First song you remember learning to play on bass?

[Blueszilla]

In a band situation (very loosely speaking), Smoke on the Water, 1972.

 

[bassrich]

blitzkrieg Bop, Ramones

 

[codycon96]

Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy. That line, easy or not is infective.

 

[rtav]

Dazed and Confused... then the intro to the Overture of 2112.

 

[KingKrabb]

If I'm not mistaken, it was "Dammit" by Blink182. Haha.

I felt so proud of myself; I could actually play a song that me and my friends recognized. Just good times.

After that, the first "complicated" song I tackled was "Californication" by RHCP. The album had just come out and I was desperate to play something from it. I thought "Around the World" was too hard for me, so I sat down and started figuring out Californication by ear. It took forever, and a lot of it was wrong, but, man... the feeling I got when I played along with it was incomparable.

 

[KingKrabb]

Funny thing about "Californication": Once I actually figured out the correct parts (Like a few weeks after learning it), that was the last time I had to read the tabs or notation to it. To this day I remember it by heart and often play it with friends while jamming.

 

[Filkarri]

"Psycho Killer" by The Talking Heads.

 

[GKon]

"Behind The Wall of Sleep" - Black Sabbath

 

[Slough Feg Bass]

I'm not sure but I think it was either "She" by the Misfits, or "Bad Religion" by Bad Religion.
I was a teenage skater punk.

 

[Hamlet7768]

My bass teacher had just taught me the blues scale, and I was messing around with it and accidentally discovered the Sunshine of your Love riff.

 

[Sixgunn]

In a band(ish) setting: Tush by ZZ Top for our 9th grade talent show. Jazz bass copy that was bigger than me, sunglasses and the drummer knocked over his kit!!

 

[skruch]

"I Saw Her Standing There" Beatles, 1964.

 

[LordRyan]

Other than things like "Louie Louie" and "Gloria", "Hey Joe" by The Leaves was the first substantial Bass part I learned.

 

[Somnambulance]

Twinkle Twinkle little star when I was seven.

 

[WillieB]

Hollywood Swingers .... Kool and the Gang taught to me in coyles music store by an old blues guitar player while I was giving
my soon to be first bass ( Univox ) a test drive.

 

[Dana R Gregory]

Little Latin Lupi Lou by Tommy James, Gloria by the Shadows of Knight, Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl by The Barbarians, Last Time by The Rolling Stones.

 

[macmanlou]

On electric

Gloria - Shadows of Knight
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin

On upright

Brand New Tennessee Waltz - Jesse Winchester
The Boys of Bluehill - Irish Traditional

 

[scatbass]

The Trooper...

 

[Dug2]

tommy the cat by PRIMUS.....................................j/k
i dont know wat it was, was a long time ago. (i know tommy the cat now though)

 

[Flabass]

The Thrill is Gone.