[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1447609455' post='2908888']
Bottom of the range, bolt on neck entry level bass.
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[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1447610196' post='2908903']
My first bass was a Thunder 1A - compared to most of the other stuff at the time it was a great bass....
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My first bass still [i]is[/i] a Thunder 1A. I'm a fairly rudimentary player, but I haven't shown any signs of outgrowing it yet. I put D'Addario Chromes on it and keep it in passive mode and it magically turned into a heavy, poorly balanced but otherwise pretty decent P-bass. The hardware is solid, the wood is decent, the electronics are functional, and it sounds like a P-bass sounds. Anyone hoping for a budget Wal or something should keep looking, but it does a perfectly good job of what it does.
(My second, and very recent, bass is a J&D jazz bass that - literally - cost less than my wife's most recent pair of shoes, and that's fine too as far as I can tell. It is possible that I am both cheap and easy to please.)