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Your first bass

Still have your first bass?

  • I still have my first bass

    Votes: 311 57.3%

  • Nope, sold it / got rid of it somehow

    Votes: 232 42.7%
  • Total voters
    543
#181
first bass, i remember it will, an aria igb 40 with the dark metallic blue finish. man that bass and i went through a lot together. good times, good times, getting our first gig, getting banned from the school after the gig for the outrageous stunts :rolleyes: . its currently with a friend in arizona, i gave it to her as a going away present, i know she'll apreciate it as much as i did.
 
#182
My first was a Samick P clone, don't know what the exact 'type' was. Didn't need to be a specific 'type' was anyway because it was cheazy little thing. It did have an excellent 3TS finish though... besides the fact that you could see they used crappy wood through the burst. It played horribly, sounded horribly but hey, it was my first bass. Overall it was a lot better than my first date
 
#184
I even managed to dig up a picture, note that the burst pattern is interupted by the forearm contour. That basically says "we used cheap ply-wood and are trying to hide it!!". The placement of the pots doesn't really look good and the neck has no radius... dear god what was I thinking. Unlike my date it didn't moan because I got drunk or whatever

ply-wood woohoo!
 
#185
This is my first bass.

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an early nineties Vantage plywood bodied P-bass knockoff in Navy Blue, as you can see, I put in a Dimarzio Model One humbucker and ripped the frets out. I used this bass a LOT in the early days of Format brain and played several shows with it.

The body of that bass is currently hanging on the wall as an ornament but I'm tempted to take it off someday and restore it to playing condition, all I need to do now is to find a neck I can put on.

You might say "why bother restoring a PLYWOOD bass?" well, Gibson's venerable EB2 Bass is a plywood bass too.
 
#187
my first bass is my Ibanez TR-50, i think its a TR-50 anyway, its a TR Series either way, single P pickup, i played with the trussrod for long enough, i think i broke it because the rod nut is completelly loose now, and it has a really nice action and not back sound considering it was £50 out a pawn shop

it is currently sitting in an unused hardcase (saving space) under my bed, i never use it, but i cant bring myself to sell it, good times, playing it in the common room at school, makeshift punk gigs through the day, yeah, good times, first real "gig" too :)

I'll go with Lalala on this going better than my first "date" too :)
 
#188
What's the deal with you guys breaking trussrods?

In my years that I play guitar and bass I have only touched trussrods when it was needed, and that was two or three times.

My number one axe, my 1989 Squier Stratocaster, NEVER had a neck tweak, but then again, old squiers were known for their fantastic necks, so it never needed one.
 
#194
I still have mine. An SX SPJ Ash.

Considering I only got it a couple of weeks ago, I don't suppose that's much of a surprise though. If this thread is still going in a few years, I'll more than likely still have it then too. I'm in the process of modding it at the moment.

Walnut
 
#196
The store I got it from about 15 years ago is long gone, but I still have it.

Made in Japan Fender P. Interesting though - it never had "Squire" on it anywhere. I need to research it out find out what the deal was with that. I don't play it alot anymore, though i got it out today as the Warwick may go to the shop for a new jack next week.
 
#197
$250 new 1992 Peavey Fury (Precision clone) black and white. Still have it, though I've lent it out twice to good friends for extended periods of time. Now it's probably my favorite bass since I brought it back to life. This bass is so easy to play, sounds good, low action, maple sturdy neck, straight...definitely sentimental. I'll pass it on to whichever one of my boys wants to play bass first.
 

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