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How many P basses do you own?
- Thread starter Thom Smith
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These two. 2006 '62 AVRI. It was my #1 for 16 years. And a USA Lakland, #1 since 2022.
Story time, kiddies! 
Whether it's a "sad state of affairs" or not that I no longer own any Precision basses is up to each and every person. One thing for sure, it was one, particular Precision that finally pushed me over the edge and made me think, "I wanna buy that bass and start learning on it!" In my case, it was a Squier Standard Precision Bass Special, aka "My Lovely Beast"!
Bit by bit, I purchased the entire set..."The Three Amigos"! Hell, they even matched the car I owned at that time! Talk about a bonus!
Lemme tell ya...finding and pouncing upon that first was not easy. Not only is it a very desirable color-scheme, but they'd stopped making them two or three years before I began my search. Night after night, it literally took me six months of obsessive hunting to get that P-Bass Special. Not just browsing, but several, fruitless calls to retailers, even FMIC, to dig for clues.
It's worth mentioning it, but as it turns out, it was not my first-ever bass. While pursuing it high and low, I stumbled upon a fantastic deal on a used, somewhat mojo'd up Fender Aerodyne. Given how cool they look, and furthered by what my newbie-mindset considered to be the P-Bass Special's "best of both worlds" P/J configuration, I made the decision to pull that trigger...and I have never regretted it.
Actual pics sent to me by the pawn shop from almost half-a-country away...
Eventually, though, I had to let them all go. It took quite some time to figure it out, but I had to face certain facts...I prefer Jazz basses, both sonically and aesthetically, and I felt bad keeping it around when there could be someone else putting it to far more productive use. So, I sold it to a TB'er up in Massachusetts who later passed it on to another one in New Jersey...someone I could've just handed it off to, had I know it would, eventually, land there
...but they, too, had other priorities and moved it on to somewhere else. Where it is now, I know not. Perhaps, it's for the best. 
I can only hope it's still out there, making people happy. It deserves it...and I hope whoever owns it knows how blessed they are to have it, too.
Coda: I still have a lot of fondness for P/J configs and if someone reading this is considering turning a Jazz bass into a P/J, I strongly recommend getting a WD Music reproduction of the Fender Reggie Hamilton signature Jazz as a routing template. After experimenting with different neck pickup positions, I've found this spot to be the superior one...but, that's just my feeling on the matter.
Whether it's a "sad state of affairs" or not that I no longer own any Precision basses is up to each and every person. One thing for sure, it was one, particular Precision that finally pushed me over the edge and made me think, "I wanna buy that bass and start learning on it!" In my case, it was a Squier Standard Precision Bass Special, aka "My Lovely Beast"!
Bit by bit, I purchased the entire set..."The Three Amigos"! Hell, they even matched the car I owned at that time! Talk about a bonus!
Lemme tell ya...finding and pouncing upon that first was not easy. Not only is it a very desirable color-scheme, but they'd stopped making them two or three years before I began my search. Night after night, it literally took me six months of obsessive hunting to get that P-Bass Special. Not just browsing, but several, fruitless calls to retailers, even FMIC, to dig for clues.
It's worth mentioning it, but as it turns out, it was not my first-ever bass. While pursuing it high and low, I stumbled upon a fantastic deal on a used, somewhat mojo'd up Fender Aerodyne. Given how cool they look, and furthered by what my newbie-mindset considered to be the P-Bass Special's "best of both worlds" P/J configuration, I made the decision to pull that trigger...and I have never regretted it.
Actual pics sent to me by the pawn shop from almost half-a-country away...
Eventually, though, I had to let them all go. It took quite some time to figure it out, but I had to face certain facts...I prefer Jazz basses, both sonically and aesthetically, and I felt bad keeping it around when there could be someone else putting it to far more productive use. So, I sold it to a TB'er up in Massachusetts who later passed it on to another one in New Jersey...someone I could've just handed it off to, had I know it would, eventually, land there
...but they, too, had other priorities and moved it on to somewhere else. Where it is now, I know not. Perhaps, it's for the best. I can only hope it's still out there, making people happy. It deserves it...and I hope whoever owns it knows how blessed they are to have it, too.
Coda: I still have a lot of fondness for P/J configs and if someone reading this is considering turning a Jazz bass into a P/J, I strongly recommend getting a WD Music reproduction of the Fender Reggie Hamilton signature Jazz as a routing template. After experimenting with different neck pickup positions, I've found this spot to be the superior one...but, that's just my feeling on the matter.
My P basses... I need nothing more ! (äääääh...@the moment )
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godofthunder59
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Currently, none.
But over the course of the 50 years that I've been playing bass, I've owned three...four if you count the house bass at the recording studio I co-owned in the late 80s, but that bass technically belonged to my business partner.
Wait, now that I think of it, another one of those P Basses belonged to a drummer friend who loaned it to me for several years in the 1970s.
But over the course of the 50 years that I've been playing bass, I've owned three...four if you count the house bass at the recording studio I co-owned in the late 80s, but that bass technically belonged to my business partner.
Wait, now that I think of it, another one of those P Basses belonged to a drummer friend who loaned it to me for several years in the 1970s.
Once I've had this PJ I've just bought converted to a being pure P, I'll have this sorted.
And I'll have three: one for flats, one for nickel rounds, one for steel rounds.
When it’s somebody else, I feel great and enthusiastic. When it’s me, I feel ashamed. Go figure !
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