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What was your first bass guitar?
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This is my first bass. Still have it! I love it very much. It actually makes me happy just thinking about it! I am in ohio right now for work, so it is lonely at home back in wisconsin! I did however bring its fretted brother with me though...
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1984 Ibanez Destroyer. Here I am with it, in all of my John Taylor-ish glory. Look - I appear to have rolled up the sleeves of my sport jacket. My second bass was the 1986 CIJ Fender Jazz Special (which actually wasn't very special) on the stand behind me. And that was a Dietz 2x15 cabinet that weighed 175 pounds if it weighed an ounce, along with a Sunn Coliseum 300 that also weighed more than a small car. With that rig on the stage, the whole building was safe from tornadoes.
This gig was at a skating rink in Austin. Good times.
The Ibanez was not a bad bass at all. I sold it a few years later, then ran across it on consignment at Musicmakers a few years after that. I was in the depths of my college brokeness then, else I would have bought it back.
The flying V that the guitarist is playing was allegedly owned by Rick Neilsen before him. It sounded like dog doo, I don't blame Rick for unloading it.
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This gig was at a skating rink in Austin. Good times.
The Ibanez was not a bad bass at all. I sold it a few years later, then ran across it on consignment at Musicmakers a few years after that. I was in the depths of my college brokeness then, else I would have bought it back.
The flying V that the guitarist is playing was allegedly owned by Rick Neilsen before him. It sounded like dog doo, I don't blame Rick for unloading it.
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squier bronco bass loved it for 5 minutes then hated it for about 8 months followed by thepurchase fo my j bass
I had a Squier P/J four string. It had a mirror pickguard on it. I got to really hating it, but it was probably because I really didn't know how to mess around with it or how to set it up to my liking.
My first bass was an Gibson SG copy (a Christmans gift from my parents, anyone from the Detroit area remember Granells Music?). I don't even know what the brand was. I wanted that one because the first bass I ever played was a Gibson SG. It looked just like it and I didn't know the difference. I lent it to someone after purchasing my second bass, a Westone Electra PJ (Matsumoku), and never saw it again.
My third bass was a 72 Fender Telecaster bass that I paid $150 for from a pawn shop. I sold that one for $200, got $100 up front from a friend (or so I thought) and never saw the rest.
The bass gates opened wide after that.
My third bass was a 72 Fender Telecaster bass that I paid $150 for from a pawn shop. I sold that one for $200, got $100 up front from a friend (or so I thought) and never saw the rest.
The bass gates opened wide after that.
My first was a fire engine red P-bass copy made by Lotus. I haven't seen too many of those around. It wasn't the easiest instrument to play but it was good to learn on and it sure built finger strength.
My dad bought my first bass (1966 Gibson EB3) for me in......well, 1966. I still have it! Thanks Dad!
First bass was a peavey Foundation in black im in the middle of fixing it up. Any help would be great. I want to reapaint but not sure of how to go about it.
A Legacy PB400 in black with a 3 ply white scratchplate. It ended up in the bin last summer after I let my friend borrow it and said friend, while in a drunken state, thought it funny to smash the control cavity and leave it in a pond. Afterwards, since there was no real way of salvaging the thing, I along with others gave it a sendoff... by smashing it to pieces.
In 1971 I was 16 and in a sorry little cover band playing guitar. We were called "Vibes" (oh man, that's a heavy name!!! 
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Dave had a Hofner Beatle bass, he wasn't real good and neither was I. But he wrote songs on which he'd play guitar, and I took the bass. These tunes were our best material, mainly because they were originals, nobody knew how they were supposed to sound! I found I enjoyed this bass thing, and I made one of the smartest decisions of my young life: to sell the guitar and buy a bass. So we went to the store and I got the craziest-looking bass I could find. Here she is:
The Mosrite Ventures model! She'd been sitting on the rack for so long, there were rub marks on the back of the neck. The store let her go for $50.
Played her exclusively for the next 6 years, then I got a Precision, moved to L.A. and took the music world by storm!
Still got her 38 years later. She doesn't see much stage time any more...
) Dave had a Hofner Beatle bass, he wasn't real good and neither was I. But he wrote songs on which he'd play guitar, and I took the bass. These tunes were our best material, mainly because they were originals, nobody knew how they were supposed to sound! I found I enjoyed this bass thing, and I made one of the smartest decisions of my young life: to sell the guitar and buy a bass. So we went to the store and I got the craziest-looking bass I could find. Here she is:
The Mosrite Ventures model! She'd been sitting on the rack for so long, there were rub marks on the back of the neck. The store let her go for $50.
Played her exclusively for the next 6 years, then I got a Precision, moved to L.A. and took the music world by storm!
Still got her 38 years later. She doesn't see much stage time any more...
7 years ago or so I started...got a Washburn XB-105 for 70 bucks at a pawn shop in town. All black, missing a tone knob if I remember correctly...
Only black bass I'll ever own, that's for sure.
Only black bass I'll ever own, that's for sure.
Mine was a Peavey T-40...still own it and play it too. Bought and sold alot of basses since then but I'll always hold onto this one if for nothing more than its personal value to me.
