Did you keep your first bass? - Page 5

balton4 · #81 07-06-2012, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by The Sailor

Personally, i think it helped you learn and get to where you are today, so instead of leaving it on a shelf to collect dust, give someone else an oppurtunity to buy and learn on it as well and better their playing. If you love it, let it go

Yeah, I've got a friend who wants to learn bass. Ill probably give it to her sometime in the future. Sometime.

SGbassist · #82 07-06-2012, 06:12 PM

Yup. It's was a locally made fender jazz copy. Those made of coffee table wood but yet plays pretty well. Took out the frets and made it a fretless. For a self modified $100 fretless jazz, it sounds better than the ebanol fingerboard squirt fretless.

droo46 · #83 07-06-2012, 06:16 PM

Still have it? Still gig with it. It's a 10 year old SR400. Gotta love Ibanez stuff.

mijust · #84 07-06-2012, 06:32 PM

I still have my starter Ibanez sr that came with a fender cab for $250. Great for practicing. Upgraded to a 5 string MM stingray and love it. But I still play my ibanez at least once or twice a week. Never entertained the thought of selling.

placedesjardins · #85 07-06-2012, 06:37 PM

No. It was a used Cort 'precision bass copy'. Grody to the max.

Diesel Kilgore · #86 07-06-2012, 07:30 PM

No. It was a Samick P-bass knockoff. Really nice blue and white and played well too.

I don't really regret getting rid of it now, because of age and experience the next P-bass I buy will be more like a real P (Squier VM or CV) instead of just a cheap whim buy.

The Samick was good 10 years ago "to get a taste."

BullHorn · #87 07-06-2012, 07:41 PM

I still have my first, a Yamaha RBX170. It's been hanging on the wall for the last 4 years, never touched the entire time.

balton4 · #88 07-19-2012, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Diesel Kilgore

No. It was a Samick P-bass knockoff. Really nice blue and white and played well too.

I don't really regret getting rid of it now, because of age and experience the next P-bass I buy will be more like a real P (Squier VM or CV) instead of just a cheap whim buy.

The Samick was good 10 years ago "to get a taste."

Yeah, I've been looking at getting a P bass now too. I only just picked up an Epiphone thunderbird, but i need a backup bass that is, well, a good bass. My current backup is not a very good bass, being the silvertone as in the original post.

s_mcsleazy · #89 07-19-2012, 09:29 AM

i kept mine. it doesnt get much use but its a really great bass. it only has one tiny little dent on it but i still have it.

Troph · #90 07-19-2012, 12:45 PM

Lotus P-bass copy for my 15th birthday, black with rosewood fingerboard. Solid body made of wood that felt like lead. Pots were scratchy, action was terrible, and funny enough I didn't know any better until years later.

P.O.S. by any standards, but you know what?

I wouldn't be playing bass today if it weren't for that gift.

It sat in the closet for about 15 years. I donated it to Goodwill a few years back.

chicomalo · #91 07-19-2012, 12:50 PM

My first bass was stolen but I still have my second bass. 72 Fender Jazz that I bought new back in 1972 when I was 18.

coop · #92 07-19-2012, 12:56 PM

Still have my 88 (or 89 ?) Charvel 3B. Hasn't been to a gig in nearly a decade, but I still "noodle" with it at home from time to time.

Now my first guitar is long gone. a Fender Bronco I bought used around 1978 or so.

musicianary · #93 07-19-2012, 01:46 PM

I still have mine from when I first started playing in '05. Jewel blue Ibanez SR300c. I probably won't ever sell it.

G.Bisson · #94 07-19-2012, 01:46 PM

My very very first bass was a no-name P/J copy that needed a nut replacement and rewiring when I first pulled it from the dusty corner of my uncles's basement. Didn't like that bass much at all so I gave it away to another beginner after buying my first bass. The first bass that I bought has a lot of sentimental value attached to it, as it was the bass that I really learned on. When I bought a better bass later I didn't have the heart to sell my old one so it is on indefinite loan to a guitarist friend who takes good care of it. He still occasional puts it to use. Nice to know that bass is still making music.

blackba · #95 07-19-2012, 01:55 PM

I sold my first bass, it was an Ibanez TR series. It did the job, but I don't regret getting rid of it. I do still have my first electric guitar, but my late mother helped me pick it out, so it has sentimental value.

balton4 · #96 07-19-2012, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by coop

Still have my 88 (or 89 ?) Charvel 3B. Hasn't been to a gig in nearly a decade, but I still "noodle" with it at home from time to time.

Now my first guitar is long gone. a Fender Bronco I bought used around 1978 or so.

Thats how its gonna be when i get a new guitar. The first act i have, it has a buzzing in the pick ups, crappy hardware, all around, its sucks. I really am going to be pumped if i get 10 dollars back out of the 100 dollars i got it for. It really is a piece of crap, but i did learn on it, and i appreciate that.

Anaughtybear · #97 07-20-2012, 05:42 AM

Oh, Hell no. It was a red Washburn Lyon P-Bass copy. I hate red. I've certainly played worse basses, but I never missed this one.

free_Bassd · #98 07-20-2012, 05:50 AM

Mine was a squire classic vibe jazz. traded it on CL for an amp after my fiver was done. I dont regret it, but in hind site it wouldn't have hurt to keep it :/

kbakerde · #99 07-20-2012, 06:01 AM

Nope, my first bass was a christmas gift in High School. A cheap used black Yamaha 4 string. Turns out one pickup didn't work. I traded it in in college to buy a Dean Edge 4. Beautiful bass, nice sounding, lightweight and very well constructed. Sadly, I sold it in my post college poor days. Also in college, I picked up my MIM Fender Jazz Deluxe which is my only bass today.

balton4 · #**100** 07-24-2012, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by kbakerde

Nope, my first bass was a christmas gift in High School. A cheap used black Yamaha 4 string. Turns out one pickup didn't work. I traded it in in college to buy a Dean Edge 4. Beautiful bass, nice sounding, lightweight and very well constructed. Sadly, I sold it in my post college poor days. Also in college, I picked up my MIM Fender Jazz Deluxe which is my only bass today.

Thats the situation I'm in now. While collage is some time away for me, i am a broke high school musician. But at the same time, i got the bass last year for a christmas present from my father. I don't know how he would feel if i sold the instrument that he got for me to learn how to play something i absolutely adore now. These days, i hardly even pick up the baritone my parents so lovingly bought me, same goes with the trombone. Im practicing guitar and bass 24/7. Im pretty sure it annoys them, so i am gonna pick up the classical instruments pretty quick again. They are probably sure i will never make it big, and i am certain. I do garage bands on the weekends, play gigs when given, and am trying to get more.