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Do you still have your very first bass?
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Early 90's MIJ Fender P-Bass Lyte Deluxe. It sits in the corner of my office at work. I play it on occasion at the end of the day.
I traded my squier affinity series p-bass. For an ibanez GAXb discontinued series bass. I was crossed between deedee ramone and gene simmons. I still proudly own the ibanez, itès all digned up and love it to bits.
ShredderMaximus said: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 likeye coming home to a bunch of old friends waiting for me. (yeah, I know, I'm just weird like that)
donr worry i feel the same way
I started playing 18 years ago and I still have my first bass.
1983 Yamaha BB300. I had the body cut out for a J pickup, so it's a P-J bass with EMG pickups. Funny thing is, I can play fast on it and it seems easier to play but I still use my 5 string for gigs/practice. My 5 string has better tone and more range.
1983 Yamaha BB300. I had the body cut out for a J pickup, so it's a P-J bass with EMG pickups. Funny thing is, I can play fast on it and it seems easier to play but I still use my 5 string for gigs/practice. My 5 string has better tone and more range.
Yea, that thing has some serious character. I mean, yes it looks kind of horrible, but it's horrible in such a unique way that you can't help but admire it.
Seriously, I'd buy that bass if it were for sale and I could afford it (I can't right now, I just replaced a water heater and had a surgery in the family and also fixed my car, so . . .) I'm not offering, but it is a really unique-looking, uhn, thing. That you have, there.
Does it sound good?
After 28 years, I finally let my first go, just last week. A 1982 Fender Bullet Deluxe. My Ric is in the shop, and I was left with the Bullet and an Aria Pro, as my back-ups. The Bullet looked and sounded great. The Aria played and sounded great. But, I guess I'm spoiled from playing the Ric for so long. The Ric looks, plays, AND sounds great.
Was hating life, so I traded the two and an old amp for my first Jazz. She's a senorita (MIM), but a very lovely senorita. Ran the set-up routine on it, and it almost plays itself. Now my problem is that I'm not sure which one is the back-up, any more, because I'm so happy with it.
Now, someone will be able to give the Bullet the love it deserves. I probably played it all of 10 hours since I got the Ric. Thought I'd be bummin, but I'm not. I'm stoked just to have two really solid basses. hrb
Was hating life, so I traded the two and an old amp for my first Jazz. She's a senorita (MIM), but a very lovely senorita. Ran the set-up routine on it, and it almost plays itself. Now my problem is that I'm not sure which one is the back-up, any more, because I'm so happy with it.
Now, someone will be able to give the Bullet the love it deserves. I probably played it all of 10 hours since I got the Ric. Thought I'd be bummin, but I'm not. I'm stoked just to have two really solid basses. hrb
Yeah I've still got mine - 1999-2000 MIM jazz...I don't play it much nowadays as the last setup I had done screwed it up a bit (the ONLY time the pickups had been adjusted since it was bought in 2000...grr - stupid setup guy!!!) Once I get a job and have it set up again it'll be played more often, but until I got my MIJ Jaguar it was the best bass I had (out of 7, including MIJ's/MIM's and a MIK squier...)
I wish I still had my 1st bass. It was stolen from my friend's house about 10yrs ago. It was a red Yamaha. That's all I remember of it.
It wasn't bad, but the neck warped and had to go! I taught myself on mine too. I'm on number 3; I don't think I could give each fair attention if I had many more!
I still got mine, Hohner The Jack, and once in a while I still jack her up and play a few tunes. I originally bought the bass to play one cover song, A Forest (by The Cure) in the band I was playing lead guitars in. Now I play bass in my current band and loving it but now my main is a MM Bongo 4HH, a USA L2K and a Fender Jazz. 
Still have my first bass. A stagg that i bought for 100EUR 7 years ago and cant play with it cause the neck is bent at the 7 fret and the cords are about 2cm from the fretboard and must say sounds like crap. I have all my basses since I started. Stagg whale ltd and my lasted thunderbird.
My first bass was right off the shelf, brand new at Radio Shack circa 1967.
It was some Japanese made, Fire engine red, Thunderbird like copy with a white pick guard that
covered 90% of the bass top and sold for $47 + tax.
It was like a gift of gold to me at the time and signaled I had arrived, and was now a bonafide Rock & Roller.
Completely ignorant of the bridge saddle function, I screwed the saddles all the way back and in a straight line because
I thought the factory stepped placement with the E saddle closest to the bridge and the G furthest away looked dumb!
Also had no idea that moving the saddles all the way back raised the action.
Boy I struggled with fingering but figured it's bass and was supposed to be a challenge!
Within 2 weeks the broke the G string but never got it replaced, back then I never used that string anyway and it's too expensive to replace the entire set. Got in a band, played gigs and saved up for a real bass after I got shamed by a real bassist at a 'battle of the bands'.
Sold it one year later for $45 and it was like gold to the newbie guy that bought it.
A few years later I saw it collecting dust in a corner of his room with a section of a pencil used as the nut.
Never saw him or that golden bass again.
It was some Japanese made, Fire engine red, Thunderbird like copy with a white pick guard that
covered 90% of the bass top and sold for $47 + tax.
It was like a gift of gold to me at the time and signaled I had arrived, and was now a bonafide Rock & Roller.
Completely ignorant of the bridge saddle function, I screwed the saddles all the way back and in a straight line because
I thought the factory stepped placement with the E saddle closest to the bridge and the G furthest away looked dumb!
Also had no idea that moving the saddles all the way back raised the action.
Boy I struggled with fingering but figured it's bass and was supposed to be a challenge!
Within 2 weeks the broke the G string but never got it replaced, back then I never used that string anyway and it's too expensive to replace the entire set. Got in a band, played gigs and saved up for a real bass after I got shamed by a real bassist at a 'battle of the bands'.
Sold it one year later for $45 and it was like gold to the newbie guy that bought it.
A few years later I saw it collecting dust in a corner of his room with a section of a pencil used as the nut.
Never saw him or that golden bass again.
I still have my first bass, a 1972 Fender Telacaster bass. I traded a Vox Super Beatle solid state amp with blown speakers for the guitar. I played that bass for quite a while but their are few things I did not like. The guitar is very heavy and the back of the body has a hard edge which would make my ribs sore after a long gig. Now the bass hangs on the wall in my music room. The good news is that these guitars are now selling for around $3 grand to collectors. It might be time to sell it to someone who would apreciate it more that I do.
Mine was a Washburn XB105. Last I saw it some scumbag was picking it out of the Spring cleaning trash! That was 8 years ago.
That was 8 years ago.
