How old were you on your first gig?

[deepdown]

16. In a band that specialized in Beatles only. We played for an all-girl catholic school, deep in the slums of the city.

 

[groooooove]

after trying to figure this out for about 10 mihnutes, im 95% sure i was 13. was gigging regularly at 14.

 

[Din Of Win]

I was 15 for my first live show playing bass. It was with my high school punk band and consisted of some laughably bad originals(music-wise it wasn't bad, but the lyrics... oh man). We played an out-door party where i think myself, the guitarist and the vox were all going through moniters.

Whatever though... I had a sweet mo hawk.

 

[snapple]

12. We did coffee houses and my older brother's high school.

 

[baddassbass]

age 14

at the community center up the street. Show time 8:30 P.M.
Set list was :


Satisfaction
paint it black
Evil ways
house of the rising sun
black magic woman
born to be wild
magic carpet ride
you really got me

It was pretty awesome having all those pimple face geeks rockin out....
I mean us (-:

Played a black 78 Musicmaster bass through a Peavey 2x15 black widow cabinet and a friends 300 watt Fender solid state head.

 

[bigcatJC]

First "gig" on clarinet: 12

First on bass: 14

First paying gig on bass (as a band member): 15

First subbing gig on bass: 18

Years since last gig: We don't want to talk about that...

 

[HailCorduroy]

36, it was last night.

 

[TOOL460002]

age 20.

i really wish i got in a band in high school. i was good enough for sure, but i was quite self-conscious, and a little shy. after a long break, i started up again at 25. now that im not in a band anymore, i really miss the stage. i just need to find some like-minded folks around here.

 

[ReIgnition]

13 or 14

 

[kcamsdog1387]

I was 13. Well it wasnt even really a gig. Godsmack played my uncle's birthday party (he has a bike shop and the band is from our neighborhood). So they played a set and after I was telling Robbie Merrel I was into bass. So he asked Sully to step in on drums and I jammed with him and Tony on "Rockin in the Free World" and "Back in Black". That's when I got the itch.

 

[mndean]

Guitar, 19. Bass, 21. Only two gigs I played until coming July 4, 25 years later. Now if you want to count my elementary school band where parents were the only audience, I was 10 and played the baritone, a bigass (well, it seemed that way to me at 10) valved brass instrument somewhere between a tuba and a French horn. Hey, I learned to play the Hawaii-Five O theme on it. On my own. Must have annoyed my old neighbors with me blasting away on that thing, but then they invited us over to watch Lawrence Welk to get even with me.

 

[yodedude2]

i played my first paying gig when i was around 37. later, ron

 

[Edgar664]

14, it was in my school in a battle of the bands kind of thing haha my and my band were the only ones that played metal, I was already the guy who dressed with Pantera t-shirts, by the way we played so bad, I barely could hold the bass!

 

[bass_lord_mutha]

12 in orchestra, playing viola and cello, 13 playing upright bass, 14 playing electric bass, 17 playing electric bass in first paying bar gig. Been going strong after the bar gig for 7 years

 

[Stumpy]

Ist gig ever was when I was 10. My first gig as a bassist was at 14. I had already put 3 instruments into my arsenal (Trumpet, percussion, Euphonium and finally bass).

I played with a Fender PBass a borrowed Fender Bassman.

 

[TRCat]

First Gig at 48 - 23 May 2009 - "proof of concept" gig at local pub. Surf's Up!
First Paid Gig - last wknd; 1 hr set; 250 GBP ($415) for the 5 of us!

So now my wife see's that my "mid-Life crisis/hobby" actually pays! Which allowed my "GAS" to take form in the shape of a MB LM2 and/and the MB 104HF Cab!

 

[countrybassist]

My first gig was when I was 13, and I'm now 44. I had a few years off, but overall I have and still do 2-5 gigs per week. So if I average that to 3 gigs per week thats 156 gigs per year and if I take that over the time that I've been playing that totals about 4,800 gigs. Believe it or not I still have fun with it. Just thought of something. Maybe that's why I've been divorced twice!

 

[bassist4dalord]

I was 16 for my first real gig. Hard to believe that was a little over a year ago But I've been playing at church since age 14. Lovin' every minute of it.

 

[jojobean39]

I was 13. That was the first time I played with a proper band anyway. I had played at church a little bit before that.

 

[braydenwise]

I subbed in a country band for my first gig when I was 15 (unpaid - my dad snuck me in the back door of the bar). First paid gigs would've started about six months later working with an aboriginal singer/songwriter.