Fender Flea Road Worn Jazz Bass - Shell Pink
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2017
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Flea’s funk- and jazz-influenced basslines helped propel the Red Hot Chili Peppers to the top of the rock and alternative charts while redefining the role of bass in the modern era. Flea’s unique playing style brought a welcome breath of fresh air to the musical landscape of the past four decades, inspiring countless bassists to add a funky touch to their sound while exploring new techniques and harmonic possibilities. To celebrate his enduring influence, we’ve precisely recreated his prized Shell Pink '61 Jazz Bass, used to record the Peppers' Stadium Arcadium and The Getaway, as well as with the supergroup, Atoms For Peace.
We’ve carefully reproduced his personal instrument’s faded Shell Pink finish, as it exists today, and then perfectly replicated Flea’s playing wear. A special neck plate engraved with Flea’s own artwork commemorates the inspirational bassist behind this instrument. The rest of the bass is as vintage-accurate as possible, paying homage to “the greatest bass I’ve ever played...”
Flea’s unique playing style has brought a welcome breath of fresh air to the musical landscape of the past four decades, inspiring countless bassists to add a funky touch to their sound while exploring new techniques and harmonic possibilities. Melding rhythm and melody with fierce personal style, Flea’s left his mark on modern music - just as Fender continues to do - and the Flea Jazz Bass is the perfect tool for players to unleash their own style on the world.
A pair of vintage-style, American-made Pure Vintage ’64 Jazz Bass single-coil pickups provides classic, original-era Fender tone with clear articulation, clear low end definition, up-front midrange punch and singing high end. The vintage-accurate stacked concentric controls shape the pickups’ volume and tone, as well as allowing the pickups to be blended in any ratio. The Flea Jazz Bass plays fast and easy, thanks to its period-accurate 21-fret “U”-shaped maple neck with a smooth Road Worn urethane finish on the back, plus a 7.25"-radius rosewood fingerboard with a 1.5" wide nut. The vintage-style bridge sports four threaded steel “barrel” saddles, adding a touch of crispness to enhance the attack for tone that can power through a busy mix.
Shell Pink is the rarest of Fender’s classic Custom Color finishes, and Flea’s ’61 Jazz Bass is quite possibly the only one in existence. We’ve carefully recreated his personal instrument’s exact faded shade as it exists today, and then applied an eye-catching Road Worn nitrocellulose lacquer finish that perfectly replicates Flea’s playing wear. A special neck plate engraved with Flea’s own artwork commemorates the inspiration behind this instrument. Other aesthetic touches include nickel/chrome hardware, 3-ply tortoiseshell pickguard and aged white dot position inlays. Melding rhythm and melody with fierce personal style, Flea’s left his mark on modern music, and the Flea Jazz Bass is the perfect tool to make your own.
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A bass review that actually has a bass player instead of the usual guitar player reviewing it. Thank you.
One of the best reviews of the Fender Flea Jazz Bass that I have seen! Waited months for my order to arrive, but worth the wait. Love it!
GREAT demo vid! I look forward to seeing more from Pat - he did a great job (plenty of knowledge).
Great demo Pat!! You helped me to make the final decision to get one of these basses... Thanks!!
Dayum! Great bass, great review!
Just bought one from a friend. The value of Fender Bass guitars are going crazy.
very GOOD , love it!!!
I have one and it’s awesome, highly recommended.. I own and have owned many very expensive basses. This feels pretty cool and as for mex v USA , nowadays there’s very little in it ... in fact ..
Are you still digging this bass? I'm seriously considering getting one.
Great playing
I bought one. Check the the neck carefully! They've been known to have warps. I had to send mine back to fender and they replaced it. But a killer bass!
Excellent 👍
That is a good value bass
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Dude I love your bass face!
Got mine today! Awesome but struggling to get settings on the bass and my fender rumble 500 amp to get the kinda clarity on this video!
I played one in guitarguitar Newcastle. It wasnt for me but extremely well made feels like a well used 61 jazz bass.
3:32 thought he was gonna play otherside. I got baited :'(
Actually I think that was meant to be Loue Reed's Take a Walk on The wild side bass line ;)
There's a current song that uses that bass line...what is it?
@@jorgeblanco6297 Can I Kick It? by A Tribe Called Quest
Jorge Blanco Tribe Called Quest, song is called, Can I Kick It
@@raysheng3177 thank you! i was like WHERE DO I KNOW THAT FROM!!!!
Sounds like a nice bass. Would have been nice to have heard the bridge pup/tone, neck pup/tone separate and combined with various combinations.
I agree. A vantage 60's Motown tone neck pup tone all the way down.
Atcq, I tried it in a shop and sounded amazing, I wanted buy two.
Vita sign part..ahahahah aazing!!
But can you beat the heck out of it?
Of Course
Hahahah after his fifth time saying it, I starting thinking “is this a joke?”
6:53 vital signs - moving pictures 1981
Played incorrectly and way too fast.
great bass, nice chops...how much did they charge to ugly it up ?
Which exact Mesa Boogie amp and cab are you using here? I like the tone a lot. Thanks.
