Sonic Spotlight: Mike Frost

AGE: 47

HOMETOWN: Aiken

PLAYS: Bass

PLAYS WITH: Inner Voice, The Deep, Karmic Tiempo, Esteban, Mike Frost Trio, Jesse Colin Young, Keyth Hart and Soul, and Frost, Turkisher and Haze

MUSICAL ROOTS : "I switched over (from drums) to bass when I was 16 years old. My brother purchased an electric bass, and you couldn't get it out of my hands for two weeks. And then I went out and bought my first bass, which was a Fender Precision Bass, '72 P Bass. And from that point on, I was focused on it, and I connected with it in a very deep way. And I was playing it between eight and 12 hours every day for three years straight. "

BEST CONCERT ATTENDED: Weather Report, New York, about 1979: "The energy level of the musicianship, the composition and what was being played and created at the moment was untouchable."

FAVORITE MOVIES: Caddyshack and Barfly

FIRST PERFORMANCE: Crazy Fingers, Lynbrook, N.Y., 1977. "The first month I was playing, we did a concert and we were a Southern rock band. We played The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker and the Grateful Dead. ... (The concert) was awesome. And at that concert I had several people come up to me and ask to study, so I started teaching right away."

TV FAVORITES AS A CHILD: Speed Racer, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, I Dream of Jeannie, Bugs Bunny cartoons

PRE-SHOW RITUAL: " With Jesse's band, we all make a circle and we hold each other's hands ... and do a group meditation just to breathe and calm ourselves."

FAVORITE ALBUMS: Weather Report, Heavy Weather; Jaco Pastorius, Jaco; Joni Mitchell, Mingus; Miles Davis, Kind of Blue; Earth, Wind & Fire, All 'N All; Oliver Nelson, The Blues and the Abstract Truth

UPCOMING GIG: The Mike Frost Trio will perform at 8 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Eighth Street bulkhead at Riverwalk Augusta as part of the Candlelight Jazz Series. Admission is $6.