What was your first bass guitar?

[Chili Bo Billy]

My first bass i had was a Northern p bass copy, had it for a 6 mos. and sold it so i could get a 4001 jetglo Rickenbacker.

 

[Edmang]

Sunburst Peavey T40 bought new. Still have it.

 

[gorneyg]

A beautiful Kay bass I paid $29 for at Two Guys store.

 

[Tbird777]

Squier Affinity P-Bass, blue. 2004 Made in Indonesia. Came with a rockin' Dinosaur brand practice amp. Plays great, upgraded the pickups and electronics through GFS.

 

[ak56]

Brand-new '78 Fender MusicMaster short scale. Still have it; Still play it.

 

[klausmajor]

An Ibanez P-Bass copy, fretless. This one, it was in 1974

 

[PeaveyDude]

2004 SX Jazz Bass. Got it used for about $115

 

[PJSim]

Mid 80's Takamine bass like this one

 

[The Regulator]

Squire P Bass

 

[TripleDouble]

An old nylon string guitar that i tried to tune down low enough to find the notes on some basslines, I think by Steve Miller, The Stray Cats, and The Cure. Then a Peavey Foundation.

 

[LesterS]

First Bass?

Well, really is was a first Guitar. It was a cheap 70's Teisco clone. It lasted 3 months (back in 1982).

Then I played my little brother's pawn-shop Danelectro that had been reworked by the venerable A.C Lail. By 1983 I was married and my wife came with a very beat-up but oh-so-sweet sounding Gibson Parlor Guitar; given to her by her father. (Her father was related to, and misspent some youth with a guitar picker named Watson).

When she left in the 90's and finally requested her guitar back, I had to buy my own. So I bought a cheap Kay Electric and also took it to Mr. Lail for good fret dressing, setup and intonation. (It cost a whopin' 60 bucks). Around the same time, I acquired another guitar from the pawn shop but could never get it to tune or intonate properly because of the floating bridge; a mint-condition Gibson ES-125TC.

To get my FIRST BASS, I traded that Gibson guitar for a pawned Red Mako Jazz Clone in 1996.
I used that Mako sporadically for the next 17yrs. (I still mainly "played-at" the guitar.)

So after many years of campfire strumming and/or bass thumping on an inebriated Friday nights I finally traded that Mako in 2013 for Peavey BXACP4 4 string. The Peavey was an improvement; light years ahead of the sad ol' Mako.

The G.A.S. continued from that point forward.
Oh, and I started to practice my bass playing.

 

[T-MOST]

A Fender P Bass purchased brand new in 1983. It's black on black with a rosewood board. I still have it although I put the neck on a brand new sunburst body last year.

 

[Joce]

This Yamaha Attitude Plus, supposedly alder body, maple neck, rosewood board. P-bass copy. Love it, still have it.

Bass

• Joce
• Jun 8, 2015

 

[DavC]

it was 1973 , ... dad got me a used 1969 Hagstrom Swede 8 strg ...

1972 ... dad got me my first guitar ... a 1957 ES225T w/factory Bigsby ...

I miss them both ... who would have known ... !!

 

[bobthegood]

Borrowed - Fender Standard P; Purchased - Ibanez SR500. After that is when my wallet started to bleed......

 

[fenderhutz]

80's Dean Hollywood Z

 

[Soren1]

A white Japanese Fender Precision. The construction was ok, but the neck was terrible...like a baseball bat. I sold it and bought a Yamaha MB-1 PJ Custom....not the best neck either, but it sounded very good and quiet too. I was stationed in Japan at the time.

 

[99Z3]

Tell us what your very first bass guitar was. I'll start:

My first bass was a 1970s Univox Hi-Flyer (Sunburst) that looked exactly like this: Link Removed

Univox P bass was my first bass.. wish that I still had it.. it actually sounded pretty good.

 

[Greg_S]

'77 Fender Pbass. Didn't really even know anything about basses back then and didn't appreciate it, but I wish I still had it! It was damn heavy though!

 

[Malak the Mad]

I remember that we had "A View To A Kill" in our set at that time. It was a tough bassline for me to learn!

John Taylor is a criminally underrated bassist.