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Did you keep your first bass?

#82
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. :)
 
#84
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.
 
#86
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." :bassist:
 
#88
Diesel Kilgore said:
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." :bassist:
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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.
 
#90
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.
 
#92
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.
 
#94
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.
 
#96
coop said:
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.
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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.
 
#99
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.
 
#100
kbakerde said:
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.
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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.
 

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