Sorry, but I think he needs to look up "need" because he's confusing it with might want.
As a matter of fact, I'd definitely like to see a list of great bassists who don't play Precision basses.
Sure, I know a few, but...
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Every true bassist needs a P-bass
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As a matter of fact, I'd definitely like to see a list of great bassists who don't play Precision basses.
Sure, I know a few, but...
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Gatekeepers are invariably wrong.
I love P basses, but I was a touring professional before ever owning or even playing one.
Every “true bassist” needs a bass.
The End
“The producer said I couldn’t use the bass I brought to his studio and he handed me a brown P Bass…”
—-TalkBass
I love my Ps but the above never really happened. Even if you reply and say it happened it didn’t really. I use a P often. But no bassist I know can tell definitively what bass is in a mix without looking.
—-TalkBass
I love my Ps but the above never really happened. Even if you reply and say it happened it didn’t really. I use a P often. But no bassist I know can tell definitively what bass is in a mix without looking.
Oh, fun. You should go to your next lesson and tell them that no true bass teacher would be so closed-minded. See what they say...
Gatekeepers are invariably wrong.
I love P basses, but I was a touring professional before ever owning or even playing one.
Every “true bassist” plays a bass.
The End
Some true bassists play a tuba.
That’s not true at all.
Anyone that isn’t starting out on an Alembic or a Fodera is wasting their time.
Well, I'd still disagree. You'll need it for what exactly?
For a lot of bassists, talking about and collecting gear is just as much part of the fun as playing. If that sounds good to you, then yeah, at some point curiosity will likely get the better of you and you'll want to see what everybody is raving on about. Still doesn't mean that you need it, that you are going to like it or that playing one will be important for your advancement as a player or something.
And then, of course, there are normal people (you won't find them here, though) who have a bass and just play that one. They are having fun, a lot of them are quite good, they play in bands and get gigs, but we know, of course, that they are totally in the wrong.
own one, yes, BUT not play one all the time. I am on my 3rd Fender P bass, probably the best sounding one yet, spends most of its life in a case...I have only played it at 2 or 3 gigs. Most of my gigs I play my $300 Ray4. I am kinda old-school, you need a P bass for that certain gig/sound, but every time I play it, I remember why I have sold the previous 2...
I came for the beets. Upon realizing the absence of even carrots, I must say "good day" and take my leave.
It's one of those things that sounds like boomer nonsense until you discover it for yourself.
I'd put it in the "solidly ridiculous" category. While there is noting wrong with a P bass, telling artists what tools they HAVE to use is silly at best. Do we know what paintbrushes Van Gogh used? Can he be a "real painter" without the right brush? If a photographer takes stellar pictures, but he doesn't use a Nikon to do it, is he a crappy photographer?
It's 2024. Haven't we gotten beyond this kind of thinking yet? There's a whole world of basses out there that are not a P-bass but get the job done quite well.
No.
I hate P-basses. I like the P-bass sound, but I hate they way they feel in my hands. After 30 years of playing, I went to a local GC to give them another chance (maybe I'm missing something, right?). Must've played 15 of ' em. Walked out with a Dean Jeff Berlin model instead.
I hate P-basses. I like the P-bass sound, but I hate they way they feel in my hands. After 30 years of playing, I went to a local GC to give them another chance (maybe I'm missing something, right?). Must've played 15 of ' em. Walked out with a Dean Jeff Berlin model instead.
And it's always an "old" and "beat up" P Bass "sitting in the corner."
I had someone tell me that having an SVT w/ 8x10 cab in a pit orchestra makes sense over my Aguilar TH500 and 2 1x12 cabs, because tone.
I like my 4 string P basses as well. I prefer using them, but sometimes you just need to use the EBMM SR5.
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There are some decent false bass players out there.
