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Do you still have your very first bass?

#81
Absolutely! I got my first bass at 14 and I'm 18 now. It was a white on white cheap P-bass cover - Spencer brand. When I got more into music a year later, I swapped the pickups for Dimarzios and painted the pick guard orange. Another year later, I replaced the neck because the old one warped and the action wouldn't get any closer than half an inch off the board. Next came a bridge and tuning keys, and we've been best friends since then.

As a matter of fact, that bass has stuck around longer than any of my friends. :rolleyes:

To this day, P-basses are my favorite!
 
#82
No. I ordered a Carvin 6-string with koa sides, tung oil finish, active electronics, and black hardware in 11th grade. I never really liked how it sounded. I eventually traded it for a Carvin anniversary 5-string that sounded great. Don't have that anymore, either, though.

- John
 
#84
My very first bass, bought in 1979 for $400 AUS as part of a deceased estate sale, was subsequently stolen from my car after a gig in '83 but I would definitely still own it if not for that.

Unfortunately, I'm not likely to ever get fully over it......it was a mint sunburst '64 J-bass :crying:
 
#86
The 1st, and the 2nd, sold the 3rd, still got the 4th, and the 5th, the 6th, the 7th.....


My first was a parts bass that I used to think was a Fender JP90, until I saw a real pic of one. It has a high fret, other wise i might actually still play it.... hmmm need to get that fixed I guess...
 
#87
My first bass is in pieces under my old bed at my parents house and hasn't been touched in years. I took it apart to turn it into a fretless and gave up before ever even trying! It's an old Rogue from a terrible starter pack I bought when my main focus was on guitar and I needed a bass for recording purposes. I have come a long way since then!! I hardly ever pick up my guitars now and have three new basses since the Rogue!
 
#89
I have mine still, some crappy but still in great condition GSR. Probably going to trade it in at GC to get that discount so I can get a guitar I've been gassing over.

It's my 2nd bass I'd never part with. Got it shortly after the first. It's the one that bass playing clicked for me on.
 
#90
My first bass was a VJ Rendano Explorer. Lake Placid Blue with a maple/maple neck and a matching "Fender" headstock. I have recently learned that these are a rebadged Hondo. I sold it when I was 18 to my cousin. He has no clue where it ended up. Until recently I had never seen another. I have spent better than ten years searching on the internet for another just to have one and last week I was looking through the TB classifieds and lo and behold Lazarus Bird is selling an EXACT copy of that bass. Needless to say it will be arriving at my home tomorrow. TB comes through again!

H
 
#91
i still have my first. Its a black yamaha rbx170. i got it 2 years ago when i started playing. i bought my new bass a couple months ago and now the yamaha sits on a stand in my room. Id sell it but it has large sentimaental value because i got it signed by megadeth back in febuary.
 
#92
Still have and use my first. Yamaha RBX350, circa 1982, purchased used in 1999. After I got an american Fender P a few years back, I put nice bright roundwounds on the Yamaha so now I have two basses with quite different sound and feel. Blues player, use flatwounds on the Fender. I'll never get rid of that Yamaha.
 
#93
Still do. I don't really play it much, but I never really plan on selling it (SX 5-string fretless) not because it's that great, but because:
1) It's my fretless!
2) With bartolinis, it sounds pretty good!
3) I wouldn't get more than $75 for it!
4) Someday I will fix up the fretboard (sand it down and even it out) and fix the wiring, which, while functional, looks like crap. It'll be fun to learn that!
 
#94
Yes, I still have mine. It is the best PJ bass
I've ever played. It has an 18 volt preamp
and I have never played a jazz bass as nice
as my Westone Electra X640N. I purchased
it in 1985. I was 36 years old.

Tabdog
 
#95
Unfortunately I sold my very first bass. Not that it was anything good about it, rather the opposite. But for sentimental reasons i would love to have it.
I boght it in 1992 in a shady music store in Oswiecim, Poland. It cost me 1.600.000 Zloty - that was equvoialent to $130. It was a Jolana Discobass, with a neck like a log, and a body somewhat similar to a Jaguar or Thunderbird. I don't remember how it sounded, but I have a feeling it sounded like rubber-bands.
My 2nd and 3rd bass, I still have, and now I'm GAS-ing for my 4th.
 
#96
I got a used pre-1975 Ibanez Fender Jazz Lawsuit bass in 1978. It's got good tone, but the neck is not so hot. I should have it refretted and see if the neck is still playable, now that I think about it.

I don't play it anymore, but I'll never sell it. It was my first bass. I guess I'll never forget my first girlfriend and never get rid of my first bass.
 
#97
My first is a peavey millenium bxp. I still use it for recording since it has some solid variety. Its my go to bass when something happens to electronics or something on my others. Bass 4 (modded wishbass) is my most commonly used for now. But bass one is a close second.
 
#99
Yes, I still have my first bass. As a beginner, I was inspired by Geddy Lee and Chris Squire (still am) and really wanted a Ric (still do). I bought a Univox Ric 4001 copy because it was half the price of a Ric in 1977. I don't gig with it, but still play it at home regularly for practice. It's actually a decent sounding bass with a new pickup and has great action and feel. It's worthless as far as any resale value, but is priceless to me in terms of my experience with it and sentimental value. It was the bass I learned to play on and started my first band with. I would never get rid of it and my wife jokes that I will probably be buried with it :smug:

Here's a pic of me playing it at a gig in 1979 with my first band. :D
timsoldband4.jpg
 

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