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11-30-2012, 04:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | A hmmm I believe it was just about when CCR Willie an the Poor Boys issued, then the Beatles White Album, and I at age 11 playing along on air bass. Two years later got my first bass post Woodstock and never gave it up (for long).
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11-30-2012, 04:07 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Colorado, Broomfield | | | I actually expect to get flamed hard for this.... but Enema of the State by Blink-182.
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11-30-2012, 04:10 PM
|  | Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion. | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio | | | listening to the Beatles on vinyl
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11-30-2012, 04:16 PM
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11-30-2012, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: New City NY | | | I played Baritone sax and bass clarinet in jazz and concert band in school. Got a guitar in college, and played Bad Religion tunes. Joined a band as a rhythm guitar player. We needed a bass player. I said "what the hell", and found right away I was in love. |
11-30-2012, 04:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: New Castle, PA | | | Lol... I wanted to be Nikki Sixx.... |
11-30-2012, 04:27 PM
| | | | Alot of little things, I grew up around instruments but since Toys R Us didn't have basses I never got one. I never took much mind of them until the first concert that had me in awe (Relient K, age 11) when I had a great view of the bass player. In the years that followed every good interaction I had with a band was though a bass player. When I was 14 a friend's mom suggested I try bass since I loved music but wasn't into playing guitar. Finally for my 17th birthday I went to a guitar store to try them out. I strummed it and thought "holy #%^#! Mortals are allowed to make this sound? I need to do this." |
11-30-2012, 05:04 PM
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11-30-2012, 05:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Oakland,CA | | | I was 15-my best friend's dad was the orchestra teacher, and a jazz bass player. He told me that if I would play bass in the orchestra, he would give me a bass and lessons-pretty cool! |
11-30-2012, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: COLORADO | | | Motown!
More specifically - The Temptations. |
11-30-2012, 09:01 PM
| | | | My mother!
Seriously. I was back from college, and no longer playing low brass. Her church needed a bass player. She figured I could manage. I did.
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11-30-2012, 10:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arcadia, CA | | | Music, I was put in music and not art class in junior and senior high schoo.
Guitar, I had a girlfriend who wanted to restart playing guitar I thought it would be something to do with her.
Bass, I had been fooling around on guitar when a kid at church was the only musician in town during the Christmas season. I stepped up to help him and when the rest of the team returned I convinced the wife to keep getting up early and I filled the low end which had been vacant for three years.
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11-30-2012, 10:24 PM
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HPF Technology: Protecting the Pocket since 2007 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Middle school band teacher knew that I was taking cello lessons, so he asked me to play bass in the jazz band. |
11-30-2012, 10:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada | | | Pink Floyd's "Money".
i was learning acoutsic guitar for about a month or two, when a friend, who played bass, showed me how to play that bassline. I became obsessed with getting it right, more so than anything else I had played, but it just didn't sound the way I wanted it to. The very next day, I knew I needed a bass, and went out and bought one. No research, very impulsive, bought a horrible bass, but it got me going. |
11-30-2012, 10:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: WI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SactoBass  +1
I remember watching that on TV at age 7 (I'm now 56). It was that moment on Feb 9, 1964 that the music switch in my brain got flicked on.
But it wasn't until I heard Chris Squire grinding away in "Yours Is No Disgrace" in 1971 that I knew I had to become a bass player. Got my first bass in 1972, and I've been playing ever since. | I didn't and couldn't wait, my mom purchased a imo Beatle bass and had my first band by 1966. We played my 6th grade talent show.
We played "Function At The Junction" and "Cleos Back"
Blue
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11-30-2012, 10:47 PM
| | | | Depression while my mom was in the hospital after a nearly fatal accident. My family got me my first guitar to give me something to keep my mind off of things.
That month in the hospital ICU was very difficult, and the following year when she was able to be at home again was just as hard. That guitar saw a lot of playing time.
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11-30-2012, 11:13 PM
| | Supporting The Gold | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Twin Cities - MN | | | For me it was hearing Mel Schacher on Grand Funk Railroad's 1971 'Live Album'. From my pov, that's a tone worth emulating, even to this day.
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12-01-2012, 02:20 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewine I decided I wanted to play bass guitar after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan TV show February 9, 1964.
This will only make sense to TBers approaching 60.
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12-01-2012, 03:26 AM
| | | A couple years of listening to Tokie and Akiko "Akko" Noma (formerly Akiko Hamada). And then realizing that a major contributor to my loving the music of these bands, is the bass playing.
So I bought a bass and listened to music harder than ever!
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12-01-2012, 03:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Yorkshire, England, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewine I decided I wanted to play bass guitar after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan TV show February 9, 1964.
This will only make sense to TBers approaching 60.
Blue | Makes perfect sense to me Blue, but I am past 60!
With me it was when I saw The Beach Boys on TV. I made my first bass in woodwork class in 1967 and haven't stopped playing since.
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