[1] His uncle Ira Tucker, lead singer of the gospel quartet The Dixie Hummingbirds, took him under his wing providing him work at the beginning of his career.
[4] The camp has served over 700 bass players from all around world as well as other professionals like Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Michael Manring, Victor Wooten, and many more.
The camp lasts for 2 days and students are taught many important musical skills by the instructors such as: learning how to groove, creating bass lines, improving your ear, optimizing practice time, and playing live with a drummer.
[1] The band blended the styles from many different cultures of music and combined tones of strange grooves, driving, swinging and toured from places like the U.S to Germany and continued on until the unfortunate death of Joe.
On April 1, 2008, Gerald was invited on stage as a guest with Victor Wooten, along with Anthony Wellington at The Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA With John Blake With Odean Pope With Special EFX With Grover Washington Jr. With others