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So, it arrived today First up, many thanks to Mark at BD for getting it to me on the day I asked it to get to me, the hardest part of buying anything these days is the courier stress. Great comms and great service guys, thanks Second, wow, this is a very very well engineered instrument, the neck pocket is more what I associate with EBMM (in fact the neck itself is very EBMM in terms of profile and playability, both the fretwork and the lovely oiled finish on the back remind me of the lovely BFR 'Ray I had a whole back). The finish really is NOS with some very discrete checking and rubbing, and the bridge in the flesh is nothing like as noticeable as in the photos. It's pretty light and the action is absolutely spot on. So how does it sound? I don't have an amp at present so will have to run run it through my desk and monitors tomorrow to get a sense. But even unplugged I can tell it's very responsive and resonant, and I doubt the Fralins are going to make things worse somehow 👍

Double-A side mate, just like the old days 👍

That has made my flipping day @meterman

Doubt this is to everyone's taste but I remember the first time I watched the film simply not being able to work out where I knew the song from. It's an interesting cover, shows what a great song it is, and for 2002 it's a little ahead of it's time given that pretty much every cover of a great 70's song these days seems to be in the acoustic guitar/fragile female vocal space

Ah, the famous "Walshy P-Bass Diet" 👍

Whilst I disagree with a man of your stature with some degree of trepidation @walshy, I'm going to. Saying the Precision does only trick is like saying a Ferrari only does one trick, going very fast. But.....: 2. Looks damn fine 3. Says something profound about the taste of the owner 4. Makes the world a better place by simply existing I make that four tricks. There are no doubt more 👍

I remember a piece about them taking the US by storm in the NME (or possibly Sounds, even MM) in the late 70's, with the below picture and the caption "British rock band UFO entering US Customs".

Great post, completely agree with all of those example, although I suspect the * could be applied to more than Kiss

The studio versions have their own charm but almost sound like demos at times, although the songs themselves are still great. UFO are one of the few bands where the live versions are so much better to the point of representing the definitive versions 👍

That’s a beaut 👍

You dated cheap and ugly Mexicans?

Technically I have no basses at present, it will change in a few day's time ...

I'm not sure that that's not the best post ever posted?

That's expensive for four 1957 Fenders

I was thinking of that very '55 when I wrote about the double PUP version Dan, yes that was lovely although at the time I didn't appreciate how lovely! Funnily enough, and something I forgot to mention, is that the Precision Pro is sporting a pair of Fralins as well, never a bad thing!

This in black would be the ideal albeit with the back PUP slightly closer to the bridge

Thanks Dan, small World mate! Someone on TB suggested there's not many of these around as the result of so many people being really put off by their looks at first (and the promo shots by Fender managed to make it look pretty cheap). But I knew the moment I saw it that it was the bass I was looking for. In the context of my post about the Fender Custom Shop above it's a real custom shop instrument, that is, a bass I might have specified as custom build variant of a standard model if I could ever have afforded to do so with FCS (OK, I'll be honest and say that the ideal for me would have been a black '55 Precision albeit with the added bridge PUP, but frankly this is so close as to make no difference to me, although it's odd that the twin PUP SC Precision is not something I've seen from FCS, while I've seen a few with double mudbuckers). I stand by a lot of what I said about the Fender Custom Shop above, many of the instruments I've owned or played haven't been of better quality as an instrument than their standard run USA models/MIJs, with many of the Custom Shop upgrades being cosmetic rather than structural/functional. But in this case I'll be more than happy if the quality is standard USA/MIJ with the added bonus of a custom PUP configuration. I'll keep y'all posted 👍

And for full disclosure (and to explain art of the title of this thread).....

Absolutely @ped, although I quite literally haven't played electric bass since late 2021 so I suspect my playing will be even more agricultural than usual

Good man, I like you 👍

Although the best double act prize goes to @redstriper "I like it" @wateroftyne "Thanks goodness, at least Fender will now have the option of giving them away"