What was your first bass guitar?

[eedre]

Squire P-Bass in Blue/white pickguard!

Still the lightest, most crappy bass I've played! Doesn't sound too bad though...

 

[Liko]

A Peavey T-40:

(Taken in 1987)

That was a good first bass, I must say. Still have it?

 

[3rdBass]

My first bass was a 1956 Gibson EB1. That was in 1964. I wanted a Vox Phantom Bass, but we couldn't afford one. I used it for many years before passing it along to my son who still plays it when he is looking for thunder sounds.

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I was hesitant to date myself but my first was a '67 Precision, sunburst & rosewood....bought new and traded 4 years later for an SVT rig...
Keeping your EB1 in the family is a great tradition.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

That was a good first bass, I must say. Still have it?

Unfortunately not, man. I say that because I was very unfair with that instrument: It needed a serious setup since it was horribly intonated and buzzed a lot in the high register if I tried to lower the action but I didn't know anything about a bass' setup at that time. After getting my second bass (a black Yamaha with a P pickup), which was in much better shape, I kept saying for years that T-40s were a piece of crap. I'd really like to have one again just to make justice to a very good instrument.

 

[Phil230]

MIA fender jazz bass deluxe

 

[JeffC]

Ibanez GSR200, Still have it...but then again I've only been playing about 5 months. It's pretty solid tho, has good sound and it's not too fussy.

 

[lonote]

Mine was a "Harmonic" Hofner Beatle Bass clone. It was a full hollowbody and, eventually, it caved in. It was replaced with a Hagstrom Bass II and later on a Hagstrom 8-string...then I bagan my love affair with Fenders.

 

[00Funk]

I bought a Guild JSB 2 from Arnold & Morgan in Dallas TX in 1977 for 275 bucks

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[afinalfantasy]

Jay Turser P style bass

Piece of junk it is, it sits in my basement next to my other bass because I can't get rid of it. I basically scratched it up and it's worth nothing now.

 

[tlwaps]

Ibanez GSR 100 which I still have.

 

[rutty24]

a cruiser by crafter cb-300 p bass copy. not terribly bad. but doesn't stand anything near my fretless fender jazz.

 

[Wesley R]

Semi hollow, dual pick ups, rosewood bridge. From the JC Penney outlet store. 1/2 off and my mom picked up half. I think I had about $35 into it. Flat wounds that never got changed. I would pay a couple of hun to have it now.

Best of Luck,
Wsley R.

 

[morf]

A Cort Action 4. I used to think it was really a crappy bass but you know what I picked it up a few days ago and wowza can I funk that bass up. I dont know if its from having played it so much or what, but its really easy to play.

 

[morf]

I bought a Guild JSB 2 from Arnold & Morgan in Dallas TX in 1977 for 275 bucks

That bass looks awesome!

 

[tpolgrafix]

A new black Hagstrom solid body with black pickguard, about a '65 I should think.

 

[MikeHaught]

1972 Fender Jazz bass. S/N 37XXXX (don't remember). Black with maple board,big block markers and a Badass bridge (just like the Geddy Lee bass). Lots of scrapes and scratches. It had stacked DiMarzio humbuckers with maroon covers and the pickups were wired to separate volume pots and jacks, with no tone pot. The accommodate the height of the Badass bridge, the neck was tilted and shimmed with, I kid you not, popsicle sticks! I paid $375 for it, back in the early 90's. Bought at Daddy's in Nashua, NH.

Does anyone here own up to doing these "improvements" to this poor innocent bass?

It has since been fitted with a Schaller bridge, white pearl pickguard, Duncan Antiquities and re-wired back to normal. Sounds fantastic.

Still play it a lot and would never think of selling it.

Second bass was a early 90's EB Music Man Stingray 4. Natural w/black pickguard. Still my main stage bass.

 

[Standalone]

When I was 13 my mom bought me a Harmony P-bass type copy straight from the JC Penney catalog. It being red is all I really remember about it. I never actually played it through a proper amp. It was stolen!

Woot! Mine was a harmony with a chrome pickup-- not quite a P copy. Only I was 12 when I got it. And I had to save my allowance... $129.99...

Just before that I had gotten a "synsonics terminator" 6 string before that-- with a little dual 9 volt powered speaker in the body. It um "rocked." Same JC Penney Catalog I left it behind in the basement of a middle school where I taught English in NYC for some reason.

Can't find the harmony, but here's the synsonics!

Funny thing is, they were selling this god awful travelling wilburys guitar in the catalog for the same price. And I just saw it in my friend's guitar collector magazine... sigh.

 

[Silas Martinez]

First bass was a black Ibanez SR800, second hand in '93. It is one of the original SR800s (about a 90), with the P/J pickups that say 'Lo Z' in red, etc.

Still have it (hope never to get rid of it - only way I'd part with it is if it were stolen). Its decent, considering it's an Ibanez - but its value is mostly sentimental.

 

[T. B. Player]

A powder blue Kalamazoo. Had to take the steel cover off the strings (like the old Fender jazz basses had) because the action was so high the strings hit it. Got it when I was 14. Loaned it to a female friend who wanted to learn how to play bass when I was 19 who took it with her when she left town.

Should have learned a lesson there.....

 

[HeebeeJB]

Here it is...Just like this it was....bloody awfull too!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Very-Rare-Lat...oryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem