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Hadrien Feraud on a P-Bass
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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...every time, I played like that...I got hollered at.
Of course, it was in a New Country band.
Of course, it was in a New Country band.
...every time, I played like that...I got hollered at.
Of course, it was in a New Country band.
You should have resolved in D on your B string, they would have loved it!
Part of me is in awe, part of me hates him deeply. (the part that can't play like that even in my wildest dreams.)
Guys like Hadrien and Victor will sound amazing on any bass, and probably in any style.
The P certainly does not have the definition to make virtuoso lines shine like a Jazz.
Another couple who can't make a P bass sound good! 
Sorry man but the P will always have that 'cheap starter bass' tone to me. It just doesn't work for my ears, and I don't think the Precision is ever more exposed than when someone tries to ply something technical or that needs a lot of articulation on it.
Sorry man but the P will always have that 'cheap starter bass' tone to me. It just doesn't work for my ears, and I don't think the Precision is ever more exposed than when someone tries to ply something technical or that needs a lot of articulation on it.
It's funny, I've come full circle on P-basses. These days I really like a well played P-bass as another flavor of good, and have really started to appreciate a slapped P-bass again too.Another couple who can't make a P bass sound good!
Sorry man but the P will always have that 'cheap starter bass' tone to me. It just doesn't work for my ears, and I don't think the Precision is ever more exposed than when someone tries to ply something technical or that needs a lot of articulation on it.
I also was never a fan of the P-bass (although hearing John Wetton was eye-opening). But now I love it.
I hear you. There is something crude and ham-fisted about the way a P sounds. But that quality is what now draws me to them. I like the drunken-bull-in-a-china-shop sound a P can get. Of course I'm not a traditionalist, I like a 5-string P with bright rounds and the tone all the way up.
I cut my teeth on a battered '64 P-bass. Bought it in 1975 from a friend's older brother's friend for $200. I also bought a '64 Bassman amp from the same guy.
I really had to learn this bass. These old logs would not give it up unless you really spent some time with them. My Nordstrand Jazz? Anybody that plays the Nordstrand sounds good from the get-go.
Anyway, sometime in the early '80s, I noticed all the guys I liked were playing Jazz basses. Converted my '78 Schecter P to a P-J. Eventally, went 100% Jazz Bass.
Still have a soft spot for my P, though.
Chuck Rainey & Alan Gorrie were big for me in the mid-'70s...I was revisiting early AWB today. Gorrie's P tone sounds good to me..still.
And I dig Louis Johnson's slapped P tone, as well.
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