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What was your first Bass Amp?
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First real bass amp was a Univox UB250 15 watt head with a 15" Univox speaker cab my first stack!
Mine was a 1968 plexi Marshall Super Bass. Unfortunately, I was playing guitar through it at the time.
Acoustic 370 with an Ampeg 4x12 cab.It look just like an 8x10 SVT cab.
Damn,that rig sounded great.Wish I still had it.
That rig went thru a fire at a club I was playing at.It massive soot and water damage.
Never had one hiccup out of it.It performed flawless.
Damn,that rig sounded great.Wish I still had it.
That rig went thru a fire at a club I was playing at.It massive soot and water damage.
Never had one hiccup out of it.It performed flawless.
'63 (White) Fender Bassman (in '64), then Vox Foundation (in '65), then Fender Showman 2x15 JBL (in '67), then Vox Super Beatle (in '68) then Traynor (in '70)... etc. GAS for decades 
First bass amp- Peavey TKO 80. I actually just got it today. $50 from a music teacher at school. I like it a LOT so far
I bought one of those when they first came out--don't remember the year. I still have it and use it for bedroom practicing.
Mine was a used Peavey TNT in 1982. It actually had metal knobs. Very simple, but it did the job.
A Lawrence bass amp in 1973. About 4 feet tall, 2 1/2 feet wide, 1 foot deep. Made of molded ABS plastic ("astronaut helmet material"). It was as heavy as a slab of granite and tipped over easily when you pushed it on its casters. All solid state, it had a power amp in the bottom of the cab and a pre-amp that tipped up and out on top, and the two were connected by a thick coiled proprietary cable. I don't remember how many watts it was, but it was loud. I cannibalized it several years later, after I got my Sunn 215BH and Marshall lead head.
Genz Benz 600 w/ Avatar 2x12 
Yeah, I was pretty lucky to start out, but really I started on a guitar amp because it was all my dad had around (Marshall solid state cheap crap). Sounded bad and switched to a pa, then the bassist in my dad's band left one of his rigs there because it was where they practiced and he said I could use it. After awhile I got my own genz benz 600 and he took his home and used mine at practices, then when my dad's band broke up he offered to sell the avatar to me cheap, and I accepted.
Yeah, I was pretty lucky to start out, but really I started on a guitar amp because it was all my dad had around (Marshall solid state cheap crap). Sounded bad and switched to a pa, then the bassist in my dad's band left one of his rigs there because it was where they practiced and he said I could use it. After awhile I got my own genz benz 600 and he took his home and used mine at practices, then when my dad's band broke up he offered to sell the avatar to me cheap, and I accepted.
