Question What was the first song that you learned on the bass?

[jlepre]

I'll go first:

Strutter - Kiss

Gene was a huge influence on my bass playing when I was a 13 year old kid. I even did his bass slides, though I may have used them a little TOO much.

If this has been asked before please close this, but I did try to search this topic.

 

[JoshL]

Think mine was either:
Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana
or
Seven nation army - White stripes

 

[bassmonkeee]

I think it had to be Crazy Train. Followed quickly by everything on the first two Ozzy albums.

 

[nurnay]

House of the Rising Sun, then I moved on to The Joker. My first semi-difficult song (at least for a beginner) was Sweet Child O Mine.

 

[drTStingray]

the stomp - ten years after and superstition - stevie wonder. A long time ago!

 

[bovinehost]

Ray Charles, "What'd I Say".

srsly

 

[melvin7822]

46 & 2 - Tool

 

[husky123]

Smoke on the Water. First!!!

 

[Holdsg]

Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

 

[njhammer]

"All Right Now".

Not long after, "Live and Dangerous" came along and that was that.....

 

[muggsy]

Iron Man.

 

[jlepre]

"All Right Now".

Fun bass solo...was actually my first bass solo too!

 

[lowliferumble]

Radar Love -Golden Earing

 

[strummer]

Johnny B Goode

 

[adouglas]

Locomotive Breath

I also clearly remember the evening some guy taught me how to play the basic 12-bar blues boogie.

 

[adouglas]

Ray Charles, "What'd I Say".

srsly

I was in a furniture store yesterday and that was playing on the PA, along with about half my band's set list. I reflected on how great it still sounds....

... and also on the staying power of all those great old R&B and soul songs. I Got a Woman (the actual name of the track) was released in 1954... 57 years ago.

I wonder if they'll be playing Smells Like Teen Spirit in public in 2048, 57 years after its introduction. Somehow I kind of doubt it.

 

[guenter]

With the exception of some licks...

"I Was Made To Love Her" - Stevie Wonder (from the book: Standing in the shadows of Motown)

 

[Holdsg]

I wonder if they'll be playing Smells Like Teen Spirit in public in 2048, 57 years after its introduction. Somehow I kind of doubt it.

Maybe by then society will have understand the lyrics.. yadaa yadaaaa

 

[supadave]

My memories fade that far back but I seem to remember bashing away on Hey Joe and thinking I was The Man when I was able to show my mates how to play it....those were the days....

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I think "Where The Streets Have No Name" by U2 was the first song I learnt on my own.

"Hey Joe" by Hendrix was the first song I remember jamming.