"... Another of my favorite players is also a self-confessed 'complete autodidact,' Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. As distinctive a player as Mascis, it's impossible to mistake her style for anyone else's. 'I was only playing bass for five months when the band first played [live],' she told an audience in 2014 at the Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo. 'I did not take a lesson. Nobody taught me.' But unlike many of her self-taught male counterparts with roots in punk and a decades-long association with a band that defined an era, Weymouth, argues Carrie Courogen at PAPER, has been tragically under-recognized. ..."
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