Pics showing you and your very 1st bass

[sockmonkee]

I have no Pictures of me and my first bass. but I do have Pictures of both my sons and thier first basses. My oldest and his 5 string Spector. and my youngest and his Peavey. My first bass was a Aria SG, wish I still had it. Also wish I had a bass as nice as my sons when I started playing.

[Mesa]

Here's a better shot of the bass...

Originally Posted by Mesa

Not a great shot of the bass, which was an old Electra with a metal pickguard that I bought for $35, but dig my hair! Circa 1982.

[Mark Wilson]

Not sure when this was... 2005 maybe?

[tabdog]

1985

I played double bass before this, but this was
my first electric bass. Westone Electra X640N,



And I still got her. She's my wife and the best
sounding PJ bass I ever played,



Tabdog

[Caca de Kick]

I have only ever seen one picture of me playing my 1st bass, and that was at a high school event in '89/'90. The pic was in a yearbook, which I can't find now.
Just never though of pictures back then...

[BassGen]

I'd only had this a few weeks when this pic was taken. Fender Geddy Lee J-bass. I was still playing just the root notes at the time. Fortunately I've improved since then!

[staindbass]

1984, musicmaster neck, plywood strat body, hofner copy pickup. (second bass, no photo of first one)

[heynorm]

1965, I think. Had a very used Kent bass.

[xUptheIronsx]

Originally Posted by Engine207

My first bass was a '79 T-40 natural. Nice paneling, eh? Extra credit for correctly guessing what the background poster is.

I am sure that many others have guessed, but...
that is the large Rush poster that I also still have from the 70's. That is one of the only things from my original "rock and roll" room that has survived the many moves...used to look at that poster and dream....still do

[NecroticImbecil]

We didn't have cameras back then, but there's a cave painting in France you are welcome to go check out.

[FunkRenegade]

justin bieber on the drums

Originally Posted by Siggy

It was a 62 EB-0

This was taken in 1964

[bass4worship]

Originally Posted by bass4worship

Here my wife and I back in 1967 playing a gig in NYC. I didn't marry her until 1985. I really missed that bass it was my first '65 P Bass. The amp was a Oliver combo.

Reloaded

[BassFuzz24]

My first bass was a cheap washburn bantam series that I received for my 12th birthday.

This was our first show in our drummer's parent's garage a year later.



That's me "singing" the little kid part of the prayer in Enter Sandman. I'm quite fond of the "O-face" the drummer is making.



And that's me playing the solo at the beginning of For Whom The Bell Tolls...My strap was super low so I had to bend over to reach the upper frets

[FC Bass]

My second bass, Stingray (brand, obviously not a MM) in 1991


The Fender Prodigy in 1995, almost clean and with original electronics/pickups.

(Looks like this now)
Edit: I see this has the preamp bypass switch installed (on/off to save batteries, no passive/active switch)

My first bass was an Egmond semi acoustic, no pictures (though I still have some parts that survived)

[Birdbrain]

My first bass. A Univox Hi-Flyer. 1974

[Engine207]

My first bass a beautiful Peavey T-40...


I sold it in less than a year, because I needed a Ric 4001...

[Flashback Bass]

1989 Guild Ashbory! (Just switched over from guitar.)




1990 First "real" bass. Guild B-302




2012 Guild SB-600 Pilot

[FrednBass]

Me some (and a few more) years ago.

[lavmonga]

Originally Posted by BassFuzz24

My first bass was a cheap washburn bantam series that I received for my 12th birthday.

This was our first show in our drummer's parent's garage a year later.



That's me "singing" the little kid part of the prayer in Enter Sandman. I'm quite fond of the "O-face" the drummer is making.



And that's me playing the solo at the beginning of For Whom The Bell Tolls...My strap was super low so I had to bend over to reach the upper frets

That is one massive garage.

[john_martin_sai]

My 1st bass a 1975 Rick playing in NYC in 1982.