First Bass..

[Lazybite]

I had a sparkly purple no name brand (i think it was axe or something)... with in a year the machine heads were all screwed... later on I stripped and spray painted it... its floating around somewhere..

 

[AnthonyD]

And my first powerful rig was a Peavey TNT 115...

I had one back around 1980!


First bass was a Royce SG copy... Don't have it any more but would love to find one to hang on the wall as a reminder of how far we've come.

 

[82Daion]

The bass on the right. That's the Daion, and it was my first real bass. I still enjoy playing it, and am in fact playing it right now, as the Bongo only makes the problem of having a blown speaker in my Peavey 410TVX more obvious. It's one of the best 80's Japanese basses, and I daresay it has a better neck than the Bongo, but doesn't have quite as good a sound, being passive and all.

 

[Lazybite]

I have a guitar that looks identical to that.. I think its japanese to the make is vantage.... weird!!!

 

[Aussie Mark]

I had one back around 1980!

+1

Might be worth a poll to see how many Forumites have ever owned a TNT115 ?

 

[Aussie Mark]

I have a guitar that looks identical to that.. I think its japanese to the make is vantage.... weird!!!

Something like this?

http://www.deayton.com/guitars/vantage.html

 

[Lazybite]

Yup.... but with 6 thin strings!!... very playable for what I paid for it....

 

[BOOST]

damn you righties for getting all the cool vintage stuff!!

 

[Dr Stankface]

damn you righties for getting all the cool vintage stuff!!

Just think though. Whenever you do grab you a vintage something or other, it'll be twice as rare as our stuff because it's a lefty.

 

[Randracula]

My first was an Ibenhad but I sold it quickly and bought this MIM P-Bass from my friend for $130......did alot of my first gigging/recording with this bass.
Feeble-Summer 1995

 

[bovinehost]

When I was about this old:

I had a cheap copy of a Fender. I have no idea what it was but it was based loosely on an early sixties (of course) Jazz bass. My mom spent big money! Seventy five dollars, I think....on that instrument and a Fender combo which is probably worth a zillion dollars now, if it still exists in its original state.

I'm not nostalgic about it because I'm pretty sure it sucked - but I wasn't aware of it at the time. I knew I could play "Gloria" and "Wild Thing" and so on with my mates and that was plenty okay by me.

I believe, although memory might be faulty, that I traded that instrument to a guy named Richard for an outboard motor. I guess I really needed an outboard motor at the time, and it served me well as my friends and I ran the bayous for a few years with it, frightening the alligators and generally doing guy stuff.

I don't remember the next bass, but I do remember that the next bass amp I had was a Baldwin. It actually sounded pretty good, according to my memory, but might actually have been designed for organs.

Jack

 

[BOOST]

Just think though. Whenever you do grab you a vintage something or other, it'll be twice as rare as our stuff because it's a lefty.

ahh tru say!

 

[BOOST]

When I was about this old:

holy buddy holly BATMAN!

 

[LowDownDave]

2nd hand Ibanez SR800 (in terrible sky blue) through a TNT115. Sounds pretty generic now after reading everyone else's threads, but the best bass and biggest combo I could afford as a teenager. It did the trick for hardcore shows in people's basements

 

[ExLurker]

My first bass was an Aria SB1000 in 1981.It was made in Japan and I loved it dearly. The neck and fretwork were exquisite, like a fine Samuari sword...anyway now I'm waxing too lyrical!
I don't have it anymore, the band split up after we got screwed on a publishing deal and I did'nt play bass again for nearly 10 years, I sold it to fund a Flamenco guitar. Whoever owns Aria now bought a re-issue of this bass out last year, I played one last summer in the Bass Cellar, Denmark street. It could'nt hold a candle to the originals. Here's a picture,...

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

Mine was a Kent played through a Heathkit amp......don't have it anymore...kinda wish I did but not really.
.

 

[roballanson]

Mine was an Axe mail order bass my dad got me when I was about 10, also used the school's 3/4 double bass - no name....

Then had an Westone Thunder Two I think it was.

First 'Real" bass was a Yamaha BB2000 (I think) natural with thru neck. Nice but sold......

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

I had one of those Westone's...

 

[oldbluebassman]

My very first bass was home-made in 1961. I saved up and bought some tuners and strings and used the earpieces from an old WW2 German flying hemet as pick-ups. I modified my tape recorder to be a pre-amp and used the record player as a power-amp/speakers. Eventually I persuaded my mum to lend me the money to buy a short-scale Framus Star bass. It was £45. At that time, 1963, Fenders were more than double that price in the UK and the average weekly wage was £10. Remarkably a photo of the band complete with the Framus still exists. Sorry about the £s but I have no idea what the exchange rate was then.

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

Those Framus Star's were pretty cool after a neck reset...ever have a Vox???