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03-01-2007, 06:36 AM
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started at age 12 and i'm almost 20.
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03-01-2007, 06:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | | Started when I was 14. I'm 32 now. My uncle gave me a bass and a gee-tar that were collecting dust in his house. |
03-01-2007, 06:48 AM
|  | ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Narbonne, France | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassman_rules  What was the age that you ppl started playing?
How long have you been playing?
I've been playing since I was 11 nearly 12 and now I'm 15 and a half. | I started playing organ at 7, guitar at 14, then bass at 17.
Wrong forum, BTW.
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03-01-2007, 06:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Morristown, TN | | | Started playing at 13/14 (1977). I bought a brand new Fender Musicmaster and a Yamaha 30 watt 115 amp with money I made bagging groceries at a local supermarket. When I graduated HS in '80 my parents gave me a choice for my graduation present of a trip to the beach with my buddies or a brand new Rick. I took the Rick.
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03-01-2007, 06:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Late 12, now im 15... i had to show my parents a vid of wvictor wooten so theyd let me buy my first bass... |
03-01-2007, 06:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sheffield England (UK) | | | Started on Bass in 1962 aged 19, I still gig on a regular basis so up to now I guess that with 45 years in I'm the oldest at 64 next month.
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03-01-2007, 07:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bmc Neither of us knew the value of it, nor even knew what it was, so it was put away under my bed until a guitar playing friend of my brother visited one day. He started flipping out when he saw it was Fender.
That reaction inspired me to learn how to play it. | Well, in 1974, $150 for a used Fender probably was not too uncommon. I started in 1975 on a used '73 Fender Precision I bought for $200. In those years the "newer" one would have been worth slightly more (ironic). If one was dinged up or scratched, you got a price break! The rather dubious "Vintage Value" craze hadn't started yet. To put that $150 in proper perspective, in 1974 the minimum wage was $1.60/hr. Anyone who owned a Fender new or used worked their a** off to get it. BTW, I also bagged groceries to earn that Fender. Getting a Rickenbacker for graduation at that time would have been a HUGE gift. Those were already between $700-$800 in 1975. Unless you consider the low wages, you just don't see the implications. If you wanted a bass that was relatively tunable and playable, Fenders and Ricks were about all there was to choose from. Asian basses that are really pretty fine now;- back then were so bad they weren't even playable. So us old farts had to slave away for our precious "vintage" gear. Having a nice guitar meant you had to really give up something else;- like eating! And we had to walk to and from rehearsals uphill in the snow barefooted, even in the summer ... dragging these huge Peaveys on a sledge... Oh, those were the good old days....
So how's this;- turns out my used Fender was built on my 14th birthday according to a reply I got from Fender when I enquired about it in 1976. So I started at 15 and have been playing 32 years. The older I get, the better I was ....
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03-01-2007, 07:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TAMPA FLORIDA USA | | | started playing music (sax) at 10 years
got my first electric at 15
started playing bass in a band at 20
im 32 now
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03-01-2007, 07:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: White Plains | | | Started when I was 10...I'm 25 now. So 15 years... |
03-01-2007, 07:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NJ via NYC | | | I was 19 when I started playing bass. However, I played guitar for 5 years prior to the switch.
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03-01-2007, 07:14 AM
| | "Is our children learning "Is our teachers teachin | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Joplin,Missouri | | | Started playing all the time around the age of 10. Started on bluegrass. Moved on to jazz and rock around 13 .Now i am 32 |
03-01-2007, 07:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mechanicsburg, PA | | | Started around the age of 14, in '74. Been lovin' it ever since.
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03-01-2007, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northern CA. | | | Started in 1969. 38 years |
03-01-2007, 08:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | Started at age 12, I'm pushing 41. |
03-01-2007, 08:52 AM
| | Goin out West | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Arlington, Texas | | | Around 12. 19 now.
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03-01-2007, 08:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Glenmont, NY | | | 1979 age 22. Still have the first two basses I purchased...They aged better than I did...YIKES!
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03-01-2007, 08:59 AM
| | Retired Cello player.... | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lee's Summit, Missouri | | | Started out as a cello player in 1966 - my Junior High School jazz band needed a bass player and I was asked to try it by the music teacher. That was in 1973. So I guess that makes it 34 years. My bass seems to actually be older than a lot of people here.....
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03-01-2007, 09:07 AM
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Endorsing Artist: FBB Bass Works/Barker Bass | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Monroe Twp, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bassman62 Started on Bass in 1962 aged 19, I still gig on a regular basis so up to now I guess that with 45 years in I'm the oldest at 64 next month.
What none of us realised at the time was that our contemporys would age with with us. | Well, you got me on the age part 
Started playing DB in 1961 at the age of 10, got my first EB in 1963, so I'm into year 46 of playing, but I'm only a tender 55 years old (soon to be 56  ).  |
03-01-2007, 09:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada | | | Started 14
Now 24 |
03-01-2007, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ribwich, ZF | | | Just about 15 years ago I was 13 and that's when I started playing El Bajo.
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