I'm on my second bass now and was thinking about selling my starter and got to wondering, how many people keep their very first bass? If so, do you still use it, what kind is it? If not, what did you sell, and for how much?
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Do you still have your very first bass?
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I'm still on my first bass so yes, I still have it. I got new pickups put in last year though. 
Its a squier vm jazz bass.
Its a squier vm jazz bass.
I've kept mine. Its a Canora P-bass copy in Sunburst. Wears GHS Boomer strings now. I got it when I was 19. I'm 38 now. It was my only bass for years before I got some others. Always handy to have a couple...spares for on the road, alternate tunings/tones etc.
Wow awesome! I've been wanting to find a '73 fender (my birth year) but they ain't cheap, or readily available!!
Still got my first affinity p, but mostly because it wouldn't be worth selling anyway.
And I get a good feeling when I walk into my room and see all three of my basses (2 affinity p's and my 81 Destroyer 2) sitting there on their stands. After a crappy day its like coming home to a bunch of old friends waiting for me. (yeah, I know, I'm just weird like that
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And I get a good feeling when I walk into my room and see all three of my basses (2 affinity p's and my 81 Destroyer 2) sitting there on their stands. After a crappy day its like coming home to a bunch of old friends waiting for me. (yeah, I know, I'm just weird like that
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i don't. it was the Fender Sting signature bass. a fine bass, just not really for me. down to just my 4001, (gently modified)Fender Prophecy II, and a cheap-o 70s SG copy that is being converted into a sort of frankenstein SG Bass VI(the neck was shot, so i decided to experiment).
I think you should keep your first bass. I still use mine, a Hondo P-copy that I'm fairly sure was made in the 70s. I first replaced the P pickup with a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound, and since then it's gone through various (chiseled-out) bridge pickups. Now it's about to get a mudbucker - P - mudbucker configuration (either the P or both mudbuckers, two volumes straight to the jack). And a knockoff Ric 4001 bridge to better match the mud string spacing -- because, why not?
Doing home surgery on basses is fun.
Doing home surgery on basses is fun.
I sold mine after getting my second bass. She was a Squier affinity P in CAR. Beautiful bass and a great player. I really regret selling it:/ but not nearly as much as I regret getting my second bass haha. Basses 3 and 4 are going well and are likely to be in my stable for life
I wish I did. My first bass was a Hofner solid body bass, that had many previous owners. I got it through borrowing it from a friend and ended up paying him £5 for it after I had borrowed it for a year of gigging (we were in the same band). It had been 'customised' by being brush painted in a nasty coffee coloured brown. The bridge was very crude, it had guitar sized tuners and was a short scale bass with flats (not what you need when you're trying to be Chris Squire). I never really knew what it was, but I'm fairly sure that it was a Hofner 182 from around 1964.
I played it from around 1972 until 1976 when I bought the 73 Ric 4001 that is still my main bass. I layed the coffee brown Hofner aside and forgot about it - I left it at my Mum and Dad's house when I moved out well over 30 years ago and I have no idea where the little Hofner is - probably hit the trash can years ago in one of my dad's clearouts.
It was a rubbish bass, but it did see me through the first few gigging years when I couldn't afford anything better. I wish I still had it just for the nostalgia
I played it from around 1972 until 1976 when I bought the 73 Ric 4001 that is still my main bass. I layed the coffee brown Hofner aside and forgot about it - I left it at my Mum and Dad's house when I moved out well over 30 years ago and I have no idea where the little Hofner is - probably hit the trash can years ago in one of my dad's clearouts.
It was a rubbish bass, but it did see me through the first few gigging years when I couldn't afford anything better. I wish I still had it just for the nostalgia
My first bass was an Ibanez I bought in '98. I don't remember what model. I still have it and would still play it, but years of use and abuse have left it a wreck. I'm working on rebuilding it right now. It was my only instrument for 11 years.
I recently sold my first bass. I had always planned on keeping it around as a spare, and for sentimental reasons.
Then I started keeping track of how often I actually played it. The grand total times I picked it up since I bought it's 'replacement'? Zero.
So I decided to sell it and use the money for something that I'd more actively use, which actually wasn't even music related.
Do I miss it? Yes, but only for sentimental reasons - not because of the bass itself (although I really did like the bass, it's replacement is a whole new level of instrument).
Now instead of four basses, I have only three.
-K
Then I started keeping track of how often I actually played it. The grand total times I picked it up since I bought it's 'replacement'? Zero.
So I decided to sell it and use the money for something that I'd more actively use, which actually wasn't even music related.
Do I miss it? Yes, but only for sentimental reasons - not because of the bass itself (although I really did like the bass, it's replacement is a whole new level of instrument).
Now instead of four basses, I have only three.
-K
Sorta, I gave it to my girlfriend to encourage her to keep playing bass. It's still referred to as 'mine', and she even gave me her squier guitar. It's been totally worth it because she plays it more than I would!
I had a cheapo bass some time, but I rarely played it and so it gathered dust.
As to the first bass I really took any notice of, and actually bothered to learn to play properly in any way, shape and form is my 1976 Shergold, which is on semi-permanent loan to a friend of mine who wants to play a fretless. But I still occasionally play it.
As to the first bass I really took any notice of, and actually bothered to learn to play properly in any way, shape and form is my 1976 Shergold, which is on semi-permanent loan to a friend of mine who wants to play a fretless. But I still occasionally play it.
Yep. My parents got it for me for £30 with an amp.
Replaced the pickups (SD QP P and John Worrell J), refinished the neck and replaced the bridge and strap pins.
I even regularly play it, it is my drop D bass.
Replaced the pickups (SD QP P and John Worrell J), refinished the neck and replaced the bridge and strap pins.
I even regularly play it, it is my drop D bass.
i sold it, and i bought it back again, it was a MIJ j-bass and im not sure if its a greco or a fernando since somebody removed the headstock decal.
i just bought a ken smith bridge for it ... i admit im keeping it for the sentimental thing
i just bought a ken smith bridge for it
... i admit im keeping it for the sentimental thing
