what was the first number you gigged on a bass ?

[neepheid]

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='914628' date='Aug 4 2010, 09:52 AM']A bass solo in your first ever live number! Fair play Mr Heid.[/quote]

If by bass solo you mean "repeat the main riff hoping and praying not to muck it up until the rest of the band kick back in again" then yeah

[WILD FROG SHOT]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd at a school BOTB when I was about 16. Used some sort of Yammy, it may or may not have been fretless, which was risky.

[wingnutkj]

[quote name='neepheid' post='914639' date='Aug 4 2010, 09:59 AM']If by bass solo you mean "repeat the main riff hoping and praying not to muck it up until the rest of the band kick back in again" then yeah [/quote]

My first number at my first gig was Town Called Malice by The Jam, which has a breakdown section of the variety descibed above. I managed it without hitting any bum notes, however it had all the feel and groove of a drunk sloth on a particularly shaky branch. I just remember that it was much more terrifying playing in front of people in the rehearsal room, and I was much too warm, and I couldn't hear things as well as in the rehearsal room, and I couldn't move my fingers very easily. Or my arms. Or my legs. I pretty much stayed rooted to the spot.

It was at Strathclyde Uni union, and I was using my "Legend" Jazz copy through someone else's amp. During the day, it was reported that Rod Hull had died. The singer dedicated our cover of Freddie King's "Going Down" to him, which wasn't the most sensitive of things to do (we got booed).

[farmer61]

Either Caroline or Paperplane by Quo can't remember setlist, I'll try and dig it out!

Aged 42 and 3/4 at the Famous Ale House in Swindon.

Nearly pi**ed me pants, not as much as when I sang "When love comes to town" BB King/U2(?) in the same gig though.

Edited August 4, 2010 by farmer61

[matski]

1984 - Doughnuts - Tunbridge Wells - 16 years old.

An original called 'The Persistance of Memory'.

Our band was called Acid Rain: we were a trio consisting of me on bass, guitarist, singer, and drum machine and keyboards on a PortaStudio (with immense levels of hisssssss at quiet moments).

Bass: Aria SB Black & Gold I.
Amp: horrendous Carlsbro Cobra 90.

I still have an old VHS tape with that gig somewhere, the playing was pretty shonky due to extreme levels of nerves, but we looked pretty natty in our matching red paisley shirts.

Edited August 4, 2010 by matski

[Fat Rich]

It was over 20 years ago and it was some awful Hair Rock... probably a Bon Jovi song! We went on to play some Aerosmith, Van Halen and some bluesier stuff so it improved a little.

We were playing the Middlesex Poly in Bounds Green, was horrified to see several hundred people had shown up. It actually went pretty well as they were a good crowd and seemed to be out for a good time, I made quite a few mistakes but got away with it mostly.

Was playing an Aria SB of some kind through a large Marshall Combo and extension cab, a fantastic bass through an OK amp, sounded alright!


As someone else has said in this thread, it was all downhill from there.... the last gig I did with that band was at the Stick of Rock in east London to the bar staff and a bloke and his dog. Halfway through our first song the dog gave the bloke a look, the bloke just nodded back and they left without a word.

Edited August 4, 2010 by Fat Rich

[JPS]

Kid by the Pretenders, on an Aria Cardinal Pro II, through whatever amp Leicester University provided. It was 1990 and I was 21 - late starter!

[bassace]

Some skiffle tune on double bass (borrowed), Reading Town Hall for the Conservatives 1956 - oh dear!

[Dandelion]

1990ish.

Aria Pro II "The Cat bass" Laney DP100 Combo.

Hey Joe, Sunshine of your love, Wipeout.

School concert thing.

[Lord Sausage]

I was 14. Gigged at school in dinner time to about 800 kids. Can't remember exactly what was first tune. Was bricking it. It was either 'Walkin By Myself' By Gary Moore. Or it was 'There's Only One Way To Rock' by Sammy Hagar/Van Halen. Either way 100% Cheese!

[MacDaddy]

Breathe - Pink Floyd. Late 80's at a birthday party for the guitarist/vocalist in a pub in Castleford.

Used an Ibanez Blazer bass. Probably through an old HH combo borrowed from college.

[Cygnus x-1]

1980, local church hall, Roadhouse Blues by the Doors, although we did Quo's version from the Piledriver album. No name precision copy through a Vox 50w valve head and a (1 x 18? I think) cab.

[Thatguy59]

Chasing cars by Snow Patrol, I'll never live that down...

[Stu-khag]

I was about 18. I think our first few songs were originals. couldn't tell you the names of any of them. We only ever did two covers if at all, either via chicago by wilco or luka by suzanne vega but in the style of the lemonheads cover (still prefer their version)

[anthomp]

79/80
"red cadillac and a black moustache"
Nervous Breakdown live at the paget rooms penarth
rockabilly
on a borrowed Rickenbacker
not the genre's weapon of choice ... but hey if you havent got one
played for a year then gave up for 25 years

[razze06]

i think it might have been tutti frutti, played in the attic of clothes shop on its opening party, sometime in 1989 or 1990. Probably played on a borrowed black aria through some small practice amp. I was 15 or so. No one saw us, we played three rock and roll classics over and over until the end of the opening party, sitting on stools in the attic with the spare stock...

[Rayman]

It would have been the mid 80s with a new wave band I sang and played bass for. It was all original stuff and pretty awful too probably, in some dump of a pub in Manchester I seem to remember, and it would've been on my Columbus Jazz. What a nightmare.

[goblin]

First bass playing gig I had was with my dad's band. Bassist went down a week before the gig with pretty serious illness, so I ended up been asked to fill in with a week to learn a 12 song set, all home brew music. Week later and 2 rehersals, went and blitzed it. I think I was 14 at the time. So technically, first number I gigged on bass was 12 numbers

[bobbytodd]

first song of my first ever gig was wild thing by the troggs at clifton rugby club in 1993 we got paid £20 a fiver each but it was the best feeling ever.even though there was only 6 people and a dog watching

[RockfordStone]

my first was a song by my old band called "our name in lights" it was in some dark venue in norwich, the marquee i think? played it on my trusty ibanez edb400.. i was 23 i think...

having said that i did player an open party where lots of blues songs were played.... i was playing most of the night so i assume we must have played a song... be damned if i can remember which ones tho

Edited August 5, 2010 by RockfordStone

[mep]

Don't remember the order but it included You shook me all night long by ACCD, Babylons Burning by The Ruts and of course Smoke on the water by Deep Purple.

[Spike Vincent]

It was 1981,I was 18,it was an original composition.The guitarist was a chap named Ian Dench,who went on to form a band called EMF,who some of you may remember....

[chrisba]

Come up and see me by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

About 2 years ago, aged 48, in a pub in Andover.

[phil.i.stein]

Sisters of Mercy- Alice

performed especially badly. aged 16 or so on a Westone Dynasty (looked well cool at the time, and i'll bet sarah 5-s would pay top dollar for it now, ha ha ! )

o.k. i fessed up.

i'll be regretting this later..

[Spike Vincent]

[quote name='phil.i.stein' post='917069' date='Aug 6 2010, 03:40 PM']Sisters of Mercy- Alice

performed especially badly. aged 16 or so on a Westone Dynasty (looked well cool at the time, and i'll bet sarah 5-s would pay top dollar for it now, ha ha ! )

o.k. i fessed up.

i'll be regretting this later..

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This was the first cover version I ever gigged!