What's going to replace the Precision?

[Bag of Lazers]

I finally saw the light after I tried out a Sire for the first time, and that really helped me get over the idea that Fender had some kind of secret sauce. Totally agreed with the Yamaha suggestion, too!

Yep. Best P bass I've played is my Sire P5. I still want a Yamaha BB300 for that reverse P sound.

 

[rmayer]

You'll get your flying car the minute driverless cars are viable. Lot of people can't drive in 2 dimensions. 3 dimensions would be a blood bath.

I agree, not even sure some people should have regular cars with wheels.

 

[Phaidrus]

As long as there is electric 4 string bass, there will be the Precision. What will fade (and perhaps already HAS a lot) is the traditional "band" of guitar, bass, drums.

Bass, guitar and drums is such a fundamental band structure that it will most probably always be around.
And hey, even rockabilly can be trendy nowadays, if you do it with gusto and conviction - and surely with a Pbass.
Yeah, baby!

 

[Jay2U]

I wasn't always there, what's going to replace me?

 

[Admiral Akbar]

Ten pages of this???

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

The Precision will co-exist with many other bass designs for years to come. Maybe their popularity waned a bit in the 80's, but it has otherwise been solid since its introduction in the 50's.

 

[DaveParker39]

the precision will meet the same fate as the telecaster
continued use as an industry standard and many people's preferred instrument

 

[KellyC]

Saw this on twitter from Bass Player magazine today…

 

[Andy R]

I’ve owned two - the first one I bought new in 1973 and the other was a ‘63 that I bought about 15 years ago. The ‘63 was the better of the two but I found them both underwhelming and didn’t keep either of them long.
Maybe that makes me a heretic but they just didn’t do it for me...

 

[Watchootognbout]

The next P Bass reissue will be the same as the other reissues.
Meet the new Boss.
Same as the old Boss.

 

[Vitrius Humor]

I think it will be the Imprecision Bass.

 

[GodsLove66]

I know some of us refuse to believe it, but I think the Precision is just another fad that's bound to fade someday. It was always there, but it wasn't always there: How many basses did Sting go through before landing on his Precision? Where were they in the 80s, the 90s and the early 00s?

With that in mind, what do you think is going to replace the Precision?


** I mean on its way out in the sense that Sean Hurley says it’s a P bass world out there. Not on its way out completely.**

Sting STARTED on Fretless Precision!!! What are you talking about?

Also, NOTHING will EVER replace the Precision bass!!!

 

[Mike Vee]

Bass, guitar and drums is such a fundamental band structure that it will most probably always be around.
And hey, even rockabilly can be trendy nowadays, if you do it with gusto and conviction - and surely with a Pbass.
Yeah, baby!

Maybe, maybe not. Someone in the 1920s would probably argue that the "big band" format is "fundamental" to music structure and won't go away. I do realize that things today are much more abstract and 100s of genres all overlap so there's really nothing "standard", it's different, but I can see a future with very little "analog" instruments, where someone pulling out a guitar in pop music would seem similar to someone pulling out a saxophone today, you'd know what it is but it would be a lot more rare...But who knows.

I think lately (last 2 decades or so) we are in a perpetual state of making nostalgic music, there's not much that comes out without some ode to past genres, and that's a big reason why guitars, basses and old analog synths are in demand and seem cool... but that's all just from the last 40-60 years, that might all shift a LOT in the next 20 years, as no one will be alive from those time any longer and the need for that nostalgia will fade. "Guitar" music is already down MASSIVELY in popular culture, replaced by garbage trap music and it's demon spawns. Nothing lasts forever. Of course, always exception to everything, and there's still plenty of good "rock" coming out every day on Spotify. But it's FAR from what the majority of young people listen to.

Once all the people who are 10-30 now become the 20-50 crowd and beyond, things will change a LOT. They are all programmed (literally) MUCH differently.

 

[ChrisPbass]

I have several basses that I really like...I have a bunch of guitars as well. I have only given out 1 nickname to them...and it's the P bass. It's super corny so I won't say it here...but it just do what it do so well...

 

[Harper]

You could've posted this exact same question in 2001 and you'd have 10 pages of the exact same answers.

 

[pyrat56host]

Back in the future, I played this

and NOW (whatever THIS is...) I play this. But I'm not replacing anything~

 

[cdef]

Fashions will change, but because of the Precision's history and proven efficacy in popular music I suppose there will always be a groundswell of "P" traditionalists. It's like a Stanley hammer - uncomplicated, always works as expected.

 

[selowitch]

What I like about the Precision is that it is very responsive to plucking-hand technique.

 

[SLPimp]

I'm parting out a jazz bass and replacing it with an MIJ International Color Series P and an MJT/Warmoth one off. So the answer is: the P replaced the J.

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

I think folks forget that the Fender Precision was not very popular in the 80s and 90s. Even Scott Devine talks about this in a few video. Fender sold in the 1980s for about the same as it sold in the 1960s. This indicates that it was not that big of a deal in the 80s. It had to turn things around, and Pino helped that happen.