First Bass You Got?

[Antisyzygy]

Two questions; I'm already keeping an eye out for a pewter P-Bass Special for @Laurie Bass. Want me to do the same for you? Secondly, Squier also made Strats and straight-up Jazz basses in the same color. (I should know, I have all three! ) If you answer "yes" to the first question, should I let you know if I find any of them or just the P-Bass Special?

That's appreciated. I really like that pewter color. I'm after a PJ bass mostly because I have 2 jazz basses already, and a P bass as well.

 

[thezerech]

Squire J bass affinity model black it's technically my only bass though I've a deposit on a Kramer 350B.

 

[jamro217]

Mine was a Czechoslovakia-made Jolana Iris bass...see the photo.
I got rid of the cover plates immediately and played without them. Originally, it came with factory installed strings that were covered in plastic!? I jokingly called those laundry wire.
From that, I went on to a Yugoslav made P bass copy, mangles a bit. At one point I even put in a Bartolini pup, but sold it very soon after, in order to get my first "real" bass, which was Washburn Scavenger. Matter of fact, I am trying to get that one back now.

Introducing the Roy Buchanan bass. Or is that the James Burton model? Danny Gatton?...

 

[jamro217]

First bass was a Gibson G3, which I bought in 1979 for maybe $300 with no case. At that time they weren't worth that much, but I didn't know! Loved that bass, which died tragically in a head on car wreck. Fortunately, no humans were hurt terribly bad

I still have a Gibson G3 in my humble little collection and if I want a punchy, grindy kinda tone, it's still the bass I use

When you look back over the history of the electric bass, doesn't it seem odd how Gibson was very much aware of it's main rival Fender's guitar line, but seemed completely oblivious to its successful basses? For years many Gibsons were built with SG parts and mostly short scale versions. You'd think they would have done more to promote the Thunderbird, or come out with something like the Ripper/Grabber series much earlier than they did.

 

[Tim Grant]

Hohner B bass IV. Not a bad bass at all from what I remember. I traded it over 20 years ago. Before that I played on a borrowed frankenstein bass.

 

[Ken J]

Ibanez EW10ASE
Found it as a demo in a Buffalo music store for $212.00 out the door
I play a number of musical insterments but found strings and key boards alien to me most of my life. Hooked up with a local garage band and picked up an acoustic bass and found it to be a lot of fun and bought my own and about 6 years over 25 basses later hear I am with 9 basses in hand.

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[BassHappy]

Old Kraftsman by Kay out of the Speigel catalog. Came with an amp for a cool $175. in 1964:

 

[tmdazed]

1960's model Hoyer SG knock off, got it at a garage sale in case, $10.00. This old girl served me WELL over the years played MANY a show across all provinces with her , but one day , a fateful day , I opened the case and the headstock had snapped off , had it repaired and about a year later it did it again , but also a vertical split up the neck , decided it was time to retire it . the cap was also de laminating from the body , the soap bar pickups went into a custom body I had made and sold many years ago. Last year my son found the body and the old neck , put the old girl back together we now have it as a display piece in the studio , we get everyone that comes through to jam or record to sign the body and once that is full , we are glass case mounting it up on the wall. So I in a way, still have my first bass, 35 years later, but in a re purposed role

 

[drumsnbass]

Ibanez ATK-300

Didn't really know what a good setup was at the time, and it felt like a boat anchor on me.

 

[mark beem]

My first was a white Peavey Patriot. Waaaaaay back in 1983.