what was the first number you gigged on a bass ?

[essexbasscat]

I know this has been done before, but it's been a while and it's fun

Here's mine. We played it around three - four months after it came out in 1973


[media]http://youtu.be/2dTnvhGHDGA[/media]

Edited July 28, 2014 by essexbasscat

[ead]

American Idiot - Guitarist started playing as I was just plugging in, so minor panic to get ready for the cue.

[BILL POSTERS]

I'd love to say it was something cool. But I'm pretty sure it would have been Apache or something similar.

I do remember it was a WMC somewhere around Dudley, New years eve 1976.

[Billy Apple]

I'm pretty sure it was this..

http://youtu.be/xMaE6toi4mk

[gjones]

All right now, by Free. I was still figuring out the bass part on the solo until 5 mins before the gig.

[Bolo]

Some death metal noise my drummer and I wrote.

[gelfin]

20th Century boy.

[Hobbayne]

This. I spent days practicing it, although I played the main riff on the lower strings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPvdu4NFJVA

[gary mac]

School assembly in 1973 and I think it was either Let it Be or Cecilia. My mate lent me his 72 Fender Jazz for the performance.

[the_skezz]

Maiden's Run to the Hills. Nice un to break me in.

[Beedster]

Substitute,

The Who, not Clout

[flyfisher]

House Of The Rising Sun . . . . at an old folks home summer fete in 1974

[Jazzneck]

Twist and Shout at a Yoof Club do - 1964.
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Edited July 28, 2014 by Jazzneck

[peteb]

Suffragette City – Summer of 77

[linear]

AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top, complete with bagpipe player. I used a capo on the first fret

[Number6]

Black Sabbath' Paranoid.....at my mates art college as part of his college course i believe.

[stingrayPete1977]

My first ever performance was 'Surf in Usa' at school around 1992 my first proper gig was an originals band around 1999, my first proper covers gig would have been something like 'Black Night' in a blues rock band around 2003ish.

Edited July 28, 2014 by stingrayPete1977

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

My very first gig . Very nervous 30th birthday gig( altho' still 29 when I did gig in front of 200 people) head like a hole by 9 inch nails.
After that, straight into losing my religion . That's another story

[Jonesy64]

11th January this year!...Pretty Vacant

[Mornats]

I've only ever played in originals bands but I found the first song we gigged way back from 1995/6: https://soundcloud.com/allan-dawson/still-alive-killing-time

[BigRedX]

No idea. My first gig playing bass was in 1981, so it would have been something that I wrote as part of the band I was in at the time.

[Subbeh]

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Like the bass on that, sounds a lot like Bill Gould from Faith No More [size=4] [/size]

[size=4]Mine was Territorial Pissings (Nirvana song), we were all 16/17 and blagged a gig at our local. We packed the place with people we knew so it went down very well despite us being ropey.[/size]

[Mornats]

Cheers unfortunately that was a session bassist on that album, I joined after it was recorded so we could go gigging.

[icastle]

This in 1979.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mve-xSd0AQ

[Allie]

Drifters, Under The Boardwalk. A beach party, early 60's