Your First Ever Crush

[Pete Academy]

I was about 16. <sigh>

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Stanley was endorsing it.

Edited March 20, 2010 by Pete Academy

[Pete Academy]

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='781122' date='Mar 20 2010, 08:13 PM']I was about 16. <sigh>

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Stanley was endorsing it.[/quote]

Just look at the distance between those pickups.

[OutToPlayJazz]

Status SII #402 - Owned it from 1990 until 2006. It lives in America now. Maybe it'll be back one day...

[gafbass02]

(No not me, the bass!) I was very lucky, when i first started playing the original version of this bass cropped up in a magazine and i cut the pic out and stuck it in the front of my A-level English folder, that was my dream bass. A few weeks later same magazine ran a review of the japanese '62 reissue, which i duly cut out and stuck in the back cover of my A-level English folder, this was more achievable, although not by much at that age, £500 or £5000 both were sky high. A few years later i found a mint one in my local store and had enough to buy it, and its still my number 1 at least 17 years later. Its been butchered a bit, and modded up and down, but i still love that bass which was my first crush, and indeed a more porky and recent me is wearing it in my avatar on the left!

[Pete Academy]

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='781129' date='Mar 20 2010, 08:23 PM']Status SII #402 - Owned it from 1990 until 2006. It lives in America now. Maybe it'll be back one day...



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Rich, you have my condolences.

[karlthebassist]

Funny. As I read this thread I was listening to Bill Henderson's 'I've got a crush on you.'

For me, the bass I wanted since I started playing was a black/black and maple Stingray. Now I've owned one since November, and I'm as happy as a pig in sh*t.

[pantherairsoft]

Mine was a Status Shark II 5 string. Red with White scratch plate. Fell in love, bought it and owned it for 2 years. Was sold due to poverty.

It was mine from 2000-2002. I'd love to know where it is now

[Pete Academy]

I should add that these are also basses that you lusted after, but never got to own.

[waynepunkdude]

YUM

[Pete Academy]

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='781138' date='Mar 20 2010, 08:33 PM']Mine was a Status Shark II 5 string. Red with White scratch plate. Fell in love, bought it and owned it for 2 years. Was sold due to poverty.

It was mine from 2000-2002. I'd love to know where it is now[/quote]

Similar to this, mine was the Alembic 20th Anniversary, bought in 1989, and sold to fund the Tobias Classic 5.

<Pass me that Kleenex will you, love...I feel a touch teary.>

[cd_david]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Edited March 20, 2010 by cd_david

[JimBobTTD]

This:

[harvey1-8]

My tutor had a 60s Precision in the classic 3 colour sunburst, tortoise shell, rosewood. He also had a 60s Strat in white, white, maple. I still want both of those instruments.

[bubinga5]

Oh Jen..my first ever..well not ever...


and then the bass

[WarPig]

75 RI Jazz, natural, maple with black blocks, spotted it in an old fender catalogue, havnt forgotten about it since.

[bubinga5]

[quote name='WarPig' post='781177' date='Mar 20 2010, 09:24 PM']75 RI Jazz, natural, maple with black blocks, spotted it in an old fender catalogue, havnt forgotten about it since.[/quote]
Just make sure you if you get one its a goodun..mine was a turkey

[dudewheresmybass]

+1 to the cliff reference ^

my main crush was the Fender p. Iwasn't worried about anything except that Steve Harris played one.
I now have a USA P and a MIJ P Lyte, but i now gas for the sig model.

[deathpanda]

hard to explain... but even just the sight of this bass inspires me to play... I would have this bass over Cheryl Cole.

[gafbass02]

That Jaco pic has a similar effect on me, something about it I can't put my finger on. Had as my desktop on my iPhone for ages.

[OliverBlackman]

I played on 67 p-bass at wunjo guitars in denmark street, i think i played on it for about an hour and a half! best bass iv ever had the privilage of playing and no vintage bass iv played on since has matched it.. But i put lindy fralin pups on my mex p-bass and for now thats going to do what a p bass does......... everything!

[woodster]

Mark 'bedders' Bedford's black/black/maple precision from the 1979 Top of the pops performance of The Prince.

I had a poster of it on my wall!!!

Edited March 22, 2010 by woodster

[Cat Burrito]

Incredibly I can't find one single picture of it but Steve James from The Dogs D'Amour had a surf green Jazz bass in this video....



...and this video made me want to be in a band.

* OK, I found a picture of something similar (attached) but it's not as good

[ThomBassmonkey]

One of my friends at college had a Warwick Corvette. It wasn't anything special in terms of Warwicks, but it felt lovely and it was the only thing that ever tempted me away from my Ibanez. I'm hopefully going to get a Warwick at some point this year, 8 years later.

[discreet]

First ever crush? We met in the hot, heady summer of 76... still together after all these years... :wub:

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Though I think UXORIOUS may be the word.

[Pete Academy]

[quote name='discreet' post='781969' date='Mar 21 2010, 07:22 PM']First ever crush? We met in the hot, heady summer of 76... still together after all these years... :wub:

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Though I think UXORIOUS may be the word.[/quote]