Question

[Stingray Matt]

What was the first bass you ever bought? Mine was a left-handed Encore "P-bass" copy which cost me £110. I thought it was the bees knees at the time...

 

[johans]

hmm ..
lemme think

on December 2001
i bought a used Yamaha RBX260 for $149 from guitar center

 

[dlloyd]

Mine was a Westone Spectrum II (I think). It cost me £85 in 1989. It was a dark red colour with a black painted neck and a single pickup. I traded it for a Carlsbro Cobra Lead amp about a year later, then got a Hohner Jack bass.

I don't miss any of them too much.

Edit: It was a Spectrum DX... one of these...


http://www.therathole.org/guitars/m.../86_st_dx/westone_spectrum_st-dx_pg5.jpg.html

 

[oldbluebassman]

Framus semi-acoustic Star Bass, short scale, bought in 1963 for £35.

 

[Evil_Ernie_Ball]

Erm... A "Challenge VP" bass for 125€ I think it was... they make copies too I saw one in the store of a Rickenbacker guitar (nice)
Anywayz... still got the bass though ! here's a pic
http://groups.msn.com/NoCoverCharge/gitarenbataklan.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=153

 

[johans]

am i the only

non PoundSterling user here

 

[Samingo]

Ironically, the first few basses I bought had somethign wrong with them, so I had to return them and do some deciding before I took one home I decided to stick with but....

my 'first bass' was a fender Squier modern five string.... *shudder I'm glad I still don't have it

and one of my 'first' basses was a Ibanez SR somethign something..*shrug well I loved that thing and still wish I had it for the sentamentality.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Ibanez lawsuit copy of a Telecaster bass. Blonde with white pickguard. AUD$250 (around US$150 back then - 1974). This is the model .....

 

[mro]

For my first bass, I paid $65 for a Teisco bass that was red and black. Never seen another one since.

 

[kenito]

A 1974 Fender Precision (natural w/rosewood neck) bought for £160 in Jan 1983 in Glasgow

Sold 6 months later for £200 (neck was totally warped but I didn't know it when I bought it) for one of the first Fender Squires

 

[Stingray Matt]

I had a Dean bass after but can't remember what model it was. I swapped it for a right handed short scale bass for an ex girlfriend. Why, you ask? I haven't got a clue!! Wish i had kept it now!! Can anybody remember any old Dean models?? I bouight it in 1995 ish...

 

[crazybass888]

Black Fender P-Bass w/ maple board.

 

[LeftyLB]

I got my first one for my 18th birthday in 1985.

It was a left handed, black bog-standard precision copy, can't remember the make, but my dad bought it from Chappells of Bond Street in Central London for £120 - we didn't know about the bass centre in those days - don't know if it existed in 1985? Later took the neck off for my dad to defret but he never did.

Myself, I bought a sparkle red Aria something or other. It had a ding in it from being in the shop and only cost me £120.

I then went mad and got a custom made, Jaydee Supernatural Celeste fretless five in traditional Jaydee Cherry. That cost me £1,000.

I later traded the Aria plus £300 cash to a shop for a second hand Jaydee Mark King which the original owner (who was the previous bass player in my band!) had paid £1000+

Last of all was my 1998 Ray which I got in Jan 2003.

I must get around to photographing my little bass family.

Liam

 

[Aragorn35016]

Mine was a JB Player P bass copy that I got from a pawnshop when I was like 14 and I think it was like 1994 when I bought it.

 

[skabassist13]

Squier Affinity P-Bass. Black. runs about $170, but i got mine in that starter pack thing when i was 14.

 

[TSanders]

Lake Placid Blue Fender Jazz. Quite the looker, and a great player. I still have that one.

 

[Mobay45]

It was sometimes in the spring of 1981. I went the the old Arnold and Morgan music store in Garland, Texas and came home with an off white Fender Bullet Bass and a 60 watt Yamaha combo amp with a 15" speaker. I don't remember what I paid for either of them though.

 

[Mantaray]

am i the only

non PoundSterling user here

Until now.

My first bass was a Yamaha BB G5 5string. It was a Christmas gift from my parents.

2 days before I got it I didn't even want to think of playing a musical instrument.

Its price was 150,000 Greek Drachmas.

 

[Morrow]

72 Pbass sunburst rosewood. I still have it . Lightweight and a great player.It was my only bass for many years and shows the wear.

 

[cgworkman]

I played this for a couple years:

1973 Fender MusicMaster
It wasn't techinically mine - though I wish I still had it.

The first one I "bought" on my own:

Steinberger USA XL-2 (1985 or '86?)