Precision is a Chevy, Jazz is a Ferrari

[Gizmot]

There can be no denying the historical significance of both the Precision and the Jazz and their impact on music of many genres. But I think that the Sting Ray and the G&L L-2000 are major steps forward in the evolution of Leo’s designs. If you haven’t tried one on stage with a band, you don’t know what you’re missing

 

[bassically_eli]

Precision is a pickup truck.
Jazz is a sports car...in my opinion.
A precision can carry the whole band!

A PJ is an El Camino? Subaru Baja?

 

[Black Out Jazz]

There can be no denying the historical significance of both the Precision and the Jazz and their impact on music of many genres. But I think that the Sting Ray and the G&L L-2000 are major steps forward in the evolution of Leo’s designs. If you haven’t tried one on stage with a band, you don’t know what you’re missing

Ahem. This is a flame war 'tween precision and Jazz.
Thanks.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

A jazz bass sounds best with both pickups off.

Jazz bass doesn't need no stinkin' amp to sound perfect!

 

[macmanlou]

Chevys are much easier to work on than Ferraris.

 

[IamGroot]

I do not know who you guys are any more. What happened to all the Gurus, the low end Geniuses the Wisdom keepers here ?
Why are you trying to compare Leo’s basses to cars?
Basses give us gas, right? The Dynamic Duo Basses are made to move our hearts and Souls not just our Land down under. The only true comparison that is the truth is;
The P bass is a Canaan over seas and a German Shepherd in the U.S.
A Jazz bass is Red over seas and a Blue Heeler in the U .S
You can thank me later for bringing the truth to this enduring misunderstanding.
Your welcome.

Where have you gone, Joe Domaggio?
The TB nation turns its eyes to Cariboo.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

I do not know who you guys are any more. What happened to all the Gurus, the low end Geniuses the Wisdom keepers here ?
Why are you trying to compare Leo’s basses to cars?
Basses give us gas, right? The Dynamic Duo Basses are made to move our hearts and Souls not just our Land down under. The only true comparison that is the truth is;
The P bass is a Canaan over seas and a German Shepherd in the U.S.
A Jazz bass is Red over seas and a Blue Heeler in the U .S
You can thank me later for bringing the truth to this enduring misunderstanding.
Your welcome.

*You're

 

[Acoop]

Just a little joke. Sorry.

Hard to believe anyone took this thread seriously. ...

Leo was an inventor and a businessman, hard to imagine this today. ... So to expand business he invented product, first Fender Tele and P-bass, then Strat and Jazz, the staples. ... Then he sold and invented Musicman, then GL. ... How amazingly rare that is today. ... He could've easily walked away, in the mid sixties, with a million dollars and spent his days in the sun but, he went back to work. ...
The Strat is to a Tele what the Jazz is to a P-bass. ... Logical progression.

 

[Acoop]

I originally read Leo called the Jazz the Cadillac of basses.

 

[CaribooBass]

I have not seen this before on TB. What is a flame War?

 

[KenB]

Leo Fender himself said so.

Precision is for “bass players”.
Jazz is for (actual, or for those who imagine themselves to be,) “bassists”.

Check YouTube. Thousands of “tutorial” vids, with badly arranged, poorly played, over-complicated and over-EQ’d arrangements, and most using a Jazz Bass…

 

[Black Out Jazz]

I have not seen this before on TB. What is a flame War?

Think rivalry...

 

[Fuzzbass]

if you own more than 3 basses, one should be a Jazz.

My 10th bass* was a J-bass. So I agree in principle, but not on the value of X.




*My most recent bass; I now own 10

 

[-Asdfgh-]

So you can take a Precision to a levee, but only if it's dry? What can you take a Jazz bass to?

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Was the Burns bass the British Leyland of basses?

 

[marchone]

Only if it had Lucas electrical parts.

 

[BlueTalon]

Bootsy Collins played a Jazz bass. Then he got a Precision and replaced the split coil with 3 jazz pickups.

Now THAT's a flexible Precision!

 

[Mike N]

I've often said that the P Bass is the equivalent of the Small Block Chevy engine..... It's virtually unchanged since it's introduction, its the standard to which many are compared to, it fits everywhere and there's more aftermarket hop up parts available for it than any other.

 

[Gizmot]

Ahem. This is a flame war 'tween precision and Jazz.
Thanks.

So it is. However it’s one of my rights to speak my mind - and that’s what I did.

 

[Black Out Jazz]