247 Ink Magazine (August/September) 2017 Issue#16 | Page 94

world. He walks in. First off, I had heard him play bass. I’m not going to lie, he’s a pretty great bass player. But I held my composure because I’m not going to let him know that he’s a pretty great bass player. So he comes in….go head Ivan, tell ‘em how you felt. IH: I don’t know man. I walked into the house, they took me down to the basement….no (laughs). I don’t know. I walked in and thought I was going to pull my bass out the second I got there. The first thing they do is sit me down on the couch, Indian style and kind of put the spotlight on me. They were like, so what are you about? What do you like? They were like this is what we’re about, this is what we want to do…”Are you down?” I was like “Yeah.” From the moment I walked in I knew that this was going to be it. From there we started playing and there were sparks flying. SL: He sounds all romantic…(laughs) IH: Anthony and I had a little bromance thing. Funny enough, Anthony and I came from the same Bronx scene. We were in bands that knew of each other. We just didn’t know each other at the time but we knew of each others bands. It was a small little community we had going on. It was just funny to, years later, end up in a band with him and to find out he’s like one of the best drummers I ever played with. SL: And then we all had a happy ending…that’s the story of Quantum 92