It was 1976 -

[Mvilmany]

1976: my batman action figure was my most prized possession; Star Wars wouldn't change my life until a year later.

 

[jimdgreat1]

Was 11 and learning to read bass, playing trombone in the band.

 

[bdplaid]

I do miss easy girls. Of course I play bass so they would ignore me too.

But they loved my platform shoes.

 

[bdplaid]

'76 was a great year.
If I told you even half of the cool stuff I did in '76 you'd never believe me!

And just look at the top 40 playlist. funk was just coming into the mainstream, it was a great time to be a bass player.

On April 2nd 1976 a natural Gibson Grabber was born and made its way around the USA before landing in Germany sometime in the distant future. April 2nd 1988 I was born. 14 years on I picked up my first bass, but always lusted after the Grabber series. 2003 came along and I spotted a beautiful Grabber in great condition, £400, listed on eBay, with shipping from Germany available. It arrived in my hands, I immediately loved everything about this bass, apart from the sick smell under the scratch plate. Doing a full clean soon after her arrival I found a piece of cucumber under the pots and the smell of puke was strong. And there stamped on the neck was "Nat - April 2nd 1976".
We've shared some amazing experiences over the last 13 years, almost 300 shows and god knows how many rehearsal hours. Went through a bass drum. Smashed the singer in the face with her headstock, but she's still going strong. Might not be a birth year bass but sure as hell cool to have something that shares the same day of birth!!

A keyboard player I worked with in the 70's era found inside the keyboard what looked to be a piece of chicken.

And back in the day your bass was made, I never once saw anyone playing a Grabber or anything other than a Fender.

 

[BASSKADET]

If you were older than 15 in 1976 and can remember it then you couldn't have possibly really been there. Just sayin'.....

I was older than 15 the latter part of the 60's. I got to see Jimi.

 

[Microbass]

And back in the day your bass was made, I never once saw anyone playing a Grabber or anything other than a Fender.

I think only about 5000 shipped during production. I've never seen anyone else gig one!

 

[1stnamebassist]

Great story.

I was eating crayons and peeing the bed '76...........

I know, me too! WE had some crazy chemicals back then! That's the year I graduated!

 

[TN WOODMAN]

Saw Frampton 7-4-76 ( Nashville Speedway with Tracey Nelson and Mother Earth and Gary Wright opening) two days before my 16 th birthday and saw a live concert by him on bro in law's dish on my 56th bd and he looks younger than me now. Glad he got his #1 Les Paul back.

 

[TN WOODMAN]

For thread relevance should add that Stanley Sheldon played his Fretless tuxedo p all night.

 

[JMacBass65]

Nice bass. I was 11 in June of '76. Had always been into music, as my parents were, and around that time I was way into The Beach Boys. Sometime that summer a friend came over with two albums - Kiss Alive and Aerosmith Rocks. Everything changed from that point on. Like someone else mentioned, I saw Frampton as well, but it was a year later.

Even though I kinda split between the 70's and 80's, I consider myself more a child of the 70's than the 80's. Maybe it's because I graduated in the early 80's ('83) and didn't go to college.