Fender signature that MUST be made!!! NOW!!!

[Lowbrow]

JAE Slab Pbass for under $1k. I'd buy that thing so quick.

I'd buy one even quicker for under $500 - Squier, are you listening?

 

[Tommygunn]

I'd buy one even quicker for under $500 - Squier, are you listening?

No one will buy a slab squier. Squier has too much of a 'beginner's market' and starters won't buy a slab bass.

"It's too uncomfortable? Awwwwwwwww!!!!!! Poor baby!"



:scowl:

 

[Nedmundo]

I like the Flea signature Jazz bass idea, because it's an unusual color. They could even include a copy of Flea's sticker, for optional application.

 

[roadkill2309]

I kind of think that Fender's array of available instruments is already way too scattered.

 

[tkcthulu]

Paul McCartney Fender Jazz Sig.




Hey, I liked "While My Guitar Gentle Weeps"

 

[Big_Daddy]

It would just be a 62' reissue anyway, and the modifications Jamerson made (sustain, action, et cetera) are something any player could do. /QUOTE]


Since when has that EVER stopped Fender from cashing in on a new model release with a higher price tag?

This is true.

And after reading this thread and thinking for a bit, I don't think I'd want to ever buy a signature model. Really, where are the differences? The only difference's I've ever seen, excluding pickups, are all purely cosmetic. Sting Precision? Oh yeah! I'll pay an extra ___$ for a vintage style pickup and Sting's inlaid signature!

As for the John Entwistle slab Precision, all you'd have to do is just give the pickups and extra few wraps (by few, I mean a ridiculous amount).

 

[GrapeApe]

I don't like signature intstruments that are just cosmetic copies of the stock instruments the player has been playing.

I do like howerver, when the player actually goes to the company and specs out an entirely new instrument to the smallest detail, Like Steve Baily or Stu Hamm creating new designs, or Mike Dirnt creating a hybrid of two different basses, with his personal neck specs and pickup voicing.

To me, that is a real signature bass.

 

[Stranger Danger]

George Porter Jr.

 

[JimiLL]

The Berry Oakley Tractor bass sounds interesting, and the rest like the sigs you mentioned; Harris, Mckagan, Waters are all just stock instruments with cosmetic changes.

For this reason I dont see the point in having an inert sig bass

 

[basslinejam]

George Porter Jr.

Recently I've seen him playing Lakland Glaubs that have the same cosmetics as his favorite P (Amber Ash, Maple, Tort...).

Guess the old girl needs a break.

Maybe Fender could make a ding for ding "Mississippi Mud" relic George Porter Precision like they did for Andy Summer's Tele.

 

[bongomania]

I think they should make a Ray Manzarek sig bass... or maybe a Stevie Wonder sig... either way it would be black and white, and you wouldn't even need a right hand to play it!

 

[stiles72]

I think they should make a Ray Manzarek sig bass... or maybe a Stevie Wonder sig... either way it would be black and white, and you wouldn't even need a right hand to play it!

Yes! Ray Manzarek Fender Rhodes Piano Bass...

Ray's bass lines were often simple repetitive patterns. But when I was first learning to play bass, they really got me out of that AC/DC pounding 8th note straight ahead rock mindset. And it was cool that you could sometimes pan the stereo and isolate the bass or eliminate some instruments making it even easier to learn The Doors tunes. I always loved that warm round sound, and at first didn't even realize it was a keyboardist, not a bassist, playing those lines.

 

[Lowbrow]

No one will buy a slab squier. Squier has too much of a 'beginner's market' and starters won't buy a slab bass.

"It's too uncomfortable? Awwwwwwwww!!!!!! Poor baby!"



:scowl:

No one? I'll buy it.

 

[Jim C]

They should make a Rodger Sadowsky model to learn how to build an active, really good, high end bass that has resale!
(A/C signature would fit the above as well)

 

[bongomania]

A Roger Sadowsky sig model produced by Fender would be freakin hilarious. It might rip open the space-time continuum!

 

[Kitsapbass]

There's a chance that Fender may make a Bob Babbitt Signature Precision: RW/Olympic White, Bassmutes and a custom neck profile. He plays a prototype of it in some of the PJB youtube videos. And yes, I would definitely be interested in it...

+1 here.

 

[treekiller]

How about a treekiller Sig Jazz(Blk. Jazz body, maple P-Bass neck, vintage p-ups)???

Seriously though, I'd love to see them offer the option of either width neck on both the Jazz and the P.!!! I mean, how tough is it to put a Jazz decal on a P neck headstock or vise-versa???

 

[treekiller]

Yes! Ray Manzarek Fender Rhodes Piano Bass...

Ray's bass lines were often simple repetitive patterns. But when I was first learning to play bass, they really got me out of that AC/DC pounding 8th note straight ahead rock mindset. And it was cool that you could sometimes pan the stereo and isolate the bass or eliminate some instruments making it even easier to learn The Doors tunes. I always loved that warm round sound, and at first didn't even realize it was a keyboardist, not a bassist, playing those lines.

That is kinda cool! However many of the Doors albums featured studio bass players, Jerry Scheff being one of the more notable.

 

[Remus_Redbone]

Mel Schacher Jazz with mudbucker

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[Tom Howland]

Cool tread.
+1.
Flea-Stack-knob 1961 Jazz-Shell Pink.
Berry Oakley-Tractor Bass.
George Porter Jr.-P-Bass.
Keith Ferguson-Fab T-Birds-50's P-Bass. (reverse head-stock)
Guy Pratt-60's Jazz bass (Burgundy Mist)