It had a “slab” (non-contoured) ash body with two “horns” (as opposed to the Telecaster’s one; this provided greater balance and was subsequently adapted for the Stratocaster), a one-piece 20-fret maple neck fixed to the body by four screws (despite use of the technically incorrect term “bolt-on”), a single pickup, black pickguard, Kluson tuners, treble-side thumb rest, a string-through-body bridge with a cover (with a mute), and two pressed fiber bridge saddles. For sale is a 1960 Fender Precision Bass restored by Bluesman Vintage Guitars in Tennessee. The dawn of the 1990s saw increasing production activity for new Precision Bass models. Also during the first half of the 1960s, the Precision made its way across the Atlantic to the U.K. Embedded content: https://youtu.be/qWnO4yydkmU. Finally, resident Motown Precision Bass masters James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt received the individual recognition they so richly deserved. SOLD 1960 Fender Precision Bass, Beautiful Two Tone Sunburst, Gorgeous Slab board, Spaghetti logo, Clay dots, Both Covers, Great feeling neck, Superb playability, Fantastic sounding instrument, EC, NHSC. The back finish shows some wear and chipping from age. The range 100-400 was used specifically between the years of 1951 and 1952. Fender was on the block, and Schultz, backed by a group of investors he enlisted, bought the company he’d presided over since 1981 in a sale that was completed in March 1985, ending 20 years of CBS rule. These included the Sting Precision Bass (2001); Mike Dirnt Precision Bass (2004); Tony Franklin Fretless Precision (2006); Duff McKagan P Bass (2007); Steve Harris Precision and Road Worn ’50s Precision basses (2009); Roger Waters Precision Bass (2010); Nate Mendel P Bass (2012); and 2016 saw the release of the both the Flea Bass and the American Professional series, which saw a number of innovative features brought to the classic Precision Bass. All Rights Reserved. Perhaps better than any other Fender instrument, it had weathered the travails of the late 1970s and much of the 1980s and remained the world’s premier bass guitar. Its prototype, designed by Leo Fender in 1950, was … The second and most substantial revision was implemented in 1957 and resulted in the Precision Bass design that endures today basically unchanged. One of the most important features of the Precision Bass was its scale length, which Leo Fender, after careful consideration and lengthy experimentation, set at 34”. Does it have a small carving on the neck, by the headstock that says “FUNK”? Different features included pickguard color (white rather than black), smaller and no-longer-flush-mounted string ferrules, and a capped maple fingerboard, although some basses made later in the year featured a period-correct one-piece maple neck. FENDER PRECISION BASS 1965 OLYMPIC WHITE ORIGINAL. Brown exterior with marigold interior. Get the down low on more than six decades of indispensable bass history. I learned to play it right away. The mention “available in a DuPont Ducco color of the player’s choice at an additional 5% cost” first showed up in spec sheets for the Stratocaster and Precision Bass circa ’56, but customer requests for non-standard finishes actually go back to the early ’50s. The precocious youth taught himself to play it in a matter of days, and Brian Wilson became the bass guitarist in the band he formed with his brothers, Dennis and Carl; his cousin, Mike Love; and family friend Al Jardine. Given the brash horn sections that provided the main voice of many dance bands, the inherent loudness of drum kits and the advent of better electrified guitars with better amplification, something needed to be done for bass. Copyright ©2020. Interior has some minor stains but in overall great condition with all working latches & hinges. Buy online or at your local store today! There were some changes, but nothing that substantially altered the look and feel of the Precision; these included an extra strap button added to the back of the headstock (1960), white three-ply nitrocellulose pickguards in place of tortoiseshell pickguards on most custom color models and patent numbers added to the headstock logo (1961), and “round lam” (radiused and laminated) fretboards in place of slab fretboards (1962-’63). The Fender Precision had been shipping since at least very early 1952 - with just one re-design circa 1957. The Fender Precision had been shipping since at least very early 1952 - with just one re-design circa 1957. The first commercial unit of the Precision Bass was produced in October 1951. 