First song you ever played On Bass with other musicians in the room

[StickyDBRmf]

25 Or 6 To 4.

And I still love the song. 

[Lozz196]

Would have been when I played on a few songs in the Christmas play for the school orchestra, no idea what they were tho as never heard them since.

[Geek99]

Stand by me, then weeks later Folsom prison blues (and they went freaking wild) 

[Doctor J]

Black Night at an audition for the school band.

[chrisba]

Sit Down by James.

Sitting down.

[gjones]

All Right Now by Free. Which looking back was pretty adventurous for a kid who had trouble tuning his bass.

[Chezz55]

........... a long time ago - 1968/9 at St Charles' Hall, Clacton-on-Sea.

 

Song was probably 'Flames' by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera or 'Johnny B Goode'.

[Fishfacefour]

Give it away.

It was a form a band in a day workshop event thing. I was a guitar player but roped in to bass as there was another guitar player too.

By the end of the day my fingers were completely shredded from the slides. Loved it!

 

[Happy Jack]

Red House.

[Dad3353]

(I'm A Little...) Apple Tree Warbler, with the Martin Spicer Band, using my Hofner President guitar as a bass, late '60s. 

[Hobbayne]

Pretty Green by The Jam. That only had one note for the first few bars. This was quickly followed by Tomorrow never Knows, by The Beatles. That also only had er.... one note 

[Nail Soup]

With musicians (plural) it would have been something my first band wrote ourselves… good chance based on one of my own bass lines.

with one musician (using the term loosely as we were both learning together) it would have been with my mate and have been a classic walking bass line from a “teach yourself” book.

First cover was maybe Blitzkreig Bop.

Edited September 19, 2022 by Nail Soup

[Geek99]

1 hour ago, Chezz55 said:

........... a long time ago - 1968/9 at St Charles' Hall, Clacton-on-Sea.

 

Song was probably 'Flames' by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera or 'Johnny B Goode'.

I was born in clacton on sea after your performance and my grandma is buried there 

Edited September 19, 2022 by Geek99

[tauzero]

Either All Right Now or Back in the USSR.

[Little Dragon]

ZZTop's Tush. 

Edited September 20, 2022 by Little Dragon

[Rich]

Quo's "Caroline".

[Velarian]

Probably “Sometimes” by the Stranglers.

 

I’m hoping to verify this soon because apparently our drummer has a cassette recording of our first gig, albeit very poor quality. If he can find it I’ll take a digital copy of it. 

Edited September 20, 2022 by Velarian

[Drax]

On upright, technically would have been grade 1 exam.. something like Fur Elise. 

 

Electric - stand by me 

[BigRedX]

Something I'd written myself. The first band I played in were pretty well established by the time I switched from guitar to bass as my main instrument.

[neepheid]

The Specials, "Nite Klub"

 

If there were any unwitting musicians in the music shop when I was trying/buying my first bass - The Stranglers, "Peaches".

Edited September 20, 2022 by neepheid

[MrCrane]

Lindisfarne - Train in G Major

[fretmeister]

It was a school thing.

 

Basin Street Blues.

[asingardenof]

Live Forever by Oasis. It was the 90s though!

[Crusoe]

I can't remember but it was probably Peggy Sue or All Day and All of the Night.

[Sandypjb]

1985 I think - Dire Straits 'Sultans of Swing' on my cheapie sunburst Squier P

Edited September 25, 2022 by Sandypjb
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