Robert ‘Bubby’ Lewis remembers his first Winter NAMM Show like it was yesterday. It was 2003, he was 17 going on 18, and he had been playing bass for a couple years. He was there with his older sister, the drummer Benita Lewis.
“I was at the Ken Smith booth playing with Etienne Mappé, and I had my eyes closed,” Lewis told Bass Player back in July 2017. “I didn't know anybody – I'm from Flint, Michigan, so I just knew names. I didn't know what people looked like. I opened my eyes, and I saw this big security-guard-looking dude staring at me.
