(Don’t tell L J, this p bass is the nicest of the lot !)
Funny story about that bass.
In October of 2020 I wanted a passive American Fender PJ without the greasebucket tone circuit and with hum cancelling pups. So I bought a Satin Lake Placid Blue American Performer Precision P/J (sitting next to the P bass in my profile pic) and ordered new CTS pots, etc... as well as Aguilar's hum cancelling P/J set and replaced all the electronics down to the output jack. I had no intentions of acquiring two basses two weeks apart but...
In order to recoup some of the money I spent on that bass, I put up a 2000 American made Peavey Foundation fretless for sale here on TB. The ad was only up for a few days when @LennyJ msgd me and wanted to know if I was willing to trade bass for bass for a P Bass, a 2019 MIM that had been upgraded with a real brushed aluminum pickguard, a FCS 62 P Pup and hip shot drop tuner. The original pup and pickguard were included in the deal as well. Matter of fact the stock pickguard to this day still has the protective film on it and is stored in the case sandwiched in cardboard.
Anyway I thought I could probably sell that bass faster than the fretless, could even bump the price up so I could be talked down to the price I originally wanted for the Peavey. So I agreed to the trade. And since I only lived a couple of hours away, I grabbed my mom and took her on a road trip to get the bass in person. Plus she got dinner at one of my fav local Greek restaurants that just happened to be in the town we met up in to make the trade
I got back home, plugged the bass in, and never put it up for sale. It's one of the growliest P basses I've ever heard. It's a lot of fun to dig in hard on that bass. There's just nothing not to like about the bass. I've had offers for it here on TB, but no one has managed to talk me into selling it.
Hard to believe it's been 4 and half years since that trade. It doesn't get played often, but when it does it still puts a smile on my face.
