TrevorR Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 If I have any trouble remembering my first bass I only need to pop upstairs and get it out of its case! 1981 Aria SB700. Lovely bass! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxlin Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Mine was a white Hondo P-bass, soon straight swapping at a 'cash release' shop for a strat copy guitar. This was after buying (for some reason I can’t recall!) a short scale Encore P (ish) bass. Again short-lived, and soon replaced....... As an aside, I bought the Encore secondhand, the reason for sale being that the parents of a teenage lad had bought it for him - he’d wanted to learn to play guitar, they thought it would be easier for him to learn on as it only had 4 strings. Wrong, and the lad never touched it...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 A sunburst Kay P bass. God, it was awful. Sold it to a friend from school & bought a Westone Raider I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthedog Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 (edited) I think it was an Ibanez SRX300. Definitately an SRX and in white but with a black pickguard. I cannot find any pictures of one on the internet, however. The only photo I have of mine is small and very badly distorted in the corner of a photo of a room. I loathed it and could never get a tone out of it I was happy with. It actually played a material part in me very quickly giving up bass playing. I got back into it a few years ago with an MIA Fender P which I love and still have, but that Ibanez did me no favours. I have no idea what happened to it. Possibly given away along with the small combo amp to the house movers in 2010. Edited August 13, 2018 by Bobthedog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 A 1969 Gibson EB0 converted to an EB3 & with a DiMarzio Model "I" at the neck. s/n 907469 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridgehouse Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 1 minute ago, Big_Stu said: A 1969 Gibson EB0 converted to an EB3 & with a DiMarzio Model "I" at the neck. s/n 907469 Still got it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Yamaha BB1000, quickly defretted and a Jazz pickup added by Norman Reed in Totnes. Got a second fretted sunburst one for a pair. I got them from a guy in Glasgow called Charlie Marks, who had a funny wee music shop in Kilmarnock Road. I also got a seventies Tele from Charlie. Everything always cost £150. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 On 09/08/2018 at 18:00, Reggaebass said: My first bass when I was 14 was a jedson that was 40 years ago and I still have it and it works Before I started playing properly, there was a guy locally who let me borrow his Jedson. For me it was just the coolest thing ever. My first proper bass was an Arbiter, just like the one below. I had it for a while, sold it for £30 and then bought a Columbus Jazz Bass copy (£65). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 3 hours ago, NancyJohnson said: Before I started playing properly, there was a guy locally who let me borrow his Jedson. For me it was just the coolest thing ever. My first proper bass was an Arbiter, just like the one below. I had it for a while, sold it for £30 and then bought a Columbus Jazz Bass copy (£65). That’s cool I bought the Jedson off a friend for £30 it now hangs on the wall in my man cave 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 (edited) On 13/08/2018 at 14:26, Bridgehouse said: Still got it? No, I was "obliged" to sell it once I got married. Last I saw of it was in the window of Bostons junk shop in Edinburgh in the early 90s. It was looking very shabby by then. I remember seeing lots of cig burns around the nut. I do however still have the receipt from when I bought it, from JSG Music of Bingley, W Yorkshire. Edited August 17, 2018 by Big_Stu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ady Lockwood Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 My first bass was a Westone Concord Bass II, was a lovely bass. Unfortunately I damaged the body in 2000, but used the neck on a P Bass body until last year. Still have the neck & neck plate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamdenRob Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 I got a Squier P bass for my 13th birthday my parents bought from some bloke in the Diamond FreeAds... It was f***ing s**t... 😐 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrumpymike Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) A Watkins Rapier like the ones pictured below. Mine was the light blue with bridge/tailpiece covers and chrome pickup mounting plate. The other blue one shown was the later Wilson-branded version that probably weighed a kilo less. Cost around £30 new in 1966. Thought it was SOOOO cool back then - actually still like it. http:// Edited April 9, 2020 by scrumpymike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbasspecial Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Here is my first real bass. Bought a s/h Tokai Hardpuncher when I was 15 but sold it when I bought a heavily modded Fender Precision Special. I sold it a few years later as I wrongly assumed you only needed 1 bass (silly boy!). Last summer (30 years later) I bought another Tokai Hardpuncher. Turns out I actually bought my original one back!!! The serial number was quite destinctive and similar to my mums phone number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandad Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) Sometime after my 50th, so 1998/99 my wife bought me a sunburst Legend Jazz bass, about £100 or so. It came via my elder brother's brother-in-law, Paul Hancox. Paul had drummed for The Mindbenders, Mungo Jerry, Chicken Shack etc. It was a present for him but was unplayed. At the time I knew little to nothing about bass guitars but it was a step up from the one I'd borrowed to try and learn. From what I can remember I thought it was a pretty good instrument and subsequently acquired a matching sunburst Legend Precision which was just as good. I think they were made by Aria. The Canadian Legend Guitar Company I think are a different concern. I don't know if there is any connection. So for a couple of years I was GAS free and happy with those 2. Edited April 10, 2020 by grandad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Hondo II precision copy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubit Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 A Hondo 2 Precision copy. I tried to sell it but got no takers. I honestly cannot remember what I did with it after that as I have no recollection of dumping it and I certainly don't have it. Maybe I blocked it from my memory, as I would never dream of dumping anything musical nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubit Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 10 hours ago, Bilbo said: Hondo II precision copy Thats is exactly my first bass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Here's a pic of me and my first bass playing one of the first Roco gigs... King's Head in Fulham, perhaps 1988? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaypup Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 13 hours ago, Ady Lockwood said: My first bass was a Westone Concord Bass II, was a lovely bass. Unfortunately I damaged the body in 2000, but used the neck on a P Bass body until last year. Still have the neck & neck plate Same. Mine was a kind of pukey green colour so I covered it in pictures from melody maker and varnished it. Part-exed it for a Ibanez Studio a few years later which was a pretty decent upgrade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Yamaha BB300 in 💩 brown. Swapped it with a friend for his Westone Thunder 3. Edited April 10, 2020 by ezbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 16 year old me with my 1st bass. Built by school mate for A level A&D in 76. His name is Gary Nava and went on to do quite well in the luthier business. http://www.navaguitars.co.uk/index.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 9 hours ago, oldslapper said: 16 year old me with my 1st bass. Built by school mate for A level A&D in 76. His name is Gary Nava and went on to do quite well in the luthier business. http://www.navaguitars.co.uk/index.html Very cool vintage pic. Blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6feet7 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 My first bass was a YOB one - 1964 Gibson EB-0. I have no idea why I sold it (for a loss, like every other guitar and bass I've ever sold). I can't remember if I liked it or not, as it was my first and really didn't know what I was doing (some things don't change). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Dare Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 (edited) No photos from the time (late 1960s), but found this pic' of my first bass. Not the best instrument I ever played - the body was 1 inch thick plywood - but it got me started. Edited April 11, 2020 by Dan Dare 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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