Remember the days???

[MKT711]

I was just thinking about the first day I picked up a bass guitar. My face glowing, but fingers having no idea what to do with it. I remember my taste of music then too and the first songs that I wanted to learn how to play. (not that I like these songs now, in HS it was a different story)

Carousel - Blink 182
Rearranged - Limp Bizkit (SP?)
Smoke on the water

and songs like that were what I started on.

What songs do you guys think are beginner classics? And what songs were you guys itching to learn when you first started playing bass?

[bassaficionado6]

The first song I learned was Black Sabbath, then Feel Good Inc. It had just come out.

[P. Aaron]

"Those were the days, yes they were. Those were the days. Those were the ways, miracles everywhere. Where are they now? They're gone!" Cream

[Deluge Of Sound]

Speaking of Cream, I'm fairly certain Sunshine Of Your Love was the first thing I could play on a bass.

I'm pretty sure Money was second

[Hamrhed]

The Who's Baba O'Reilly was my first... followed closely by The Knack's My Sharona and The Car's Lets Go

[Gubna]

Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound

Speaking of Cream, I'm fairly certain Sunshine Of Your Love was the first thing I could play on a bass.

+1

[Valerus]

Carousel...haha.

Hmm let's see...

Seether - Fine Again

hahah

[NYCBass]

Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound

Speaking of Cream, I'm fairly certain Sunshine Of Your Love was the first thing I could play on a bass.

I'm pretty sure Money was second

+2

[ibanezshredder]

my first first song was nirvana smells like teen spirit, then i believe rage against the machine bullet in the head then incubus nice to no u.

[emblymouse]

Dazed and Confused
Iron Man
Nantucket Sleighride
Cinnamon Girl
Ain't Superstitious

C'mon, old guys, think waaaayyyy back...

[darkfinger]

Nirvana - Come as you are
Green Day - Basket Case

Junior High Classics!

[Linkert]

Haha.. When i started reading i thought i was gonna read some story about the motown scene in the 40-50's but then i saw "Blink 182" i felt a shooting pain down my left arm.

Anyway.
Oh man i hope you guys remember the avkward moment of choosing a bass!? When the guy that works there asks (or sais; "here try it") if you want to try it and you don't know what to do so you like pluck a open string :P

When i got home i wanted to learn;
Black Sabbath - NIB/Electric Funeral/Solitude/Sweet Leaf. (and so on)
Led Zeppelin - Dazed & Confuzed/Moby Dick.
Type O Negative - Black. (The only one i learned right :P)

My music taste has evolved quite a bit sens then. I was a strickt "Metal/70's Metal/70's Hardrock"-head back then but it got boring so i forced my self to listen to funk and that evolved into jazz later on.

[bikeplate]

HI

Funny stuff.

Jimi Hendrix Greatests Hits
Sabbath Paranoid
Some easier Rush
Anything I could learn by ear, actually

Rob