LEARNING GUItAR?  

as far as i know, the two instruments are different. the bass has 4 strings, and a guitar has 6 strings. you don't need to learn how to play the guitar to learn how to play the bass. as far as which to purchase first, i'm unsure about that. good luck learning!

I woulndt think that you would need to that however, I dont really know. I think you shoud ask the muscians that are on my lot. I used to play the acoustic guitar but I dont like to play it any longer.

No, it certainly isn't necessary to learn acoustic or electric guitar before learning bass guitar. The right hand technique is rather different anyway.

Once you have learned bass guitar you will find it a lot easier to learn guitar because the bass guitar's four strings are just like the four bass strings of the guitar only an octave lower.

You will find that, with the bass guitar, you tend to learn scales and scale patterns, rather than chords. You should, however, know what notes belong to the chords because putting a good bass line over a chord sequence involves knowing the scales that belong to each chord.

It isn't essential to learn conventional music notation but, if you do, you would find more work as a session or band musician. If you plan to play with a jazz or rock (used in the broadest sense) group, you will need to be able to read chord symbols (e.g. C, G7, Am7, Eb dim &c). A bassist will know the notes involved in each chord (as if it were an arpeggio) and how to construct a good bass line using the notes of the scales that belong to each chord.

I am on my way to learn acoustic guitar but I have a friend who started learning with bass guitar. I have heard that bass guitar is easier to learn, I don't have a point for that, that's what I have heard.
For me, I prefer acoustic guitar better because it sounds better for me. I take lesson at home but plan to find a teacher who could show me basic tips to ease my home lessons which I am doing by myself.
I use a book for beginners and much useful information on the net.

want to become a bass god, its simple buy yourself a fender bass, i recommend the 6 string ones, remember that as a bass player everyone in a band have to follow your tempo and trust me bass players are rare on the market, i would recommend you to go for it but remember that you wont be able to play just any songs on it!

I decided to buy a fretless bass guitar to play in a wedding band. It helped me a lot that I knew already clasical guitar, spanish guitar and folk guitar. Why? because for the bass you need to play scales,like in classical guitar, but you have also to play the bass line like in the finger piking style of Chet Atkins.
Also the 4 strings of the bass are 1 octave lower than a guitar.
Then the right hand. In flamenco and spanish guitar, they don't use a pick. Take a look of Paco De Lucia playing with Mac Laughling and Al De Meola. On You Tube. You can see Paco De Lucia doesn't use a pick like most of bass players.
You need a good method to learn how to play bass. You need also a band, to have more motivation. You can also listen to a CD and try to find the bass line of a song. I wish you lots od success !.

It isnt a must, but it would help if you know at least the basics in playing the acoustic guitar. It will help you when you started to study playing bass. I am not really good in playing the bass but because I know how to play the acoustic guitar, I can also play basic bass beats :) Good luck!