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Keep the Grabber or the P-bass?

#6
Which bass makes you happier to play? Don't choose because of what others think is cooler or more popular, or vice -versa with either one. You are the one that will be playing the one you choose, and you gotta' go with the one that gets your tone and playing mojo on the best out of the two.
 
#9
owning both i'd say Grabber > P bass. Well, to be fair, I have a G3 and a P bass, but still, a grabber will be a lot harder to find later while your p bass (unless it's a special edition) will be easier.

Go with the one which will serve you better. If you decide to sell the grabber, I'll get in line behind calebbarton.
 
#12
Grabbers really aren't all that rare. I see them all the time, often sitting around on the walls of music stores for years. There's a reason - they are heavy as heck and have pretty much one tone: mud.

If you really like the Grabber, keep it. There's no accounting for taste, and maybe you'll be the player who finds his voice on the grabber and puts it on the map.

I remember back around '89 I was first looking to play bass, a local store almost sold me on a Grabber for about 2 bills. I passed, and a friend sold me his Japanese Squier P for 80 bucks. This was the right call.
 
#13
RCCollins said:
Keep the one that's the most recorded bass sound in the world, and lose the heavy beast.
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I happen to own a 78 version of the most recorded bass in the world and let's just say it makes my buddy's 77 Grabber feel like a feather weight in comparison. Fender basses from the mid to late 70's also suffered from that extra dense ash wood body weight that cursed a lot of the instruments being made by the big gun instrument makers of the era. With that said I do love the sound of my boat anchor P-Bass.
 
#16
I'm a Gibson fan...........keep the Grabber, it's likely the rarer of your two.
It's not like Fender is gonna quit making P basses anytime soon either.
 
#17
RCCollins said:
Grabbers really aren't all that rare. I see them all the time, often sitting around on the walls of music stores for years. There's a reason - they are heavy as heck and have pretty much one tone: mud.
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My G3 doesn't weigh anywhere near as much as my P-bass of the same year. It's probably about 8lbs for the G3 and 11lbs for the P.

I don't have a grabber to directly compare the sounds, but the G3 with all three singles on sounds like a mid-heavy P-bass, nothing like the mudbuckers of the EB0/3s, and from what I recall, the grabbers I've played were pretty similar in sound to the G3.
 
#18
coreyfyfe said:
My G3 doesn't weigh anywhere near as much as my P-bass of the same year. It's probably about 8lbs for the G3 and 11lbs for the P.

I don't have a grabber to directly compare the sounds, but the G3 with all three singles on sounds like a mid-heavy P-bass, nothing like the mudbuckers of the EB0/3s, and from what I recall, the grabbers I've played were pretty similar in sound to the G3.
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Dude shut up I'm trying to get him to unload it so you can pick it up ;)
 

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