuttled around London from one interview to the next, tired of talking about his past, and tired from doing two shows a night at London’s Ronnie Scott's, tired of finishing at three in the morning. 

"Man,” he says, "I'm so darned tired of bass playing."

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