No, my first guitar however a couple of years earlier was pure poop.
My first bass I still own, and it was an
Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic from 1986, one of the last models made on the legendary Japanese Matsumoku factory, bought used around the mid 90's, shortly after I, using a borrowed bass, had answered an add and gotten accepted into a band with a guitarist/singer and drummer in an originals band looking for a bass player, since I shortly before that had fallen hopelessly in love with how bass felt and sounded to play after accidentally having picked up the bass players bass at band rehearsal with the band where I played guitar at the time being (at that point I had gotten a better guitar too, a Tokai Strat clone, a Christmas gift from my dad, which though I don't own anymore, even if I continued to play guitar on the sideline).
After that bass quickly took over as my main instrument of choice, just something about it that made it the perfect instrument for me, and I knew that right away, it was like I had been thinking more like a bass player all along, and everything I've learned from those couple of years on guitar prior to me picking up the bass suddenly clicking and making so much more sense to me on bass and being so much easier for me to translate into something actually musically worthwhile.
Like for instance the scales I had practiced on guitar suddenly not just being a jumble of notes creating a ascending or descending melody, but being hard for me to really apply to anything practically on guitar beyond their own inherent context, but me suddenly when playing bass actually understanding them as being useful building blocks that I relatively effortless, based on the vocal melody and what the guitarist played, could combine to construct melodic bass lines from that at the same time supported the music, right from the very first session with that drummer and guitarist/singer.
Here the Aria Pro II is, which as said I still own, great instrument:
Played it through a 50W
Dynacord Bass-King T going through some 1x15 cab, an amp from somewhere around the 70's, a hybrid solid state/tube amp, but something as rare as with the preamp stage being solid state and the poweramp stage being tube driven.
Actually a more than decent amp, which, despite it's just 50W rating was capable of putting out just enough clean power to keep up with that drummer and guitarist/singer and actually being easily heard and able to hear myself without getting lost in the mix.
Even played a fair share of gigs using that 50W Dynacord amp, though most of them miked up or DI'ed with monitors on stage, and at that point having bought an additional 2X15" cab for it.
That was before I bought a ridiculous cheap 1968 production 60W
Ampeg B-15S, still functioning absolutely flawlessly (and continuing to do so as long as I still owned it), from a local second hand music store, which I wish I still had and hadn't been stupid enough to sell for an about as ridiculous low price as I bought it.
