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What is your favourite white P bass combination?

Colour, Pickguard, Fretboard

  • White, White, Rosewood

    Votes: 22 4.2%

  • White, Black, Rosewood

    Votes: 46 8.8%

  • White, Tort, Rosewood

    Votes: 181 34.6%

  • White, White, Maple

    Votes: 37 7.1%

  • White, Black, Maple

    Votes: 79 15.1%

  • White, Tort, Maple

    Votes: 93 17.8%

  • Other?

    Votes: 65 12.4%
  • Total voters
    523
  • Poll closed .
#21
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#23
TB's obsession with tort prevails. :D I have to say that I think tort is a bit overrated but I do love it on white basses and black basses. It looks really good and really right that way.

Having said that, however, I am punk rock through and through and I love the classic punk look... white bass, black PG, and maple board.

Fuzzbass said:
Dee Dee used a number of different P-basses. I saw The Ramones a couple of times, and each time he played a white/black/maple.

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Just like that! That's what I think of when I think of Matt Freeman, Paul Simonon, and Dee Dee. That's my ideal P-Bass.

Great idea for a thread, btw.
 
#24
Kind of a mixup for me. I LOVE a vintage/creamy white P bass.

I've been lusting after one with a reddish tort guard and rw board.

But I also dig maple boards, and I don't think the tort looks as good with the maple.

So I guess, rosewood = tort, maple= b/w/b (or w/b/w)
 
#33
BassmanAd said:
If I may put my Ramones nerd hat on for a minute, I can give you a list of Dee Dee's basses in chronological order. Yes, I'm that sad. Please don't tell anybody or I'll never look cool again.

1. Shortscale Danelectro (Bought at the same time as Johnny Ramone's baby blue Mosrite)
2. Blue Fender Musicmaster
3. White / Tort / Rosewood early 60's Fender P (Bought from Fred Smith from Television. Dee Dee was told not to sell it on for heroin, which he later did.)
4. Black / Black / Maple early 70's Fender P
5. White / Black / Maple mid 70's Fender P (As pictured in the post above, there were 3 of these basses, two for touring and one in storage in case of theft. Around the time of End of the Century the pickguards were changed for red. The two touring basses were stolen sometime in the early 80's)
6. Sunburst / Black / Maple early 80's Fender P
7. White / White / Maple early 80's Fender P
8. In the mid 1980's Dee Dee landed an endorsement with ESP who gave him a White / White / Rosewood P Bass which became his main bass, a hideous pink P bass with a spider graphic on it (Johnny Ramone apparently hated this bass) and a Thunderbird type bass.

Later on CJ Ramone had a white late 70's P with a maple board. Which is my favorite, and I have a bass just like it.
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The gabba gabba hey is strong with this one.
 
#36
I like mixing and matching different color combinations, however ultimately I personally love the white, white pg, and rosewood neck and chrome hardware look. Or perhaps that is only because that is what my Fender Precision aka my baby is :p. It's just a classy look to me, plus mine is going on 13 years old and the ware and fading of the paint to give it a vintage look looks pretty sweet.
 

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