Davide Matera

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Italy

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At the age of 11 i got my first guitar, acoustic and already reversed. I have been learning some basics with folk music but at 13 or so i dropped it and forgot every single thing about playing music.
At 18 after listening to music by Muse i wanted
again to play an electric and worked an entire summer to get one Ibanez RGX lefty.

After one year of lessons i got to university and dropped with lessons, and played now and then but couldn't never really get gratified from playing guitar.

Last year after a short lookaround i made what i already knew to do since years: find a bass. Got the cheapest one, right handed ROYTEK (italian supposedly hand made low-end instrument).

It was quite in bad state coming out from a humid basement or somenthing. Now i am totally happy bass player with a better bass (wich is nothing than the same as before, modified by myself), still
have a lot to learn but i exercise myself when i don't feel like at all
too, because i should have began earlier and want to retrieve the time
lost.

I have so few money and so much will to play bass, that i turned
this first right handed Roytek into the thing you see in photo without any previous experience in doing that. I don't have any other basses
nor
gear. I want just to learn to play it fine. And when it happens, it's incredibly good.

influences: Michael Balzary (Flea),
Larry Graham, Veridine White, Mark
Knopfler, Lenny Kravitz, Scott
Devine, Sting, Paul McCartney, Stevie
Ray Vaughan

Roytek "custom hand-made" P-like

Dave Larios 1989 1x10"combo 80W