Checkin' Out Basses

For the first time in a long time, I went to the GC in south side of St. Louis County. That story usually has pretty cool basses for a GC. Today, they had a nice Warrior with the skinny Bart soapbars. It had an ash body and a natural finish, it was very light and it played nicely although it did not blow me away sonically. The price was too high at $2,200+ for a bass with a very worn finish.
I see they had a really nice MIM Seventies style Fender Jazz with natural finish, noiseless pickups and active electronics. It was a nice deal at $899, but I wish its strings weren't dead when I played it.

I was really happy to see an American Standard Precision Five. This is the first one I have seen in the area. It was love at first sight! We all know that Precision tone works well 90% of the time. I love the plug and play aspect of P-basses. At $1349, the P5 is a steal if you have the dough. GC also had two killer two band SR5s. Man, I forgot just how much I love Stingrays! The string spacing is tight, but nothing funks like an SR5! Too bad they are over 2K now.

 

I loved that P5. IMO, the P5 and SR5 are two shades of perfect.

 

GAS is fine as long as I remember that bills come first. It's cool you remember me posting way back when.

 

It is perfect. I just think that the P5 is awesome on its own way too.

 

Of course, the Jazz is perfect too!

 

I'm surprised the P5 is not much more common than they are. Heck, I'd use it for urban gospel!

 

The one I played sounded good. I have had good luck with Fender B strings with only a few exceptions. Man, just imagine what classic funk would have sounded like if those guys had P5s!