I am a newbie bassist, and I come from down your way...

[The inglourious bass turd]

I can play - a bunch of scales and arpeggios, the beginning bits of - paranoid, iron man, seven nation army, satisfaction, that bit from the chain , the beginning of badge - but not one whole song! What's the first whole song you guys learned?
Andy

[thisnameistaken]

I think it was "Money" by Pink Floyd. I don't even like Pink Floyd tbh, but the bass part is really easy to hear and has lots of notes in.

[Dom in Dorset]

Probably something by Hawkwind
Thin Lizzy's Dancing in the moonlight is a good one because it's prety much the same all the way through.

[ThomBassmonkey]

I think it was Dear Chaisey Lain (Bloodhound Gang) or something. Definitely lots of Blink-182 and Offspring in the early days.

[The inglourious bass turd]

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='780503' date='Mar 20 2010, 09:21 AM']I think it was Dear Chaisey Lain (Bloodhound Gang) or something. Definitely lots of Blink-182 and Offspring in the early days.[/quote]

One of the great lyrics of all time! "Mom and dad this is Chaisey, Chaisey this is my mom and dad - now show em them titties" Genius - and a great bass intro

[OutToPlayJazz]

I think it would have had to have been "Mystery Song" by Status Quo, which I learned on my double bass as I didn't have an electric bass at the time!

[cupples]

It's got to be Little Green Bag by the George Baker Selection, from Reservoir Dogs, or else the Cure's Lovecats. Love those bass lines! That's what got me started.
Andrew

[OldGit]

House of the Rising Sun - the Animals version.

Welcome Inglourious BT. Great name

[the_skezz]

First song I [u]learned[/u] to play all the way through was the Kinks 'All Day and All of the Night'

The first song I actually bothered playing all the way through once I had learned the individual bits to it was Iron Maiden's 'Revelations'.

[obbm]

Move It - Cliff and The Shadows

[Deep Thought]

Warhead-UK Subs

[xgsjx]

New Years Day by U2 was the first song I learned all the way thru. They was a brilliant band back in the early 80's!

[steve-soar]

Down In The Sewer, by The Stranglers.

[Cat Burrito]

Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan back in the days before Guns N Roses, um, re-imagined it.

[JordanRLS]

My first was Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit... really easy bass part

[The inglourious bass turd]

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='780641' date='Mar 20 2010, 11:34 AM']Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan back in the days before Guns N Roses, um, re-imagined it.[/quote]

Got to be one of the best songs of all time! Nice one.

[tony_m]

Think I managed to crack [i]What's The Frequency Kenneth [/i] and [i]Losing My Religion [/i] (REM) at about the same time, with [i]One of Us [/i](Joan Osborne) not too far behind.

[Musicman69]

Paranoid by Sabbath... had the start wrong though.

[hellothere]

Im not sure which was first cus i learnt all 3 at the same time but all 3 are pretty easy Bombtrack, Know your enemy and Bullet in the head all by Rage Against The Machine. Bombtrack is slightly harder than the other 2 but not much and i used to love playing it. In all RATM tracks its easy to hear the bass in if that is what oyu are struggling with.

[Delberthot]

an all time classic when I first picked up the bass at age 12 - Another One Bites the Dust by Queen


not to be confused with the Wierd Al Yankovic track - Another One Rides the Bus

[bartelby]

Probably Metallica's For Whom The Bell Tolls or Seek and Destroy

[The inglourious bass turd]

[quote name='bartelby' post='780805' date='Mar 20 2010, 02:30 PM']Probably Metallica's For Whom The Bell Tolls or Seek and Destroy[/quote]

All most excellent choices, but looks liked it's going to be radar love - one of my favourite songs, and it's in the book I bought with a play along cd - makes life a lot easier!

[Bassassin]

Peaches - The Stranglers. Arguably I bought a bass specifically to learn to play Peaches - I had no idea how to tune a bass at the time, so when a more knowledgeable friend showed me what I was doing wrong, I had to re-learn the song...

I then went on to learn the entire Rattus Norvegicus album, so that was OK.

Jon.

[deathpanda]

After being inspired by the ever-amazing old funk tunes and Jaco Pastorius to pick up the bass, I thought I could attempt them with my already above average guitar skills, and much to my displeasure it turns out bass is on a level of it's own in terms of playing and understanding music. I can't remember the first song I actually played, but I remember my first gig as a bassist I played Fire by Hendrix.

[Bloodaxe]

[quote name='The inglourious bass turd' post='780451' date='Mar 20 2010, 07:32 AM']I can play - a bunch of scales and arpeggios, the beginning bits of - paranoid, iron man, seven nation army, satisfaction, that bit from the chain , the beginning of badge - but not one whole song! What's the first whole song you guys learned?
Andy[/quote]

Can't possibly nail it down to the first song... but 3 albums that were on heavy rotation when I started in 1982 were:

Status Quo - Live (1976?)
AC/DC - If You Want Blood...
Deep Purple - Made In Japan

After these I moved on to John Mayall's Bluesbreakers & Stevie Ray Vaughan. Then it's all a bit of a blur tbh.

Pete.