How'd you get started?

[rajasenartsa]

i started playing bass 14 because i cant play guitar verywell so i started playing bass and i realized bass is more fun than guitar (sorry the bad english )

[mjolnir]

I started just before 6th grade. I was visiting my granddad in Georgia, and this guy is a MAJOR guitar nut. He has every guitar you can think of lying in his bedroom right now, and when I went to see him, he had a bass he had cobbled together way back in the early 70's (Fender P-Bass body, Fender Telecaster GUITAR electronics and pickup, handmade pickguard 'cuz he couldn't find one to fit both the P body and the Tele pickup, a Harmony neck, fender tuning machines and a fender bridge, don't ask me what kind). Picked up a lot of guitars while I was there, including a 1960 Harmony Meteor (which I now own) and a 1957 Les Paul Standard (sweet! Any guitarists out there will understand) but for some reason I thought that POS bass was the absolutely coolest one there. It was a sign from God, I'm convinced. So my Granddad gave me the bass, I took it home, started messin' with it (without an amp, couldn't afford one) and I've never looked back.

[HeadSouth]

I had played piano since age 5, then in middle school I switched to trombone, which provided me with an introduction to the wonderful bass clef. I learned to read music, and planned on being in the high school band, but trombone never really stuck with me for some reason. I played guitar also, and guitar took over in place of trombone. In high school, my dad was the principal of the middle school across the street. The janitor there was (and still is) a phenomenal bassist, and upon hearing that I was a guitarist, he let me borrow one of his basses during my freshman year. It was an Ibanez 4-string and I kept it for a week. I loved it so much, I went to the pawn shop right after I returned it and bought a 1999 Fender Precision for $190. Been playing ever since, I still play guitar some, but bass has become dominant.

[clanner]

about 3 years ago now, I wanted to start a band during my freshman yar, we needed a bass player andI decided sure, why not, that band didn't really last long, but my current band lives the fact that I can play and sing, though i did get very good at halo with my first band.

[Bloodfist]

As a young boy, I stood in a field across from a canyon above a river, and beside a tree. The sky suddenly turned black as storm coulds approached rumbling furiously. As the wind blew stronger the earth began to shake violently. The tree fell over and split the earth, making yet another canyon deep into the earth into which the river poored releasing steam as the magma from deep in side the canyon cooled. While standing in the cloud of steam, I notice a dark figure walking torwards me with something in his hands. He approached and said " you my son are the choosen one, you carry inside you the essence of rock and roll" then he kneeled down and presented me with a guitar, red as the magma beneath me. I held the guitar, looked at him, and said, "It looks pretty wimpy" I told the nice man goodbye and went home to ask my dad if he would get me a bass for Christmas. And he did. I never spoke of the dark mysterious stranger until now.

[bassguitarist08]

I gew up on Bon Jovi Music....Thanks to my dad, one day we were listening to "Livin on a Prayer" and that little E to A run in the beginning did it for me, I was hooked...I played alittle piano too, but we soon got a bass and here I am today..

[JMDavis]

Umm...

FLCL...

[morf]

FLCL got you started on bass? Thats crazy... I bought my first bass after watching that!

[Seigi]

Originally Posted by Bloodfist

As a young boy, I stood in a field across from a canyon above a river, and beside a tree. The sky suddenly turned black as storm coulds approached rumbling furiously. As the wind blew stronger the earth began to shake violently. The tree fell over and split the earth, making yet another canyon deep into the earth into which the river poored releasing steam as the magma from deep in side the canyon cooled. While standing in the cloud of steam, I notice a dark figure walking torwards me with something in his hands. He approached and said " you my son are the choosen one, you carry inside you the essence of rock and roll" then he kneeled down and presented me with a guitar, red as the magma beneath me. I held the guitar, looked at him, and said, "It looks pretty wimpy" I told the nice man goodbye and went home to ask my dad if he would get me a bass for Christmas. And he did. I never spoke of the dark mysterious stranger until now.

The winner is you.

[bifbugie56]

Cool thread !!!! I "won" my first guitar at the local carnival
at one of those spin the wheel booths for 10 cents on number
2. One Mel Bay guitar chord book and some new guitar player
friends I was on my way. A few years pass I'm playing guitar
in all kinds or basement bands (no one had a garage , hehe.)
I found myself and my guitarmates, always searching for someone to play bass. I hit the bank of mom and dad up for
$75.00 to buy my first rig, a Traynor YBA1w/215 cab and a
univox violin bass. Now I'm a bass player, no looking back.
Because of that imvestment, I've always been able to find a gig. 30+ years later I still have that YBA1, kinda sorry i sold the univox (the ONLY bass I ever sold). That and some more sweat got me my '73 MIA P which will never go anywhere.


'73 MIA P
Traynor YBA1
Traynor 215
Acoustic 450
Ampeg 810
Music Man 115RH

[KeithBMI]

I wanted to be in a cool band and I assumed their were hundreds of guitar players already. That's all.

[bassguitarist08]

Originally Posted by KeithBMI

I wanted to be in a cool band and I assumed their were hundreds of guitar players already. That's all.

Guitar Players = Dime a Dozen...

[KeithBMI]

There* not their. My bad.