What was the first bass you had GAS for?

[bartelby]

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1475149600' post='3143433']
A LPB P bass like Steve Harris's.
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Actually!
That was the first. Seeing photos of 'arris in the Live After Death booklet with the blue bass was a couple of years before Newsted and the Wal.

But I have a Blue Sparkle Steve Harris P now.

[Cato]

Probably a BC Rich Warlock or Mocking Bird.

I was very metal back then.

I actually wouldn't mind a Mocking Bird now, beautiful looking basses, though I'd probably go for a natural finish rather than the late 80s/early 90s neon-crackles-on-a-black-background that I fancied then.

[pineweasel]

A white Rickenbacker lefty which was in the window of the Sound Centre, Cardiff for most of 1980, but well beyond my means. I often wonder where it ended up.

[neilp]

1981 a second-hand Aria SB1000 in Handy Music in Reigate. Couldn't afford it then, I was 16. 5 years later I bought an identical bass, and it's still with me. Good call.........

[roceci]

BC Rich Warlock here too. Used to draw em on me school books & everything. Big W.A.S.P. fan back in the day.

[LewisK1975]

As a spotty 14yr old back in 1989, definitely a Yamaha Attitude when I first saw the picture of Billy Sheehan with it in Guitarist magazine. Which me and my mate used to read on our laps sitting at the back of our Maths lesson.

Never did manage to get may hands on a version 1 Attitude, but I do own a Black Ltd2 and also a Blue ltd3. Also previously bought and sold a seafoam green ltd2.

[Skybone]

All of them.

Though I lusted after a Rickenbacker for about 15-20 years before I finally got one.

Edited September 29, 2016 by Skybone

[BrunoBass]

The white Precision that Paul Simonon played in the 'Bankrobber' video. I was 11 years old and thought it (and he) was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Still do actually.

[josie]

Black Stingray 5, I thought - still love the look, but when I had the chance to try one it didn't feel right. Hands-on, love at first touch, my dearly beloved GMR 5. I do now also have two black Jazzes and a black Vintage acoustic bass and a black Faith Venus (my very first ever guitar) so I guess something has stuck

Maybe now that I know how to play a bit I should try a Stingray again? I love Victoria Smith's bass (and I'd love to be able to play as well as she does). No, no, stop me, please. I don't need a second mortgage.

[ead]

Jetglo Ricki. Saved for ages to buy one and then was massively disappointed by it. Tried to get on with it for around 15 months then ended up selling it (for a modest profit).

[Big_Stu]

A Gibson EB3 because Jimmy Lea of Slade played one.
I did get one, kinda, it was my first bass, I still have the receipt for it from JSG in Bingley, I paid £165 for it but it turned out to be an EBO which had been modded, s/n 907469. I sold it when I needed the cash and later saw it fairly wrecked in a junk shop window in Edinburgh.

[BigRedX]

John Birch's take on the Rickenbacker 4001.

[Bassassin]

Rick 4001. When I first started paying attention to the actual instruments I realised most of my heroes at the time (Lemmy, Geddy Lee, Bruce Foxton etc) played Ricks & got the sort of agressive, bright tone I liked - and they looked cool as f*ck.

Never owned one, quite likely never will - I have several MIJ Fakers that look better, sound great, are better built and don't have any nasty John Hall associations.

[EBS_freak]

Primarily a Wal, Rickenbacker 4001 and a Hofner violin bass.

Bet you can't figure out who's basslines I was learning bass to at the time...

Funnily enough, I was going to pull the trigger on a Wal but never did. Could have kicked myself. I don't really hanker after any of them nowadays... although the Wal would be nice to have in the collection.

[Kevsy71]

Back to '84 for a 4001 for the Lemmy & Cliff association. Probably the last time I GASsed because of the players rather than the bass (or look of the bass )

[JapanAxe]

My AVRI Precision. Before that I used to go out shopping with no particular agenda and come home with a bass that took my fancy.

[Bobthedog]

Fender P bass but had to be MIA. It was also the second bass I ever bought.

[Painy]

Yamaha RBX765a in trans green when I was 16.
I'd been gigging with a pair of Korean Aria Magna series passive 4 stringers for about 18 months but really wanted to try a five string active. Picked up a Yamaha catalogue in a local music store, spotted the RBX in it and spent most of my evenings just staring at it and reading the 5 lines of descriptive text over and over. Saved up my gig money and bought it, loved it and not gigged anything with less than 5 strings since. Wish I still had it but eventually traded it against my Warwick corvette which I've now had for about 17 years.

[Skybone]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1475237491' post='3144276']
Primarily a Wal, Rickenbacker 4001 and a Hofner violin bass.

Bet you can't figure out who's basslines I was learning bass to at the time...

Funnily enough, I was going to pull the trigger on a Wal but never did. Could have kicked myself. I don't really hanker after any of them nowadays... although the Wal would be nice to have in the collection.
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Geddy Lee?

[Painy]

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Geddy Lee?
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Love that classic Hofner violin bass tone on Power Windows!

[obbm]

The one on this album cover in 1961.

[Hobbayne]

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The one on this album cover in 1961.


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I dont recall ever seeing Bruce Welch play a Tele.
Obviously a staged picture as Jet Harris took his ashtrays off.

[Dan Dare]

Fender Jazz.

[Davo-London]

Fender Precision. I wanted black and maple but settled for a 1976 natural ash/maple (bought new!). Still got the bass.

Davo

[TrevorR]

The Ricky in the covers band my bigger brother played in when I was a kid was what first hooked me on bass. So that was my first bass lust. Still love the look and sound of a Rick. Little did I know then that I'd hate how they felt to play.

Then there was Neil Murray's SB900 back in the Whitesnake days. A huge influence on my choice of first bass... see in the signature below...!