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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
#41
Ibanez GRS200, now in Phase 2 of ? (BEAD)

I don't plan on losing this thing untill I break it in half. In which case, I'll just get a Warmoth neck and keep going. I plan to put some better pups on it, as well as a nice bridge, eventually. No defretting though, I'll just get a fretless, thank you.

What gets me: How many of you recieved a bass. I paid for mine through my nose. Worked all summer for it too...
 
#42
My Ibanez Sr 300Dx LH

Still my only bass... but I will NEVER IN MY LIFE sell him. Since I have him, he's been my best friend, always been there when I was in trouble and helped me through my suicidal moods. He's even more than a friend or any human being to me, I wouldn't even think of selling him. If it weren't for him, I would probably be dead by now. While many have betrayed me, he stood by my side; while others played with me, causing suffering and pain, he's been here to play my pain out on him and show me that my life has a meaning after all, and there's a reason for me to live.
 
#43
My first bass was a Washburn B2 in aqua blue. It was definitely a product of the `80's VERY rawk. It wasn't the easiest instrument to play and I buggered the pickups by spilling tea onto them. I kept it for 2 years, though I bought a Squeir Precision after the first year or so. Still I got £100 px when I bought my first speaker cab. No, I don't regret selling it.
 
#44
my first bass was a memphis p bass rip. horrible little bass. then about 2 years later i got an ibanez sr500. wasn't a bad bass (had my senior pictures taken with it.) but i got rid of it for my first warwick. that i do not regret at all. but then i sold the warwick....nevermind
 
#47
My first bass was a 1989 Series 10 Bently that my brother gave me. I'm thinking about restoring because the neck is really warped, the pic gaurd is all broke, and the wireing is all messed up. But maybe I'll just leave to rot because I'm too cheap to do all that. But eh! Who knows I might scrounge up some cash and fix er up.
 
#49
My first bass was a Jazz Bass copy. I had absolutely no idea what make it was. I confess that I bought it primarily because of its cool sunburst finish and the fact that it had two pickups. I just figured I would get more tonal possibilities out of the thing. It was a pretty short scale too, which made it that much more playable at the time. It had a dark rosewood fretboard with block position markers and a plain black headstock with the classic inline 4 tuning key configuration. As it turned out, it was actually a Sears bass(!) I was leafing through their catalog one day (months after buying the bass) and THERE IT WAS! Despite being heavy as hell for my young and still-forming skeleton, it wasn't that bad an instrument.

I traded it in almost a year later to help pay for my next purchase -- a glorious Aria Pro II TSB-400! I still have this bass and, despite having owned and played several basses over these past 21 years, it remains my undisputed favourite. It's true. Those guys at the Matsomoku factory really knew what they were doing in those days.

Oh, and Jimmy K. -- I envy you your first bass. The Aria Pro II TSB-650 is essentially the neck-through version of my 400 with a few extras added (like coil tap switches and diamond shaped position markers). You're a lucky one.
 
#51
You asked for it! Here's what I started on. I hated it - even after I routed it for a Gibson humbucker in the bridge position.

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#53
Still playing my Peavey International Series Milestone II. I have no idea what year it is. The fifth fret is basically dead, and it has some buzzing. Plus it needs the input jack replaced again, and has quite a few chips in it. But it's my only bass, and I don't have the money for another. I had to choose between that or lessons. I chose lessons.
 
#55
My first one was a white MIM Squier P-Bass. I sold a couple years ago and really haven't missed it. The basses I have now I would really miss if I had to let them go. For some reason I never attached a lot of sentimental value to that first Squier, it was a tool and it got the job done. My current number one, a 62 reissue Jazz has a lot more soul and would be nearly impossible to part with.
 
#58
I wish I still had my first bass. It was an Ampeg AEB-M. It had a scrolled headstock like an upright and it was a semi-hollow body with the cutouts shaped like a clef note. It had a mystery pickup (pickup inside the body of the bass). It was red and black and would be worth a fortune today. I have seen a couple around since then (1970) but none as nice or as pretty as this one. Oh well, I now use a Warwick Corvette FNA Jazzman 5 so I've learned to live with the pain.
 
#60
my first bass was a five string shown below on the attachment, the sound is $hitty but after a month and i knew i was going to stick with bass i bought myself my current 4 string epiphone gibson eb3 which i love, but every now and then ill go back to the 5 string, i dont htink i could part with either of them, all just keep adding to the collection
 

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