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In the 1990s, Keanu Reeves<\/a> didn\u2019t feel like your average person, the kind who you could call up, invite around for a pack of beers and shoot the shit with, but instead, was the Hollywood poster boy of elaborate story lines, diffusing bus-strapped bombs, riding 50ft waves and bending space and time.<\/p>\n But then the millennium turned, and the smouldering fell away, wherein Reeves picked creative and personal projects that revealed his real self to the world and, in a complete role reversal, became the cool uncle of pop culture. Often found in a simple pair of jeans and a T-shirt, with a wise grin sat on top, he was the guy you could finally shoot the shit with, rip open a six-pack and start talking about all things music.\u00a0<\/p>\n His open admission of love for the bass guitar<\/a> was largely the gateway for this, and in recent years, he threw himself wholeheartedly into his band Dogstar. Sitting in the rhythm section for his grunge rock band, Reeves suddenly became one of us and the more we learned about his influences, the more we grew to love this new version. <\/p>\n \u201cI always wanted to play bass. I guess one of the things I love about this plank of wood is the physicality. The tones,\u201d he said, with the sort of excitement we\u2019ve come to expect from the new Reeves, \u201cI love when I listen to it; I vibrate with the bass tones of it. It spoke to me.\u201d<\/p>\n While he admitted that his teenage years were largely spent playing bass alone in his bedroom, hashing together scale ideas and rudimentary bass lines, his world was opened up during the heights of his Hollywood fame. While shooting My Own Private Idaho, Reeves got some much-needed tips from the iconic bass player Flea, who also starred in the film, such that, in between takes, the former would ask for brief lessons from the Californian as the pair would utilise the on-set equipment. <\/p>\n He explained, \u201cThere was a house, and there was amps and instruments and stuff like that, and I was like, \u2018Hey, Flea. Could you give me a lesson?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018Sure, man!\u2019 He was like [plays notes]. I was like, \u2018All right\u2019. And he\u2019s like, \u2018Just feel it, man\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n