what was the first number you gigged on a bass ?

[AttitudeCastle]

Johnny B. Goode! We still play it too 5/6 years on haha!

[Roland Rock]

Supersonic - Oasis

[mr zed]

My first band played originals with one cover - Backdoor Man by The Doors. I would have been around 15 and the year was around 1980. Youth club do.

[Muzz]

My Best Friends Girl by the Cars. Youth club do, and it was still in the charts, so that'd make it '78.

[neepheid]

The Specials, "Nite Klub"

[Panamonte]

A Horace Silver tune - Liberated Brother. That was back in July 1979.

Here's what it sounds like when it's played properly rather than by a bunch of teenagers.


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Edited July 29, 2014 by Panamonte

[Bassman Sam]

Cream's Badge. School gig where the crowd were shouting " Band off, Disco on."

[Lozz196]

A song by the band I was in at the time - Lest We Forget, by The Shout.

[Clarky]

Either Ceremony by New Order or Damaged Goods by Gang of Four in my first band in 1981 (ish)

[franzbassist]

"Since you been gone" by Rainbow, at a Secondary School end of year concert in 1980. I can remember my band's lineup too!

Edited July 29, 2014 by walbassist

[lojo]

12 bar rock blues, no singer just a harp and guitar going for it, each song lasted about 20 minutes with no structure

[alembic63]

1978," Sweet Caroline " by Status Quo, complete with Saxophone player.

We played 3 songs at the School Disco.....also got my first fumble off the back of it

[Oopsdabassist]

Joined my 1st band after 3 months of playing, back in 2002, I learned their 4 original songs and did those, plus Bon Jovi 'Its My Life' as an encore, kept jumping on and off the stage as they peppered those songs all around the setlist....I was 42 and terrified!

[miles'tone]

The Star Wars theme tune reworked as a cocktail jazz number.
We were all wearing blue boiler suits, swimming caps, blue makeup and halved ping pong balls for eyes.

As you do.

[lowdown]

1973 "The Irish Club" near Dartford Station.
I was 16, played my first Bass gig, I got £4.00...!

http://youtu.be/ThSIVW6eb58

[Dad3353]

'Fat Angel', a 'cover' of a Jefferson Airplane track. Circa 1970, with the Martin Spicer Band (schoolmates of a younger brother...), playing a white Vox Clubman. The venue was the Southville Methodist Hall, a concert auto-promoted. I made a 100w transistor amp for the occasion, using 2N3055's, and a 4 x 12 cab. I didn't have much of a clue about dimensions, so I guessed that 36" x 36" x 12" should be enough. It certainly was..! Amp and cab covered in turquoise rubbery vinyl (a floor covering, I think...).
Happy days.

http://youtu.be/9A7jM-7bNYs

[Bilbo]

http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=h8-u1ipr8zw

[bassintheface]

'While my guitar gently weeps' in the school hall aged 15.
The drummer was pretty dire so I pretty much spent the entire 20 min set keeping him in time, mouthing "one, two, three, four". Binned him soon after!!

[bluesparky]

Another one bites the dust. I hadn't been playing very long at all and I remember taking ages to work out the C bit.

I also remember freaking out some girls in my class by turning the cassette over in a 4-track recorder so it played backwards and hearing "it's fun to smoke marajuana" instead of "another one bites the dust".

[Highfox]

In 1978 at the school disco/youthclub, at the ripe old age of 15, I'd only been playing a week, Pretty Vacant.

[Paul S]

Nothing special but I will never forget. I was late into music, had my first public gig aged 50 in 2008. I opened the set playing the first notes of 'Gimmie Some Loving' and was as nervous as anything. After about 1 minute the nerves vanished and I discovered that I *really* loved it

[bluesparky]

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1406624413' post='2513024']
Nothing special but I will never forget. I was late into music, had my first public gig aged 50 in 2008. I opened the set playing the first notes of 'Gimmie Some Loving' and was as nervous as anything. After about 1 minute the nerves vanished and I discovered that I *really* loved it
[/quote]
Great story!

[arthurhenry]

Metallica's "Whiplash" at school (we changed some of the lyrics!) I played it in F, the rest of the band in E. Crowd went nuts.

[wingnutkj]

Town Called Malice by The Jam. I'd been taken by surprise that The Fear of being on stage had got me, but was mostly able to keep my fingers working. I was going fine until the bit where everything but the bass drops out for a couple of bars, and although I hit all of the right notes, in the right order, they were not necessarily hit at the right moments. The classic driving Motown-esque bassline was rendered in a hesitant and staccatto style.

Since them, I've beaten The Fear, and feel quite comfortable on stage, but I still don't like playing that song if I can possibly avoid it.

[Rain Man]

Johnny B Goode - school gig circa 2006 if memory serves me right

Edited July 29, 2014 by Rain Man