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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: eniacmike on December 31, 2010, 01:22:50 AM

Title: NGD- new bass day
Post by: eniacmike on December 31, 2010, 01:22:50 AM
I wanted to get a bass for keeping around the house and testing stuff and I was going to just pick up a squier or something cheap but I saw this used pbass and it ended up coming home with me.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5046/5308274114_f387f6e03c_b.jpg)

It is a 2003 Fender USA highway 1 pbass. It has a really sweet thin satin lacquer finish and it plays well. I don't know a whole lot about the bass but I think I am going to replace the caps and the tone cap because they are a little scratchy, but I am really happy with the sound.

I always really like jazz basses because to me the necks felt better and it is what I am used to but the neck feels really comfortable to me. or maybe it's just the sunburst talking.
Title: Re: NGD- new bass day
Post by: jackbart1960 on January 01, 2011, 12:49:09 AM
Very cool I need to buy a bass.
Title: Re: NGD- new bass day
Post by: stecykmi on January 02, 2011, 04:15:37 AM
good stuff, some of my favorite albums were recorded with P-basses. I play a 5-string mexi-J-bass myself and i'm really happy with it.
Title: Re: NGD- new bass day
Post by: madbean on January 05, 2011, 01:18:57 AM
Nice bass! I have a '79 P-Bass which has gotten a lot of abuse. It even has a home-made thumb rest screwed into the body and some awful frets.

I had a 50th Anniv Jazz for a while. It was terrific. My main bass is a Guild Starfire Reiss. God, I love that thing.
Title: Re: NGD- new bass day
Post by: eniacmike on January 05, 2011, 01:21:58 AM
I've been playing the blue album with the pbass through my mudbunny (violet rams head tuning)

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Title: Re: NGD- new bass day
Post by: jkokura on January 05, 2011, 01:43:28 AM
Seminal music in my mind. I can remember bangin my head to my name is jonas in my buddies bedroom playing Bond on the 64 as a kid.

Jacob