Post a pic of your very first bass

[Silvia Bluejay]

As inspired by Seashell's anniversary thread.
I'll start with my Crafter. I still have it, immaculately preserved, and will never get rid of it. This is a photo taken several years ago with a rather crap camera, and I'm posting it on purpose - taking a new one with my all-singing, all-dancing DSLR would ruin the feel of this thread.



Edit: and yes, the photo contains a selfie as well, if you look carefully

Edited January 28, 2015 by bluejay

[bartelby]

Apart from a couple of photos of my second bass, taken in 1989, most of the photos I've taken of my gear has been in the last 5 years or so.
I have no photos of stuff in the intervening 20 years.

[tinyd]

I'm pretty sure that this Kay was like mine:-

[Twincam]

Here is mine a Vintage pre wilkinson i named Laura. This was the explanation of the name from my very first basschat introduction post.
"[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Bought a cheap 15 quid pre wilkinson Vintage from a mate. That had done the rounds between friends, wasn't in the best of condition and was filthy, so i named it after a girlfriend it reminded me of haha."[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Added the cool speed strips myself.[/font][/color]

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Edited January 28, 2015 by Twincam

[KiOgon]

Not actually mine but very very close - my Dad 'helped' me make my first, a copy of the Vox tear drop as used by Bill Wyman circa '63/4

[anDy LAKIN]

heres mine a dean j bass still in good condition and only a few years old and only a few months use as then i got an ibanez sr300

[paul_5]

Short scale (30" scale) Hohner Baron Bass in black. Horrible 2 + 2 BBOT bridge and really skinny tuners. I started sanding it back to the wood one summer and hit chipboard…. Says it all really.

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Gigged it quite a lot though way back when.

[Cameronj279]

The bass on the left. It's the only photo I can find and it's with a cheap as chips "Crafter" bass that had faulty electronics and a neck that was easily the chunkiest thing I've ever used. Both sounded absolutely awful. Black one felt quite nice to play if I remember right (it was only 4 and a half years ago)

[gary mac]

1973/74 my first bass and rig. Epiphone semi acoustic.

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[lojo]

Sadly I don't have any pictures of the first 2 basses I had

[KK Jale]

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Edited March 31, 2017 by KK Jale

[BigRedX]

Here's mine:

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A heavily butchered Burns Sonic bought second hand in 1981. I still own it and it gets used in the studio from time to time.

[Highfox]

[quote name='tinyd' timestamp='1422466609' post='2673086']
I'm pretty sure that this Kay was like mine:-


[/quote]
That was my first one as well, got it S/H for 5 quid. I'm sure I was ripped off : Edit I found a picture of me playing it.
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Edited January 29, 2015 by Highfox

[Hobbayne]

Squier JV 57 P Bass circa 1985. It was Fiesta Red with a white pickguard but I had it resprayed.
Apologies for the 80,s hair.

Edited January 28, 2015 by Hobbayne

[SpaceChick]

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1422469337' post='2673120']
1973/74 my first bass and rig. Epiphone semi acoustic.

[url="https://flic.kr/p/qY9Kx8"][/url]
[/quote]

I was born in 74

I don't think I've got a picture if my first bass

It was a cheap, non branded, blue Jazz type bass.

[Graham]

Sticker covered Squier Affinity Precision, I'll have had it thirteen years in about two months.

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[Mr Arkadin]

Love those Burns and Kay basses.

This is my bass:



OK I only it got it in 2012, but I'm primarily a guitarist (of sorts).

Edited January 28, 2015 by Mr Arkadin

[KevB]

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1985 or thereabouts. Columbus jazz bought from bassist in school band I was in briefly (as a singer - ha, laughable!) for £30. Can you spot the really tasteful and hardly noticeable mod he'd done?

Edited January 28, 2015 by KevB

[waynepunkdude]

My Encore shortscale, bought secondhand in 1995 for £45, only had 3 strings, took another 4 weeks of saving up to get an E string, still have it, will never be sold.

[neepheid]

Epiphone EB-3. Long gone, no regrets - turned out it was not really what I was looking for in a bass, I just didn't know it at the time

[mikebass84]

My Tanglewood Warrior IIIFH. Such a pretty bass

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/p67K8bV.jpg[/IMG]

[Happy Jack]

My very first bass was actually the one I bought for my daughter, and absolutely not what I would have chosen.

This what I replaced it with:

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A new 1963 RI from Macari's. It took me a VERY long time to realise that I am fundamentally a Precision guy.

[Rich]

This isn't my actual bass, but mine's identical. A '64 Höfner Artist II, bought from my metalwork teacher for £20 in 1982.



My second bass was a Columbus Jazz, just like Kev's but without the P pickup.

[geoffbyrne]

My first bass was a Sunn Mustang:



Actually, once it was set up it played surprisingly well.

G.

[obbm]

My first was a Framus Star Bass bought in 1963.