Richard Pryor? OUCH.
Please be more sensitive and have more regard for people's feelings. We don't need those sort of inflammatory comments.
Playing bass and singing? Mark King.
If this is a Craigslist ad for you selling a bass, Bapu, howsabout a pic? And a pithy description? I'm sure most of the Forumites have your entire collections all visually sorted, but alas not I.
I think playing bass should be mandatory for all musicians. The bar for entry is pretty low. Is that a pun or not? I think it's a pun. Not really, though.
And, while playing bass should be mandatory, lessons and instruction should not. It's much more interesting that way.
-Tom