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To Me, Fender Is.......

#241
SpankPlanker said:
Over priced! Sorry, you asked. And before anybody goes off on me try to understand what I'm saying. The fender bass that I played the most was bought in a pawn shop for $75. It played just as well as the ones that cost nearly $2000 today. If I am going to pay $2000 for a guitar it won't be a Fender. Fender has it's place in history. It's just a shame that it has turned into a commercialized cookie cutter factory. The Fender basses (along with 95% of the other brands) hanging on the wall in my local guitar shop are geared towards people that don't know how to play and don't know what a good guitar is. You can find a good one if you know what you are looking for. The rest of them are junk. Just my opinion...
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I agree my $100 Fender plays just as good as those $2000 dollar basses too.

Hell I'd even go as far as to say my $100 Fender blows those $2000 basses out of the water.

But I realized that price has absolutely nothing to do with how good a bass is.
 
#243
SpankPlanker said:
It's just a shame that it has turned into a commercialized cookie cutter factory.
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Interesting. I thought a lot of Leo's design decisions were so that the cookie cutter factory could do the work. The pickguard, for instance...isn't it there so that the rout in the body can be done quickly and imperfectly? Didn't almost all early Fenders start as sunburst and if the factory did a bad paint job, they just oversprayed the burst with a solid color? Weren't the neck pockets intentionally cut a little big to make it quicker and easier to fit the neck to the body?

Are some of us missing the point of what a Fender was meant to be? I never though a Fender was intended to be a perfect instrument. It was intended to be mass produced.

I think so, anyway.
 
#248
wvbass said:
Interesting. I thought a lot of Leo's design decisions were so that the cookie cutter factory could do the work. The pickguard, for instance...isn't it there so that the rout in the body can be done quickly and imperfectly? Didn't almost all early Fenders start as sunburst and if the factory did a bad paint job, they just oversprayed the burst with a solid color? Weren't the neck pockets intentionally cut a little big to make it quicker and easier to fit the neck to the body?

Are some of us missing the point of what a Fender was meant to be? I never though a Fender was intended to be a perfect instrument. It was intended to be mass produced.

I think so, anyway.
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The theme of the thread is what Fender is to me. I didn't ask anybody to agree with me. Just my opinion. That's all.
 
#254
ransombass said:
Job security.

When I pull out my Fender 3TS AVRI '62 P-Bass at a session or gig people know what they're going to get and it sets them at ease. It's become a calling card of sorts for me.
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That, my friend, is part of the magic and tragedy of it...

;)

Its part of the marginalisation of bass that is common now, in many ways ( mix it low, muddy it up). They know what they'll get, and it sets them at ease. Why allow anything different, anything new?

But great that it works for you in that context.
 
#258
4StringLoser said:
My friend affectionately calls his P-Bass, "The 'stang" :)
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Well being in the UK, the mustang probably has a far more exclusive following in your country, so that may be seen as a good thing. Here in the states, it seems like 1 out of every 5 cars you see on the road is a late model ford mustang...

To each their own, of course. I just prefer something a little more unique.
 

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