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What was your first bass guitar?
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1977 Fender Music Master short scale bass. Purchased for $300 in December 1979 (Thank You Mom & Dad)
My first post on my first bass. Just seems like the right time to get my feet wet here on talkbass.
It was a Fender P bass I bought new in 1980. Had to special order it from Guitars Afire to get a lefty model and paid $850 for it. That was, if I remember right, about $150 more than the same right-handed Fender P bass, and I could get it in any color as long as it was black / maple neck.
I still have it and I'm glad it was what I learned on with the baseball bat sized neck. It makes everything I've owned or played since take less effort.
It was a Fender P bass I bought new in 1980. Had to special order it from Guitars Afire to get a lefty model and paid $850 for it. That was, if I remember right, about $150 more than the same right-handed Fender P bass, and I could get it in any color as long as it was black / maple neck.
I still have it and I'm glad it was what I learned on with the baseball bat sized neck. It makes everything I've owned or played since take less effort.
Vantage 600B and I wish I still had it AND a Peavey T40.. Just for the different tones.. Quirky, but different.
Mine was a cheap p- bass copy off of amazon. Pretty sure it said crescent on the headstock. The A string always used to pop out of the nut and the neck wouldn't go properly back on after I took it off.
A Cort Jazz Bass copy that I got in the early 80s and looked exactly like a Geddy Lee bass with the bound and blocked fretboard and the whole bit. I'll bet it weighed 12 pounds.
Gibson Grabber, natural, bought used out of a classified ad in 1976. It was a good bass, but I don't miss it and never longed to have another one. The '74 Precision that came next is 'the one that got away'.
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I started in 1968 with a Fender Jazz sunburst, rosewood. I didn't like the sound of it for my rock band back then, so I traded it back to the store and I got a Fender Precision, sunburst, rosewood. I didn't like the wider neck, so I bought a Fender Jazz replacement neck, maple fretboard (with the large black fret markers) and put it on my Precision body.
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Was dating a girl who's brother in law just happened to be the Pres of Brian Moore Guitars, so at the time it's was featured as a High End bass. So for a reasonable amount of money my first bass was a BRian Moore I4 tobacco sunburst bass..
For me it's was a boutique entry into bass playing! But man that bass weighed a ton! Miss it still to this day. But it got me started and I never stopped.
For me it's was a boutique entry into bass playing! But man that bass weighed a ton! Miss it still to this day. But it got me started and I never stopped.
A "Lori" jazz-like bass very similar to this picture, with sunburst and chrome pickups. Bought about 1991, probably made in the late 70s? Still up in my parents' attic. Need to play it on next visit.
I wonder if I am the only one who's first bass was just a 6 string electric guitar (Harmony) with the treble turned down and played like a bass. It even had flatwound strings. It worked fine for the time. I bared the wires of a guitar cable and plugged it into a record player after I removed the needle cartridge and plugged the wires in there. Necessity certainly is the mother of invention. We thought we rocked and that's all that mattered in junior high.
