Fender road worn, Fiesta red, review

So, I purchased this bass about 3 months ago, without knowing very much about it. Other that it was a Fender made in Mexico, pretty pricey, a P-bass and red.. And a whole lot of controversy surrounding it, about the whole relicing thing, which I really find soooo hilarious )))
Anyway, I had red a bunch of posts on TB about it, watched the very sparse videos on youtube of it, but never actually played it before I bought it.
Mainly due to the fact that here in Denmark they are pretty rare, to imposible to find in a local musicstore.
99% of their stock nowadays are squier VM basses, and some cheap yamaha basses. Don't mean to bash them at all, they are just not what I was looking for...

This is my first P-bass, I bought a warwick Standard active corvette 4 string a few years ago, and really like it, but a lil' year ago I started gas'ing for a new bass, and thought : Hmmmm, maybe I should try one og these p-basses everybody keeps raving about
My band plays a lot of old school early 70's rock, and out gigs can get a lil crazy sometimes, so I would'nt mind a bass that was a little banged up

I wanted something a bit different that just your normal p-bass axe, and I just really liked the idea og these basses, but they were so beyond my budget, that it was sad.
Then a friend of mine called and said he was quitting his band along with the bassist, they just didn't have time anymore, and asked if I wanted to come by and have a look at some of the gear they were selling?
Being the gear head that I am, of course I wanted a peek So I drove up, and right there on the wall hung a Fender Road Worn P-bass.. I asked about it, and it had pretty much hung there from the initial purchase because the bassist didn't really like it...
He wanted 700$ for it, and I thought it was a fair price really.. So I bought it then and there..

Anyhoo... it had flats on it and I though it sounded like poopiee... Dull and unarticulate.. Bought some roundwounds and lo and behold the beast came to life with a fierceness that threatened to take your heaf off
I play it through a Hartke LH500 and into a warwick WCA 410 cab, with a warwick WCA210 on top.
I fiddled around with the tone a bit and instantly found the perfect setting for my sound, volume full and the toned rolled back about 25%..
Coupled with my T-rex Bass Juice overdrive pedal, where the settings are set so the signal juuust gets a tad of crunch to it, is just pure tone heaven for me
I dont really like massive overdrive or distortion to my bass signal, but just a tad gives it a lot of life imo.
One thing i had to adjust to, was playing with a pick.. I really dont like the sound of playing with my fingers on it, even with the tone at max it just sounds waaaay to muddy for me. And thats a real shame because i really enjoy playing bass with my fingers, but I just cant get it articulate enought for me, compared to the warwick that is..
But it's really not much of a problem, because the tone out of it is so massive, and right in your gut going at it with a pick...
And we usually play 3 sets x 55 min, so I just play set one with the p-bass, switch to the warwick (and fingerstyle) on set 2, og switch back to the p-bass on the last set
That way I keep my fingerplaying and callasus, intact and get to enjoy both of my babies

I'll try and get these pic's to work but im not really a computer kind a guy, so maybe it'll work, maybe it wont

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/602675_10151742089734399_1213086217_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/969361_10151742088739399_332512561_n.jpg

Hmm, seems the pic's only work from a pc...

that's my 2 cents folks, let me know if theres anything else you wanna know about it

 

You Can see pic's of the bass from a laptop btw