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P bass..professional instrument?

#101
I really think that the confusion here is in the threads title & not necessarily the op's saying that pro's don't use p-basses (cause that would just be silly trolling!).

Either the op meant to title it: "P-bass... pit show instrment?", or the op really only considers bassists who do theater 'shows' as professionals. Hopefully, it's the former!
 
#109
The "P" stands for people! PBasses are made of people!!

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#111
Well I just bought my first Fender P Bass last week. In the past I played Washburn,Cort,SX, El Degas,Peavey and Squier. Being that I was a teen in the early 70's most music I listened to (now called Classic Rock) the bass player either used a Fender "P", Fender "J" or a Ric. To me the Fender Bass is a icon and so far I really like mine.
 
#112
Laurie Bass said:
Well I just bought my first Fender P Bass last week. In the past I played Washburn,Cort,SX, El Degas,Peavey and Squier. Being that I was a teen in the early 70's most music I listened to (now called Classic Rock) the bass player either used a Fender "P", Fender "J" or a Ric. To me the Fender Bass is a icon and so far I really like mine.
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A step in the right direction. I'm at just over a year with my first P--which is also my first Fender. I love the silly thing, though I'll never be able to call a P Bass 'elegant...'
 
#113
bass71 said:
Well.....I'm glad a few of you got a laugh out of this and I'm sorry if it ruffled a few feathers, but I stand by what Ive seen.

If anyone else sees a bassist in an orchestra pit playing a P then let us know...might be interesting.
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Two of my high school pals played P-Basses in the pit orchestra of our high school theatre program- One played a P/Dual-J PU American Deluxe Precision for Smokey Joe's Cafe and Footloose, and another guy who played a passive P-Copy for Sweet Charity. Both players, though being in high school at the time, were very talented players and the P-Bass tones they used were absolutely perfect for those shows.
 
#114
Only musical theater type stuff Ive regularly seen P pup basses used in is with some balck metal bands like Dimmu Borgir when bassist was using BC Rich warlock bass with P pup neck and bridge sets and 2band active eq. But perhaps thats not quite the caberet type shows he's been attending. Lol.
 
#116
The flaw in the OP's thinking is that he doesn't consider hugely popular pop and rock bands to be "professional" and the only musicians he considers "professional" ("musos" as he calls them) are hired studio guns, guys in cabaret and theatre settings and guys playing on cruises...

soooo... I guess if you're going to define the word "professional" along those absurdly arbitrary and narrow terms then you're right: five-string boutique basses are more popular than Fenders among "professional" bassists.

This would be kind of like seeing nothing but death metal bands and then saying "Why don't ANY musicians these days play Fodera or Alleva-Coppolo? I see ESP and Ibanez basses every night, though!"
 

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