Fender Roger Waters Precision Bass model

24HRS2MDNT · Post by **24HRS2MDNT** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:26 am

Fender Roger Waters Precision Bass signature model

Fender usa website currently under construction
Gearwire link
http://www.gearwire.com/fender-roger-wa ... -bass.html

Nice to see this especially since seeing the Nickleback Les Paul signature LP.

Tone and Volume but ... no Thought control.

Dannymec · Post by **Dannymec** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:24 am

Cool to see him have a sig model, but nothing all that special here.

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:42 am

Dannymec wrote:Cool to see him have a sig model, but nothing all that special here.

so, just like 95% of all sig models ever?

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:12 am

Haha, yeah. I fucking love Roger Waters, and this could never possibly be as supershite as the Nickelback signature bullshit machine, but Fender sigs are the other extreme. I honestly think it's more to do with the artists than anything else; If Fender ask them what defines their signature model, they're basically going to dictate the specs of a model they already make. After all, what else are they going to really want to add?

I think the more amusing aspect of this is that Waters isn't even that good a bassist. Quite a bit of Animals was done by a session bassist or Gilmour, and The Wall probably features very little of Waters actually playing an instrument at all. Even when they played it live he mostly played a guitar, filling out some of the chords and stuff.

It looks pretty cool, though.

There was a Roger Waters signature Washburn guitar a few years ago.

kypdurron · Post by **kypdurron** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:46 am

How does it compare to a black standard precision? specs / price? Don't know. But this really does not look like the guitar the world has been waiting for.Still waiting for the David Byrne Signature Mustang

And the Bob Wootton signature Jaguar.

Boab · Post by **Boab** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:26 pm

Mo Rawka wrote:
Dannymec wrote:Cool to see him have a sig model, but nothing all that special here.
so, just like 95% of all sig models ever?

Just what I thought. A pretty cool looking bass, which will play/sound well, but will cost an astronomical amount purely through it's association with Waters.

rlm2112 · Post by **rlm2112** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:32 pm

It's nice to see respected artists get sig models. It is a bit plain, but to be fair so is the one he's always played. Between this and the Geddy Lee Jazz bass I'd be set for life.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:24 am

I don't like the black hardware on it, other than that, it looks awesome!