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Post subject: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 2:37 pm
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It was this month that I bought my first bass and amp 25 years ago. I remember it was a little Fender Sidekick 30 combo and a Peavey Fury bass. The next bass I bought when I knew I was going to stick with this craft was a '77 Fender Jazz bass, then when I realized that I needed a big amp, a Peavey Databass 450 watt combo. I've had other basses, guitars, and amps since then, but that's what I cut my teeth on. I'm curious to see about when anyone else has started playing and if they remember their first gear.

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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 3:15 pm
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Hi CPL, my first bass rig in early '69 was a 1968 Fender Telecaster bass guitar, 200 watt Marshall bass amp and 2 4X12" bass cabs called a Marshall stack. When I started playing bass I went for the jugular, lol.

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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 3:19 pm
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Yeah, I'd say so. That's one hell of a rig there.

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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:52 pm
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Congratulations CPL! May you still be groovin' for another 25 and more.

Got my first bass about 30 years ago as self defense. I walked into a party & the bass player knew I was taking guitar lessons. He straps his bass around my neck & walks off.. :shock: :oops:

First bass: Fender Bullet Bass (before Squiers were around). The amp was a Fender (small, don't remember much about it).

Soon I had a Fender Jazz USA Standard and a used Gibson amp. The head was a preamp and lit up green red and blue. The slave cabinet had 2 15" speakers & weighed a ton.


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Post subject: Re: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:21 pm
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Congrats on your 25th bass anniversaryI have played guitar since I was 11 or 12 back in the mid 60s but my first bass was a Vox Astro IV Violin Bass Model V-273 with Bass/Treble Boost,Fuzz and G-Tuner.I bought this in either the late 70s or early 80s for just $150.Even though this was my first bass,I had been able to play bass for years before that.I didn't buy a dedicated bass amp until the late 90s when I saw a 1969 Fender Bassman head for only $200,needless to say I jumped on that.A couple of years later I bought a 1968 "Driprail" Bassman 2-15 cabinet for just $250,so for just $450 I had a classic amp rig and for a $600 payout I got an incredible vintage bass set-up that many players would envy.I have seen plain Vox Violin Basses going for as much as $2000 and silver face Fender Bassman amps for anywhere from $900 upwards and the cabinets for near the same price,especially for the one year only 1968 "driprail" cabinets.

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Post subject: Re: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:46 am
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Thanks. I'll be 66 in 25 years, so hopefully I'll be still around and plunking away. I don't intend on stopping, anyway. Les Paul didn't and he was 92. Besides, what the hell else am I going to do, watch TV? :P

That's cool about the Bassman rig. I remember actually coming across 60's era Bassman heads here and there for prices around $285 or so. But this was around the mid 90's, as well. They seem to be a lot more these days. Hell, I've seen my 1982 Super Champ cost almost $1000 and it was in beat up shape without the Force 10 speaker. Mine is near mint with the Force 10 speaker. I wouldn't mind having a rig like that Bassman, that's for sure. At least for the studio, I don't know if I'd gig with it or not.

That's funny you mentioned both Vox and the mid 60's, since the past couple of days I've been on that tangent. It started by looking at a Vox catalog from 1964 http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/vox ... _index.php and that got me going on my British Invasion rampage. :P So I've been listening to that sort of music and reading this UK website called Sixties City http://www.sixtiescity.com/ That happens from time to time, probably drives my girlfriend mad. :P

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Post subject: Re: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:56 am
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Congrats on your 25 years CPL. Best wishes to you on the next 25.

I started out about the same time as guitslinger.
I was 11 in '65 when I received my first acoustic guitar. I messed around with guitar for years. Never any good at lead and only decent as a rhythm player. Concentrated mainly on vocals back then.
I did mess around on bass every now and then and have an uncle (79 yrs old and still plays 3 or 4 times a week) who always told me that singing bassmen are hard to find and I should take up bass.
I started showing up at a local jam on Sunday afternoons and one afternoon the bassman didn't show. The band leader asked me to play bass, so I did. That was 1978. I got the gig and I've been playing bass since.
They had some cheap bass rig I used for a couple of months then I purchased a used 1975 P-bass along with a Peavey 400 Series amp with a Peavey 2x15 cabinet. This cabinet didn't have the black widows and I replaced the speakers in the mid 80's after the originals blew. Can't remember with what kind.
The cool thing about all that.....I still have the whole rig......bass, amp and speakers. The amp needs worked on, but everything else works great.

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Post subject: Re: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:57 pm
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Though I am primarily a rhythm/lead guitar player these days, in years past I used to play the bass quite a bit. My original bass rig was a 60s vintage Fender Tele (which I still own) played through a Mosrite BG-1000 Ventures Model 100W amp that had two regular guitar inputs and two bass guitar inputs. It also had two enormous 15" Jensen speakers in it. I still own that amp, too.

