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What was your first bass guitar?
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I did well on my first NBD purchase, walked out with 2 Fenders for a total of $500 in '83
'72 stripped to nat. Precision with a slim neck / maple board which was modded to fretless
the bassist from Air Supply had been admiring it for an hour so I figured it was a good risk
my main focus tho was the big burst lurking in the back of the repair shop, a '65 dot neck (first year of production) BASS V. got'm home, opened the cases, and the room filled with the smell of Fullerton! you don't forget that.
'72 stripped to nat. Precision with a slim neck / maple board which was modded to fretless
the bassist from Air Supply had been admiring it for an hour so I figured it was a good risk
my main focus tho was the big burst lurking in the back of the repair shop, a '65 dot neck (first year of production) BASS V. got'm home, opened the cases, and the room filled with the smell of Fullerton! you don't forget that.
Nothing anywhere near of this quality. It was a non-descript Japanese cheap short scale, did I say cheap, piece of what the heck was I thinking when I bought it!
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my first electric bass ... a 60s Hofner copy
my 2nd bass … a 60s Hofner
my 3rd and 4th basses a 60s Gibson EB bass and a 60s Rickenbacker
my 2nd bass … a 60s Hofner
my 3rd and 4th basses a 60s Gibson EB bass and a 60s Rickenbacker
1978 Sunburst P Bass with a maple fingerboard.
I bought it used with money from my summer job, and I still have it.
I bought it used with money from my summer job, and I still have it.
An Asian slab-P knockoff. I wish I still had it, I wish I had more than this one edge-on photo.
This is 1972. I'm 14.
This is 1972. I'm 14.
Mine is a 22" scale Epiphone Les Paul Express guitar that I converted to a bass about 5 years ago. I still have and play it.
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I don't have any photos of my first one, however it was a bone stock 3TSB, with proper looking tort pickguard, late '60s B'n'B Jazz Bass with flats.
I don't have a photo any more, but mine was a 4 string Washburn I got from a friend of mine. I was a guitarist back then (1998).
Great bass! I have the powerjazz PJ version of this which is my main player.
Amazing I stuck with bass after that thing. Shudder thinking about it.
This picture is a similar bass, but not in roach condition like mine.
My first "bass" was a borrowed Harmony Meteor guitar we took the high strings off and turned all the controls on the guitar and amp to bass with treble all off. There was not a bass guitar to be begged, borrowed, bought or stolen in the four towns in the area.
My first actual bass was a fretless Raven-branded sort of JB copy my then wife gave me for Valentine's Day in 1976.
She's still my wife and I still have the bass.
My first actual bass was a fretless Raven-branded sort of JB copy my then wife gave me for Valentine's Day in 1976.
She's still my wife and I still have the bass.
I got a bass so cheap it doesn't even have frets. At least I don't have to think about silly music theoryFriend from the US was visiting last month and we got discussing some common statements on TB.
"can't play a chunky neck" "can't play bass over 8.5lb", "can't play 35" scale","must have a 38mm nut".
We thanked our lucky stars we just play bass
