Blackout Jazz
Tele-Meister
That's not a Precision, it's a Jazz. You bought the wrong one!
No he didn't.
That's not a Precision, it's a Jazz. You bought the wrong one!
Might be worth a few minutes to listen to this?
When I hear the P-bass, I think, "I am ready to go commit public acts of rampant indiscretion and possibly sully the public's opinion of who I am as a person".
Not all the same.
I love a good P Bass. I have several including a couple 1973 maple neck fretless. Here’s my 2021 Mod Shop Fender P. Any excuse to post a pic of this bad boy!
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Let's check back in a year's time and see what happened!Be careful. Be very, very careful. Because if your experience is anything like mine, your trip down this rabbit hole will provide you with sources of GAS that you never knew existed.
Yet one thing a Jazz Bass doesn't do well is to sound like a Precision.https://www.fender.com/articles/gear/jaco-geddy-and-flea-cant-be-wrong-the-story-of-the-jazz-bass
"By the end of the 1950s though it was time to expand the Fender bass category and Leo Fender and his staff turned their attention to a new “deluxe” bass guitar design in 1959. And just as the Stratocaster expanded on the Telecaster rather than supplanting it, this new bass would complement the Precision by offering great tonal versatility and a design that went beyond the utilitarian to the realm of the sleekly stylish. If the Precision was a Chevy, the new deluxe model would be a Ferrari."
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I love a good P Bass. I have several including a couple 1973 maple neck fretless. Here’s my 2021 Mod Shop Fender P. Any excuse to post a pic of this bad boy!
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Yeah it is about a 10% premium over MiA AmPro and it’s unique. I have a Strat and a J in my cart I can’t pull the trigger on but it’s fun to look at.@Killing Floor, I went to the Mod Shop and "built" a jazz bass, amazingly it came out to only $1,999. Colors are limited.
https://www.fender.com/en-US/mod-shop/jazz-bass/0181903706.html
I just stumbled into this thread, but we’re like a month out here, where’s the update OP??I pulled the trigger on a used Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass via Guitar Center which is MIJ, lightweight and somewhat neck divey by reputation, looks sleeker than er... something, P/J pickups, 7.5" radius neck, it's almost like a standup. I played one at GC a week or two back and liked it. I like the P neck tone for that "thing" it does. These photos are not the one I bought... it hasn't arrived yet. I will have to start playing with a pick again to get more of that rawk vibe.
Bridge and tuners aren't all that impressive visually, but apparently work.
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