chris_b Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Can't remember which song, but it was probably off a Chess album. Something by Howlin Wolf,Muddy Waters or Chuck Berry. Date, around 1964. My mate Pete Gladwin had a Futurama and Watkins Dominator and I had to play bass lines on an awful Spanish guitar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Love Me Tender - Elvis. I have the musical notation tattooed on my arm. Upon reflection, referring to anyone in that room at that point as a "musician" might be a bit of a stretch. Thankfully we all got a lot better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Roundabout by Yes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franticsmurf Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Queen's 'Flash'. I was in a room full of mates who all played something, and I'd never played any kind of instrument before. Being good mates, they hung a bass around my neck, placed my finger on the correct fret and told me to pluck the string with my right finger - over and over again. For a few seconds I was a rock star, until the chord changed. Then I wasn't. But it got me hooked and years later, after dabbling with guitar in an originals band for a while, I hung a bass around my neck and stood up to play 'In the Midnight Hour' in my first covers band. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 18 minutes ago, Franticsmurf said: Queen's 'Flash'. I was in a room full of mates who all played something, and I'd never played any kind of instrument before. Being good mates, they hung a bass around my neck, placed my finger on the correct fret and told me to pluck the string with my right finger - over and over again. For a few seconds I was a rock star, until the chord changed. Then I wasn't. But it got me hooked and years later, after dabbling with guitar in an originals band for a while, I hung a bass around my neck and stood up to play 'In the Midnight Hour' in my first covers band. The chord changes in Flash?! 😲😆 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Wild Thing, although describing my fellow 14 year old band members as 'musicians' is pushing it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Hit the Road Jack, Smoke on the Water and Running with the Devil. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegs07 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Echo Beach. What was supposed to be a punk band suddenly had the guitarist girlfriend as a singer. She had talent. We didn’t. But the set list rapidly became inane drivel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Cocaine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassybert Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Creep by Stone Temple Pilots I think. We also did Under The Bridge by the RHCP but that would definitely have been a simplified version 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_m Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Dirty Water by The Standells, with some mates at an open mic / jam night thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbiscuits Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 I suspect it was Wild Thing in a church hall youth club in Swansea in about 1987 on my white Westone bass. A few of us got together to do a gig (my first!) at Christmas 1988. I can’t remember the songs tho - I think Every Rose Has It’s Thorn was in there, and er Wild Thing… 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super al Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 I think the 1st time I played with musicians (but I don't think there was a drummer) was at Cricklade College, Andover in a music room. All the guitarists I knew at that point loved Jimi Hendrix so I think Hey Joe would've been shown to me. I think I knew the root notes for Whiskey in a jar and House of the rising sun but Jimi didn't play those toons! The 1st band I joined taught me Green Onions and Careful with that axe Eugene...you would've thought being in Andover the kids would play Wild Thing! 😆 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubit Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 I can still remember our very first rehearsal. It was in the scout hall, which we had hired. My mate the guitarist had got a guitar for his Christmas and we had decided to form a band. I got hold of a horrible old bass which had a kind of hook horn that had been glued on to the top and then painted with Dulux gloss paint and my other mate got a cheap drum kit. We learned Ride On by AC/DC, or at least we learned bits of it. A local musician heard us and popped in. "Ok guys let's hear you." We started and he was like "stop, stop, you have to play together!" 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2pods Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 "Know Where You Are" Slade 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 (edited) If you mean participating with other musicians, then my first was Walking In The Air from The Snowman - school Xmas concert, 1995, on my £20 Eros Gibson copy. I pretty much confined myself to root notes throughout as I'd only been playing a couple of months. Edited September 23, 2022 by Cosmo Valdemar Spelllling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 When I was in my teens, early-mid 70s, I used to occasionally jam with mates. Alan was on drums, Greg had a black Shaftsbury Les Paul, Dill had a MIJ Jazz bass copy, no idea of the make, and I had a guitar (a Hayman 2020 picked up in a pawn shop for £50!) We'd spend an afternoon trying to perfect Status Quo/Fleetwood Mac type RnB songs in a seemingly endless loop and often I'd swap my guitar for bass. Thinking about it, 50 years later (with a lengthy hiatus) I am still playing Fleetwood Mac type RnB tunes... I hope I'm getting better by now! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 At a party in about 1983, with members of the future Utah Saints and a Conflict roadie present, a m8 and I wrote and played a song accompanied by a Roland drum machine. It signified our state of mind at that moment, and was called "Wrecked As A Fart"... I'd never actually played a real bass before, just twanged along to Bootsy records on a knacked acoustic guitar I'd taken the top 2 strings off! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundfreedom Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Seek and Destroy by Metallica. Round about 1990 at the age of 15 in a band with a couple of lads from school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skin Lewis Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt by The Shadows. Around 1967 in a mate's front room aged 14. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Wilson Pickett's " Midnight Hour" 1966 with a 4 piece in my parents basement. I was 12 years old. Blue 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 On 19/09/2022 at 15:44, Happy Jack said: Red House. Red House, no better place to start out. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jassthebass Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Dancing in the Moonlight by Thin Lizzy !! Still fond of this tune!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 On 21/09/2022 at 03:42, tony_m said: Dirty Water by The Standells, with some mates at an open mic / jam night thing. Dirty Water, not my first but pretty close. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguacollas Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Roxanne, the guitar player telling me where to put my fingers on the fretboard. First gig that year in my school, I am amazed now how we dare play covers of Led Zep, Zappa, Faith no more… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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