1960 - The Fender Jazz Bass was introduced. A detailed look at an early 1970s Fender Precision bass guitar in custom black finish, with rosewood fretboard. More recent models of the Precision Bass include entries into the American Elite, American Performer Series and Player Series. Fender knows bass guitars–and they should. It is at this point that the modern-era history of the Precision Bass truly begins. In New York in 1976, bassist Douglas Colvin set the tone for much punk bass playing with a visceral, no-frills machine-gun style driven home using an impossibly low-slung Precision Bass. Identical features included the slab body, single-coil pickup, pickguard shape, pickup cover, controls and the two-saddle bridge with string-through-body design. Thus began the Precision Bass’s steady ascent toward indispensability. There are budget-level Precisions that sound fantastic, feel great, take a beating and don’t break the bank. Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” became a massive international hit in 1980; anchored by an infectious and instantly identifiable Precision Bass riff by the song’s author, bassist John Deacon. The U.S. Deluxe Precision became the American Deluxe Precision in 1998, with upgraded features. Fender-Squier Brands Electric Guitar 2 Year Limited Warranty, American Original 60's Precision Bass 0190120XXX SM REV A 10-16-2017, Fender® Artisan Crafted Leather Straps - 2.5", Single Pure Vintage ‘63 split-coil P Bass pickup, Thick “1963 C”-shaped neck profile; 9.5”-radius fingerboard, Vintage-style hardware; four-saddle bridge. 1969 Fender Telecaster Bass. The Precision Bass perhaps fared somewhat better than other Fender instruments under the cost- and corner-cutting CBS regime, due at least partly to the fact that it was by design something of a blunt instrument from the very start. or Best Offer. For while all the other great Fender products of the decade certainly affected music, the Precision Bass profoundly affected music. The electronics have plenty of life and this bass has a thick woody sound. That year, his iconoclastic band released its seminal eponymous debut album, which inspired legions of imitators. They then relic’d the body and hardware to … This would keep Fender instruments in production and combat the cheap copies that were voraciously eating away at Fender’s Far East sales. Lover’s large new pickup for the bass necessitated redesigning the pickguard to accommodate it; the model included other new revisions in the form of a three-bolt neck plate and bullet truss rod. 1982 Fender “Fullerton” reissue fretless ‘62 jazz bass. It was renamed the Jazz Bass as Fender felt that its redesigned neck—narrower and more rounded than that of the Precision Bass—would appeal more to jazz musicians.. Rock music, no longer in its infancy, now faced the turbulence of adolescence in the 1970s and proliferated. He soon sold it at the behest of Detours guitarist Roger Daltrey, who thought it kept blowing up speakers. 's), Bruce Thomas (Elvis Costello and the Attractions). The most iconic electric basses, we carry a variety of vintage and used Fender bass guitars. The nitrocellulose lacquer finish not only lets the body breathe with its true tonal character, it also ages and wears in a distinctively personal way. Meanwhile, an even more incendiary debut was in the works across the Atlantic in London. In fact, I used it on the job the same day I got it. Depending on the color, the condition, and the hardware, it could be worth anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000. Occassionally you'll find a Stratocaster or Precision Bass with a matching peghead color, but it was fairly rare on those mid-line models. All Rights Reserved. Its lead single, “Money” boasted an irresistibly infectious Precision Bass riff by the song’s author, Roger Waters, while simultaneously accomplishing the unusual feat of becoming an enormous international hit that happened to be in an oddball (for rock music, anyway) 7/4 time signature. Orange clay dot inlays. The photo has subsequently become revered as one of rock’s greatest images (Q Magazine, for example, deemed it the greatest rock photograph of all time in 2002). Like a P bass should. Whereas the company introduced several innovative electric guitars throughout the 1950s, Fender elected to stick solely with the Precision Bass — modified three times, albeit — rather than introduce an entirely new bass guitar model. Remarkably comfortable, it suits any playing style. Several new instruments were introduced in 1990-1991, including the Precision Bass Plus Deluxe, limited edition 40th Anniversary Deluxe Precision Bass, limited edition 1951 reissue Precision and a limited edition James Jamerson Precision; the latter three from the ever-growing Custom Shop. used to decorate their tops (each bass had a clear pickguard). Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The label promptly started pumping out hit after infectious pop hit, nearly all of it underpinned by the masterfully inventive and irresistibly propulsive bass work of James Jamerson, and the lion’s share of that rendered on a 1962 Precision he dubbed “the Funk Machine.”