Who need's a muddy P when you can have a bright and funky J - even if that's a Squier VM.. hehe. 
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Any P Bass fans out there?
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I've been lucky enough to play a '55, '62, '64, couple '65s, '68, '73, couple '75s, '76, '78, a bunch of 80s, 90s and 2000 era P basses, and they are all great in their own way. I owned a few of those, but my favorite has always been my '75 P with sunburst with maple board. It changed my thought of bass playing and what I thought I liked. Before it, I was a rosewood, J type, hoping for a 60's era... but this one does it for me. Now, it's always my go to bass and even though I play in a cover band that does so much modern stuff that I should use exclusively a 5 string, I still sneak in the P whenever because of what it does to me. Love them.
Squier P for me.
A J is just a P flipped upside down with a nice chunk of mud missing. That gives it it's own characteristics, but in essence it is a P!!
Play your jazz bass, flip the sound and add the mud, and you'll hear the p bass ring.
A J is just a P flipped upside down with a nice chunk of mud missing. That gives it it's own characteristics, but in essence it is a P!!
Play your jazz bass, flip the sound and add the mud, and you'll hear the p bass ring.
A one trick pony with a broken leg. It's tone sucks and will never be popular in any style of music... and it's useless in the studio as well.
I just wanna see how many people are huge fans of the P Bass. I just got myself a Fender MIM P Bass and I love the tone. To me, nothing beats that huge thick punchy P Bass tone. I'm sure I'll be an even bigger P Bass fan when I get an American P Bass...
Pfft! Precision bass? I've heard PLENTY of people screw up and make mistakes while playing a Precision bass. Faulty advertizing and marketing scam to beat all scams if you ask me. I once played a wrong note on a Precision bass. I want my money back, Leo.
I like Ric basses alot, I've had 6 over the years, still playing 2 of them. One though, last year, was traded for an American Deluxe P. I had visited it many times, but really needed to take it home, and I was broke. No regrets, that P bass is my #1 player. It's true, no matter what else, ya gotta have at least one P.
Your joking right?
The original, most recognizable and recorded bass in the history of recorded music and your asking if there any fans?
Going into a session, it is the constant. I'll bring some others depending on the style of music, but I will NOT enter a studio without one. Because to most engineers (most people for that matter without realizing it) there are basically three sounds when a brain thinks of electric bass, P basses, J basses, and everything else.
YOU may prefer the sound of another, the neck of another, the look of another, but
there is no other bass that can match the Precisions universal acceptance and ability to sound "right" in any style of music.
The original, most recognizable and recorded bass in the history of recorded music and your asking if there any fans?
Going into a session, it is the constant. I'll bring some others depending on the style of music, but I will NOT enter a studio without one. Because to most engineers (most people for that matter without realizing it) there are basically three sounds when a brain thinks of electric bass, P basses, J basses, and everything else.
YOU may prefer the sound of another, the neck of another, the look of another, but
there is no other bass that can match the Precisions universal acceptance and ability to sound "right" in any style of music.
Three Ps here:
All my others, with their wimpy little necks and wimpy little pickups, are long gone.
All my others, with their wimpy little necks and wimpy little pickups, are long gone.
