"When in doubt, get a Fender P-bass"

[jmcgliss]

I tried to make a parallel between the Fender P and the Ford Mustang earlier in the thread, having owned and modified several varieties of each.  Didn't they each cause the same sensation when they were first released, and still have a following 40+ years later?

[Dave W]

I don't think either the 51 or 57 P versions caused a sensation, it was a long hard road to acceptance. Nothing like the Mustang which was almost an instant hit.

[jmcgliss]

Fair enough; if guys were buying somethng for their wife, it was probably a Mustang, not a P-bass. 

[Chris P.]

Well, I really tried to go back to basses... I think it all begun when Fender started using car colours for Precisions.

[Denis]

>>Kinda makes you want to buy something French 

"Never buy a French car unless you live in France" - Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.

[Highlander]

something French...? like a letter...?   

[Chris P.]

French Fries: Too small.
French Balcony: No balcony at all....
Frech Renault Twingo: More gay icon than car

[PhilT]

I also discovered you needed two British cars, one to drive while fixing the other. I had a GT6 and an MGA, also at times an MGB or Spitfire. I held on to the MGA for about 30 years, only selling it a few years ago.

Oh, I did finally get a P bass a few months ago. I have been assimilated.

I'd completely forgotten about the GT6. Competed with the MGB, which was owned by the same company. Crazy.

There was a British guitar industry, which was almost as successful as the cars.

[Freuds_Cat]

The sunburst option was obviously big with this company 

[Chris P.]

WEM/Watkins was quite big. The Who used a WEM PA and Noel Gallagher used a little tubecombo until a couple of years ago. And ofcourse the famous Gilmour 4x12, which is reissued now.
Guitars. Only Burns made real production numbers I guess?

[Highlander]

I ain't even mentioning mine, the only one here...?

Hiwatt did alright... but that ain't a bass... 

[Chris P.]

Amp wise the UK of course has Hiwatt, Vox, Marshall, Trace Elliot, Ashdown, ....

[SKATE RAT]

also Laney and Orange

[clankenstein]

also burns  selmer and burman.

[nofi]

the fender p bass is the very definition of an electric bass and has proven itself for the past fifty some odd years in every type of music. plus they are nowhere as fragile as that other brand that gets much love around here.