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I have a 74 jazz & a 2010 usa standard p & love them both in different ways. Don't think I will part with either...... sorry if that hasn't helped!


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lazzer wrote:
I have a 74 jazz & a 2010 usa standard p & love them both in different ways. Don't think I will part with either...... sorry if that hasn't helped!


Nope! :D


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Count Bassie wrote:
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I have a 74 jazz & a 2010 usa standard p & love them both in different ways. Don't think I will part with either...... sorry if that hasn't helped!


Nope! :D


I'm looking at a Japanese P/J now, a "Jazz Special". No pickguard, hmmm... so the look is different- modern. Not as cool, but it's about sound really.


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I just like the tone of the J Bass over all.


I love the snarl John Paul-Jones got all over Physical Graffitti. There's just something more indelible for me about the Precision tone... yet I find the Jazz more playable. What to do... The Japanese P/J is gone, $ did not happen. But as I said before, I'm in no hurry, and this'll probably take until after the summer to happen.

Keep those comments and opinions coming! :D


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I can get a Jazz to snarl, don't know about getting a more mellow tone if needed from the Precision. I do believe that today the bass amps do so much more than given credit for.


I hear you on the snarl- that's what I meant about JP Jones's sound- I am pretty sure it was a Jazz he used on a lot of that album.


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Well... I wanted a new bass and was convineced I wanted a Jazz, so I went to the store and asked to try one out... It was very, very good... Just to be sure I started plying ever bass in the store: Music Man, Warwick, and various Fender models... Then I tried this particular American Standard P... Great sound, easy to play... Way much better than my Loved MIJ Jazz Special.. So I bought it, and it's the best bass I have ever had... I think you should do something similar and take the time to try several basses on the same amp and find the one that feels and plays right for you... I don't think it has to do with a model being better than other...it's more like some individual instruments are better than their peers... Maybe some days the guys at the factory are more inspired or in better mood than others...


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Well... I wanted a new bass and was convineced I wanted a Jazz, so I went to the store and asked to try one out... It was very, very good... Just to be sure I started plying ever bass in the store: Music Man, Warwick, and various Fender models... Then I tried this particular American Standard P... Great sound, easy to play... Way much better than my Loved MIJ Jazz Special.. So I bought it, and it's the best bass I have ever had... I think you should do something similar and take the time to try several basses on the same amp and find the one that feels and plays right for you... I don't think it has to do with a model being better than other...it's more like some individual instruments are better than their peers... Maybe some days the guys at the factory are more inspired or in better mood than others...


Excellent advice, no two bass guitars are the same, keep trying all of them until the right one ends up in your hands.

The quote from Abaroa says it all. As far as amps, yeah tey will make a big difference, as well as, gadgets and other toys. My favorite is a Tech21SansAmp BassdriverDI. You get one of these and it will open up a world of change for you.


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oxfan wrote:
Abaroa wrote:
Well... I wanted a new bass and was convineced I wanted a Jazz, so I went to the store and asked to try one out... It was very, very good... Just to be sure I started plying ever bass in the store: Music Man, Warwick, and various Fender models... Then I tried this particular American Standard P... Great sound, easy to play... Way much better than my Loved MIJ Jazz Special.. So I bought it, and it's the best bass I have ever had... I think you should do something similar and take the time to try several basses on the same amp and find the one that feels and plays right for you... I don't think it has to do with a model being better than other...it's more like some individual instruments are better than their peers... Maybe some days the guys at the factory are more inspired or in better mood than others...


Excellent advice, no two bass guitars are the same, keep trying all of them until the right one ends up in your hands.

The quote from Abaroa says it all. As far as amps, yeah tey will make a big difference, as well as, gadgets and other toys. My favorite is a Tech21SansAmp BassdriverDI. You get one of these and it will open up a world of change for you.


Agreed on the sentiment there about the wall of basses.

Amps... two different sounding heads and two different cab rigs here at the ranch. I'll use the cleaner of the two for shopping, and deal with 'color' after the fact with the other rig, I'm thinking. But all truly-said. I had the BDDI, but didn't always find it an enhanceent. I'm trying a VT pedal at some point, a trusted advisor/friend highly recommends it for an SVT fan such as myself. Fortunately I'm also a Trace-Elliot fan...

Anyway I'm reading! Thanks all...


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When I started out on bass, in 1982, I played a Jazz Bass. I didn't know the difference, but I was **really** the lead player and only picked up the bass when our regular bassist wanted to scare everybody with his guitar playing.

Eventually I got a full-time bass gig, and I went through a Carvin LB20, a G&L Tribute L2000, a fretless Jazz, a '51 P RI, and they each of them worked pretty well. Then I took a Classic '50s P to rehearsal, and the whole band turned around and said WHOA! THAT'S IT!

It got so bad that, one time when I showed up at a job with my fretless J, I was sent home to get the Precision. Eventually the band broke up but I still play the occasional lakeside Fourth of July party and other casuals on bass, and I have graduated to an AV '57 P with a Mesa/Boogie bass amp.

I have now lost all interest in other basses, and in fact only bring out the '51 when someone asks me to play it (the others have all been sold or traded). There were times when I really liked the Jazz sound, but it just doesn't speak to the dancers the way the P does. I do this to shake their butts, not play wanky solos, so that's the test. I had to get used to the chunky neck and high crown to the fingerboard, but that didn't take long (in fact, I greatly prefer the P to the skinny J neck).

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lpdeluxe wrote:
When I started out on bass, in 1982, I played a Jazz Bass. I didn't know the difference, but I was **really** the lead player and only picked up the bass when our regular bassist wanted to scare everybody with his guitar playing.

Eventually I got a full-time bass gig, and I went through a Carvin LB20, a G&L Tribute L2000, a fretless Jazz, a '51 P RI, and they each of them worked pretty well. Then I took a Classic '50s P to rehearsal, and the whole band turned around and said WHOA! THAT'S IT!

It got so bad that, one time when I showed up at a job with my fretless J, I was sent home to get the Precision. Eventually the band broke up but I still play the occasional lakeside Fourth of July party and other casuals on bass, and I have graduated to an AV '57 P with a Mesa/Boogie bass amp.

I have now lost all interest in other basses, and in fact only bring out the '51 when someone asks me to play it (the others have all been sold or traded). There were times when I really liked the Jazz sound, but it just doesn't speak to the dancers the way the P does. I do this to shake their butts, not play wanky solos, so that's the test. I had to get used to the chunky neck and high crown to the fingerboard, but that didn't take long (in fact, I greatly prefer the P to the skinny J neck).


Yo there, lpdeluxe! It's me, Stewbone. Glad to hear from you man... you're in on my search for "The One" now. I hear the P-
Bass talk, I can't deny the P-Bass is the Grail- I keep going back there, it happens when I'm not paying attention. Even though I love the Stingrays and the Rickie 4000 series basses. There will be P-Bass at some point before long.

Thanks for chiming in.


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Hey, Stewbone! How's life up North? Started to thaw out yet? Good to hear from you.

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count bassie; What kind of Mesa/Boogie are you using?


Actually, it's me that has the Mesa/Boogie, a Walkabout Scout 1x15. Terrific amp. Portable and powerful, with a tone to die for.

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