What was your first bass guitar?

[Bajo_63]

Mine was a Memphis P bass copy. It got stolen out the trunk of my car in 1986.

 

[iriegnome]

My first bass was a 1965 Kimberly Short scale bass. My brother and parents bought it for me for christmas 1980 and they payed $75 for it. Today, I play a Modulus Genesis 5. I payed quite a lot more for it. I love it though.

 

[neurotictim]

I don't even know that my first bass had a logo on it... A short-scale 4 string P-bass knock-off. A NIN sticker between the pup and the bridge, a dragon sticker on between the nut and the first fret, and a very well-worn fretboard... At least, it was well-worn by the time I got rid of it.

Now I've got 9 basses, the favorite being the Alembic Epic, followed by the Schecter Diamond Stiletto and then so on and so forth...

 

[Mitch Pirtle]

My first was a Peavey T40 and the venerable TNT100 amp. I went on to my next bass, which has been modded so many times I'm uncertain what it started as. Basically a P/J copy, I think it was an Applause. Now it has a Badass bridge, EMG pickups, and a Warmoth neck.

I spent the last 9 years on a Warwick Corvette 5 Standard. Tried a new one ($$) and the neck felt like a freaking telephone pole. What happened to Warwick necks? The guy in the store said they couldn't source the same wood anymore and had to switch. Anyone here know if that is true or not?

Bought my Ampeg BA112 in Europe, and now it is a very expensive doorstop here in NYC. Would love to talk to someone willing to swap out the power supply for a price less than buying a whole new one...

Oh yeah, first bass. Back on topic!

I honestly wished I'd kept the Peavey. Man, that thing was a TON, a total backbreaker. The tone was flat-to-awful, and the look was hideous. What an awesome bass!

 

[lowbass68]

I started with a bass that was the schools, a 70's Fender P. The first bass I owned was a Daion Savage a couple years later.

 

[bassist4dalord]

my first axe was a squier p but i traded it in for my current Ibanez GSR200 after 4 months... I still have the Ibanez as it is my main bass, and a Fender BG-31 ABG.

 

[lmfreeman9]

Kay-Japanese short scale SG copy. $30, loved it someone stole it.

 

[polo515]

A sunburst Hagstrom through an Ampeg SB12 Portaflex. Wish I still had that amp...

 

[X Wolf]

My very first bass was a '60 Danelectro short horn double cutaway but I only had it a short time before I got my '62 jazz.

The bass I play most of the time now is an '05 Wilkins P/J.


George

 

[bassaficionado6]

 

[J_Bass]

My first, only and actual bass:

Hamer Cruise, Slammer Series, currently improving it.

 

[P-bass-player]

My dad's '68 Silvertone bass. I still have it.

I'm a Fender man now.

 

[VeNoM]

My first bass was an Epiphone Thunderbird IV Vintage Sunburst, which is still my main bass
Beside the Tbird I play a homemade Fender 62 Precision copy, and a homemade Rickenbacker 4001S (Paul McCartney) copy with P&J pickups.

 

[erezbass]

My first bass was (and still is) 97' Fender Jazz bass(US)
Now,my main bass beside the Fender, is an Erg custom 4 strings.

This is how my Jazz look today :

 

[Richard89]

This Defil Luna 2 was my first bass :

I have never seen another one. Does anybody here know anything about it?

 

[DW1969]

My first was a Memphis P bass copy. Now, Ric 4003, MIJ Jazz, MIM P, 2 Franken P's, and a washburn 5er.

 

[Rob Martinez]

My first was a 1974 Rickenbacker 4000 I bought in 1978 for $300. I still have it, what a cool bass!!!

 

[zazz]

olympic white mid 70s musicmaster...... at the time i didnt appreciate how cool that bass was.....wish i hung onto it now

 

[pizzicato16]

My grandparents had always wanted to help me along the way when I was younger. Their hearts were in the right place, but they had no idea what to get. So when I was 14, they bought me a P-copy made by Memphis. I had never heard of memphis basses and to this day, 16 years later have never seen another one. It was sooooo crappy, but I learned a lot. These are the same people that got me a FIBERGLASS upright.

I now have a Tobias Growler and 2 uprights both wood, a Roth and an unidentified plywood bass.

 

[detracti]

I had a Washburn "Stump". It looked something like this, except in burgundy:
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Now, my main axe is a MM Stingray 4HH.