I’m Bill Grass. I’m the bass player. I’m the guy everybody ignores on stage ‘cause I’m just the bass player. But my day is coming. When The VOID hits the big time, I’m going to appear in concert with about 12 full stacks of bass amps and have 28 basses sitting on stage next to me. And I’ll have 16 bass techs working for me.

 

When I was a brat of nine, I started taking fiddle lessons. Not violin lessons. It’s okay to spill beer on a fiddle, but not a violin, and I knew even at the tender age of nine that I’d be a beer connoisseur one day. Playing the fiddle led to even more instruments, and by the time I was in high school, I was a fairly halfway decent bass player. I’m proud to say that I’m still a fairly halfway decent bass player.

 

I spent many years playing fiddle (and sometimes bass) with various Cajun bands around Louisiana. Somehow I even became Grand Champion at the Louisiana State Fiddlers’ Championship in 1994. In 2006 I began playing with Long Neck Society, and that pretty much sealed my fate as a bassist. I also play bass with Blu Rouge, and I still play fiddle (and guitar) with a Cajun band called Choupique.

 

Over the years I’ve filled in with many bands in the Baton Rouge/New Orleans area, so I guess at some point I began to get a good reputation. Maybe it was my sparkling personality. Baton Rouge country singer/songwriter extraordinaire Dennis Ledbetter asked me to play fiddle with his newly formed WTF Band in late 2013, and that’s when I really got to know a bloke named Jim Standley.

 

In early 2014, Jim approached me with the idea of forming a rock band that played all original music. He had already reached out to two other musicians about his idea, and one night we all got together for dinner and to talk about the potential band. That fateful night I met Matt Laborde and Jim George. From that moment, everything clicked and everybody was gung-ho about the band idea.

 

After a few rehearsals, new songs, preliminary gigs, t-shirts, social media publicity, and several drunken nights at Da Refuge, we became recording artists as part of The VOID. Now it’s only a matter of time before we start winning Grammys, AMAs, and have our names included in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Playing with The VOID has been a fantastic experience for me, and I’m proud to be a part of this venture!