Happy Fender Friday! 
Celebrating 65 years of the Fender Precision electric bass guitar and the Fender Bassman amplifier. 
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The Bass That Changed The World!
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Happy Fender Friday! Celebrating 65 years of the Fender Precision electric bass guitar and the Fender Bassman amplifier. 
The Sire book costs half the price and is twice as good.
Half the price but only three pages...
First gigging rig I bought: Fender Precision, sunburst, 1971, new; and a Fender bassman 2x15, used. The amp was underpowered, I exchanged it soon thereafter for an Acoustic reverse 18.
Ads in Rolling Stone called the P "The Road Machine". I loved that bass.
Ads in Rolling Stone called the P "The Road Machine". I loved that bass.
I think I'm going on 12 years as a happy Fender player. There was a lot of trial and error and much money spent trying to find what wound up being the humble Precision bass all along. It's not that I didn't like Fender up till that point...I was just lost in all the bells and whistles of active, coffee table-esque type basses that were far more en vogue at the time. In a way, I came back "home", as my first ever bass was a Charvel P, followed by an Ibanez P/J. After that, it was a long time before I decided on a whim to get an FSR Fender P, because...it looked like a coffee table! I even had a set of GHS flats on it that I bought mistakenly thinking they were rounds. After playing it with my band, almost literally the first few notes, I knew this was the sound I have always been looking for. The rest is history
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- Current: Blackstar, DR strings, Nady. Previous endorsements with: GK, Rotosound, Ernie Ball, Cleartone, EMG, Dean, Dava Picks, Rebel Straps, Dickies
Only because the book has a pic of Sire's superior preamp schematic that crushes anything Fender has made.
And a long legacy of almost 16 years.
This thread is about the history of the beginning of the bass guitar, not some upstart wanna be.
I hear they make good basses, but they aren't Fenders.
- Aug 3, 2007
- 1,678
- 2,142
- 4,836
- Disclosures
- Current: Blackstar, DR strings, Nady. Previous endorsements with: GK, Rotosound, Ernie Ball, Cleartone, EMG, Dean, Dava Picks, Rebel Straps, Dickies
They've accomplished in 3 pages, what took Fender decades to produce. That should be the new definition of efficiency!
Fender Precisions don't have preamps.
Go start a thread about Sires.
- Aug 3, 2007
- 1,678
- 2,142
- 4,836
- Disclosures
- Current: Blackstar, DR strings, Nady. Previous endorsements with: GK, Rotosound, Ernie Ball, Cleartone, EMG, Dean, Dava Picks, Rebel Straps, Dickies
It's evident you aren't picking up on the heavily drenched satire, you should follow more TB threads about Fender. Can't go 5 posts without a Sire being brought about in convo.
Yeah, but they didn't invent anything new. They're basically Fender copies, with a nice preamp for those who need one.They've accomplished in 3 pages, what took Fender decades to produce. That should be the new definition of efficiency!
As Dave said, go start a thread about Sire.
obviously not. Sorry. Looking at it as satire makes it funny, then. Thanks.
We like history!I decided on a whim to get an FSR Fender P, because...it looked like a coffee table! I even had a set of GHS flats on it that I bought mistakenly thinking they were rounds. After playing it with my band, almost literally the first few notes, I knew this was the sound I have always been looking for. The rest is history
Haha, The Sire comments are just a Joke. I thought my buttons were easy to push.
Its a good thing fender started making basses or we wouldnt have Sire now would we?
