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4004Cii Blueburst................"SOON, OH SOON THE LIGHT"............

ANYWAY, I wouldn't mind getting my sweaty palms on Teeders' Jazz!

I'm PLAYING with the idea of a Fender Pbass LITE....anyone know which years were better than another?

Has ANYONE here heard of those Fender "Hartfield" Prophecy lll basses?
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID....REALLY should have kept that one!

ajish4 wrote: I'm PLAYING with the idea of a Fender Pbass LITE....anyone know which years were better than another?

Tony, there's someone who swears by their P-bass Lite that would surprise many here (I won't mention his name)! They are fabulous basses - light as a feather with a really tiny neck. He-who-shall-not-be-named plays an '87 IIRC.

Count me among the P-Bass camp. I'm into guys like Duck Dunn, Leroy Hodges, Tommy Cogbill, Bernard Odum, Fred Thomas and the like and for playing that stuff, it's a P-Bass strung with flats being played through a B-15N - the classic Stax/Volt and Hi Records tone. I love the growly, mid-range thump you get from these basses. It took about a week of daily playing to get used to the "C" neck on my '62 RI, but now I find it pretty comfortable to play - even with my smallish hands. And like nearly every Fender bass, it has the dead spot at the D note on the G string/7th fret....just the nature of the beast.

I also have a Lakland Skyline Joe Osborn bass and while it's a fabulous instrument - especially the neck and fret work - it lacks that "primativeness" in tone that the P-bass has. You can get close by dialing in just the bass pup, but it's not quite there; almost a little too "hi-fi" sounding when A/B'd with the Precision. The perfect "Fender" bass would be a USA made Lakland Bob Glaub model with the optional 1.5" Jazz taper neck - P-Bass tone and J-Bass playability all in one package!

sloop_john_b wrote:

ajish4 wrote: I'm PLAYING with the idea of a Fender Pbass LITE....anyone know which years were better than another?

Tony, there's someone who swears by their P-bass Lite that would surprise many here (I won't mention his name)! They are fabulous basses - light as a feather with a really tiny neck. He-who-shall-not-be-named plays an '87 IIRC.

I won a P-Bass Lyte from a drawing at the Sam Ash in White Plains, NY (in '94 or '95 ?). I played it once, didn't like it. It stayed in it's original box until I sold it a few years later. I was surprised to find that (I won't mention his name) has one!

Tony - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... =WDVW&rd=1

Sloop-B - love the new avatar!

johnallg wrote:Tony - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... =WDVW&rd=1

Sloop-B - love the new avatar!

Very nice bass, 'cept for the active pups!

Sometimes I do think about getting a J-bass just because it would round out the bass collection. I don't want to spend a lot because it just wouldn't be a main bass for me, never taking the place of a Rick. I was thinking about maybe the Geddy Lee model or even building a J-bass myself.

Is there anyone out here who has played slap? What bass is good for that job?

I have this friend at school who plays a lot of slap, and he thinks a P-bass would be good for the job, and I told him I read a Jazz could do better. He laughed and said his fretless J-bass is a horrible slap bass, and I told him he should try one with frets. What's the better Fender for slap?

rickenbrother wrote: I was thinking about maybe the Geddy Lee model or even building a J-bass myself.

I don't know why, but I've only heard bad things about the Geddy Lee model. I say build your own, it's more fun that way.

P.S. Jake, the Fender Jazz is THE bass for slap. Of course a fretless isn't as good for slap, it's got no frets!

I like the Jaguar best of the Fenders. It's in third place for me, though, behind my Rick 4003 and MM Stingray.

1965 wrote:I don't know why, but I've only heard bad things about the Geddy Lee model.

I keep hearing different stories about the Geddy Lee J-bass. One guy loves it, the other is dissatisfied. Never really tried one myself, but it sounds like the quality is inconsistent.
Building a J-bass myself would definitely be more fun.

The Jaguar is just a retarded looking Jazz though, isn't it?

When I was a kid, my friend's sister had a F*nd*r Jaguar guitar. I always thought it looked cool, so I think the Jaguar bass looks cool also.

rickenbrother wrote:When I was a kid, my friend's sister had a F*nd*r Jaguar guitar. I always thought it looked cool, so I think the Jaguar bass looks cool also.

The Jag guitar looks cool because it was made to be a guitar. The Jag bass just looks like a bad mash-up of a Jag guitar and a Jazz bass.

1965 wrote:

rickenbrother wrote:When I was a kid, my friend's sister had a F*nd*r Jaguar guitar. I always thought it looked cool, so I think the Jaguar bass looks cool also.

The Jag guitar looks cool because it was made to be a guitar. The Jag bass just looks like a bad mash-up of a Jag guitar and a Jazz bass.

The 4001 was made to be a bass. I don't see too many people that are turned off by the looks of the Rick guitars that were made with that body style.
The Stratocaster borrowed the body style of the Precision bass, I don't hear too many people complaining about that either!