. Its a working bass so has had a few changes over the years.. ORIGONAL STUFF Body. The Precision handled it all with ease. By the 1960s, the Precision Bass was the workhorse electric bass; from the clubs of Detroit to the beaches of Southern California, its tone laid the foundation for modern music. This Precision Bass features a “C”-shaped neck profile delivered straight from 1963 to your hands. New Instruments Added Daily View Latest Arrivals close. Original-era fans can rest assured every curve and line of the body and neck are accurate to the historic originals. The company introduced its first bass model with active electronics, the Precision Bass Special, in 1980, and Fender very soon abandoned the three-bolt neck-mounting system adopted in the early 1970s; returning to the classic four-bolt method for all of its bass guitars. With the renaissance in post-punk British rock and pop, great U.K. bassists who came to the fore in the late 1970s continued to turn in exemplary Precision work in the 1980s, such as Bruce Thomas with Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Bruce Foxton with the Jam, Sting with the Police, Jean-Jacques Burnel with the Stranglers and Paul Simonon with the Clash. My Wishlist My Cart 0 Login. “On second glance we noticed something even odder. It was available only in a blonde finish. That’s why the Precision Bass, first produced in October 1951, is such a special instrument. Passionate about the brand and eager to reverse its ailing fortunes, Schultz immediately recommended modernizing Fender’s U.S. manufacturing facilities, which largely meant halting production while machinery was updated and staff was re-trained. Beautiful period correct case. And Colvin, under the stage name Dee Dee Ramone, never missed a single pumping sixteenth note. Concurrently, he suggested building Fender instruments in Japan for the large Japanese market. A July 1962 Jazzmaster in Shoreline Gold. Rare Vintage 1965 Fender Jazz Bass, FREE SHIPPING! First introduced in 1960 as the Deluxe Model, it borrowed design elements from the Jazzmaster guitar. He’d just joined Cliff Richard’s backing group when his Framus bass guitar was accidentally destroyed and a London importer gave him a Precision as a replacement. Production began in Corona in 1987 of the first new U.S.-built models, the American Standard Precision and the Precision Bass Plus; the latter of which featured a 22-fret neck (up from the traditional 20), Lace Sensor active pickups with series/parallel switching and an elongated upper horn for improved balance (this last imparted a noticeably odd look to the instrument, but nonetheless remained in place until the model was discontinued in 1993). Check out our selection of vintage P-Basses. It’s certainly true that the innovative electric guitars introduced by Fender throughout the 1950s—the Telecaster (1951) and the Stratocaster (1954), plus the Jazzmaster (1958) and some student models—changed the way music was created and experienced. 1963 Fender Precision Bass Here is a gorgeous vintage bass. Condition Having been kept safely with its original owner for decades, this bass is in excellent condition. Also new were a smaller single-ply white pickguard, steel bridge saddles in place of pressed fiber saddles, serial numbers on the bridge instead of the neck plate, and a handsome two-color sunburst finish (like the Stratocaster). In its standard, post-1957 configuration, the Precision Bass is a solid body, four-stringed instrument equipped with a single split-coil humbucking pickup and a one-piece, 20-fret maple neck with rosewood, pau ferro, or maple fingerboard. One early champion was bandleader Lionel Hampton, who was featured in 1952 promotional materials for the instrument; both his bass players in the 1950s, William “Monk” Montgomery and Roy Johnson, used the instrument extensively. A detailed look at an early 1970s Fender Precision bass guitar in custom black finish, with rosewood fretboard. This 9.5”-radius fingerboard is slightly flatter than a vintage-style 7.25” radius, providing a comfortable fret-hand feel. Fender overhauled its entire U.S. bass line in 1995, introducing new models including a U.S. Deluxe Precision with 22 frets and active electronics and an American Standard Precision that returned to a 20-fret neck and passive electronics. A limited edition Fender 50th anniversary American Standard Precision appeared in 1996. Fender isn’t just for electric guitars and amps. Fender at this point now had over 600 employees, 500 of them in manufacturing. If the Precision achieved newfound status as an indispensable workhorse instrument in the 1960s, it cemented that reputation with seismic force in the 1970s. My Account. Even as seasoned veterans and new generations