basshead56

How would you rate it? These have been on my radar for quite some time as they tick so many boxes for me.

The pacific peach with a different paint scheme. I like the look though. I'd add a black pickguard, thumb rest and an ashtray bridge cover. If it's even remotely similar my 60th Ann. RW Jazz, it will play and sound beautifully (and I imagine it's the same for the most part - bar finishing) Pretty cool.

That would be the one I'd go for too. Looks beautiful!!! Seriously considering the Mustang too but the Lobster videos about them having bridge alignment issues has put me off a bit for now

That is genuinely one of the most beautiful instruments I have ever seen! I imagine it sounds as good as it looks!!! Makes my black Darkray look a bit boring now! Congrats on a wonderful score!

Not gonna lie, I'm a fan of the Sherwood Green P and Mustang. Both look gorgeous to me. I can understand the need to fill this gap from a marketing point of view, especially considering how poorly the American Performer range that preceded it appears to have sold. I found the previous Am Performer offerings kinda weedy. Limited finishes and fingerboard options, the P bass was only PJ and the headstock decals all looked awful. Very overpriced compared to the more recent Mexican offerings (my 60th Ann. Roadworn Jazz still beats the pants off a lot of other instruments that cost a heck of a lot more!!!) I reckon the Am performers were nowhere near as nice as the old Highway 1/One's or American Specials beforehand and I think that was a deliberate ploy to try and walk customers up another few hundred $$$ to the Am PRO/ PRO II lines And now we are here - 'Oh look, we've sold bugger all Performers but we need another line to fill in the ever-widening gap between Mexico and US production.' The new Vintera stuff is properly good and so is the AM PRO II range (I have 3 of em) - I take my hat off to Fender for both lines. I can see why they have gone back to re-fill this little gap. I'm not so sure about the Classic part in the title but at least it fits with the rest of the line up. The greasebucket tone circuit has it's pros and cons I guess and I like the lollipop tuner idea. Now tossing up between the new Sherwood P or an older (12-14) American Standard P in Charcoal Frost...

That SVT-AV is my dream amp!

Nor could I, writing it 🤣

Sure did. Didn't come home with a bass this time though 😆😆

Sure do, identical to the OP one above. Absolutely adore it, sadly it doesn't get out as much as it used to! But an absolute weapon of a bass! Had a red one when they first came out and used it but never really liked the sound (I was too young to appreciate the active Ray sound in those days) and moved on for yet another Precision of some kind... SUB's are perfect in every way as workhorse instruments. Prices are definitely creeping up these days, but rightly so - they are EBMM USA instruments after all and are becoming quite collectable. Would love to have one of each colour; White, Black, Graphite, Teal, Red, Blue and apparently there was a Cinnamon too? Never seen one in the wild, I thought it was the Red but apparently not)

Been a couple of years since I last updated the P Bass family pic 78 Siennaburst 78 Olympic White 77 Lake Placid blue 73 Black 21 Am Pro II Dark Night 97 Am Deluxe Trans Crimson Metallic 02 MIM Mark Hoppus mk.1

Fender Marketing dept. pitch meeting, Corona: "So, any revolutionary new bass ideas guys? We are being called lazy online due to a lack of anything other than re-hashing our two core models for the last 65 odd years." "Have we done an active PJ this year?' "We have?!" "Oh, ok." "How about something, something Vintage?" "Oh ok." "Hmm, too early for another Ultra..." "How about some signature Jazzes BUT they are for indie female players?!" "Oh, we've done that too... ok...' "Ok no wrong answers here, anything goes, let's go!!!" Crickets One guy: "How about a bass that can only be used for scoring a Tarantino soundtrack and not much else?" "Go on..." "Right, a Jazz, probably. But it's a... "Stick a P pickup in there" "Ok, a Jazz with a P pickup, but also let's make it godless, heinous and semi-fretless" "Ok guys we're on fire here, what else?" "Give it a weird paint job, a semi-expensive neck 'bucker and wonky effects, slap a Custom Shop logo on it and charge $15k for it..." ... ... * Single senior executive clapping slowly, before entire board room joins in one by one leading to a standing ovation! * "We'll bring out a MIM or Jap version, followed by a Squier Paranormal line in 6 months and charge $2k" (then discontinue it in 18 months) "We've sorted the company's earning for the next two years guys, well done!"

Went from a Jazz to being obsessed with Precisions for 15 years to Singrays and all things humbucker and then back to Jazz and super Jazzes. And just picked up another P lol

Time for an updated family photo shoot All present and correct minus my 75 Musicmaster which is on the workbench Had to do it in 2 pics as not enough floorspace 🤣🤣 Top Pic is everything Fender (P's and J's, vintage and newer). Second Pic is everyrhing else - weirdly all humbuckers too, lol.

This week, I 'ave been mostly playin'... Went round to the rehearsal space last night to drop off the new biamp cables for my GK rig and test it out, so thought I'd kill two birds with one stone, so to speak and brought the new P Bass to test out with it. To say I'm happy is an understatement 😁😁