When Leo Fender launched the Precision Bass onto an unsuspecting bass-playing populace in 1951 it was met with a degree of distaste and suspicion. However, it took little more than a quick go on one ...

Actor-turned-rockstar Keanu Reeves has taken his love for the low-end to a whole new level with his first Fender Custom Shop ...

Find out more about how we test. Any bass player worth their salt has played a Fender Precision at some point and, whether it was just a fleeting try-out in a music shop, or something tantamount to a ...

The bass guitar as gigging instrument for musicians took a big leap in the 1950's. That's when the Fender Electric Instrument Company began making the Precision Bass, a mass produced electric ...

Fender Deluxe Active Precision Bass Introduced back in 1951, Fender’s Precision Bass was a revolutionary instrument. With a solid double cutaway body and two pickups, it was the first bass ...

It was the world’s first electric bass guitar. Fifteen years later, in 1951, Leo Fender, of the Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars, would begin selling his Fender Precision Bass.

There's no denying the inspiration behind this budget-friendly four-string but the classics never go out of style ...

His first step was the purchase of a Fender Precision bass from 1953, the year he was born, which “sort of put me in a reflective mode on the heroes that I had growing up and the kinds of basses ...

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