Fender mis-names bass IMO

[Spectrum]

What's the best Fender bass naming convention for metal?

 

[Beavisplaysbass]

Of course. You can call the bass Steve if you want to but it wouldn't be in line with the common usage. I can say I'm going to get in my kerflumpkin and drive home. Most people think of it as a car but I can call it a kerflumpkin if it makes me happy.

I receive blumpkins when I drive my kerflumpkin. Just sayin

 

[Fat Freddy]

I receive blumpkins when I drive my kerflumpkin. Just sayin

I've got an 88 Nosserbodger.....

Time to upgrade to a Kerflumpkin?....

 

[rufus.K]

I'm gonna put J pups in a les paul guitar and call it a harpsicord

 

[bass_lord_mutha]

By that logic a fretless p bass should not be called a Precision bass LOL

 

[fhm555]

Then why the decades long single coil configurations? If you put the J pups on another shape body it still is then a jazz bass. I think the body shape has nothing to do with the pursuit of the "jazz tone", but just to add a "difference to the whole package. So body shape to me is not the answer.

Clearly the body shape has nothing to do with the jazz tone. Witness all the non Fender bass makers who advertise a model with "two J style pickups" (single coils) with a "traditional" (V/V/T) control arraingment in a body that ranges from an almost carbon copy of the Fender, to something that looks like a weapon Mr. Warf might carry.

But then there is the sticky wicket of what to call a Fender P with an additional J bridge pup in the traditional J bridge position, which falls in with a hybrid pup setup in a J body.

Just a guess but based on my limited experience with non Fender Jazz configs, P's with a J pup and J's with a P pup, I've come to regard both the J and P with a P/J pup config as the next evolution of both models. I just happen to prefer the J body and neck over the P body and neck. While i'm sure dogs and certain other animals with superiour hearing may be able to decern a P From a J if the same P/J setup was installed in both, I've never been able to tell, and i like the J package better so i stay on the lookout for an MIM Reggie Hamilton body (wood only) as the core of a J bass with a P/J pup setup.

 

[Ross W. Lovell]

Right, not to me. If I were to "make" a jazz bass. I could make any shape body....but use J pups. = Jazz bass.

And they are called J pickups because they first appeared on a Jazz Bass that had a particular shape.

Unless of course, you have info that says Leo sold the pickups without the rest of the bass.

Really, what is the point of you championing your position?

 

[Klonk]

I like carrots!

 

[Killed_by_Death]

here is what a Mexican Blacktop Precision looks like:

here is a Mexican Blacktop Jazz:

 

[Deleted member 165050]

I thought a Jazz bass was any bass you played jazz on.

Why is this even an issue?

Well supposed you played country or rock on the same bass, then you couldn't call it a jazz bass any more. It would then have to be called a multi-genre bass.

 

[Mosstone]

I have a custom (non-Fender) Jaguar bass with two single-coil Jazz bass pickups. I call it a Jaguar because the body shape is identical to a Fender Jaguar. I do not call it a Jazz bass. Fender doesnt call their Jaguars with J pups Jazz basses either. Because it looks nothing at all like Jazz bass, regardless of the pickups.

I also have a custom built Jazz bass that has a MM style pickup in the bridge position. I do not call it a Stingray... nor has anyone who has ever seen that bass mistaken it for a Stingray.

Sticking a pair of PAFs in a Strat doesn't make it a Les Paul.

 

[Jjdhawg]

Some day I want a Warwick Streamer Stage 2. Er wait, it's a Jazz bass now? I'm confused.

 

[Jay2U]

More pickups equals more fun. Body shape is just a detail.

 

[Ramonesfan59]

here is what a Mexican Blacktop Precision looks like:

here is a Mexican Blacktop Jazz:

And THIS is what happens to a Blacktop Precision when I own it! It gets a new paint job (because the original had been badly done in) and a j-width neck. I don't know what you call it, but I call it Big Orange.

 

[jd56hawk]

Weird, I just checked on Warmoth's page.
Seems you can pick a body blank, P or J, and put all sorts of pickups in whatever bass you choose...Split P, J, or even Music Man pickups!
What the heck is goin' on over there?

 

[40Hz]

It's based on body shape. Pickup configuration is irrelevant.

Ironic when you consider that it's the the pickups that provide the bulk of the characteristic timbre and sonic identity of the Jazz Bass.

 

[twinjet]

So body shape to me is not the answer.

But to Leo Fender, it was. Bear in mind, the bass was named for the crowd it was supposed to appeal to - jazz double bassists making the transition to electric.

 

[lz4005]

Ironic when you consider that it's the the pickups that provide the bulk of the characteristic timbre and sonic identity of the Jazz Bass.

That's true of every instrument.

Sound comes mostly from pickup design and location and name comes from body shape.

 

[gjohnson441496]

I don't care what you say, it's summertime in Virginia! Hello, Goodbye?

 

[DigitalMan]

And THIS is what happens to a Blacktop Precision when I own it! It gets a new paint job (because the original had been badly done in) and a j-width neck. I don't know what you call it, but I call it Big Orange.

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