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The first bass you had!

#21
My first bass was a black "thing" called Moridira Hurricane EXB-04. The sound was .... above average because it has been played by my father for a massive ammount of years. I think it's also a fake. [it is made in korea] There are so many dents on it. It is very dirty and worn out. The jack port is also near broken. I heard other people say this is an excellent bass, but I think this one is fake.

Anybody think this is a fake?

Tommorow my father will be giving me his other Aria Pro II and an amp so I'm happy now. I started playing for half a month only, while my father played for around 22 years.
 
#24
Originally posted by rickbass1
Sky blue Sears Silvertone g****r with nails driven into the head so I could detune the strings and angle them for adequate tension.

If that doesn't qualify, it was a red sparkle Norma, (Swedish?), that was the most blurred, inarticulate (worse than Gibson EB's :eek: ), piece of dung that I have ever had the disgrace to own. But, whaddaya want for $78?
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Hey!! I had a Norma too. I had a light wood colored semi acoustic violin bass from them

My first was a old Eko though. I don't know the model number. But it was pretty cool I traded it eventually for credit against a Aria Straycat.
 
#25
My first Bass was a Grant Violin bass it was a present for Christmas when I was 13, 1975 I still have it now, although I did bastardise it by first filing the frets down with a huge file from my dad's garage and then I pulled the frets out because I was gonna be the next Jaco -- not ! -- I've since pushed the fret wire back in and believe it or not the thing still sounds pretty good. The things you do as a teenager !!

Stu
 
#26
My first bass was a Yamaha 3/4 size Bb tuba. That thing really rocked.

Seriously, my first bass guitar was a MIM Jazz. It is still my main bass. It has had the frets removed, a Badass II, and the pickups have been wired for single coil, parrallel, or series operation like a Reverend Rumblefish XL. It is the only fretless electric I will ever play... That is until I end up yanking the frets out of my new Modulus.
 
#27
The first bass I played was a US Navy surplus aluminum upright bass at school - I got one 5 minute lesson from the guy who encouraged me to pick up violin 3 yrs earlier (school music teacher) - He said, "Remember how the violin is tuned EADG?? Well, this is the opposite: GDAE." And that was the only lesson I had until I majored in double bass in college. (ouch)

The first electric bass I owned was a Crown, made in Japan, around 1963 or 1964. As featured in the Lafayette Radio catalog (think Radio Shack of the 60's). I trashed the bass after I got a Fender in the 70's but recently found one just like it, shown on my web site (URL below).

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Ampeg SB-12 stack in background--

ooooohhhhh!! 25 watts!! Feel the power!!
 
#28
my first bass was a squier standard p - bass special 5 string. there was a major problem with the electronics so i took it back to the shop and they traded me that bass plus 200 bux and i got a mim deluxe v active jazz bass. so i kinda consider this to be my first one. i dont plan on ever selling it.
 
#30
my brother started playing bass, and i had been playing guitar for 2 years. he had a fender p-bass, which i constantly stole to play. it was kind of heavy, but thats probably because i now have soundgear. i still steal it as an alternate bass, to keep in drop d for shows, and it was surprinsgly cheap for a fender.
 
#31
Originally posted by Yvon
My first bass was a peavey T-40 fretless.
It was a good bass, but very very heavy!
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<marquee> Woo Hoo! :D </marquee>

I'm not the only one with a peavey T-40! It was my first bass also. It's not fretless though. Mr. T (as I call him) is pretty old so the electronics are gone, but I still play him like the old days. I've only been playin for close to 2 years, so I guess I have no old days. :) Oh well! :D
 
#33
First bass was a Harmony P-Bass copy-straight out of the J.C. Penney catalog. Played it through a Fender Princeton amp until I got a "proper" bass amp: A Gorilla 30 watt with a "funk bass" switch. Not quite sure if that would be considered an upgrade. Although I sure was ashamed of that rig at the time (all the other kids had Fenders), I think an argument can be made that starting on a "budget" instrument is not necessarily a bad thing. It makes the switch to a nice bass all the better.
 
#34
I, like many, chose the Ibanez GSR 200...Not my favorite bass ever, but I tell you what, I am SOOOO happy I didn't get the Rouge I was thinking about getting. Best move I ever made. I like it, I really do. Pups are weak, but the neck is *perfect* to me. I swear, one of these days, I'm gonna transplant the neck onto something worthy then I wouldn't have to worry about it. And no, I have no sentimentality towards the bass as a whole. Just the neck is that wierd or what?
 
#35
My first bass was an Eros jazz bass copy I bought in about 1976. A quality copy at the time (what happened to 70s brands like Eros, Maya, CSL and all the other identikit Japanese stuff?) compared to some of the junk out. It cost me £120 with hard case. Wow! That hard case almost broke my back! Solid plywood! Some things have definitely improved since the 70s...

I sold it in about 1986, having given up bass 4 years previously.

My second bass, bought 12 years later was a Washburn XB200. That became a Stu Hamm USA Urge after 2 months, which turned into a '64 jazz bass which turned into a '96 P bass in 99...which is where I stopped on fretted bass.

That P has now done over 200 gigs and I love it.

My first fretless was also a Washburn XB200 ( a different one). That became A Rob Allen MB2 in about six months. I have had the Allen for about a year and a half now.

There we are, much more than my first bass. I obviously should stop writing now and go to bed..it's 4am here...
 
#37
I got my first bass in 1986: a black Kramer Pioneer JJ, with maple neck, gold hardware, and Schaller bridge and double-J humbucking pickups. The bridge p/u had a selector for series/parallel/single coil operation. It was very playable and had a happening, unique sound. Billy Sheehan used a Pioneer similar to this model that had a P pickup in front for a while during the mid-'80's.

For some reason I traded it for a terrible garish blue Guild Pilot with EMG's, a rosewood fingerboard, and absolutely no bottom end. Several months later I got my first gourmet bass, a white fretless Alembic Spoiler.
 
#40
Originally posted by bassgeek
First bass was a Harmony P-Bass copy-straight out of the J.C. Penney catalog. Played it through a Fender Princeton amp until I got a "proper" bass amp: A Gorilla 30 watt with a "funk bass" switch. Not quite sure if that would be considered an upgrade. Although I sure was ashamed of that rig at the time (all the other kids had Fenders), I think an argument can be made that starting on a "budget" instrument is not necessarily a bad thing. It makes the switch to a nice bass all the better.
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And I thought I was the only one who ever owned one of those.Sure did make my next Bass(Squier P)feel like a million bucks.Sold both of those and now play a MIA P.
 

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