First Bass Pics? How U Got Here Part II

[Moondog]

Anthony's thread "How You Got Here?" got me
thinking about my very 1st bass and thought it
would be cool to see how many of you had a
pic of your very 1st. This is the only one I have and
I think it's from 1979!! I had a Hondo II P-Bass
(the cherryburst LP is also a Hondo II)
Also pictured is my 1st EBMM, '95 SR4 HB
(the drummer in the 1st pic now plays for The
New Riders of the Purple Sage, and he fronted StirFried)

 

[shamus63]

Sorry, don't have any pic's from the first year or first bass (1979; P-Bass copy).

This was taken in '82 with my third bass...another P-Bass copy.

Damn starving musicians!

 

[roballanson]

I have no pics of it but it was a black Ax bass that my dad got me mail order. Came in a great clear plastic gig bag, and given I was only nine at the tie it was mahousive!!!

 

[oldbluebassman]

Summer 1964. Just left school. The only surviving picture, in fact the only picture, of The Elite Clique.

Framus Star Bass, short scale. Cost £40 (about $70).
By comparison Fender Precision was £80 ($140).
Average weekly wage was £10 (about $17.50).

 

[Mobay45]

1981 - Fender Bullet Bass

Bought it new at Arnold and Morgan in Garland, Tx. That music store was an institution around here for a long, long time.

 

[azzy_wazzy]

This was and still is my first bass - a Shine Bass (I know, I hadn't heard of them either, but apparently they make basses for other certain well known companies...) that I bought from eBay from a chap in Grimsby who we now get on quite well with

Not a MM by any means, but it does the job!

 

[bass&cookies]

my nice litle yamaha, now fretless

 

[Moondog]

Great pics folks!.

Larry, I gotta ask, where were you playing?
It looks like a supermarket or CVS??

 

[Mobay45]

Great pics folks!.

Larry, I gotta ask, where were you playing?
It looks like a supermarket or CVS??

Ding, ding, ding, ding. You're the winner!

That was a Minyard's Grocery store. They had us come in because they were having some sort of western days promotion going on.

 

[Figjam]

1993 Fender MIM Jazz in candy apple red.

I sold it and then bought it back for moments like this.

 

[Alvabass]

This picture is from 1987, one of my first gigs with my Peavey T-40:

 

[Randracula]

This is the oldest pic that I have scanned. Summer 1993, new to the bass(played guitar first)and still in my Hendrix worship phase- Taken at a frat party in the ghettos of Long Beach,CA


Taken at the Heritage Brewing Company- Dana Point, CA in early 1995. I was playing Ibanez that I borrowed from my friend cause I had sold my Ibanez to buy an Ampeg cab and put a deposit on a MIM P-Bass. A young non-tattooed T. Barker is on the drums.........


This is a pic later that year w/ the Ampeg cab(but same Peavey Mark IV head) and the above mentioned P- Bass......Taken a t a backyard skate contest in Fontucky,CA

2002- Tone nirvana finally reached with my first EBMM bass....Taken on the roof of the Galleria in Glendale,CA

 

[Aussie Mark]

This wasn't my first bass, but was the first bass I bought brand new (1983). Ibanez RB924. I bleeb Lord Bongo owned one of these in a previous life also. The band was sponsored by a surf shop, so we got kitted out in ugly pants for free. Rig is a Yamaha PB1 preamp into a Jands J600 power amp, with two EV-TL15 cabs. I could have used a decent feed in those days.

 

[oddjob]

Must stop staring at the pants

 

[Psycho Ward]

This is my first real bass, remember I started bass late in life....

 

[shamus63]

This is my first real bass, remember I started bass late in life....

You know, Chuck...you could have lied and said it was a P-Bass that you no longer own or have pictures of.

 

[phatduckk]

here's my first bass. this pics only a few months old tho. ive told thsi story before but ill tell it again... he was once an epiphone and now hes modded to hell. hes got a warmoth j bass neck w/ a tele bass headstock, usa p pup, duncan jazz hotstack and a badass 2. i think im gonna put a uretro in it too

 

[oddjob]

This is my first real bass, remember I started bass late in life....

Sadly, this image will be burned in my memory for a lifetime.

 

[Psycho Ward]

Well, I've sure got a lot of mialage out of that shot.

 

[LowDownDave]

Damnit Chuck, the first time you posted that I went blind in one eye, so now I'm perusing the forum with my good eye and you've destroyed that one as well!!! What's the Dargie Delight look like? I can't see it! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....