https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Mendel
Life and career. Mendel was born on December 2, 1968, in Richland, a mid-sized city in southeast Washington.His first instrument was the violin. As of the age of 13, Mendel started to get interested in rock music and joining a band, a friend who played guitar suggested him to play the bass. Mendel stated that "as I picked up that bass I went on a 20-year detour into punk", helped …