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What's going to replace the Precision?

#68
pfschim said:
and for what it's worth, in 55 years of performing, I've never been a P player myself and never saw it as the primary bass instrument in popular music.
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I try to be, I have sold every fender jazz I have owned, on my 3rd p bass, beautiful fender p bass, I barely play it. I play my $299 sterling ray4 at every gig! I don’t have the heart to sell it though!
 
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There will be another form of bass that will be the "in" instrument to play, just like in the mid 2000s there was a huge Rickenbacker revival together with a huge Jazz Bass popularity (which has somewhat faded compared to fifteen/twenty years ago), in the '90s Spectors, Warwicks and the like were really popular too (due to the popularity of a harder version of rock back then). That doesn't mean that there won't be anything else, but the Precision Bass will get "old", fashion-wise, because it is undeniable that there is a big P-bass fad going on. (P-basses have always been hugely popular, but not always "fashionable", if you get what I mean).
 
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Nothing can "replace" the Pbass, but I do think we'll see that whole "a P or nothing" mindset, or the "it's a Pbass world" mindset will eventually start to show some cracks. Frankly, I think what will do it it will be....the Jazz w flats. With D'Angelo's Voodoo w Pino, the whole P w/flats thing got hammered into everyone's consciousness, and it was kind of a "rediscovery" of the Pbass(not that they were ever gone). Then you have all your other top session cats since then - Hurley, Chaney, JMJ, Lefebvre, et al - where the P(often w flats) has been the first choice bass for nearly everything. It's like, it's either a P, or anything else that's "acceptable" is because it's some kind of quirky option - shortscale, hollowbody, whatever. The Jazz has been almost uncool in that world. But one of those kinda guys is gonna start Instagramming about he's now using a J with flats all the time and how great and timeless it sounds, and, and Rick Rubin or Mark Ronson wants everyone to use one now 'cause it's the best and....look out. It'll be the "rediscovery" of that other classic sound for everyone to chase. IK, IK, we've got well-known players using J's w flats, but you know what I mean. I'm talking about the Pinos, Hurleys, JMJs etc of the world - and the big time producers.
Anyhow, a J can be just as meat and potatoes supportive of a bass in pretty much any genre, and "sit in the mix" as a P, it's just a little different. We all know this. All those famous hits with Jazzes, yadda yadda(where half the time you can't tell if its a J or a P)....So, I guess, we will see....
EDIT: don't get me wrong, I love P's and use the ones I have all the time. But it has gotten a little bit unimaginative in the last decade or so, regarding what I say above.
 
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Killing Floor said:
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Never complains about having to rehearse, always knows the material, sits in the mix, doesn’t wear Hawaiian shirts or fedoras, doesn’t care how much it weighs.
Keep hiding behind the hihat and find out.
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this should be the recommendation for everyone that complains about imperfect intonation or uneven frequencies and doesn't embrace the beauty of analog imperfection...
 
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#78
Just Wrong said:
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.**
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I was cool playing a pbass in the 90ties, I'm coll playing a pbass now, and I'll be cool playing a pbass in 20 years. I don't need no stinking fad or or Sting fad. What about you?
 

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