In the summer of 1977 I convinced my father to carry me from pawn shop to pawn shop in Pensacola, FL looking for a bass and amp. We got luck and picked up a Fender Musicmaster bass and a Peavey TNT100 amp. Traded the bass a couple of years later for a Gibson Grabber. I was only about 6'3" at the time so the short scale of the Musicmaster wasn't optimum.
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What was your first bass guitar?
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The first bass I ever got was a Fender P I bought back in 1973 for about $300, these days I'm playing a Fender Marcus Miller Jazz 5
My first Bass was a Fender Power Jazz Special. The bass is older than I am
My main basses right now are a Geddy Lee Jazz and a Modded Mexi P.
My main basses right now are a Geddy Lee Jazz and a Modded Mexi P.
Around 1986 I got some sort of 3/4 scale knockoff for $105.
I was a guitar player and just wanted something to put down a bassline with on my 4 track cassette recorder.
Then I got offered to play bass for a variety show my school was putting on, but thought I'd look stupid up there with that thing. It was the 80's and puffy hair and spandex were cool.
At least I sold it 6 months later for $100.
I was a guitar player and just wanted something to put down a bassline with on my 4 track cassette recorder.
Then I got offered to play bass for a variety show my school was putting on, but thought I'd look stupid up there with that thing. It was the 80's and puffy hair and spandex were cool.
At least I sold it 6 months later for $100.
My first was a piece of junk P-Bass copy that I bought at a department store in Houston, TX when I was 13.
My first good bass was a Rickenbacker 4003, I wish I still had it.
My first good bass was a Rickenbacker 4003, I wish I still had it.
My first bass was a Peavey Patriot bass. Now I have an early 90's Fender jazz bass, and I recently sold a 5-string Carvin Anniversary AAAA Quilted maple top. It was a great bass, but I had taken a job playing lead for a while and needed to get other equipment. I'm going to be looking for a new 5-string pretty soon.
peavey t-40..(which i still have)...now play an ibanez sr500 because i like the light weight and small neck....
The first bass I purchased was a Fender MIM Deluxe P Bass Special.
I now play all MM basses- Sterling 4H, SUB 5H, Sterling 5H on order.
I now play all MM basses- Sterling 4H, SUB 5H, Sterling 5H on order.
"My" first bass was a spectacular one: 67 p-bass, refinished in a beautiful tobacco sunburst but it was my uncle's, but when he moved to Montreal, I had to get my own bass (he has a studio and I would go practice at his place). Supposedly that I'm the one who will inherit it, but I'm not looking forward to this day.
I worked hard delivering papers and mowing lawns and finally bought a Barracuda p-bass copy. It was a bad bass (rough frets, baseball neck) with dull tone, but I still loved it anyway and cared for it. I finally traded it in to buy my first serious bass a year later, a beautiful old Lado that I sold because it was way too heavy. That bass was a quirky one, beat up and scratched, but it still had awesome playability and sound. Wish I never sold it...
I went though a lot fo guitars afterwards playing for various bands and I then stopped playing so liquitaded most of my basses, keeping my Ampeg reissue because it was the bass that I always came to.
I worked hard delivering papers and mowing lawns and finally bought a Barracuda p-bass copy. It was a bad bass (rough frets, baseball neck) with dull tone, but I still loved it anyway and cared for it. I finally traded it in to buy my first serious bass a year later, a beautiful old Lado that I sold because it was way too heavy. That bass was a quirky one, beat up and scratched, but it still had awesome playability and sound. Wish I never sold it...
I went though a lot fo guitars afterwards playing for various bands and I then stopped playing so liquitaded most of my basses, keeping my Ampeg reissue because it was the bass that I always came to.
My first bass was a used Squier P, and for it's price it was damn good.
My next and latest bass is a Warwick Corvette Fretless.
My next and latest bass is a Warwick Corvette Fretless.
My first bass was a "Pro Session" (of which it was neither pro nor worthy of a session) P-bass copy, my first good bass a '92 Ibanez SR-800, and I now play a Mike Lull Modern 5, Spector ReBop 4, ReBop 5 DLX FM fretted, ReBop 5 DLX FM fretless, Fender Standard Jazz modded with Bassline SJB-2 hots and a Gotoh 201 bridge, and Ibanez SR-1206 six-string.
Ibanez GSR-100L
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Still have it too. It was my first, and despite needing the cash, I could never sell it. Too many memories. I love my Schecter Custom 5, but I've still got a special place for my original.
-P pickups
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-black finish
Still have it too. It was my first, and despite needing the cash, I could never sell it. Too many memories. I love my Schecter Custom 5, but I've still got a special place for my original.
