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What did you play back when... Nostalgia

#21
1974-Hondo II P bass Copy with Texas Special pickups through Univox 30 watt Bass amp and converted 6' wooden refridgerator shipping crate with an 18" Radio Shack speaker with metal cone with wood shaving "birds nest" packing..... Sounded awsome! Then to PV Series 400 PA head through PV PA 4x10 towers then 2 Acoustic 4x12 sealed guitar cabs

In this 1978ish 79ish newspaper photo, the 2 PV towers were on the left Traynor amp on top. We would swap bass and guitar during the show...the other guitar/bass player wearing the hat is Gary Tisdale.....BTW the outfits were reversable...White w/Red Buttons on one side and Red w/white buttons on the other with silver lightening bolts...smokin baby :bassist:
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Savannah Civic Center ball room


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#22
M.R. Ogle said:
My first gigged-with bass was a white 5-sided egg-shaped VOX with the ultra-skinny neck and the built-in fuzz, bass boost and G-tuner effects. I found a pic, it was called the Vox Delta IV. Loved that bass!

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My first seriously-gigged bass was an 70's Ibanez Ric copy. Looked pretty good, sounded pretty good, but the sharp top edge of the bound body gave me a damn near permanent red slash mark on my right forearm...
OUCHHH!!
I wound up trying to wear a wrist band halfway up my forearm to pad it, but that never really worked. Suffered through most of 1975 to 1977 with it, and it certainly cured me of EVER wanting anything Ric-like again... or ANY bass without a forearm contour.
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We called that the Vox "Fancy" boat ore
 
#23
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a 1964 framus strato star bass. mine was sunburst. total piece of crap. very weak guitar tuners that broke almost immediately, crap pickups, a bridge that relied on tiny washers to hold the strings in, big fat uncomfortable neck.

boy do i wish i still had it!
 
#24
otis_thick said:
1974-Hondo II P bass Copy with Texas Special pickups through Univox 30 watt Bass amp and converted 6' wooden refridgerator shipping crate with an 18" Radio Shack speaker with metal cone with wood shaving "birds nest" packing..... Sounded awsome! Then to PV Series 400 PA head through PV PA 4x10 towers then 2 Acoustic 4x12 sealed guitar cabs

In this 1978ish 79ish newspaper photo, the 2 PV towers were on the left Traynor amp on top. We would swap bass and guitar during the show...the other guitar/bass player wearing the hat is Gary Tisdale.....BTW the outfits were reversable...White w/Red Buttons on one side and Red w/white buttons on the other with silver lightening bolts...smokin baby :bassist:
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Savannah Civic Center ball room


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Way too cool!:cool::cool::cool:
 
#26
My first bass: A real P.O.S. that was sold by WalMart-type stores (Western Auto, etc.). MIJ, terrible neck, etc. I bought a righty Moserite Ventures sig a couple of years later, and it was better but certainly no choice bass.

My first amp: homemade cab with a CheckMate (??? - that was the name of it!) head. A few years later, I bought a used Vox Essex bass amp. 2x12's, 35 crushing watts, a "volume" knob and a "tone" knob and on/off switch. :p Piece of garbage compared to anything recent, but I wish I had it back....
 
#27
first rig, an Ampeg V6-B and 2 Fender 2x12 cabs that sounded like poo, eventually evolved into a Yamaha PB1, Yamaha P2500 amp, and 2 Guild/Hartke 410's.

Basses: 1977 Rick 4001, 1973 Fender P modded with a jazz PU, 1986 Guild Pilot, Kramer era Spector.
 
#30
My earliest, just starting out stuff was junk. Univox bass and amp "starter set."

When I'd actually gotten to the point where I was good enough to start playing out and saved enough money to get real gear, I upgraded.

My first few amps were: 1965 Fender Bassman and 212 cab, Bassman 100 and 412 cab, and then swapped to a Bassman 135 head. All those are long gone.

For many years, a 1972 P bass was my lone axe. Still have it:
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Working, NYE 1980
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My next bass was a 1980 G&L L1000. Still have it as well.
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Funny how things change. After being pretty well a P based player for many decades, I'm now playing pretty much J's only, and mostly 5'ers.
 
#31
Pic below is Fall 1972. The bass is a 1970 Oly White P with the typical tort guard. It was my second bass that I had just bought used after the headstock on my Kalamazoo 1st bass literally snapped off. Band was my High School Band doing a Sha Na Na thing; band called Buddy Weiser and the Hops. Pretty popular band. There was a group of young ladies from the Sacred Heart Academy that used to bring their parents station wagons up to get us to take us to the gigs. Ahhh, those were the days.
 

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#32
My first base in 1974 was a Conrad--sort of a P-bass copy with two soapbar-like pups. The Conrad had a sunburst finish. You can still find a few around today. (Played it through a Fender Bassman amp, 2 X 15.) I understand it was a Japanese-sourced bass, although it had no such I.D. on it in 1974--a stealth import.

The Conrad wasn't worth much in 1974, and is not worth much today....Link Removed
 
#35
There's a pic floating around somewhere at my parent's house of me with a bass made of a piece of lumber, a shoebox, and some garden twine.

Also at my parent's house is the first bass I played on, my dad's black & maple '68 or '69 Hohner Semi-Hollow fretless, with custom-installed (read: I stuck 'em on) dot stickers on the top of the fingerboard to help me learn where the notes were.

Once I started actually playing in a band though, I Upgraded (sorta) to a Dean Edge 1-J that I still have and use as a backup today.
 
#37
that is *awesome!*

otis_thick said:
1974-Hondo II P bass Copy with Texas Special pickups through Univox 30 watt Bass amp and converted 6' wooden refridgerator shipping crate with an 18" Radio Shack speaker with metal cone with wood shaving "birds nest" packing..... Sounded awsome! Then to PV Series 400 PA head through PV PA 4x10 towers then 2 Acoustic 4x12 sealed guitar cabs

In this 1978ish 79ish newspaper photo, the 2 PV towers were on the left Traynor amp on top. We would swap bass and guitar during the show...the other guitar/bass player wearing the hat is Gary Tisdale.....BTW the outfits were reversable...White w/Red Buttons on one side and Red w/white buttons on the other with silver lightening bolts...smokin baby :bassist:
903432520_62168d5250.jpg

Savannah Civic Center ball room


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