of able and adventurous players continued to put the Precision to great use, the quality of Fender instruments in general was seen to gradually decline throughout the 1970s and early 1980s under the ham-fisted rule of media giant CBS. Fender was well re-established as a market leader by this point, and the Precision Bass — still nearly identical in outward appearance to its 1957 ancestor — soldiered on through the 2000s as a fundamentally indispensable bass guitar. After the turn of the millennium, the Precision positively blossomed in a wealth of instrument series, specialty versions and artist signature models. The Fender Precision Bass is a model of electric bass manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. As the 1960s drew to a close, a larger headstock logo replaced the Precision Bass’s previous “transition” logo in 1969, and the extra strap button on the back of the headstock added in 1960 was discontinued. Free shipping. Neck,, neck plate, Tuning keys, bridge , control knobs, strap buttons. Matching color pegheads started around 1962 on the Jazzmaster, Jaquar and Jazz Bass models (considered the top-end models by Fender at that time). There are boutique-ish high-end Precisions for more discerning players that look as great hanging above the mantelpiece as they do onstage. An updated take on the instrument that created the pop culture soundtrack of the 20th century, the Fender American Original '60s Precision Bass is the best way to get original-era sound and style with today's feel. “I wanted a Fender, but they just weren’t available,” Entwistle told Guitar Player magazine in 1974. “I think Jet Harris was the only person who had one then.”, Embedded content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/m6LvSN0xhP0. Hi Here is my 1960 precision bass. $11,500.00. Get the look and sound of a well-loved Fender 1960 Precision Bass, without the collector's market price tag, with the Fender Custom Shop 1960 Time Machine Heavy Relic Precision Bass. Meanwhile, as noted, players continued to put Precisions of all vintages to great use. Relic it yourself. $10,299.99. Embedded content: https://youtu.be/7DulLDLzsF4. This amazing P Bass features the 1960 oval "C" neck carve many of the bass players here at Sweetwater consider the perfect balance of heft and comfort. That sound was largely a product of the instrument’s simple design and split-coil pickup. At age 55, Leo suffered health problems and offered to sell Fender Electric Instruments to his parter in Fender Sales, Donald Randall,for $1.5 million. Perfect fit for your 59-61 Fender Jazz or P-Bass. With that new mid-’80s beginning under Bill Schultz, Fender started by concentrating on quality rather than quantity, beginning with a small number of vintage reissue instruments and redesigned back-to-basics modern guitars and basses dubbed American Standard models. Its heavy with an amazing fat neck. 2020/11/08 - Pinterest で Yukio Murofushi さんのボード「Bass Guitar」を見てみましょう。。「ベースギター, ベース, ギター」のアイデアをもっと見てみましょう。 The 1960s The 1960s was the decade in which the Precision cemented its reputation as the workhorse bass guitar. Tunes the same as a regular bass.”. Thought i would have to sell my good Kidney in order to get a Fender Original or Custom Shop early 60's P bass. A year after the Ramones’ debut album, punk’s ruder, spikier U.K. movement was spearheaded by the Sex Pistols, whose debut (and only) album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, appeared in fall 1977 and promptly became the most important punk album ever and an extremely important and influential album in rock history in general. This bass is exactly what an early 1960's Fender P bass was like brand new. That year, the instrument was given its now-familiar split-coil pickup, headstock shape based on the Stratocaster® guitar, and one-piece pickguard assembly to which the electronics were fixed (the pickguard itself was gold anodized aluminum with a cutout for the new pickup). The 1960s was the decade in which the Precision cemented its reputation as the workhorse bass guitar. Upgrade in 1971 Pick ups , pots, scratch plate..

