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Why is P-Bass still the best?

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The PBass just has trhat sound and groove and mojo to it....I love my Stingray and it is close...but it is not a P....and it does not have to a Fender....Lakland, Lull, Nash and others all make better P's than Fender......until you match it against a good Pre-CBS Fender P. Nothing compares to a good Pre-CBS P ... in my opinion of course
 
#145
I'm a p bass convert. My first was a Mexican j which i sold (still kicking myself) to help fund a custom 5 from a luthier friend of mine (i converted it to fretless and it's also awesome!). A few years ago, another friend gave me his 74 p stating that it "belongs in your hands." He was right, i no longer lust after other basses. If i could afford to buy another instrument, it would be a back up in case it was ever stolen or damaged. I'm not saying i don't like others and won't GAS in the future but I'm surprisingly content, especially since i always associated p bass with douche bags.
 
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JLY said:
The PBass just has trhat sound and groove and mojo to it....I love my Stingray and it is close...but it is not a P....and it does not have to a Fender....Lakland, Lull, Nash and others all make better P's than Fender......until you match it against a good Pre-CBS Fender P. Nothing compares to a good Pre-CBS P ... in my opinion of course
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+1 The '64 P I recently picked up is a beast.
 
#150
I find they just WORK! Plain & simple. Even I can get my head around the controls & they punch, sit, blend, etc at least equally with the pack.
I love my AC EUT5 (70's jazz 5'er), & love my Stingray & 77 G3 Gibby, but find my P's get the majority of gigs.
Each to his own tho, of course. There's definately a place for em all & a P can't do what a jazz,G3, Stingray etc can do.
But if I had just one bass, it'd be.... Oh that's just crazy talk:eek::confused:
 
#151
I DO miss the effortlessness, tone and output of my MIA Precision bass that I owned briefly, but I sure as hell DON'T miss the neck-dive mine had.

I personally feel that the Stingray was the best bass Leo Fender has ever created.
 
#155
My "Best Bass" is the one I happen to be playing. I carefully chose each of my bass guitars because of the sound and feel of the instrument. The exception to that rule is my Ric 4003. I bought it because I always wanted one.
 
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Templar said:
Why absurd? Is there a genre of music that can't be performed successfully with a P bass? I can't think of one. Can you? Enlighten us.
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Yeah. Jazz. I wouldn't play one in a classic rock band, either. Sure, there are many songs that can be done with a P Bass, but many others require a tone off the bridge pickup. That's a jazz bass. Referring to your OP, the jazz bass is far more versatile than the P bass and, as such, is a bass far more suitable for general use. Sorry, but one-pickup basses don't cover all the bases. Of course, the American Deluxe Precision V would work just fine for most genres.

If you're talking about just playing the notes, sure, you can play the notes in any genre on a P bass. If you want it to work for the song, a P bass isn't going to work, tone-wise, in many songs in many genres. Try getting this tone on a P bass (go to 8:00).

Or this one.
 
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Munjibunga said:
Yeah. Jazz. I wouldn't play one in a classic rock band, either. Sure, there are many songs that can be done with a P Bass, but many others require a tone off the bridge pickup. That's a jazz bass. Referring to your OP, the jazz bass is far more versatile than the P bass and, as such, is a bass far more suitable for general use. Sorry, but one-pickup basses don't cover all the bases. Of course, the American Deluxe Precision V would work just fine for most genres.

If you're talking about just playing the notes, sure, you can play the notes in any genre on a P bass. If you want it to work for the song, a P bass isn't going to work, tone-wise, in many songs in many genres. Try getting this tone on a P bass (go to 8:00).

Or this one.
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I always thought that P bass sounds better for jazz. It is much closer to upright sound which is extensively used in jazz.

As for classic rock, P bass is classic rock. IMO of course.

But, in all fairness I never really liked jazz basses.
 
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