I like that new bass!
A few years ago, I saw this band Pigmy Love Circus wherein the bassist Shepherd Stevenson was running this old mud-modded Precision through a fridge and the bass sound was just so massive, crushing, immense... fit perfectly in the context of what they were doing. I was really inspired by his tone at that show.
It was a funny concert too, since they were opening for King Crimson. I was there with some old proggie friends (and I suspect 99% of the audience was there with their old proggie friends too...
"play Schizoid Man!!"). Out comes this band playing balls-out hard rock, singer is running around like a psycho brandishing an assault rifle and bondage mask, etc... The crowd had this collective wtf moment
Got a kick out of watching peoples reactions.
Anyway, ever since then I've had an itch to build a Precision like that. Planning to do it with my black-on-black MIJ here at some point, probably with a late 60s mudbucker. If nothing else, it'll make the lonely Fender fit in with its brethren. Peer pressure's a b%*&#!
Oh and I still have Talas' Sink Your Teeth Into That on vinyl! Sheehan blew my mind when I was younger too.