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An interview with Doug Pinnick was published on the FromOutOfNowhere.com website in June of 2006. This site was inactive and gone from the web by 2015. While much of the interview concerns Pinnick’s religious views, he retells the story of how he got involved with the 12-string bass.

Frank Bello, bassist for Anthrax, had this to say about the 12-string bass in an interview published on the Fender Guitars website:

“Actually, it’s funny - I’m a friend of (Cheap Trick bassist) Tom Petersson. I’ve been a fan of his for years and years, and I used to go to all their shows. We were talking, and I told Tom, ‘Look, I got this new 12-string’ - this is way back, that I did this - and I said, ‘Dude, I really want to learn the right way to play ‘Auf Wiedersehen’. So he grabs a bass, and he’s saying, ‘No, no, no, that’s wrong’. And don’t you believe it, just to bust my balls - ‘cause Tom’s a great ball buster - he showed me the wrong way to play it on purpose, and that’s the way I actually played it when we recorded it!”

“And the next time I saw him he goes, ‘You really did it that way?’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s what you showed me!’ Oh, he got me good. It was great.”

Editor’s note: Bello played a 4-string bass on Anthrax’s recording of ‘Auf Wiedersehen’.