01/21/2020
"I was playing in three bands with Matthew Goodwin - Mountain Mojo Authority, Bombsquad, and the Bam Sequence. They were all great and I was in college and each band began to become more busy and serious so Matt and I came to a welcome predicament - we couldn’t all be in all the bands - so I went with my oldest friends in Bombsquad (soon to be Panda) and Matt sought out additional musicians to bring into the mojo fold. On bass he found Jeremiah Pacheco to fill my position. He was killer (still is) and at some point they all went to HOG to pick out a bass for him. Miah knows good stuff. He’s a man of the land. He feels the physics. He picked the Ash body 1975 P-Bass and played it in Mojo. I knew next to nothing about actual bass guitars. I just knew I liked playing them and I know when one feels nice and nothing felt nicer than that one! Unfortunately it wasn’t mine. But Mojo broke up, and the bass sat in Matt Goodwin’s house for many months until I started to come over and play it a bit. And then one day I took it. Jeremiah was totally cool with it for the time because he was going to devote his energies to learning how to be a master farmer. So in fact, this bass kinda fell into my lap and that’s how most of my life has been. I’m not proud of it, but I’m grateful. He did all the work and then I got the bass. Years later I paid him for it, but not until after offering it back to him when he yet again took a step away from farming to be the thunderous bass of THE Thunder Body. After seeing what my sweat put the bass through, he laughed and just told me to cough up the money, which I did over a period of a few years. Jeremiah is now producing some of the finest produce the world has seen in the heart of Naples, NY, and you probably eat it often at the Brighton Farmers Market or various restaurants he and his wife at Squash Blossom Farms provide veggies to."
