Many will remember Kim Gardner as the bassist with UK acts The Birds, The Creation and Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, who played a significant role in the British Rock Invasion of the 1960s. “He is the reason I'm here doing what I do,” Eva Gardner told Bass Player when speaking of her father's influence in 2019.
“I just grew up with it. I remember I had a slumber party with my school friends when I was seven years old. We were all hanging out and I picked up a bass guitar and was like, ‘I'm going to be a bass player!’ I didn't know what it meant at the time and I could barely even pick it up! I would just drag it along the floor.
