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P-bass or Jazz bass?

#25
-=DanAtkinson=- said:
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#28
The Fender Jazz is the world's coolest bass and it will make you instantly cool as well. Women will want you and men will want to be you. The Precision is less sexy but good for different things, like peddling on an open E with one's right hand while crushing beer cans against one's sloping forehead with the left.
 
#29
OleJohnnyMac said:
The Fender Jazz is the world's coolest bass and it will make you instantly cool as well. Women will want you and men will want to be you. The Precision is less sexy but good for different things, like peddling on an open E with one's right hand while crushing beer cans against one's sloping forehead with the left.
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puh-lease!!!! :eyebrow: lol you must be suffering from dislexia comrade!
 
#30
Ok, I am a P bass guy... but I do not think of a Jazz as being brighter than a P, or more authoritative, and a P is definitely not the standard in Reggae or Funk - if anything, that would be the Jazz bass. Can a P do it? Sure, but if you want to sound like Family Man, play what he plays as a starter. A Jazz bass's neck pickup soloed is (IMO) much darker and "deeper" bass than the P pickup, especially if you play your right hand close to the neck. You might try that for starters with your current bass, and forget about buying new gear until you're sure what you want all by yourself and don't need opinions from "some guy on the internet."
 
#31
ilovenofrets said:
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Formerly known as The Jazz Bass Special, the Precision Bass Special will solve your dilema. P- and J- pickup, P-Bass body, J-Bass neck(you should like this if you like the Ibanez's feel), and the Squire version can be had for a price to suit your budget. Great well-rounded bass to suit the tones necessary for pretty much anything you will ever play.:bassist:
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Or a Fender Aerodyne. Lots of bang for the buck, fast neck, and a P/J config. You can get one on da Bay fer cheap like. That's a good bass to get and grow into. Might even keep it forever and ever.
 
#32
Theres various P pup basses that are far better players and with better osund then fenders imo. Youve also neglected the other two tytpes of pup pickups that are very popular and which make up the majority of basses offered by most companies outside of fender. The soapbar and humbucker pup types. Never ceases to amaze me when peeps seem to think theres only P & J style pups for bass.
 
#34
OleJohnnyMac said:
The Fender Jazz is the world's coolest bass and it will make you instantly cool as well. Women will want you and men will want to be you. The Precision is less sexy but good for different things, like peddling on an open E with one's right hand while crushing beer cans against one's sloping forehead with the left.
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Yeah...that's what James Jamerson did with his P bass...pedaled on the E. Oh, wait...no...he changed bass playing forever, introduced chromaticism and passing tones to rock, and influenced just about every major bass player from the 60s on, including Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones, John Entwistle, etc. etc.

Carol Kaye recorded more hits than a generation of Jazz players combined...on a P.

Kim Deal pretty much invented indie rock bass playing and pioneered grunge bass on a P.

And so on...
A few good P players out there. Jazz basses were for guys like Noel Redding who played guitar and got recruited to play for Hendrix because of his hair and ability to look groovy in paisley shirts with frilly fronts.

Jazz basses are like Hummers...you know that you open up the case/glove compartment and there's a bottle of Viagra in there.

Oh, snap. I went there.

Of course, Ron Carter owns and has been known to play a fretless Rick. What the heck does that mean?
 
#35
To take care of most sounds and playability, I would suggest a PJ special, jazz neck, diverse sounds and easy to play. Just a thought.
 
#36
Joe Flair said:
In my experience... P-basses have a good solid tone, much like Duff said, they fit well in the mix, it doesn't take much to get a good well rounded tone out of them. My only dislike with them is the bigger neck, again in my experience it slows me down, (but I've got short fingers for a bass player...) I've always had a Jazz bass, it's what I learned on, and I personally find I can get a very wide range of tones out of it, some which are too thin to even waste time on, but most very punchy, and bright. Which for my style of playing, and in the bassheavy band I'm in, it fits. All in all it's what you feel when you pick one up I guess. I just recently picked up a Schecter Diamond series at a local music store (can't recall the model) believe it had a P pickup in the neck and a humbucker (looked like two J pickups stuck together) in the bridge. That bass had amazing range of tone... and it was easilly one of the best feeling basses I've ever picked up (I'm going to go put it on layaway before my wife finds out and murders me!)
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Three words: Lakand Duck Dunn.
It's a P bass with a Jazz neck. Tah dah!
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#37
plankspanker13 said:
The Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar is also a P-J combination, with a J neck, and should not be overlooked in the search.
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The Jaguar bass should be overlooked in any search. Mark Twain said that any library would be complete simply by omitting the works of Jane Austen. I say that any bass collection would be complete simply by omitting a Jaguar.

The Jaguar bass...Why? It's the turducken of the bass world.
 
#38
Uprooted:. said:
I'm not very experienced with bass guitars but I just started playing bass for my band. I absolutely love it. I'm using a little Ibanez GIO right now but It has like....no punch...I read-up that Fender Precision basses are the most trusted and used bass guitars in the reggae and funk scenes since the 70's.

The P-bass is damn expensive....for me. Is the Fender Jazz bass comparable to the P-bass??? It's cheaper and I heard they're also used professionally....please help...what else could I use other than these two??? I need that DARK, DEEP tone...you guys know wassup...thanks!
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Get one of each and spend a few years sorting out the difference.
 
#40
jedgargroover said:
Yeah...that's what James Jamerson did with his P bass...pedaled on the E. Oh, wait...no...he changed bass playing forever, introduced chromaticism and passing tones to rock, and influenced just about every major bass player from the 60s on, including Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones, John Entwistle, etc. etc.

Carol Kaye recorded more hits than a generation of Jazz players combined...on a P.

Kim Deal pretty much invented indie rock bass playing and pioneered grunge bass on a P.

And so on...
A few good P players out there. Jazz basses were for guys like Noel Redding who played guitar and got recruited to play for Hendrix because of his hair and ability to look groovy in paisley shirts with frilly fronts.

Jazz basses are like Hummers...you know that you open up the case/glove compartment and there's a bottle of Viagra in there.

Oh, snap. I went there.

Of course, Ron Carter owns and has been known to play a fretless Rick. What the heck does that mean?
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okay, I understand that you're defending the honour of your beloved P-bass, but do you really need to stoop so low as to insult the also-formidable J?

This is just a forum on the intrawebz afterall.
 

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