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- The Telecaster Bass was produced alongside the contemporary Precision Bass through all the 1970s. The decal logo had changed from silver to gold, with black outlining. It was the final version of the Telecaster Bass, and was discontinued in September 1979.
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The Telecaster Bass owed its existence to the fact that its true direct ancestor, the revolutionary Precision, was redesigned not once but twice within several years of its 1951 debut; first in 1954 and again even more dramatically in 1957.
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The Fender Telecaster Bass (also referred as the Tele Bass) is an electric bass introduced in 1968 by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. With few physical changes through the 1970s, it was discontinued in 1979 and reissued in 2007 by Fender's subsidiary Squier as the Squier Vintage Modified Precision Bass TB, which was discontinued in 2014.
Sep 3, 2021 · The Fender Telecaster was first released in 1951, and it popularized the new idea of solidbody electric guitars. Fender has continued to produce the Telecaster in various forms through eight decades, and today you can buy brand new or classic used Teles in many different forms.
- A Pioneering Instrument For Fender
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- Changes to The Fender Telecaster Bass Line Over The Years
- Who’s Played The Fender Telecaster Bass Over The years?
- The Squier Telecaster Bass
- The Parallel Universe ’51 Telecaster PJ Bass
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As Fender’s first actual reissue guitar, of any kind, the Telecaster bass will always represent something very special in Fender’s history. With long lines of reissue instruments in the Fender catalog and a commitment to reissues as a core aspect of their design and build philosophy, the Telecaster bass will always be the first of its kind. Interes...
The Telecaster bass featured the slab body, mid-placed single-coil pickup, maple neck with the smaller headstock, and string-through-body design just like the old ’51 P-Bass. The large pickguard shape was also the same, except that now it was white instead of the original black color. A few Telecaster bass models shipped with some of the more unusu...
The first version of the Fender Telecaster bass, as we mentioned previously, much resembled the original ’51 P-Bass. However, Fender changed the single-coil pickup in 1971 to a humbucker which was repositioned at the heel of the neck. This model is often referred to as the mudbucker, owing to its overwhelming bass-heavy sound. Just a quick aside…th...
Relatively few notable bassists have used the Telecaster Bass as their main instrument. However, there have been a few including George Porter Jr. of the Meters and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top. Definitely influential musicians. Several other bassists have been known to keep one in rotation alongside their other daily use instruments. Ron Wood played one d...
Fender has reissued similar models under the Squier line. This gave bass players a lower-end (budget-wise), nostalgic taste of this vintage instrument. Interestingly, since these went out of production, people are more on the lookout for them than ever. Here’s a look at the Squier Telecaster bass.
Fender also released a version of the Telecaster bass that is a bit of a mashup, hence the Parallel Universe distinction. It features both P and Jazz bass pickups that you can blend with a stack-knob setup. It also has a dedicated tone knob to control that aspect separately. Have a look.
I’ve played a few Telecaster bass reissues. While it’s not my favorite Fender model, there are some things I like about it. They tend to be light-weight and, more than anything, they’re fun to play. The sound is deep and barky with the single-coil model, although it is susceptible to 60 cycle hum. The humbucker model is a little too muddy sounding ...
The Fender Telecaster bass, or Tele Bass was introduced in 1968, based on the early slab-bodied 1950s Precision bass; long scale, with a single pickup and just one volume and tone control.
Taking a cue from the turn-of-the-decade creative revisions to the Telecaster, Fender engineers in 1972 unveiled a new version of 1968’s Telecaster Bass—essentially a reissue of the 1951-style Precision—armed with an enormous humbucking pickup designed by none other than the inventor of the humbucking pickup, Seth Lover, who’d been ...
This body style was later released as the Fender Telecaster Bass in 1968 after the Precision Bass had been changed in 1957 to make it more closely resemble the Fender Stratocaster guitar. This double cut away style was the shape that influenced how the Fender Stratocaster was created. [ 17 ]
