Apparently, they are playing their Ps! I've been looking for a good used P for some time, but I'm not really seeing any. :lol:
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Does no one play P-basses anymore?
- Thread starter BellBottomBlues
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I think the P is the defacto standard. To each his own though.. I don't have a P currently until February.
The bass I still see on the ground more than any other is Ibanez.
I see a few P users, but oddly only one other J user besides myself.
I use my Jazz more now since I swapped pickups, but the P always stands ready for when my mood changes back.
I see a few P users, but oddly only one other J user besides myself.
I use my Jazz more now since I swapped pickups, but the P always stands ready for when my mood changes back.
My Precision gets most of the play time and I am contemplating getting a second one in the near future. I also happen to like Jazzes as well.
My '69-
Found it, played it, restored it.
It was pretty thrashed, now it's a full-on Player's bass.
Re-finished, re-fretted, new hardware, Duncan 1/4-lb. pups,
Bad-Ass II; GHS Bass Boomers XL.
I have 3 other basses, all with modern, powerful, active electronics-A G&L ASAT,, A MM Sterling, and A 'Wick $$.
Love them all, use them all.
Weird-Many players in projects I've done keep telling me, despite what I personally think, that they dig the P-Bass sound the most! (Usually referred to as "that Bass").
...And these aren't bassists! Usually Vocalists, Drummers, Guitars, keys, etc. For the most part, in general these fellow musicians are very ignorant of basses and bass gear-not ignorant in the bad sense, just, clueless about how WE do what WE do!
Strange, but true, at least in several instances for me.....
Found it, played it, restored it.
It was pretty thrashed, now it's a full-on Player's bass.
Re-finished, re-fretted, new hardware, Duncan 1/4-lb. pups,
Bad-Ass II; GHS Bass Boomers XL.
I have 3 other basses, all with modern, powerful, active electronics-A G&L ASAT,, A MM Sterling, and A 'Wick $$.
Love them all, use them all.
Weird-Many players in projects I've done keep telling me, despite what I personally think, that they dig the P-Bass sound the most! (Usually referred to as "that Bass").
...And these aren't bassists! Usually Vocalists, Drummers, Guitars, keys, etc. For the most part, in general these fellow musicians are very ignorant of basses and bass gear-not ignorant in the bad sense, just, clueless about how WE do what WE do!
Strange, but true, at least in several instances for me.....
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I've played my 2004 MIM Blue Agave P recently on stage. It's so pretty though, that I don't want to 'buckle rash' it to death!
I have it in my lap as I type this as well!
I have it in my lap as I type this as well!
i started out on a P.in the 18 years i've been playing i have had lots of basses,but i still have my 2 P's.it's the standard.it doesn't have a lot of sounds but they're all good and usefull tones.a Precision thru an SVT is the bass players "Les Paul and Marshall"and emo sucks!
i own and love my precision bass which i will never part with. it seems to me there are a lot more precision bass players out there than just jazz, musicman, and jazz copy players precisions are and always will be the most used rock bass there is. geddy lee started out with a precision and still has a number of them. sure he doesnt play it live but he has in the bast. james jamerson, john entwistle, duff mckagan, dave hungate, etc... all on the top 50 bassists list all use precision basses. precisions are the definition of a rock bass. i mean sure, there are other basses out there that can really rock it but nothing like the precision. dont get me wrong tho jazzes can really do the trick, turn the bridge pup off, u got urself a precision
Three comments.
1. At the Billy Joel concert earlier this month, 3 basses were played. 2 were Fender Precisions. The other was some modern 5-string fretless (only on 2 tunes.)
2. James Jamerson. What else is there to say?
3. The Jazz is still a more versatile bass. Add the Fender Jazz players to the Sadowsky and Lakland Jazz players, and the J-style basses have big chunk the bass market.
1. At the Billy Joel concert earlier this month, 3 basses were played. 2 were Fender Precisions. The other was some modern 5-string fretless (only on 2 tunes.)
2. James Jamerson. What else is there to say?
3. The Jazz is still a more versatile bass. Add the Fender Jazz players to the Sadowsky and Lakland Jazz players, and the J-style basses have big chunk the bass market.
- Feb 21, 2007
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I always were this shirt with Pride...
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The sound felt round the world.
nice shirt
- Feb 21, 2007
- 1,853
- 7
- Disclosures
- Endorser:Fender User:Rotosound, LaBella, Ashdown, Lindy Fralin
Personally, I am not a fan of P bass. I briefly had a MIM that I got in a trade, and I also had a franken-P with EMGs in it. I don't like the feel, and I don't like the tone. the MIM that I owned was a playable instrument - I can see how it works with certain musical styles (obviously the P helped to define a lot of musical styles).
The last band I was in was sort of a rockabilly-tinged original rock band, and most of the bands we were matched up with at gigs had bassists playing P's. Fender P basses and Ampeg 8x10s were all over the place. That was last year, so I'm not talking about the distant past.
The last band I was in was sort of a rockabilly-tinged original rock band, and most of the bands we were matched up with at gigs had bassists playing P's. Fender P basses and Ampeg 8x10s were all over the place. That was last year, so I'm not talking about the distant past.
