What was your first bass guitar?

[SuperDuck]

Originally posted by Dox
Chalk up another for the Epiphone Accu Bass. It's still my only bass but I will never part with it. It NEVER goes out of tune. I hav tuned it once sinc I strung it with flats. It is also a very versatile bass for me. I just got back from a friends where we were jamming out country all night long (I hat country.). I also found out I am a great country bassist.... Pardon me while I go vomit.

I thought I was the only one! Honestly, I've never seen another Accu Bass, or known anyone else that owned an Accu Bass. Wow...

 

[JimS]

First bass was used ESP jazz bass with Sadowsky preamps and pickups.

Second and last bass to date: Sadowsky jazz bass 4 string ash + maple.

The wood does make a huge difference!

 

[thomas]

I had some sort of Aria Pro II P-bass clone that I borrowed along with a Peavey 112 practice amp.

Then when I decided I really wanted to play bass I bought a Danelectro Longhorn and a Carvin R600 2x10 combo.

 

[Dox]

Originally posted by SuperDuck


I thought I was the only one! Honestly, I've never seen another Accu Bass, or known anyone else that owned an Accu Bass. Wow...

Yeah me too. I thought I was the only one too. Everyone makes fun of me for it cause no on has heard of it or seen one. But I love it. I love the headstock. It has the best headstock ever! We must be one of the Accu Bass Elite!

 

[ColonelZulu]

Bruno Conqueror.
Hollow body, floating bridge.

Looked like they guy from the Alarm.

 

[terms bassist]

Ibanez SR405

 

[jbandbabyj]

a Hondo II copy (sort of) of a Gibson ripper...

2 P-bass pickups and a cracked bridge. I had to put a nail through the end of the strings to keep the center of the bridge from pulling up!

I was 15 and couldn't affor a replacement.

 

[Suburban]

Can't remember the model name, but it was an Ibanez, made around '79-'80. Bougth it used.
J-pups, pre-amp, ash body (by the look of it), and maple fingerboard.

NO FRETS, of course!

 

[Suburban]

BTW, what is an AccuBass?

 

[SuperDuck]

Originally posted by Suburban
BTW, what is an AccuBass?

It's an Epiphone knock off of the P-Bass. The funniest part is that Fender made the Precision bass, and the Epiphone is such a knockoff that it even kind of takes the name, being the Accu-Bass. (As in, really accurate... or, precise... bwahahaha) It's probabaly the cheapest bass Epiphone makes, but it's still pretty cool. And, as was said, it has a damn cool headstock.

http://www.epiphone.com/legacy/ebac.shtml#

 

[seamus]

Used, beat up Jazz. I still have it, though truss and neck complications make it challenging to play at this point.

 

[Prague77]

My first was a Hamer Slammer!!!! i still have it and it is so crappy!! the higher strings vibrate against the neck making horrid horrid noise, and i cant really do fun things on it like double slapping because it sounds just too god awful.

 

[Punk_Princess19]

Originally posted by Nomadic Herder
Squier Affinity P-bass

Me too.. its not an uncommon starter bass i noticed.

 

[cosbassmaster]

My first bass was a lotus as well. It was from the seventies and I bought it for $75 w/ hard case. My schools Jazz Band director sold it to me about a two years ago and I still have it. It was an off white color and horribly chipped until I got a badass paint job on it. Now it looks cool but is pretty crappy and I still use it.

 

[ebozzz]

My first bass was a MIA Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass. I had the money and I just didn't want to go the "Squier" route. I find myself picking up the entry level stuff when I visit the local stores to try to see what I missed. I don't knock anyone that has owned any of the entry level stuff. I'm just thankful that I had other options.

 

[jasonbraatz]

1/2 size here too!

a black synsonic p-bass type thing, purchased at sears.


i was 8 or 9 when i started playing, so it fit me pretty well then


4 years later i got my sterling tho, so it all turned out ok.


jason

 

[cassanova]

Fender Music Master

 

[nil]

'60s Fender Mustang competition red...fretless, that needed a plane real bad! Intonation all over the place.

Talk about a challenge for a newbie bassist!

Now it hangs, still with it's off intonation, on the wall as a "memory"

 

[CaracasBass]

My first bass was a Trevor J-Bass black with white pickguard, I still have it....in my closet, of course!!!

 

[ldiezman]

My first bass was a piece o crap samick p-bass and man did it suck... but I bought it when I was in sophmore in highschool b/c I wante to play bass. After playing violin for 5 years, trumpet for 7, and singing,. I picked up the bass. I still sing as it is my major instrument in acquiring my Ba In music... but bass is my secondary instrument. Oh yeah. but I have a steinberger and a MM Stingray 5... Kinda wanna get a pedulla Jazz bass or a G&L L 2500 bass.. but that will be later in my young life..

Peace