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'66 Slab Precision...Anyone seen one/got one?


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On 15/08/2022 at 22:35, EssentialTension said:

 

Beautiful bass with quite a heritage when you consider the Entwistle connection ect.

 

I seem to remember that Andy Fairweather Low is married to that bass player's sister, and has been so for a very long time.

 

I also remember seeing Andy Rourke from The Smiths toting one of these rare beasts mid-198Os-ish.

 

If I was going to treat myself to a Fender Custom Shop build it would probably be for a nice light one of these. I seriously doubt that it would sound substantively different to a regular ash/maple P Bass, but so what?

 

Like most people, I love a good story, and this bass harks back to a time when rock music was still dangerous and Britain excelled at it. Fender sent the UK a special tool to deafen the civilised world into submission and some great exponents willingly accepted the challenge. Surely that is worth celebrating.

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3 hours ago, EssentialTension said:

Guitarist Neil Jones' sister according to Wikipedia.

 

Bassist is Clive Taylor ... http://www.clivetaylorsound.com/

 

My mistake! 🙂

 

I really like Andy Fairweather Low, by the way.  Underrated by the general public maybe, but certainly not by other musicians judging by the company he has kept over the years.

 

 Talking of the early 1970's, I think Marc Bolan's bass player had one of these slab body P Basses, too.

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16 hours ago, Misdee said:

My mistake! 🙂

 

I really like Andy Fairweather Low, by the way.  Underrated by the general public maybe, but certainly not by other musicians judging by the company he has kept over the years.

 

 Talking of the early 1970's, I think Marc Bolan's bass player had one of these slab body P Basses, too.

 

Yes. I remember seeing that.

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At least 17 of these basses were shipped to the UK, that's quite a lot of basses when you consider how expensive Fender basses were in the UK back in the 1960s. Also, there were far fewer bass players in those days, especially with that kind of money to spend on an instrument.

 

 

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