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the bass and amp you started witz.
- Thread starter gary mitchell
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I had a Telestar Beatle bass knockoff and a Montgomery Ward guitar amp......
1968...............
EEK!
1968...............
EEK!
1980s-era Korean p-bass-style "Phantom" (not the teardrop shaped ones everyone knows) bought with $90 of lawn-mowing money by 11-year-old-me. For an amp - a Crate B-10, rent-to-own from the local shop, about $115 in 1986.
Phantom guitars bass Red 1980's rare | David Willis - the bass was this, but in black.
Phantom guitars bass Red 1980's rare | David Willis - the bass was this, but in black.
Epiphone EA 260 through an Amp B-15N flip top, neither of which I owned
I moved up (or was it a lateral move?) to a Peavey T-40 through a Peavey guitar amp driving a homemade cabinet after a couple of years.
I moved up (or was it a lateral move?) to a Peavey T-40 through a Peavey guitar amp driving a homemade cabinet after a couple of years.
The year was 1982 and for my 18th birthday I got this Aria SB700 Bass (which I still own and still love)...
...and with it a 75 watt Laney Linebacker combo with a 1x15” speaker. Did me for about 7 or 8 years until I traded up to a Trace Elliott 200 watt Series 6 combo.
A bit like this...
...but without a limiter or pre-shape preset.
...and with it a 75 watt Laney Linebacker combo with a 1x15” speaker. Did me for about 7 or 8 years until I traded up to a Trace Elliott 200 watt Series 6 combo.
A bit like this...
...but without a limiter or pre-shape preset.
I started with a green Made-in-Japan bass in 1965 (piece of crap!) and used the door to a closet as a sounding board so I could hear it. In 1966 I bought my first brand-new amp. It was a 1966 Fender Bassman amp (50-watt tube amp with large 212 cabinet).
Played one battle of the bands at a local movie theater with that set up and then was asked to join a different band. The bass player from this other band was going to play keyboards for them and sold me his 1965 Fender Jazz Bass. I used that until about 1972 when the keyboards and guitar players of the group I was playing in bought Vox Super Beatle amps. Then my 50-watt Fender Bassman just couldn't keep up. So I upgraded to a Standel amp with a powered 215 cab that could smoke anything anyone else available at the time.
That 1966 Fender Bassman served me well for quite a while but just not enough power in the early 70's. It had another problem though. The speaker cab kept blowing speakers. This is before the Thiele-Small studies were available, so most cab design it was trial and error. Fender saw that folks were turning their Bassman and Bandmaster amps vertically instead of horizontally, so they changed the cab in 1966 to the larger cab they were using with their Dual Showman amps, but they mounted two 12" speakers vertically in it instead of two 15" ones. The 12's just didn't work well with that cab and I blew three speakers out of that cab while I had it. In 1967, they put 15" speakers in the same cab and all was well with the world once again.
My 1965 Fender Jazz was stolen in 1976 or I would still be playing it. Good news is that my current Jazz that I bought in 1985 has the same feel to the neck that my '65 did.
Mine was in the summer of 1982, just before my 16th birthday. Bought a Lotus P-bass copy and a Marlboro 220B combo from a local music store for $250. Traded my cornet from grade school & jr high band. Wish I still had that bass. Every time I see one now, people are asking $800+ for them.
(internet pics, not mine)
(internet pics, not mine)
Norma Bass with a Heit bass amp one knob on the face was a 6 or 8" speaker cracked it open and connect a old car speaker on a piece of plank I than stuck it inside a Igloo foam ice chest that was my first ever electric bass gear it was 1969 I was 11. And 6 years later that same kid was playing through two 300 watt SVT and 2 8*10 cabinets go figure
I started off with a National bass thru a Randall 100w 15" combo. It couldn't hang with a drummer, so I got a Peavey Mark IV thru an 1810 cab.
There it is! That's the same amp I had when was 14! Thanks for posting this!
I started with a $100 pawn shop Green Jackson CMG Concert and a $75 acoustic B100 15" combo amp.
They were both the only things worth buying on craigslist at the time and worked really well for the price. I even did some serious country band gigging with that Jackson before buying my P Bass. Opened for Eli Young with that pointy thing. (Choosing to upgrade my cabinet and amp before messing with a new Guitar.) I really didn't fit the aesthetic of a country band.
They were both the only things worth buying on craigslist at the time and worked really well for the price. I even did some serious country band gigging with that Jackson before buying my P Bass. Opened for Eli Young with that pointy thing. (Choosing to upgrade my cabinet and amp before messing with a new Guitar.) I really didn't fit the aesthetic of a country band.
Line 6 LD15. I still have it but it never gets used. They’re only like $15 at GC used so it’s not worth selling it really.
In 1973, Kingston two pickup Japanese bass and a Fender Musicmaster tube amp. Wish I still had the amp, they go for around $400 used as guitar amps now. (Not the actual ones I owned.)
First bass- Squiers 70s jazz (natural)- sold
Amp- epiphone studio 15r (had no bass amp then)- still have
year of purchase- 2015? i played guitar for 3 years prior.
Amp- epiphone studio 15r (had no bass amp then)- still have
year of purchase- 2015? i played guitar for 3 years prior.
