How to explain?

[Chris P.]

Okay, I like Precisions, but I don't like black basses in general. Black Rickies are nice, but most basses are too 'metal' and basses like Precisions are too 'normal' in black with white guard and rosewood boards.

But this day I woke up, all of a sudden, with GAS for an all black P (black body + black guard) with a maple board. Like the Roger Waters Uwe has, or one just with chrome hardware.

I don't know why.

[Droombolus]

Sit silently in a corner and wait until the sausea has passed ...... 

[Chris P.]

I will do that.

I interviewed The Australian Pink Floyd Show for an article about how it is to play in such a band. Background article. Maybe that's why.

[ilan]

It's a nice color combo. The maple board makes it less 'goth'. To me a black/black P w/maple neck looks classic punk rock. But unlike the Roger Waters sig I like mine with a laminated pickguard and TV logo.

[Pilgrim]

A P is a great tool to have in your arsenal.  Black on Black with maple is a nice look, too.  I see no reason you shouldn't indulge yourself.   

[gearHed289]

I've got a black 'guard on my black Geddy Lee Jazz with the maple 'board/black blocks/black binding and it looks great IMHO. 

[ilan]

Yep, looks good on a Jazz too. Mine has that color combo:

[TBird1958]

Okay, I like Precisions, but I don't like black basses in general. Black Rickies are nice, but most basses are too 'metal' and basses like Precisions are too 'normal' in black with white guard and rosewood boards.

But this day I woke up, all of a sudden, with GAS for an all black P (black body + black guard) with a maple board. Like the Roger Waters Uwe has, or one just with chrome hardware.

I don't know why.

I hope this never happens to me 

[ack1961]

I'm not a huge fan of black basses myself, however, I do have a black/chrome G&L L2k-T that I really like:

[Pilgrim]

Just look at that...one guy confesses unrequited Precision lust, and all these Fenders come out of the closet.

I'll stick with my '63....and my 2000 MIM J.  Both in tasteful non-black.





Here's my only black one...and a real favorite with the Gretsch pickup...

[Dave W]

I have a MM Sub and SUB Sterling, both matte black with non-laminated matte black guards. Nothing metal or punk about them, they just look good IMHO.

[nofi]

i saw pink floyd on some late night tv show in '69 or '70. waters black p bass had a white pick guard and rosewood fret board. i know its a pedestrian combo all these years later but i like it. i can't remember the last non black bass i owned.

[Highlander]

There's my black fretless Jazz, with black bridge and machines and the ebanol neck, and then I sprayed the face of the head black, and... and...

(Kenny's presently heading back to the darkened padded room with the nice young nurses and the nice soft straight-jacket, and the meds...)

[chromium]

But this day I woke up, all of a sudden, with GAS for an all black P (black body + black guard) with a maple board. Like the Roger Waters Uwe has, or one just with chrome hardware.

I don't know why.

Love that black+maple combo on Fenders.  My MIJ P is like that:



Come to the dark side!

[Muzikman7]

Here is my '73