Your very 1st song

[gafbass02]

I think mine was ‘goodnight though’ by the wonderstuff, or kill your television by Neds

[Graham56]

Stupidity (Dr Feelgood). Took another few years before I came anywhere the feel of John Sparks' original. 

[Beedster]

 

[smithy]

Wow....the more I hear what most of you started with, the more small and ugly I feel about my first one: Jesus just left Chicago by ZZ TOP. (Were there more than three notes? )   Fortunately back then I didn't know about basschat, otherwise after having heard all your "firsts" I would have been discouraged and I would have given up bass playing immediately.  Thank God that thread didn't appear 8years ago.😊

[chris_b]

Give me a break! I can't remember that far back!!

 

Probably something like Green Onions by Booker T and the MG's

[miles'tone]

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana.  Halloween 1991

[Rexel Matador]

Everything About You by Ugly Kid Joe. 27 years later my band opened for Whitfield Crane in Newcastle and I got to tell him about it 🤣

[chriswareham]

I'm another one who learned Peaches by The Stranglers as my first song on bass guitar. And like someone else who has already posted it was on a Marlin Slammer that a friend had let me borrow. Dead strings, action a mile high and it weighed a ton!

[NancyJohnson]

Don't think there was any discernable first track...in all honesty, I started playing with another couple of schoolfriends (we were 14 or 15, I guess), we didn't practice away from that environment and we just made up our own three-chord songs.  I used to play along with All The World's a Stage by Rush and Sweet F*nny Adams by Sweet.  That's pretty much where I started, so it would have been Bastille Day or Set Me Free.

[Shambo]

All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks

 

actually, it could have been You Really Got Me... sometime in the late 80's.

[TrevorR]

Most likely The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, Let It Grow by Eric Clapton or Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word by Elton John

[stewblack]

Can't tell you what the first bass song was as they were all originals and long since forgotten.

First song i ever learnt on guitar was Eddie And the Hot Rods, Do Anything You Wanna Do

[Woodinblack]

A passing interpretation of Anthem by Rush.

[BillyBass]

Summer of 69, I believe.  It was the first drummer I ever played with's favourite song.

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

Come as you Are - Nirvana. 

[OliverBlackman]

Blimey some of you were learning tricky stuff to start! Mine was smoke on the water Deep Purple, as played by most teenagers in music stores 😂

[MrDaveTheBass]

"So Lonely" by The Police. 

[lozkerr]

Games People Play - the Joe South version.

 

ETA: the first song I played in public was Pretty In Pink.

Edited January 24 by lozkerr

[Count Bassy]

Probably something like Johhny B. Goode.

 

First I played in public would have been The Kinks "You Really Got Me Going"

[40hz]

Petrol by Ash!

[JJ*]

Oh my, that's light-years back from now!😉😂..impossible for me to recall well🤷..but let me gamble for: Hey Joe (Hendrix), All Right Now (The Free), You Really Got Me (The Kinks)..😉😊

[Linus27]

I think mine might have been Inxs - Kiss The Dirt.

[Kiwi]

U2 - New Years Day

It kind of blew my mind and made me aware of the power of a good arrangement - how closely musical parts could fit together and still sound completely different to one another.

[BassTractor]

Games Without Frontiers  -  Peter Gabriel

[bassbiscuits]

Iron Maiden “Running Free” in early 1986. I played violin in school (quite badly) before I started learning bass and worked out the main riff of the song on the fiddle first, holding it like a guitar.