My First Good Bass!

[Dr. Cheese]

http://www.bassnw.com/Kebos Bass Works/kb_rickenbacker_1973_4000_jetglo_MH3987.htm

My first good bass was a Rickenbacker 4000. I bought one for $448 back in 1978. If I known they would worth so much now, I would not have let it go or a G&L.

 

[Batmensch]

My first good bass - a '78 P-bass, bought about 1991 for around $350 -
(this is not my actual bass but it's exactly the same)

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Although I am not into the Rickenbacker sound anymore, I would love to have another 4000. It played great, and I loved the sound. The pickup had very high output and it had a sweet slap tone too. The only downside was when my band recorded a demo and the engineer did not like the sound. I ran the bass with a phase pedal just barely on and it worked out alright.

 

[gurensan]

My first good one was my 74 Telecaster. I didn't know it was good at the time because I was Modern Bass Deaf. I thought old Fenders grew on trees because only a few months later I got a 78 fretless P for $250. I was young and stupid.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

My first good one was my 74 Telecaster. I didn't know it was good at the time because I was Modern Bass Deaf. I thought old Fenders grew on trees because only a few months later I got a 78 fretless P for $250. I was young and stupid.

That reminds me of the Pre-Ernie Ball Stingray I bought for $250 around 1987.
I later bought a Sabre for $750 around 1994.

 

[pacojas]

78 P bass here, too!
(bought new at GC in 1980)

it now belongs to my weird friend, Mikey! plays like butta after all these years. i'd buy it back, but it's no longer stock, thanks to me.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

78 P bass here, too!
(bought new at GC in 1980)

it now belongs to my weird friend, Mikey! plays like butta after all these years. i'd buy it back, but it's no longer stock, thanks to me.

There nothing like a good playing P-bass. The smoothest bass I ever played was a 1959 Precision at Elderley Music around 1989. It was $1080, which was a mint to me at the time.

 

[pacojas]

There nothing like a good playing P-bass. The smoothest bass I ever played was a 1959 Precision at Elderley Music around 1989. It was $1080, which was a mint to me at the time.

talk about "what-ifs"!!!

i'm blown away by the CS 59P RELIC. my friend had one in trans-white that was addicting. i just could not put it down. played like magic!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

talk about "what-ifs"!!!

i'm blown away by the CS 59P RELIC. my friend had one in trans-white that was addicting. i just could not put it down. played like magic!

It would have been cool if I had bought that '59 Prevision, but knowing me, there is no guarantee that I would have had sense enough to keep it!

 

[hdracer]

Awe that's nothing.
I had a 1968 Chevy Impala SS 427 that I had to sell in '75 because I could not afford to put gas in it to get to school. It was mint. Because it was a big block and the gas lines were a mile long I could only get $1000 and a crappy Vega for it.

I saw one just like it sell at Barrett-Jackson's for $35,000

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Awe that's nothing.
I had a 1968 Chevy Impala SS 427 that I had to sell in '75 because I could not afford to put gas in it to get to school. It was mint. Because it was a big block and the gas lines were a mile long I could only get $1000 and a crappy Vega for it.

I saw one just like it sell at Barrett-Jackson's for $35,000

At least you enjoyed it while you had it!

 

[giacomini]

Fender P-Plus here.

Not the best MIA out of the Fender factory, but it was my first good bass at the time.

 

[M. Owen Santy]

Tobias Growler (early - before Gibson 'effed them up) - It's in my profile pic. I got very ill at one time and thought I would never play again - passed it on to another player. Wish I had that now!

 

[georgestrings]

I had a Gibson RD Artist I wish I had back...


- georgestrings

 

[experimental bassist]

My first "good" bass was an early '80s Aria Pro.

But my first "expensive" bass was a mid 80's 4003, cost just under $800 brand new (I too had a lot of resistance from sound engineers when it came time to record with it, it hummed like crazy). Sold it in the early nineties for not much money, apparently it was just before used Rics started having such a "mystique". Oh well, live and learn.

Although I could replace my Ric now if I wanted to, I won't since I found I'm 100 percent a Precision player at heart.

Cool thread topic.

 

[Chef]

My first "real bass" was a 1972 Fender ash/maple Jazz.
It played and sounded great. It weighed 14lbs.

I traded it for a 1972 Fender ash/maple Precision that weighed in the hiugh 9's, which I still have. Many thousands of road miles and gigs on that bass.

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[Ric5]

My first good bass was a Hofner, 2nd was a Gibson EB0, the 3rd good bass was a 1968 Rickenbacker 4001. That was my main bass for 35 years, until I got into 5 string basses.

 

[madbassplaya]

I feel my first bass was a "good" bass in that I still have it, the neck never moves and it still sounds good. It is a Peavey Millennium 5 BXP.

My first "good" bass that was made in the USA was a Sideburn'd Funk Machine called a Peavey T20. That bass isn't worth much today...but it was solid!

Not my actual bass.

My first Expensive bass was a US Peavey Cirrus. I traded it for a Fender not long after I got it.

 

[antonspon]

My first bass was a good bass, in that it played and was made at least as well as anything Fender et al were producing at the time: a 1980 Ibanez Blazer bass (wish I still had it!). My next bass was (and still is) even better, though: my 1973 Rickenbacker 4001 is my best friend (certainly more faithful than some of the humans I've known over the years!).

 

[Immigrant]

My first bass (that was mine and not borrowed) was purchased by my mommy for me around 1975. I was a drummer and decided to switch to bass, so I ditched drums and got a brand new Gibson Grabber (Gene fan) and a used Ampeg B-15. Traded it in a year later for drums again. What a stupid kid that grew into a stupid adult.