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06-24-2010, 12:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: So. California | | | Besides Victor Wooten, any other high-profile PJ players?
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I have a '76 Fender P-bass modified with a J pickup long ago and I love it.
It got me thinking that it seems like all the high-profile solo artists or sidemen either play a J-bass (MM, Jaco), P-bass (Rocco) or dual humbucker-type bass (all those MTD type players).
So, I'm curious...besides Wooten, what high-profile bassists play PJs? |
06-24-2010, 12:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | PJ is the bomb. I don't care one BIT about any "high profile" guys - I just like the sound. Cuts through the mix better than a J using fingers or slap, and just sounds *rock and roll*. A '76 P with a J in it sounds like something I would have owned/played in... er... 1976 when I started out.
The PJ config was wildly popular in the '80s - - I'm not sure why it faded in popularity with players. Maybe it looks funny to some folks? |
06-26-2010, 11:50 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Woodland Hills, California | | | Question - in most PJ setups, is the P pickup in the same location as in a regular P? I've heard some people say it's closer to the neck in a PJ. |
06-26-2010, 11:52 AM
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06-27-2010, 12:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Beginner Bass  Reggie Hamilton | Thanks! I forgot about him.
Anyone else? |
06-27-2010, 12:34 AM
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06-27-2010, 12:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | Doug Wimbish |
06-27-2010, 12:42 AM
| | | | Dave Ellefson used one when he was originally in Megadeth. |
06-27-2010, 12:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Belgium | | | the bassist of my morning jacket plays on PJ. He's pretty good. Not one of those "solo bassist" but definitely very skilled...
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06-27-2010, 02:02 AM
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Originally Posted by JulienJeff the bassist of my morning jacket plays on PJ. He's pretty good. Not one of those "solo bassist" but definitely very skilled... | unless he changed recently, he plays a deluxe precision, which is a p with some odd looking not quite j, not quite mm pickup.
btw, the p pickup on a pj is 99% of the time in the exact same place on every bass that has a pj config. it's generally accepted with most luthiers that it's already in the very best sounding place on the bass, so very few people want to mess with it. they'll mess with the j but not the p.
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06-27-2010, 02:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | Rocco's signature bass is a conklin PJ.
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06-27-2010, 03:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | | I'm kind of curious as to how the PJ sound compares to the two-pickup P arrangement (like you see on some BC Rich basses). How does the bridge P-pickup compare to the bridge J-pickup?
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06-27-2010, 03:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | FWIW those MTD type players are actually playing a P/P. The coils inside the MTD Bartolini humbuckers are set up as two P pickups.
I play a PJ Sadowsky - I don't think I am high profile though 
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06-27-2010, 04:18 AM
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Originally Posted by gkbass13 Rocco's signature bass is a conklin PJ. | It has a reverse P. |
06-27-2010, 05:30 AM
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06-27-2010, 08:14 AM
| | | | Jeff Andrews?
FWIW, in the '80s, I added a Jazz PUP to both my P-basses...
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06-27-2010, 08:24 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Isn't Verdine White's bass a P/J config? |
06-27-2010, 08:37 AM
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06-27-2010, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark Latimour I play a PJ Sadowsky - I don't think I am high profile though | Hey, don't be so modest!  |
06-27-2010, 10:39 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | I think Doug Johns' Pedulla is a P/J. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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