Reading the "your crappy first basses" thread made me want to go find the pix of mine (80's "Global" brand plywood POS that someone had changed the bridge and tuners for decent ones) The pickups sounded REALLY good, especially thru the "Tube Driver" pedal my friend had.
I had that thing for a couple years, but had "headstock envy" and had to trade it for a "real" bass, which of course didn't sound or play as nice as my first one. (Mexican "Squier series" P bass that didn't stick around long) It just sounded like a generic bass, and wouldn't stay in tune real well. Now I would have tried to fix it but at the time (pre-internet) I thought it was a dud bass so it got traded for somehting else(which is also gone) Along with most of my hair
My sister liked playing my first bass, she was really good too but was only fooling around with it. She picked it up a million times faster than I ever did, but never kept up with it unfortunately.
I had to ambush her "paparazzi style" to get these pix, and she really did try to hit me with the bass in the last pic. One of her friends actually hit her boyfriend with the bass "El Kabong" style later, other than scratches I could never find anything wrong with it. His head, OTOH probably didn't fare as well... Ah the wonders of plywood. I missed that thing as soon as I sold it (don't we all?) I found one on Ebay years later but the guy wanted almost $500 for it, and there's no way it was worth that much. I think I paid just over $100 for mine brand new.
I found a couple more pix, but my scanner stopped talking to my computer so that's it for now.
