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Biggest P inspiration?

#141
socialleper said:
I think I'm going to need you to source that. His recorded tone doesn't sound anything like a standard P. And to be fair, his recorded, as well as live tone, is practically non-existent.
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I've seen Slayer live, and just like their records I swear the sound engineers turned Tom down to the point you couldn't hear him.

Never understood why..... we do some Slayer songs in my current band and you can bet the Bass will be out front for them.
 
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#142
Keeping the thread on track, I am my own P Bass inspiration.

2001 or so......
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2018..... Same Bass, same TI Flats......

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#143
Luckydog said:
Fair enough, yeah I knew he was in Destin working quite a different gig ⛪️. I had read a while ago he played his P mostly with SS Rotos. I have not yet gotten Rotos to be my favorite round, but he could sure make them sound good.
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Back in those days, it was pretty much Rotos or bust. I didn't even know other roundwound strings existed back then till the late 70's. I still like them but I ended up wearing out my frets too quickly with them so I switched to nickels in like 81 or 82.
 
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#145
For me there's a bit of a disconnect between the bassist and the bass, and so I don't really have a "big P inspiration" per se.

There are the bassists that were inspirations who happen to play a P:

- John Wetton, Paul Jackson, Ray Schulman, James Jamerson, Ralphe Armstrong

...and then there are some bassists whose sound I find inextricably associated with the Fender Precision, and I'm not necessarily "inspired" by them -- other than being inspired to try to avoid the archetypal P Bass sound that they get! -- but that in itself is a sort of inspiration, and so I mention them here:

- Byron Miller, Kathy Valentine, Dave Allen
 
#147
Ellery said:
Source it yourself buddy. I'm not your secretary. P's are popular in the studio for a reason, an engineer can give them all kinds of different tones.... even ones that... wait for it... DON'T SOUND ANYTHING LIKE A STANDARD P!:woot:
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Easy pal. I tried and found bupkis. You are the one making the questionable assertion, that means the onus on you.
Maybe if he did, that's why you can't hear him.
 
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#149
socialleper said:
Easy pal. I tried and found bupkis. You are the one making the questionable assertion, that means the onus on you.
Maybe if he did, that's why you can't hear him.
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You tried... what? Did you spend the last four hours poring over articles and interviews? Or did you just Google it? Cuz if Google didn't yield a result, then it is officially debunked, right? If you don't believe me, who cares, seems like nobody here is trying to sound like Slayer anyway!
 
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Shawn Luckman said:
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Not an inspiration but this poster was up in my local guitar shop were I lived back in 1986/87. I was fixated by this battered & worn Precision bass so much so, I asked if I could have the poster when they took it down. Still love the look of this Precision.
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How cool! Last night on a random whim I popped in my Kaizoku-Ban tape and blasted it.
 
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