tayste_2000 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Soooooooooo been about 4 years since I bought a new bass. Wasn't out shopping (way it always goes), came across this little beauty in a friends guitar shop. The bass is a 2008 American Fender Precision 60s AVRI and frankly it's just incredible, sounds amazing. Turns out the bass was given away by the band Paramore during the promotion of the Riot album, the girl who won it didn't play so it's sat on a stand in her bedroom ever since. They definitely did more to it after this video, but it's structurally sound and sounds amazing. Now it was definitely a touring bass as I know Jeremy Davis uses some pretty low and odd tunings and this came strung with some very heavy strings, closest I could get to something that worked when trialing it was BEAD, so it wasn't just a freebie from Fender they immediately gave away. Anyway there it is, currently wearing some D'addario Half Rounds (as who has the time to wait for your rounds to go dead anymore), waiting for me to get the right session gig to use it Will it stay, who knows, but so far I'm pretty happy with it and I'm rocking a lot of Chuck Rainey lines on it currently 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBass Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Bit of a Paul Simonon vibe on that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 How much did you pay for that £400 bass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayste_2000 Posted May 23, 2018 Author Share Posted May 23, 2018 More than £400 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 1 hour ago, tayste_2000 said: More than £400 I do remember seeing that video and wondering how much damage it would have taken before it broke in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayste_2000 Posted May 23, 2018 Author Share Posted May 23, 2018 I think they should have tried harder, there is barely a scratch on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ Spicer Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 Nice! I’d love to own that, having been a big fan in my earlier teens! My 3rd fave P combination too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayste_2000 Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 On 24/05/2018 at 00:10, TJ Spicer said: Nice! I’d love to own that, having been a big fan in my earlier teens! My 3rd fave P combination too! Well let's just hope I don't play a JMJ Mustang and have to let something go 🤔😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ Spicer Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 11 hours ago, tayste_2000 said: Well let's just hope I don't play a JMJ Mustang and have to let something go 🤔😂 They apppeal also 😂 You know where I am, were that catastrophic series of events to happen 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsmokebass Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Did anyone else cringe at the video or just me? 😕 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahambythesea Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 On 07/08/2018 at 23:03, bigsmokebass said: Did anyone else cringe at the video or just me? 😕 No. I did too, instruments deserve respect, they serve us well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heeds_10 Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 hey man, i know it’s been years since this post but i wanted to say hi bc i played this bass, im guessing not long after you bought it. the owner of AMP in Macclesfield UK gave it to me for a small pub gig with an old band. been looking for it for a while and really cool to see it in good hands. wondering if you still happen to have it in your possession after this post. feel free to DM me on instagram @heeds_10 or on facebook at Jack Heeds. would love to hear from you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayste_2000 Posted November 1 Author Share Posted November 1 On 05/10/2024 at 01:55, heeds_10 said: hey man, i know it’s been years since this post but i wanted to say hi bc i played this bass, im guessing not long after you bought it. the owner of AMP in Macclesfield UK gave it to me for a small pub gig with an old band. been looking for it for a while and really cool to see it in good hands. wondering if you still happen to have it in your possession after this post. feel free to DM me on instagram @heeds_10 or on facebook at Jack Heeds. would love to hear from you! Sadly I traded it about a year ago when I was in Houston, Texas so it’s fairly inaccessible and hard to track down now I’m afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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