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Fender Roger Waters Precision Bass signature model

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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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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