I have a loose wire in my head on chronological matters.  I would guess I bought my first Alembic around 1979 or 1980, over the phone from Susan (Age would have been 25 or 26).  A friend of mine owned a music store and let me order one at dead cost as payment for working the place for free (who wants money to work around cool stuff?).  So I ordered a Macassar ebony Series I, with walnut core, bird's eye maple and purple heart neck with graphite rods inlaid to make it more ridgid, side LEDs, gold logo (I think?) and an Anvil flight case that Susan did not want to order.  I guess they were having problems with Anvil at the time.  The bass was so beautiful that I used to stare at it more than I played it.
 
I moved around a lot back then (This is why I have no real idea of when I bought it), and when I took off where my bass could not go, I sold it cheap to a kid who I knew would cherish it, as I did.  I finally replaced this bass last week with a Series II I found that is it's equal.  Happiness comes back around, if you look hard enough I guess.

45

Now ...that's a straight answer to a straight question!

19.  a few months before my 20th birthday.

25 - Mark King Deluxe
26 - Series II

Thirtysomething...

36 and expecting my first shortly

I was 18 when I got my Epic.  I am and will still be 24 next week when my new Elan Plus arrives!
 
Matt

now I know there's a story behind all these short come backs, lets have them!!!!

Hey all, I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything here but I have some much needed vacation time and I'm taking advantage of it.
 
I was 33 when I got my first bass an Alembic Stanley Clarke, what an exquisite bass. I couldn't ask for a better bass, it gives me all the tone and range I've ever needed and has never let me down.  
 
Now I just have to work on getting Little Stan a new custom baby brother so he'll have someone to play with!

At age 20, I bought a slightly modified '85 Spoiler from Bass Northwest. Ooooh boy what a bass, especially after years of thinking Fenders were all she wrote. That started The Disease...you know what I mean. Like an idiot, sold both Alembics I managed to obtain (the other was a maple '84 Spoiler Exploiter made for Mark Andes, then playing with Heart), but am holding out for a SSBS1 or similar.

At the time I was the ripe old age of 19.  I had a year of college under my belt and I had just come to know who Stanley and Jaco were.
 
My music instructor was telling all his students that there was a guy who owned a music store in a nearby town that was selling his Alembic for next to nothing.  He was considering getting it himself but he was hooked on his ken smith 6 and he didn't want to buy a 4.
 
I called the guy up and went by that same day.  He had it at his store.  The guy pulls out a Series I that is in perfect condition and tells me that he got it a couple of years ago and that it's sat in his closet because he couldn't imagine taking it on the road with him.  He had an old bar used Series I that he used for gigs.
 
After I picked my jaw up off the floor I pulled every favor I had and managed to get up the cash for it.

I just got my first - its a '91 SC Deluxe and I am uh, well, er, uh, 48

I was about 27 or 28 when I decided that I wanted to learn how to play bass.  My roommate was a bassist and the bass guy at a local music store so we headed down there to shop.  The first thing he put in my hands was an Alembic which I'd never heard of.  Looking back I think it must have been a series 1.  At that moment I had a near spiritual experience.  I coveted that bass, unfortunately my bank account didn't agree.  I ended up with a Guild B302 and a 15 Peavy combo.  I've thought about that bass all this time and would tell myself one day.  
This year that day came.  I'm 49 and the proud papa of a near mint Alembic Epic.  I feel as if a major life milestone has been reached.

i bought my first alembic 1 moth ago i am 19 now and iv been playing since i was 17 its an epic and i love her to bits
andrew