How long have you played? :)

[scottbass]

since 1966

Billions and billions served.

 

[jasethebass]

Started at 15.....42 now

 

[shadow_FIX]

I picked up bass when I was 12, after having played piano for 6 and viola for 2. Started my first band when I was 14, played my first gig when I was 15, and then the plinko puck landed on the "play bass" category and I haven't looked back since.

I'm 21 now, so that makes 9 years.

 

[Gard]

Now, Gard, we'll have none of that, or I will have our government stop sending you our lovely maple trees. .. : )

You don't skeer me, we get most of our maple from VT and NH.

 

[godofthunder59]

I started in '71, never took a break.

 

[jive1]

Started 23 years ago at 17, been playing ever since.

 

[Turock]

Not sure, at least 40 years.

 

[kcole4001]

Christmas 1979, I was 13.
There have been very few days since that I didn't pick up a bass or guitar.

 

[aztomr]

Sophmore year in high school( 1980?), my brother took me to my first concert(Springsteen!)and I had to have a guitar. I bought a guitar a few months later. At 18 I could only play, Can't Explain, Hey Hey My My and not much else. At 19 or so I decided to actually learn how to play. I've played guitar ever since, I'm 46 now. Maybe 4 or so years ago, several of us at work were talking guitars and decided to get together and play. There were 4 of us, one guy played drums, became the drummer, one guy was GIT educated and the other didn't have the proper ego and attitude for bass. I volunteered, sat down at my computer and ebayed a bass and amp. At present, our drummer is still playing with his original band, my friend who went to GIT is "in between bands" and I still play with the third guy. I remember thinking " I'll play bass until we find a bass player, the I'm the rythm guitarist" when we started, now I think of myself as a bass player. I had an epiphany that as a bass player I'm far more sought after than a guitarist.

 

[Fat.Mike]

16 years of Bassin'. I guess my chops can drive now.

 

[HolmeBass]

Started when I was 16, been playing ever since, into my 31st year of playing bass. I too should be better than I am! Practice *a lot* while you're young, get that highly plastic brain of yours to make as many neural bass playing paths as you can.

 

[ExaltBass]

Since 1963 (48 years... and counting) oh, and I was 13 wayyy back then

 

[genericusername]

I started last August. That makes 10 months?

 

[pacojas]

I've got one year of bass experience that I've been repeating for 35 years!

(i can relate)

 

[itsmeagain]

i started at 15 and am 17 now

 

[JackTheRipper]

32 years...started in 1979 when I was 15. Bought a '77 4001 for $325. Still have it, among others.

--jack

 

[JSK5String]

Well, my band will be celebrating our 30th anniversary this October. I started about a year before that.

 

[Ric5]

How long have you played?

Since 1968.

Back then ...

And now ...

 

[tommy gilstrap]

Started bass at 17 in 1968 while playing keys and rhythm guitar in a band and the bassist quit. My bandmates had heard me noodling on his bass previously and told me that was my new instrument, they would get another keyboardist. 43 years and still going strong!

 

[TBird1958]

I started playing my Sophmore year of high school, 1974, so 36 years and as others have "I should be better"