Do you remember your first time......

[Quickie]

Playing a bass?

I was 13 and I played a "Beatles" bass in Sears. My dad bought it for me with a Silver tone amplifier. It was cool. 8 inch speaker and green glitter grill cloth. I got a picture somewhere of me playing it. 'll look for it and post it. I was SO young.

[MEKer]

That would be even more wonderful if you still had the bass and amp!

[jonathan_matos5]

thank god that wasn't "that" thread.



yes i was 22 i bought it for myself for christmas. wrapped it and put it under the tree and everything. i started taking lessons in march after the new year.

[SMILEYSIXX]

Her name was Erica... oh, playing bass? Nevermind.

[Stilettoprefer]

Rachel... We were watching fireworks and.... Oh Jeeze, this is awkward!

Wally's music shop 3 years ago, CAR squier affinity P bass. Took it home and didn't have an amp for a couple months, but when I played at church I was able to go direct into the PA, so it all worked out

[5StringBlues]

I was already playing tuba in Jr.High band.I guess I was 12,13.

My brother was a drummer and his band would practice at the house. His bass player left a Jazz copy and amp at the house one weekend so I went and picked it up.

Turned on the radio,"Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult came on.

Found the "A" on the 5th fret of the "E" string and figured out the intervals for the verse.


All afternoon I played A- A G- G F- F G -G A- A G- G F- F G............



Didn't pick up a bass again until I got my first one at 15 years.

[tastybasslines]

after 5 minutes, my hands were sooooooooo sore!

[Big_Daddy]

After a few weeks of playing acoustic guitar, I decided I wanted to pursue the bass more.

So my father took out his bass, and I was playing Gloria (Van Morrison/Them) within a few minutes.

[MJ5150]

Around 1991 at a mom and pop music store here in town, went in with my buddies. We wanted to form a band, and those guys claimed drums, guitar, and vocals. I was left with bass, so I bought one.

-Mike

[MakiSupaStar]

I picked it up randomly with some dudes making noise. I just kind of played beats on it. I was 19. After that I bought a Fender P-Bass Squire and a Peavey TNT 150 after winning some money in Vegas. Hated that bass, loved that amp, but have been playing ever since.

[Joe Gress]

Went to a music teachers house that taught beginning lessons on about 20 something instruments. Played all of them for a few hours and decided on either the bass or a mandolin.

The bass was cheaper and mom was buying...

[jmattbassplaya]

Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5

thank god that wasn't "that" thread.

I was kinda hoping for that thread

[Simo98]

Never played one before, had taken guitar lessons as an 8 year old and never got into it.

Friends of mine played guitar, told me I needed to get a bass. We went to the music store and I bought the cheapest one they had, a second hand Cort P/J out of a beginner pack. Went home and played "Guns of Brixton" by The Clash for about the next 12 hours and never looked back

[tom once dead]

I can't even remember how young I was, but for some reason there was a black yamaha rbx at my house. I played the cello, so I picked it up and remember playing it for hours. A couple of years later mum said if I pass my grade 4 cello exam I could get a bass. I got an A+ on the exam and then I got a blue rbx. The next year, I made a similar deal but it involved doing grade 7 on cello and getting a bigger amp.

[Relic]

At 17 I was already playing guitar when I walked into a local music store one time and spotted this freaky green violin shaped bass. It just looked so bizarre and cool that I played it for like an hour. Spent the next week or two doing some odd jobs and whatnot for the $ to buy it. Walked in the store a week and a half later to buy it.....and it was gone... Not accepting defeat, I spotted the next best thing in my mind at the time- a beat up maroon-colored Rickenbacker 4001. Bought that for $325, and played bass ever since. Those were the days

[vinomonom]

i was 14 i think. all i remember is the sore fingers and the broken amp. happy days man....

[NOT]

I started out with guitar at age 12, and was decent, but while listening to music, I noticed the bass, more than the guitar. about two weeks later, I talked a classmate into trading his Fender jazz special, for my fender squire....Good Day

[DRafalske]

July 4, 1991. My uncle's basement (he's a piano player). I was 11 years old.
Picked up the bass player's old P-Bass and asked him to show me something.
My 12 year old cousin was already taking drum lessons from his dad (one of my other uncles - very musical family), so him, me, and piano player uncle did a 12-bar jam in E.
I of course had no idea what the hell I was doing at the time, but it got me hooked. And I still get to play that old P-Bass from time to time. It's a '76 P body with a '65 Jazz neck, and I think it has DiMarzio pickups.

D

[tink9975]

My brother got tired of me stealing his guitar to mess around (had some guitar instruction in jr high), and asked, why don't you play bass? I said "what's bass".
within a week I had tried out a few basses at local stores, but ended up buying a used bass and homemade tube amp from the newspaper classifieds. It was a cheap Cort bass that I played for a few years until the neck broke. That was 23 years ago.

[Funky Ghost]

This will sound improbable, but be that as it may. I lived next door to Mr Big's drummer ( well, his moms house, but he lived with her ) Next door to him was another drummer we called "weasel" ( who, by the way, was a much better drummer fwiw ) I used to hang at Weasel's house and listen to them jam when I was in Jr High. I played guitar and dabbled in bass @ that point. There was a bass player that jammed with weasel.. I can't for the life of me remember his name but I'll never forget him or his bass. He looked like Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter and he had a Rick ... a gorgeous Rick. He let me plunk around on it and I was pretty well in lust. That was my first "Real" bass experience.