Fender 60th Anniversary Jazz Bass

[johnson79]

Just saw this in my email. Looks pretty nice!
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[simongpaez]

Looks awesome

 

[Fender4Me]

Olympic White...I hope. Its a beauty!

 

[shredace]

I love Jazz Basses and that one looks really sweet. I’m not sure if I like the U shaped neck. I definitely need to play it first.

 

[Hot Rats]

Olympic White...I hope. Its a beauty!

Arctic Pearl.

 

[Playbyear]

It’s always nice when there is cool e-mail for bass players!

 

[Fender4Me]

Arctic Pearl.

ugggg. Cant they get anything right ??

 

[Fender4Me]

I love Jazz Basses and that one looks really sweet. I’m not sure if I like the U shaped neck. I definitely need to play it first.

U shaped necks are sweet and easy to play, at least for me anyway.

 

[Bassa Nova]

Should be Olympic white. Also why is neck bound?

 

[Hot Rats]

Dang, I want one of these soooo bad.

 

[hieronymous]

When I lived in Japan, sometime between 2002 & 2006, Fender Japan had a ‘66 (?) reissue with the bound neck with dots - I thought it was so cool, I think it’s a transitional year. Almost got one but ultimately did not. This one looks pretty cool!

 

[Shawn Luckman]

Beautiful looking Jazz. Lets see what they have in store for the Precision, for it's 70th anniversary next year.

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Really nice looking!

 

[HeavyJazz]

U profile bound neck... Not for me.

(Thank goodness.)

 

[bass.slinger]

I love Jazz Basses and that one looks really sweet. I’m not sure if I like the U shaped neck. I definitely need to play it first.

Info on the neck and body from Fender Customer Service:

“Thank you for reaching out to us. The neck is .840" at the 1st fret, and .940" at the 12th fret. The body is cut for the two Jazz pickups, there does not appear to be a tool reference dimple under the pickguard in the blueprint drawing. Let me know if you have any further questions.”

 

[RabidMusic]

Saw an earlier thread here a few weeks ago that got me excited. Not a bad price.

 

[LetItGrowTone]

$2200

 

[Kyuuga]

Gonna be honest here...as awesome and iconic the bass is, the whole "Xth anniversary" thing is a huge money grab.

It literally looks and probably plays like any AVRI/American Original Fender bass that has been constantly on the market for the last two decades.

Yes, this one has stack knobs to not make it so obvious, but still...

I guess there's no way Fender can win, their whole marketing and design strategy is based around nostalgia and rehashing the same product by giving it a different name. It just doesn't appeal to me.

There's so much cool and innovative stuff being done nowadays that I just don't see how someone can spend 2.2k on what is essentially a J-Bass like many others. You can get a Mexican Vintera for 1300$ less and it's pretty much the same. Hell, you can even get a Squier and mod it for 500$ to get a replica of that.

Just my 2 cents, obviously I respect everyone's choice and taste and in the end everyone spends their money the way they want to.

 

[Leonid Nidis]

I hate fender website so much.
All links always lead only to the main page if you are not from the US.

 

[Matt R.]

Yay! Another cool one not produced left handed!