Precision Bass Power Battle

[AndrewMagrini]

Morning friends... Hope most of y'all are enjoying a day off jamming!

Question for you: If money were no object in acquiring a new Fender Precision, which of these two heavy hitters would you jump on?

 

[Killing Floor]

They’re both cool. Red or sunburst?

 

[Moving Pictures]

Both is the correct answer.

 

[MattZilla]

A) Fiesta Red
B) Burst, Oly White, or Black

dots, bare headstock, standard colors? No spokewheel truss adjuster at the heel? Regular nickel fretwire? Those are $1,500 basses all day long. Marked up American Professionals.

I’m just not a “money is no object for a standard base model instrument” kinda guy, so… carrots.

 

[JRA]

If money were no object in acquiring a new Fender Precision, which of these two heavy hitters would you jump on?

what's your objective with this "what if?"
- to spend ~5k?
- to get a great P-bass?
- to get a signature P?
- other, more?

thanks in advance!

 

[Vanheusen77]

For that price I would guess you could order a custom shop bass made to your specifications. White is cool, so is burgundy mist or Sherwood green.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Neither
It would be this...

1971 Vintage Fender Precision Bass | eBay

 

[Bass4ThePublic]

Pino, personally I like the sound more and fiesta red rocks!

 

[J Wilson]

A Squier CV or MIM Precision. I wouldn't pay money like that for a Precision at gunpoint, to me, that's crazy, plum loco.

 

[Geri O]

Since there's a trend of answering the question with something other than the choices the OP listed, I'll play along, too...

I would choose another Mike Lull P5 Precision-style 5-string bass just the one I just heartbrokenly sold.

Or make an appeal to buy it back some day.

 

[sylvanbass]

I'd love to have either one of those, but now that I'm thinking about which one of the two if I had the change, I'd go for a Pino with a Hurley mute mod... I'm not worthy either way, but man that would sound pretty fat, much like myself.

 

[ebo]

Neither
It would be this...

1971 Vintage Fender Precision Bass | eBay

You’d think the shipping would be free…

 

[DJ Bebop]

You’d think the shipping would be free…

I know, huh?

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I am just not a fan of aged fiesta red (or dead salmon, as my wife calls it). Hurley in green.

 

[Major Seven]

You’d think the shipping would be free…

Is that taxable?

 

[bmusic]

You’d think the shipping would be free…

or enough to cover $100k in insurance…

 

[Matt Dean]

Neither
It would be this...

1971 Vintage Fender Precision Bass | eBay

A sign of the End of Days.

 

[Matt Dean]

Since there's a trend of answering the question with something other than the choices the OP listed, I'll play along, too...

I would choose another Mike Lull P5 Precision-style 5-string bass just the one I just heartbrokenly sold.

Or make an appeal to buy it back some day.

I chose a Lull P4 recently and haven't looked back.

 

[Geri O]

I chose a Lull P4 recently and haven't looked back.

I sold my P5 because it was always the third choice to grab after my Lull M5V Jazz-style bass and my Stingray Special. I love, love, love the idea of having a P5, I really do. But between getting older and scaling back to just what I use and the fact that I took all of December off to just enjoy family and a little solitude (not to reflect or contemplate, I just enjoyed hanging at home), it was tough recovering financially even though I thought I was prepared to not work. And the P5 buyer is head & heels over the P5, as best as I can tell.

 

[Matt Dean]

I sold my P5 because it was always the third choice to grab after my Lull M5V Jazz-style bass and my Stingray Special. I love, love, love the idea of having a P5, I really do. But between getting older and scaling back to just what I use and the fact that I took all of December off to just enjoy family and a little solitude (not to reflect or contemplate, I just enjoyed hanging at home), it was tough recovering financially even though I thought I was prepared to not work. And the P5 buyer is head & heels over the P5, as best as I can tell.

I can relate... I'm getting ready to "retire" at the end of this year, so I've been getting my bass gear settled now before retiring (to play music as one of two main post retirement gigs).

Sorry for the derail.