When my son started playing bass for my band in the 90s, he bought himself a Fender fretless Jazz bass and we went in together on a Peavey bass combo with a 15" Black Widow speaker that put out about 140W. We sometimes put that combo up on top of a Peavey 1810 or 1820 (whatever it takes) bass enclosure - 18" Black Widow and two 10" speakers. That rig romped!

I still have that Peavey 1820 and I just bought another one used at GC so I could give them to my son as a matched set. The used one will likely need a complete rehab with new Tolex, corners, etc. The one I bought in the 90s is still in excellent condition.

In 1999 I was in Texas for a year and I stumbled upon a Peavey T-40 bass that I just had to own. That sucker is massively heavy, but has incredible tonal options with two humbuckers, phase shifting, coil tap, etc.

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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:15 pm
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Started my adventure in 1964 with a piece of junk six sting that I traded my trombone in on. My first bass, in 1966, was a Coral, Precision style, sunburst, rosewood neck. The weird thing about it was the tuner heads were guitar tuning heads, a real effort to change strings. I bought a Randall amp to go with it, 15", 100 watt. At least the sticker that said, "Randall", (which kept falling off), i really wonder about that. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:12 pm
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I'm wondering how many bassist and guitarists have used Peavey at one point or another? I'll bet just about everybody. The stuff still runs, too. The reason I even bought the Databass (which in hindsight I regretted getting rid of) was the friend who got me into playing bass (he was a guitarist) had this Peavey Special 130 (I think it was called?) that was so damned loud, it was about the one thing that could keep up. I also had a Mark IV stack that was an impulse buy because I got it cheap, but it was a nice amp and good back up, and I picked up a Peavey Standard head, that I think was as old as me, for $100 when my Ampeg SVT3 Pro died (the reason I regretted getting rid of the other Peaveys) and it was all I could afford, since I was too poor for anything else that was available at the time. It was probably meant for guitar, since it had a fuzz knob in the "effects" channel, but I used it for bass and a makeshift PA when I got my Ampeg running again.

I think those T-40 basses are practically bullet-proof, they're so beefy. It'll make a handy club if things get too rowdy in a bar. :P Maybe that's why they were designed, because of those honky tonks with the chicken wire? :P I got to play one years ago and it felt so solid. I liked it, but I missed out on getting it. Snooze you lose, as they say.

Was the Coral the same company that made that electric sitar thingy? The name sounds real familiar.

Oh yeah, I remember reading about that Mosrite amp recently. I found this page: http://mosritecelebrity.com/page31.html I guess they didn't do too well at the time, though. It reminds me of some radios I remember seeing as a kid that my parents or older siblings would have had. The silver knobs and all.

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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:43 pm
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I used Peavy basses and amps in the eighties.

Coral is actually Danelectro, and yes, they made the sitar thing.


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Post subject: Re: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:49 pm
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OK, that's where I heard about that.

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Way to go on your 25 years of the bass. My trek started in 1968. It doesn't seem that long ago.

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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:37 pm
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Thanks for posting the links CPL,I just spent ages on the Vox link and found some very interesting info about my old Vox gear,I have a 1967 Non-picture which is the model that Jimi used-not the picture wah as a lot of people think.The non picture has a more warbling sound as opposed to the barking/vomit sound of the picture wah.Anyway I saw a few like mine in the $2,000 bracket and also saw a Vox Mk VI solid body for over $2,000 and they aren't near as rare as my MK VI acoustic,however,I did see a N.O.S MkVI Acoustic for over $4,000 so I imaging that mine would be between them in value. I'm looking for a pickguard for my Phantom XII and could only find one for almost $400 while a Phantom VI pickguard from the same era was less that $100.My Astro IV Bass is also climbing rapidly in value,which is great because the most that I paid for an old Vox was $150 for the bass and I only paid $40 for the wah wah.

BTW the http://www.sixtiescity.com website wouldn't come up could that be a misprint?

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Post subject: Re: 25th Anniversary On Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:42 pm
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CRGuitarMan wrote:
...........Peavey 1810 or 1820 (whatever it takes) bass enclosure - 18" Black Widow and two 10" speakers.............

I had a Peavey Mega Bass Amp I sat on top of the 1820 cabinet. Hell of a rig, but heavy and bulky. It was working and sounding great when I replaced it with my Hartke rig a couple of years ago.
I did have a tech go through the head because of some noise issues, but he said the cause was only old solder joints. Never another problem with it after he went through it.
I sold the whole rig at a very good price to an up and coming 16 year old bass player. The kid was grinning ear to ear ready to rock! :D

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