It was May 2025, and Chris Bird was sitting in his living room in Chippenham, Wiltshire, surrounded by amps, guitars, and books. On the floor, in the centre of the room, a Fender Precision bass lay in an unopened flight case. Chris hadn’t played guitar for a while, and that meant that the calluses on his fingers – earned from decades of playing – had faded.
“So steel strings are out,” he said. He nodded at the flight case. “But maybe I can play bass.”
