Members DerekDRP Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 as the topic state's do you still have and let alone play your very first bass ever ( once ina while playing )? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members L-1329 Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Well since you asked! I still have my first bass, and play it once in a while. It's brothers are now doing all the hard labor, it is enjoying it's well earned retirement. Here it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DerekDRP Posted September 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 wow it looks good ? but what is it? it looks faimlar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members L-1329 Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Originally posted by DerekDRP wow it looks good ? but what is it? it looks faimlar. It's a Gibson Victory Artist, from 1982. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DerekDRP Posted September 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 my I ask why the fret markers are off tot he left? and not int he middle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dragoon Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 My first bass was borrowed. It was an Epiphone D-60, 4-string, with metal humbuckers. It was somewhat of a beater bass and plastered with stickers. For the several months I had it I played it through a small Kustom guitar combo amp (also borrowed). I don't miss either piece of equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members L-1329 Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 They're only offset for style, nothing more. Actually they're easier to see on the top side of the fingerboard. There's really no rhyme or reason to where or how fret markers are placed, and some don't have any at all. One reason it's fun to check out as many other basses as we can is all their differences! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DerekDRP Posted September 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Originally posted by Dragoon My first bass was borrowed. It was an Epiphone D-60, 4-string, with metal humbuckers. It was somewhat of a beater bass and plastered with stickers. For the several months I had it I played it through a small Kustom guitar combo amp (also borrowed). I don't miss either piece of equipment. Ah nice. lol I was about to sticker my first bass up with aliens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DerekDRP Posted September 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Originally posted by L-1329 They're only offset for style, nothing more. Actually they're easier to see on the top side of the fingerboard. There's really no rhyme or reason to where or how fret markers are placed, and some don't have any at all. One reason it's fun to check out as many other basses as we can is all their differences! looks so much better too I think and a good converation peice say the least :cool: :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SB Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Here's my fecal design incarnate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rhythmalism Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Ibanez GSR200. The terd warps like mad but it's a decent beater bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dragoon Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Originally posted by DerekDRP Ah nice. lol I was about to sticker my first bass up with aliens Cool. Yeah, pretty much every last inch of the Epi's body was covered in stickers of Christian rock/punk/ska bands. Kind of an eyesore. Do what you will, but unless the bass is a beater, personally I'd maybe put on a couple of tastefully chosen/placed stickers or none at all. Alien stickers in the right place could look kinda funky though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 My first bass was a Santa Rosa P copy. Still got it. Total POS. I played it straight for about two years-about how long it took to fall apart. One pickup came undone from the cover, the frets stuck out the day I got it and still do, two tuning keys came undone, etc. etc. I moved on to a Richfield P after that. Same thing as SX with a different name. Still got that one too, and it has been played in the last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bleepo Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Samick P copy... It's now fretless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tim in WV Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 I dont have my first bass. I switched from alto sax ( which I was professionally studio good at, enough to play clubs when was a kid ) to bass, which my school refused to teach me becuase electric bass was considered a "rock and roll" instrument and as such was deemed not worthy of their time. {censored}in mid 70's alabama public school systems. Based all their decisions on the Bible. So I never got to the same level on bass as I did on sax. I can play, but I wouldnt cut it in a studio setting. I'd hit a ringer somewhere or miss a change. I've always hated the fact I never got schooled. My first bass was a generic white P bass copy, name doesnt really matter I guess! Coupled with a Ampeg B-100 combo amp. I remember the amp was very powerful for it's size, I think it was almost as loud as the BA 115HP I have now. Best bass I ever had was a 57 Reissue I got brand new, with a Ampeg B-15. I was SO STUPID to sell it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members M-1 Fan Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 My first real bass was a Sekova violin shaped bass with a Gibson Thor amp. I was 14 and it was 1966. Prior to that, I tried turning my Old Kraftsman 6-string guitar into a bass. Wow did that suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sunken Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 EKO Condor bass from the mid/late 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T. Alan Smith Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 My 1st was a Fender Performer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hasbeen Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 my first bass I bought new in 1978....Music Man Sabre. Well, that was one of those "I wish I didn't sell it" stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Perfessor Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Mine was a teardrop shape Vox copy made in Italy at the same factory that made the original. It cost $50 and I got $50 for it when I traded it in. I thought I was really ahead then; I wish I had it now. It was callled a Crescendo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T. Alan Smith Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Originally posted by hasbeen my first bass I bought new in 1978....Music Man Sabre. Well, that was one of those "I wish I didn't sell it" stories. ...guess so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nicebigstrings Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 My first bass was a Lero short scale with a Tele body. Bought it for 80 bucks in '77 and sold it to a kid in high school two years later when I got my Ibanez Black Eagle. A couple of years ago I ran into the kid at a friend's 40th birthday. He told me he still had it and that I could have it back if I wanted it. Most kind. Unfortunately he was drunk at the time and lives quite a way out of town so I never followed up on it. Anyway, I'm not sentimental about it, sentimentality is over-rated. The only reason I could see for having that bass would be for my daughter if she chose to mess her life up in her teen years without the aid of drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dert_stylus Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 My first Bass was a Peavey Foundation USA model. I still have it and it is still as great as it was the first day I got it !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JC Bass Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 My Hondo listed below...still have it...still play it occasionally... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NV43345 Posted September 12, 2005 Members Share Posted September 12, 2005 Here is my First Bass. My Dad gave it to me for my 10th B-Day in Oct 1969. It is a Gibson SB300 My dad got in on Maxwell street in Chicago where I grew up. I was a Jack Bruce wanna-be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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