Plays awesome .. low action. Originally called the Deluxe, the Jazz Bass was conceived as a stablemate to the Jazzmaster guitar, which was introduced two years prior. Order now and we expect to ship within the next 30 days. In Fender: The Sound Heard ’Round the World, author Richard Smith describes Down Beat magazine music critic Leonard Feather’s first initially puzzling encounter with the new instrument at a Hampton performance in New York in spring 1952: "When the music started at this gig, something seemed amiss: Feather heard a bass but saw no bass player. Copyright ©2020. Further design modifications were afoot in 1974, when Fender introduced black pickguards as a Precision Bass standard and moved the thumb rest from the treble string side to the bass string side. There are specialty Precisions with five strings and humbucking pickups. Fender promotional literature of the early 1950s also featured bassists John “Shifty” Henry (“Shifte Henri”) and Bob Manners of the then-popular Liberace TV show. Telling that the same bass that so supremely underpinned Pink Floyd’s 1973 psychedelic masterpiece The Dark Side of the Moon was the same bass that also elegantly underpinned the Eagles’ seminal 1973 country rock classic Desperado. There's no denying the Precision Bass is the most iconic electric bass -- its thunderous sound was the foundation of modern music, laying down the grooves in Motor City during the '60s. To fully understand the role of the Precision Bass in the decade of its arrival, it’s important to understand the times and circumstances into which it was introduced. The Precision Bass was everywhere during first half of the 1960s, and it remained remarkably unchanged during this period, as opposed to the handful of periodic revisions and redesigns Fender imposed during the 1950s. Nowhere was this more evident than in Detroit, where Motown Records was incorporated in April 1960. Email Address * Password * … An enduringly endearing Precision Bass recorded moment hit the charts in 1973 with the release of Pink Floyd’s massively successful eighth studio album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Smith further relates how Johnson, Hampton’s bassist at the time, told Feather, “It’s no trouble at all. The modern era of the Precision Bass, which began in the 1980s and continues today, started during an especially fertile period in rock and pop history that just happened to be an especially unsettling period in Fender history. The 1970s ended, however, with possibly the greatest Precision Bass moment in all of rock history. Because if Clarence Leo Fender were to be remembered for nothing else, surely it would be the Precision—an instrument — indeed a whole new kind of instrument — that simply didn’t exist before he invented it, that would forever ensure his place in history. Be the first to know about new products, featured content, exclusive offers and giveaways. When the “Clash Take the Fifth” U.S. tour rolled into the Palladium in New York City on Sept. 21, 1979, bassist Paul Simonon, angered by staff treatment of the audience, smashed his Precision to pieces onstage. The album, Ramones, sent shock waves through the rock world and heralded the large-scale arrival of a reactionary new musical movement that had been brewing since rock was born two decades earlier. In Detroit, 1971 brought a Motown milestone in the form of Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece album, What’s Going On. Unlike the 1950s, however, when the Precision reigned as Fender’s only bass guitar, the new decade saw it joined by a second bass guitar model, the Jazz Bass, introduced in spring 1960. In 1999, Fender introduced the Hot-Rod Precision and the five-string American Deluxe Five Precision. Elvis with a '60s P Bass in Easy Come, Easy Go - 1967 Photo courtesy Alamy Images. Vintage-tall frets make it easier to add vibrato to your basslines. Lay down the low end with the Fender Original 62 P Bass Pickup -- accurate reproductions of the pickups from the 1962 Precision Bass -- used on the American Vintage '62 P Bass. Fender literally wrote the book on electric basses, laying the foundation for musical innovation and evolution. After the early 1978 implosion of the too-volatile-to-last Sex Pistols, the more serious Clash assumed the mantle of most important U.K. band and was at its creative and popular peak at the turn of the decade. The first sign of recovery for Fender itself, on the other hand, came in 1984, when CBS decided to sell off all its non-broadcast-related holdings. From that point onward, the Custom Shop would repeatedly elevate the Precision Bass from workhorse to work of art. Less than a year later, the Beach Boys were signed to Capitol Records and released landmark debut album Surfin’ Safari in October 1962, with eldest Wilson brother and group leader Brian on Precision Bass. Dropdown trigger. The American Original ‘60s Precision Bass has all of the features with which the P Bass conquered the world of music—elegantly simple, its sound, style and comfort are joined by modern playability. But whereas the Jazz Bass faced a relatively short uphill climb toward acceptance upon its introduction, the Precision had long since firmly established itself, and the sound of rock and pop in the early 1960s was the sound of the Precision. These Japanese-built Vintage Series instruments were soon introduced into the European market under the Squier name. Fender PlayHOLIDAY SALE: 50% off an Annual or Monthly plan.UNLOCK THIS OFFER. 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