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Your first bass or first bass line learned?

First Bass: A "No-Name" copy of al old Telecaster bass, with a yellow-cream colored body and white pickguard. It had a RW fingerboard attached to a neck that I swear should have had "Louisville Slugger" printed on it.

First Song: Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused," played very poorly, by the way.
 
Well, I just got my first bass, an SX Scorpion. As for my first song learnt, I doubled the guitar lines on bass for some of my band's originals a while ago, but the first full song I ever learned on bass, would be the only one I know so far: Tool - Schism.
 
Bassline: Enter Sandman (sigh.. sorry guys) like so many others
Bass: 1995 Fernendes P-bass copy.

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That's the bass, with some modern mods. Black pickguard, new knobs (new pots in the mail), new Wilkinson Vintage bridge, some Fender Japan pickups, and new actual bone nut (original was plastic). It almost sounds like a bass now!
 
First bass--1967 Gibson EB-0, still have it.
Learned a lot of bass lines on a nylon-string guitar (which I also still have, since about 1966) but the first I remember was A-Soalin' by Peter, Paul, and Mary, and the first I learned that was a real bass-bass line was Starless by King Crimson. Still play that one all the time, too, only better.
 

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