And even though you seem to think, with no actual basis, that it’s been said a thousand times before, you still found it in your heart to say it for the thousand and first time. Wow! How cool is that?
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Help identifying this Squire, please?
- Thread starter LeighOnSea
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And even though you seem to think, with no actual basis, that it’s been said a thousand times before, you still found it in your heart to say it for the thousand and first time. Wow! How cool is that?
Well,
From what is written on the Head, it is definitely a Squier Standard (series) P-Bass
I now know from the very helpful replies here (Thanks!), the Squier-Talk forum and Squier Standard Series P Bass Special, that:
The Squier Standard P-Bass Special was made in Indonesia and had:
The Squier Standard P-Bass Special was made from 1998 to 2011 (launched 1999)
You have kindly told me that the S/N tells me my daughter's is from 2000 (1st 2 digits after IC as in Indonesia Core-Tec, are 00)
The Squier Standard P-Bass Special red colours were:
(577) Frost Red (1/1999-4/2000)
(509) Candy Apple Red (5/2000-12/2010)
So my daughter's could be either (not knowing the month), but to my eye it seems more Frost than Candy Apple (see piccys at end this post)
So, I reckon that unless there was another Indonesian Squier Standard P-Bass with PJ pickups and a J neck etc etc made in 2000 then my daughter's is a:
QED (Question Easily Done as my old man used to say)
Thanks again to all!
(577) Frost Red (1/1999-4/2000)
(509) Candy Apple Red (5/2000-12/2010)
My Daughter's:
From what is written on the Head, it is definitely a Squier Standard (series) P-Bass
I now know from the very helpful replies here (Thanks!), the Squier-Talk forum and Squier Standard Series P Bass Special, that:
The Squier Standard P-Bass Special was made in Indonesia and had:
- A 38 mm nut
- J style neck
- PJ pickups
- Gold Squier Logo
- Rosewood fingerboard
- Volume 1 (Neck Pickup), Volume 2 (Bridge Pickup), Master Tone
- Knurled Chrome Dome Control Knobs (007-3883-000)
- Dot Position Inlays
The Squier Standard P-Bass Special was made from 1998 to 2011 (launched 1999)
You have kindly told me that the S/N tells me my daughter's is from 2000 (1st 2 digits after IC as in Indonesia Core-Tec, are 00)
The Squier Standard P-Bass Special red colours were:
(577) Frost Red (1/1999-4/2000)
(509) Candy Apple Red (5/2000-12/2010)
So my daughter's could be either (not knowing the month), but to my eye it seems more Frost than Candy Apple (see piccys at end this post)
So, I reckon that unless there was another Indonesian Squier Standard P-Bass with PJ pickups and a J neck etc etc made in 2000 then my daughter's is a:
2000 Red Frost Squier Standard P-Bass Special
QED (Question Easily Done as my old man used to say)
Thanks again to all!
(577) Frost Red (1/1999-4/2000)
(509) Candy Apple Red (5/2000-12/2010)
My Daughter's:
Evidently, 1 more cooler than 1000. Yes, it does go to 11.
"with no actual basis" (The number 1 bass on the planet.)
I could quote 100 different articles on the matter but we'll keep it short.
Reverb: "The Precision Bass of 1951 was the first commercially successful electric bass guitar, and it followed Fender’s equally groundbreaking Telecaster guitar launched just a year or so earlier.
Fender has continued to produce the Precision in a variety of forms through eight decades, and today you can buy brand new or classic used P-Basses in many different styles and formats and prices.
Precision Bass, 1957–83 (Does this sound familiar?)
Second main version of the regular P-Bass: Larger Stratocaster-style headstock; two knobs and jack on pickguard; two-piece split pickup; four-saddle combined bridge/tailpiece.
Changes include: Fretted maple neck (1957–59, 1969–81) or maple neck with rosewood fingerboard (from 1959; maple fingerboard option ’67–’69; fretless rosewood or maple option from ’70); at first, gold anodized pickguard, then white or tortoiseshell from 1959, black from ’75. Examples from 1965 and later known as post-CBS models."
Why? You (well, actually your daughter) has the bass! And I agree, to my eye your daughter's bass is Frost Red. I hope she's as excited about playing it as you've been about finding out info about it!
Sorry, It was just a light, diffusing, flippant comment, from The Fast Show ('Brilliant' in the US?) which is one of my all time faves
Anyway, here goes .....
My daughter loves her bass to bits
I love her bass (but not as much as my satin black V3, which my very talented muso mate recommended to me as a 1st attempt at music at nie on 60, horses for courses)
Its perfect for her and although she is already coming along great strides (I am just a spec in the background) with it she wants to keep it as its HER bass - I'm not even allowed to look at it (á lá Spinal Tap), and she is a teenager, 5'7" and I am only 5'3" so I don't, at least when she is in ...
I don't care if it's not a 'Real' Fender, I just wanted to know what it is
Anyone who thinks it is a more economical version of a Fender, or exactly like the many others out there is right
I don't need to know, I'm just stupidly curious, always have been, my mates from play school still call me Prof, and that's why I ended up in Eng Research
I have very thick skin, and love a direct comment - Hell, I used to be married to a German, in Germany
I have also been on loads of Forums for years, all sorts is what makes them fun and great sources of info
I don't tend to tone down my questions unless I realise I have been a complete arse - which can happen, the being an arse much more often than the realising bit.
Right, now off to practice a bit, no reason to, I will never be good, nor care if I am or not, but I love it
Last night I managed to stumble along in my living room to the first bit of the Clash's version of Brand New Cadillac.
What a buzz! I got a rush like doing a forward loop on the windsurfer (which, even at my advancing age, I still vividly remember). Same goosebumps as hearing them for the first time as a preteen in 1977 - I felt like a Rock God
Cheers!
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Lovely essay. But you entirely missed my point.
It would have been fine had you simply said it was a standard Squier PJ bass model. Especially considering the OP was asking a simple question rather than his implying the instrument was somehow rare or valuable
But you had to get condescending and spell out the obvious, such as it being red, having four strings, etc. Which was totally unnecessary and frankly insulting.
Hope that clarifies it uou you.
"But you had to get condescending and spell out the obvious"
Absotootly. Thankx four tha klarifkation.