List of all gear used in this video at 7:20.
I really don't know between this one or the precision deluxe special...
Both...
Wish it came in cream or another cool color
Hi. Good morning. Really nice review! I was wondering if anyone knew the tune he started playing at around @6:54 . Thanks for the support :)
Vital Signs he’s playing a slightly faster version of Vital Signs by Rush
Can I beat the heck out of it?
What strings are these?
Probably a stupid question but I've never played a relic'd instrument; can can you feel the paint chips or is it smoothed with finish?
You can feel the chips.
Noo it depends I have a bass I have a 70s bass I got reliced It also I would say that relics look and feel like they have been years and years of play in it
I wish I knew about the reverse tuners before I called the dealer up and reamed them out for sending me a "backwards, left-handed tuner, or some such nonsense" piece of crap. In my defense, the guy I reamed out didn't know about them either, and said I probably need to re-string it the other way. So we were both idiots ignorant to the facts. After i researched the reverse tuners, I fell in love with this bass. It is simply awesome.
How does the Flea Jazz compare to the Fender 60th Anniversary Road Worn Jazz? Thanks gang x
Great Q
I've tried both. The Flea is much better and has a real Rosewood fretboard. Just needs a good setup as out of the box they are hit and miss. But get the setup done properly and it is an absolute killer jazz bass.
Was expecting a matching fretboard as well.....
That's the best sounding jazz bass I've heard.
T.I.N Mateus this bass is laughable look up the USA geddy lee jazz bass.
USA Geddy is a nice sounding bass, but so is this one. I actually prefer the look of this bass (the beating up thing I could live without).
I hate the pearl white guard on the USA Geddy Lee (hate hate hate pearl white guards, tacky and ugly as hell), pearl block inlays (yuck) and the overall anemic pale maple color. Oh and the bridge, don't care for those high mass bridges at all (also, ugly). If the Flea jazz is setup to perfection, there's nothing realistically to "out perform" it. It sounds great, looks great and feels great (with the right setup). I'd take it any day over the Geddy Lee USA model.
mouthmw atleast the 2 flea basses I played would fret out when you got up past the 16th fret. Plus it is pretty stupid though how they don't even give you a case when you buy it.
True, some fret work filing wouldn't hurt. What also didn't help with the fret sprout is the fact that the fingerboard is dry as hell. I'm planning on getting one tomorrow, and it's currently being setup by a tech I trust. That is, IF the setup goes well and there are no truss rod/neck issues.
Too bad about the hard case sure, but all Road Worn series basses come in a gig bag.
Does anybody know, how much does it weigh?
The one Pat played in this video weighed 8.75 pounds.
Thanks
Weight: 8.70 Lbs.
Eazy-Duz-It
I played one and I tried to trade my fender duff bass and I need to stop look at basses because I now keep buying more basses
Great demo, but I can't hear shit (listening through my laptop speakers)
kuringmundo then get some headphones....
Seriously..a jazz bass demo that doesn't demo the bridge pup? Come on
That is some terrible brick work
Hahaha
Fender manages to get the most uneven rosewood...have you ever seen Ibanez's rosewood ? it's beautiful. to charge $1800 for this over a $899 Geddy is just stupid.
I have both this flea bass and the USA geddy lee and the geddy out performs this bass.
Personally, I actually like the character of the variation in grain. They should make a jazz bass with either royal ebony or zebrawood or goncalo. That would be cool.
Interesting. Still not paying $1100 for a Mexican Fender.
Brock Landers how far is the Mexican factory from the corona factory?
Who cares?
I've owned both...the Roadworn feels and sounds better than an American Fender Standard Jazz, as difficult as it may be to believe.
For starters, the American basses have graphite reinforcement bars in the neck, and have much better hardware and wiring. For $900 I can buy a used USA Jazz and update the wiring to '60-'61 specs.
Brock Landers I think you’ll find this bass has American pick ups and wiring in it. I’ve owned all levels of bass and I’ve got one of these, it’s a great instrument. Drop the US made snobbery, I have a 1978 US Precision and it’s no better than my flea bass. Then again, it’s the player not the bass that makes a bass sound great.
This may be a stupid question but,,, can I actually beat the hell out of it??? 🤔🤡👍
Don't buy this Mexican made overpriced bass.
For the price you better buy a second hand American standard jazz bass
Why do people make such stupid comments? It’s Mexican, so what, it has vintage American pups in it ffs. I’ve owned and extensively played a 1978 USA Precision, a 90s Japanese Precision, a 90s Japanese Geddy Lee Jazz, a 2000s Mexican Precision, a cheap Chinese made Squier PJ and this Flea bass, and in all honestly they all are largely the same, it’s the player not the instrument that counts, this Flea bass is great to play and has real vintage tone, don’t avoid buying one just because some schmuck says “oh, it’s Mexican”.
@@joselopezmx never played a fender Mexican that sounded better than any of the American ones i've played. Miles away
@@duncangarvey8893 It really does matter what instrument you have. If you are gonna do studio work you can't put in a shitty squier thats for sure
Racism…dude American fender also good but Just made in Mexico . Same company