first song

[basstotheface]

i know weve all got to have one. the first song you actually noticed bass on, the one that for me made me a bassist!

mine was maxwells silver hammer- the beatles
thank you paul.

[JEDI BASS]

I had noone in my family that knew what instruments were what. But luckily, music was always a part of our lives.... Fleetwood Mac, Bad Company, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin were some of the bands I remember hearing the most as a child. Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire was my 1st "favorite song", I think I was 4 years old. After becoming a bassist, I realized that I had always been drawn to the music/songs that had the best basslines.

Anyways, I knew I had to play bass after seeing Cliff Burton in the video Cliff 'em All. That's when I first realized what a bassist was and did. Wish I'd realized sooner! I bought my first bass a few weeks later. I was 17. Paradise City by Guns n Roses was the first song I learned to play. Learned Cliff's Anesthesia a few months later... I stayed up for a whole weekend 'til I got it all down.

[Thumper828]

Had to Pink Floyed,Money$

[Axtman]

Peg - Steely Dan

[leegreenman]

i think sweet child o mine was the first song i really noticed the bass part on.

[Oren Hudson]

Not a particularly outstanding line - but it grabbed me more with the depth of the bass, meaning deep and pants shaking, for the time. It was Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs heard through my parents new Zenith console stereo with 2-8 inch woofers and midrange and tweeters. It was some thumpin bass for the early 60s when most songs we heard were little transistor radios or car radios. I actually used the Zenith as my amp until I could afford my first amp. The Zenith was great if you didn't have to move it.

[JimB52]

Probably "I'm a Man" by the Spencer Davis Group. 1967
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[WayneS]

Revelations - Iron Maiden

Ironically though, this was after I started playing bass.

I wanted to play because I liked the way a bass sounded. But the bass in Revelations jumped out at me... Showing me that a bass didnt have to hide in the background.

[Sbociol]

Another Iron Maidener here lol...Aces High was the first song that made me notice the bass and made me decide to pick up and play one

[nitrofix]

Smoke on the water, (when it first came out),saw a band do it when i was around 13 or 14, when the bass came in it shook the walls and sounded killer, it's amazing how such a simple bass line could have such an impact on me, then after that I was hooked.............

[BluesWalker]

In A Gadda Da Vita, the first album I ever bought, I was 13

[TheFantod]

"Mass Hysteria" by Social Distortion.

Let's see who remembers that one!

[DRafalske]

"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" -Steely Dan.
It was the intro, mainly. Used to hear my uncles and their friends play it at our family jams.

[Hippos Melas]

"Everybody's Better" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The whole song's one big bass groove!

[yeggi]

p.o.d. - snuff the punk intro

[Russell foulkes]

the first bassline i remember,but didnt know it was "a bass"
was lovely day by bill withers.
still awesome to this day.

[kcole4001]

1979
Spirit of Radio

[XXL]

Another one bites the dust - Queen.

I remember asking someone what is going BOOM BOOM BOOM.. I was like 5

[basstotheface]

xxl thats hilarious! i can just picture that, i even have a lot of people now that ask me that when i play.

[thwump64]

Message In a Bottle by the Police. That song got me into bass.