My cousin is a pretty talented guy. Musically, he’s done everything from playing in a band with Chad Smith to beating Girl’s Tyme - which was the precursor of Destiny’s Child - on Star Search. So yeah, he knows a bit about music.

Anyways, a few years ago at Christmas he was telling us about how he was cleaning the house one day and decided to make a upright bass out of a cardboard box, hardwood flooring and weed wacker twine! He posted the video on YouTube and it went straight to the front page - this was before YouTube was a verb. The comments and feedback he got on that video prompted him to work with a couple guys and really create a great sounding bass that could be mass produced in a kit.

Now, he’s selling these cardboard upright bass kits in 36 countries around the world and inventing new things for the music industry. It’s people like him that inspire me to keep creating, thinking and inventing.