Precision is a Chevy, Jazz is a Ferrari

[blastoff99]

Glad this thread is providing y'all something to do before the NFL gets going (yes I know what time it is but I dunno that Lions/Bears counts... oops, were those fightin' words?). Thanks for keeping it friendly and funny, and since it is indeed humor, I'm moving it to the appropriate subforum.

 

[GreyBeard]

The precision is a Vega.

I owned a Vega wagon. It fell apart in 3 years!

 

[rantbot]

I am a classic car guy. A vintage Porsche 911 body style is not really even aesthetic. It is the body shape if you design the car first, then stretch metal over the mechanical parts. It only coincidentally looks good. Ferraris are stylish. Vintage Porsche 911s were basically racing Beetles.

Probably because Ferrari didn't do bodies. Enzo was interested in racing V-12s and that's about it. He didn't bother to stretch a body over anything, he farmed that stuff out to other companies, usually Scaglietti.

 

[GrapeBass]

If they were dogs, the PBass growls, the JBass barks.

IMHO and my observation is that it's the opposite, P-Bass barks and the J-Bass growls.

 

[Grinderman]

"Precision is a Chevy, Jazz is a Ferrari"

I'm not buying the analogy, at all. It has nothing to do with my opinions about Chevy or Ferrari, either.

I believe even "Precision is a Dee Dee, Jazz is a Klaus" works better than that.

 

[Killing Floor]

Ok. I think I get it.

Does that make my Duesenberg a Duesenberg?

 

[SJan3]

Leo Fender himself said so.

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"By the end of the 1950s though it was time to expand the Fender bass category and Leo Fender and his staff turned their attention to a new “deluxe” bass guitar design in 1959. And just as the Stratocaster expanded on the Telecaster rather than supplanting it, this new bass would complement the Precision by offering great tonal versatility and a design that went beyond the utilitarian to the realm of the sleekly stylish. If the Precision was a Chevy, the new deluxe model would be a Ferrari."

Total BS

 

[Pings Bass]

Ok hear me out.

Fender = General Motors.
P = Chevy
J = Caddy

Gibson = Ford
EB-* = Pinto
Thunderbird = well, Thunderbird

Rickenbacker = AMC
4003 = Gremlin

Hofner = Volkswagen
Violin bass = Beetle of course

 

[gstaats]

Fake news... both Chevy and Ferrari would be out of business if they had as little innovation as fender..m

 

[chadds]

Ginger - Jazz
Mary Ann - P

 

[Passinwind]

Meet the new clickbait, same as the old clickbait.

 

[butterfingers1]

the original 1951 p-bass

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This is another topic but I have one of these, a Squier early 50s single coil p bass, and I always had a split coil for 40 years, but I never had a jazz bass. I’m thinking of finally getting one and giving away my single coil, which although fascinating I sometimes find impractical. Any opinions?

 

[Grinderman]

Ok hear me out.

Fender = General Motors.
P = Chevy
J = Caddy

Much more appropriate.

Two different models of 50s or 60s wood Chris Craft boats could work, too. Same era, and Leo Fender was also known to love his Chris Craft boats.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

Remember, it was the 1950s, and Leo knew marketing.

60s...

 

[BasementWarrior]

A P is a pickup truck.
A J is an SUV.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

Glad this thread is providing y'all something to do before the NFL gets going (yes I know what time it is but I dunno that Lions/Bears counts... oops, were those fightin' words?). Thanks for keeping it friendly and funny, and since it is indeed humor, I'm moving it to the appropriate subforum.

I was afraid it would devolve, but hey-Leo said it, so it must be true. Right?

 

[Spidey2112]

The one I built has to be a Yugo, then.

 

[ELG60]

A Ferrari is faster than a Chevy. Therefore, a Jazz bass is faster than a Precision.

The C8 Z06 kicks the snot out of Ferraris which are 5 times as expensive. That being said, I've always preferred Jazz basses.

 

[BigDrew]

It may have been said already, but Leo DID NOT say that. Someone from Fender did in an article in 2021.

 

[PJ Muzikmansky]

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Jazz bass