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Damn, you P bass guys!

#101
traded my VMJ fretless for this a month ago as a back -up for my workhorse VM '70 jazz.
 

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#103
Sixgunn said:
How'z 'bout letting the OP decide what kind of strings HE likes? My '65 SINGS with steel rounds on it. Envy me!!!:thumbsup:
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From the "Unwritten Rules of P-bassdom thread:

1. P-Basses ALWAYS "sit better in the mix"
2. Volume and Tone are all anyone should ever need
3. Wear = Mojo
4. "Pretty P's" (like my Select) aren't acceptable ...ha ha ha
5. Leo "got it right" the first time
6. They are built like tanks. This is evident when you have to throw one at a keyboard player with a heavy left hand.
7. For best results, use flats.
8. Jamerson used one. The billions of folks who bought Motown records can't be wrong.

;-)
 
#106
fhm555 said:
Nice bass. I've got a little MIM J the same color and it's sweet. Hope you enjoy it, I have a real love hate thing going with P basses. I play one occasionally and i just loved the tone, sound, simplicity so I buy it. Then I play it at a jam, rehearsal or job and the cordwood neck kills my old hand and I start to not like it so much, then it gets put to the back of the stack and eventually winds up gone. And I can't really blame it on being old, I've always favored slim necks and the older P had some serious logs for necks so it's pretty much always worked out the same way. I once bought a new MIM P special, played it that night on the job and it was a nice playing bass but was active and I've already got an active bass so I wound up taking it back. Oh well, rambling on again.

Anywho, hope you enjoy it. It sure looks nice.
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Some P's have slim necks. Get an old A or B profile from the '60's.
 
#107
rogerbmiller said:
From the "Unwritten Rules of P-bassdom thread:

1. P-Basses ALWAYS "sit better in the mix"
2. Volume and Tone are all anyone should ever need
3. Wear = Mojo
4. "Pretty P's" (like my Select) aren't acceptable ...ha ha ha
5. Leo "got it right" the first time
6. They are built like tanks. This is evident when you have to throw one at a keyboard player with a heavy left hand.
7. For best results, use flats.
8. Jamerson used one. The billions of folks who bought Motown records can't be wrong.

;-)
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Rule #7 = Sonic Heaven

Funny, of the 9 basses I own, my Precision is the only one I keep strung with flats...
 
#108
rogerbmiller said:
From the "Unwritten Rules of P-bassdom thread:

1. P-Basses ALWAYS "sit better in the mix"
2. Volume and Tone are all anyone should ever need
3. Wear = Mojo
4. "Pretty P's" (like my Select) aren't acceptable ...ha ha ha
5. Leo "got it right" the first time
6. They are built like tanks. This is evident when you have to throw one at a keyboard player with a heavy left hand.
7. For best results, use flats.
8. Jamerson used one. The billions of folks who bought Motown records can't be wrong.

;-)
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Very kind of you to phrase #4 the way you did in order to avoid hurting the OP's feelings. The real truth is: 4.) Gotta be sunburst/rosewood/tortloaf guard or it ain't a REAL P!
 
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jamro217 said:
Some P's have slim necks. Get an old A or B profile from the '60's.
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Been there done that. Learned that the word slim is as subjective as the word fat. I was told by my (late) walking talking Fender encyclopaedia friend that some of the P necks carved by Philip Kubicki were really nice in that regard (slim) but I have yet to experience one, or if I did it once again proved that slim is as subjective a word as fat.
 
#117
Gaolee said:
As well you should. You should feel a combination of shame, inferiority, unaestheticness, a vague malaise, and general ennui because you don't have a Precision. When you finally get one, you will suddenly find that colors are brighter, women smell better, and everything tastes a little bit more like bacon.

As always, I'm happy to help.
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Well said. I was chuckling the whole time I was googling "ennui".
 

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