What was your very first bass guitar?

[Ric Vice]

My first real bass was a 1969 Fender Precision

 

[Ric Vice]

Now I have a really nice Fender Precision from 1959

Pay no attention to that bridge it’s easily removed as the pilot holes are identical to the original.

 

[JMacBass65]

1983 (purch new on 85) Fender Precision Elite II in Sienna Burst with gold hardware. Wish I still had it.

 

[JIO]

1966 MIJ full-scale "Stadium" bass

Tempo (same bass, different branding) - original finish and re-fin -

also played by this guy...

 

[JIO]

Kramer Flying V [borrowed pic].
I quickly learned 3 important lessons that day:
1-Don't buy a bass on credit.
2-Don't buy a bass you can't play sitting down.
3-Don't buy a bass whose neck takes a nosedive when you let go.
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I wanted a VOX Phantom Delta bass - it would have evoked the same realization! (but it is cool!)

 

[Brad Maestas]

1990 Peavey B-Ninety, passive, in all black.

Looking back, it was a pretty great first bass. I wish I had held onto it.

 

[roccobass]

A black 1978 Ibanez lawsuit Precision

 

[Clark Westfield]

Mine was a Squier VM Jazz that I deeply regret selling.

 

[ravelax]

2002 Fender Classic 60's Jazz Bass, FSR in Burgundy Mist with matching headstock. Still have it, great bass. However I learned to play on my dad's 78 (or 79...) Jazz Bass, so maybe that one counts as the very first...

 

[MrVanimal]

Fernandes Retrospect Standard 4 P-bass in black. Bought it in 2000. Before that I would borrow basses.

 

[Mastermold]

Mid 70s Gibson Grabber.

 

[Thornton Davis]

My first bass was a 1967 Sunburst Tele-Star TB-2 teardrop. This is it in the photo below. In a weak moment 20+ years ago I sold it and instantly regretted it so after 10 years of searching I found another one which I still own today. From this I moved to my Hofner 500/1.

TD

 

[Golgo13]

I start on the bass this summer in my band Ultra Pterodactyl because the bassist moove in a another town, here's my Fender Jazz standard MIM 2010 , the next one will be a Precision USA.

 

[rok51]

1958 Danelectro Longhorn. Gifted to me in 1970. Traded it straight up for a 1981 Peavey T40. I wish I still had them both.

Kim

 

[Wibble666]

musicmaster in the 70s... amazed at the love it now gets ...personally i couldn't wait to sell it for a proper bass.

 

[powersM3]

First bass - an early/mid '70s Univox "HiFlyer" (short scale).
First bass to gig with (2nd bass) - a '73 Rickenbacker 4001 (still have it). And was driving a pair of Cerwin-Vega 18s with an Ampeg SVT at some High School in NJ c.1978

 

[newwavefrank]

Christmas 1979.

Memphis brand ??