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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
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A beautiful simplicity to it...
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Thanks! - pg by Mark at Spitfire, '66 J body re-finished in Oly wht by Pat Wilkins/SoCal, and the B-pu cover inspired by this cat -
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(and I agree about George Carlin
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Interesting how Fender has adopted that body shape (and exaggerated it) for their new Meteora basses... ~No neck dive at all is one of the new features BP mag reports on this new Fender!
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After the last 5 or 6 photos I've realized my pedal game is we-ee-eak.
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That's right...And I just remembered I tried a Talman onna floor at GC a while back and while I didn't like it enough to want one, I did remark somewhere on TB that it surprisingly had almost no neck dive!
So I'm thinking now that if Fender's Meteora sells good, we may well be looking at the principal Fender body shape of the future? ~I'm almost ready for one now, but Fender would have to make it in short scale, like a Mustang..
All I use is a tuner, so...
As the joke goes -
"You know why guitars player do not like to ride bikes - then they only get to use 2 pedals".
There have been many many many many many many different Fender designs over the years with various innovations, however, the P and J are eternal with the Jag a distant third (imo). If they alter the base specs of those two basses there would probably be a revolt.
For whatever shortcomings, they have been massed produced with fairly identical specs for over half a century.
They are universal.
They are the baseline (no pun intended).
They are familiar.
Any new designs would be chasing the Jag, and even that has a pretty decent following. Everything else seems to come and go.
And I'm not even married to Fender!
Just my 2 cents.
As I have posted - my first bass I ever purchased was my 71 P bass. Well in the 80's I bought my 2nd bass and sold it (why).
Well yesterday I found a listing here for one just like it - so I got it. Will be in in a few days.
Well yesterday I found a listing here for one just like it - so I got it. Will be in in a few days.
