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Staying on top of their market, offering a line of products that are steeped in tradition, making improvements to those products based on feedback from their customers and continuing to attract top line players to endorse the products… I would hardly call that "dropping the ball".
 
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buldog5151bass said:
Yes, qc has improved (and it WAS pretty bad), but it's pretty consistent that we get those two complaints. Other companies strive to innovate, progress, and improve - Fender keeps talking about what they used to do.

Understand, all I play is Fender and Fender-style basses, but I think they are dropping the ball. Any time a company puts out something like this, be it a car or guitar, it's pretty clear that they are pushing an image.
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of course this is all subjective/option based and im totally not trying to start an argument with you as i tend to like your posts :) i havent seen many, if any, QC complaints on the american line the last few years. i do think they have progressed from the truss rod structure, pickups, preamps, QC, etc - but again this is all just my opinion. from all the posts ive seen everyone who has purchased their clayton bass really dig it. a local guy purchased one strictly for the color/look and raves about it.

my fenders arent even my main basses so i swear im not blindly following them. i swore them off for a good 4 years based on QC, but the last 4 years have been mint.
 
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Double E said:
Staying on top of their market, offering a line of products that are steeped in tradition, making improvements to those products based on feedback from their customers and continuing to attract top line players to endorse the product's… I would hardly call that "dropping the ball".
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Whenever Fender does do something even a little outside the box, all you hear on here is bitchin' about how they should stick to what they do best... blah, blah blah.
 
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blowinblue said:
The first question that comes to mind whenever I see the term 'signature bass' is, "Are we so enamored with other players that we want an instrument with their name written on it? Are we so star struck that we want an instrument just like they play?" :unsure:

And if we are the kind of individual that buys into sig models, what do we do when our 'bass hero' changes brands? Which many seem to do on a regular basis. Are we going to change brands every time our hero does? :cautious:

Sorry. Just thinking out loud.

M. M. :)
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It is kind of weird, yet while the spark hit decades ago and I grew to greatly eclipse him in my own playing, I felt uncontrollably compelled to buy a Dee Dee Ramone P and I'm striving to make it my main player. Pretty much just because I think he deserves the tribute.
 
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ok- so when you haters can take your band to ANY corner of this planet, sell out ANY stadium and play your songs to tens of thousands of fans singing along every word, well then maybe, just maybe you'll have a dog in the fight. as to the op? well, sdh strikes me as someone who just likes to crap on things (at least when hiding behind a keyboard).
 
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bonespatrol said:
ok- so when you haters can take your band to ANY corner of this planet, sell out ANY stadium and play your songs to tens of thousands of fans singing along every word, well then maybe, just maybe you'll have a dog in the fight. as to the op? well, sdh strikes me as someone who just likes to crap on things (at least when hiding behind a keyboard).
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i thought that was common knowledge here
 
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JimmyM said:
Way to answer your own question.
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I don't know any bassists who are like "one of my influences as a bassist is the music of U2". I know a lot of bassists who don't know who Adam Clayton is despite U2's mainstream popularity. U2 would be just as popular if any one of us was playing bass. Adam Clayton is not the draw to that band. And I don't mean to say "he is a bad bassist", I just mean to say his playing is not an identifying part of U2's sound or image. It's just an odd choice in my opinion. I think bassists are more apt to consider dropping a chunk of change on a bass endorsed by a more influential bassist of a less influential band.
 
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And I said:
I don't know any bassists who are like "one of my influences as a bassist is the music of U2". I know a lot of bassists who don't know who Adam Clayton is despite U2's mainstream popularity. U2 would be just as popular if any one of us was playing bass. Adam Clayton is not the draw to that band.
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you know a lot of bassists who dont know who adam clayton is? how would you know? survey?
 
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