I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
It was the summer of 69
seriously.... Played guitar since I was 12, took lesson, then got interested in bass, and that was it. Never gone back, I now own and play both guitars and basses but my main passion remains bass. 5 strings basses and of course EBMM basses.
I'm rapidly approaching 55 yy. Got my first EBMM a little over 2 years ago. I am playing more guitar now than ever, and have never ever been so happy and content with my instruments as I am now.
Well bought my fist ball in December 2006, a Luke, was 46 and just started trying to learn to play about 6 months earlier, now almost 49 have had and have lots of EBMM and really thinking hard about adding one more to th collection