For me, Duff plays bass properly. He understands the bass playing religion. You can’t be selfish as your role is to support other musicians in the band. Without your support, properly deployed, the band doesn’t work. Like he says, if you’re looking to be the focus of attention then the bass isn’t the instrument for you. My bass players - Duff, Lemmy, Paul Simonon.
@@Realest6 It always depends on the role you have in your band. Any instrument can be the lead but the band needs to accomodate for that. I love playing like these guys but you still need to understand what role the bass usually serves in music.
@@salty_3k506 well no shit, but i mean you can do a little more. especially in a solo. McKagan's "solos" are like he's scared too play too much. bass is very versatile
Why Duff is so underated? He Is one of the Best bass players ever, He put his signature on every GNR song and influece many people (and mysefl) to play bass guitar
I mean geddys early tone in rush from like 2112-signals was ripped right from guys like chris squire. Just sayin. I love geddy but he did not create that tone.
Absolutely love this man. He was very influential and iconic to me growing up as a young bass player. He knew his role and thus helped me understand where bass fits in. Izzy played his way as did Slash. They did not mirror parts at all. Duff found a sticking point with the drums and created his own creative lines and drove the rhythm home. Legendary if you ask me.
I played it at my local music store and it's superb. So cool that the Signature Bass is based on the discontinued Fender Jazz Bass Special. Love the feel of it.
Yeah, I know exactly what you are talking about. I have always called that the 'Duff Bounce'. The bounce, in combination with his rattly, tone with a lot of high end makes the transition between chords interesting. There is a metallic rattle or clank to his playing that is very tasteful. It shouldn't be, but it is.
Me too...my first bass hero, when I was 11 yrs old, I'm 36 now:) My other top two would be Rex Brown and Victor Wooten, but Ryan Martini's right there! Fucking love Mudvayne. Close call!
I've just give this video its 3850 thumb up. Duff is amazing. Along with C.J. Ramone, Flea and Eric Avery, he is one of my favourite bass players and he pushes me to learn and play the bass long ago in 1992, when I was an 8 years old kid listening UYI I and II
I recently took up bass, it’s been fun, it was also awesome to discover that the 3 bassists I like most are all pickers like me not finger players. Duff, lemmy and Paul McCartney.
Playing a heavy sound with pick has it uniqueness in delivering the tone of sound. Only few fingerpicking bassist manage to deliver that by using fingerslyle i.e late Cliff Burton and Robert Trujilo.
YES…! My favorite artist video so far. Most people try to shred and show their chops. I like that the most successful bassist of them all doesn’t go there. He just plays a bit, with a guitar player, which is cool, and mostly talks about his inspiration and story. How cool. Love it ❤
Maybe my favorite bass player great attitude and great chemistry with slash learning his bass lines from appetite was very instrumental in my own aspirational style thanks man killer bass tone
I enjoyed the section the most in G'n'R - mainly in "Use Your Illusion" where Matt and Duff made a killer duo. Those two locked with eachother so good it was the goosebumps everytime I lisened them both playing.
I named my 1st dog Duff when I was 13, I'm 40 now. Everyone thought it was a simpsons reference, but it was a coolest bass player reference. I have a sweet 70s jazz but kinda want one of his basses. Can't have both lol
I have a Black one. Beautiful bass, I get compliments left and right, other musicians are blown away, a Jazz neck on a P-Bass body! My only gripe is the MIM craftsmanship isnt as good as I expected, but it is what it is.
I agree but I also don’t think that was his point. He was saying you shouldn’t be playing in a band to be the centre of attention, and that if you are in a band for that reason it’s the wrong reason.
One of the sickest PJ basses that Fender has made so far! Sounds so exactly how a rock bass should sound, and the additions of a hipshot, Seymour Duncan bridge pup, and an upgraded tone circuit and toggle switch give it that modded vibe that a ton of bassists like to go for. But come on, $1200 for a Mexican-made instrument? I know that Fender's quality control has been incredible for the past few years, but that still seems a little much for a Fender import. It's definitely still within the price range where it'll sell well, but I think seeing "Made in Mexico" across the front of the headstock will turn a lot of people off. Maybe they're thinking the name recognition of Duff will make up for that, idk. At the end of the day It's still a badass bass.
I understand what you are saying but Fender already has that demo covered with the American Performer series. Same price, Corona-built, but without the Hipshot, the SD Jazz pup, the inlays, the 3-way, the tough as nails polyester finish, and of course the Duff name. Put another way this is a $675 MIM Player series with the upgrades. Are they worth it? OEM Hipshot alone is worth $100 so I think it is very close. From Fender's point of view a USA Duff would have to come in at near $2K and does that price you out of fan/player reach and leave you strictly with collectors? Shooting for the collector market first is what put Gibson in bankruptcy so I think it is a good call.
@@JeffreyTheTaylor I totally get what you're saying, and you have a really good point. The bass would have probably ended up being too expensive to sell if they went for an American-made model, so I totally respect that Fender went the import route to save the consumer some money. My one hold-up I still have is the price. If you break down the production costs, it still seems like they're marking the bass up a LOT in order to maximize their own profit. Again, that's totally fine; Fender can obviously do whatever they want, and they know a lot more than I do about maximizing profits. But look at is this way: After comparing all the specs of Duff's bass to the Player Series Precision, the differences are: - PJ configuration instead of just P - Upgraded electronics (SD pup, TBX tone circuit & toggle switch) - Upgraded neck (block inlays, neck & headstock finish) - Hipshot Xtender Now look at each difference from a production perspective. Keep in mind that the only way each difference would increase production costs is if new processes at the factory need to be done to achieve this difference. (Besides the SD pup & Hipshot Xtender which I'll get to in a sec) - The PJ configuration wouldn't add any cost because they could be (and most likely are) using the Active Deluxe PJ bodies that are already routed for PJ configuration. - The upgraded tone circuit and toggle switch would add some production costs. The price of the added *hardware* would be infinitesimally small because wholesale metal & plastic are hella cheap, but the added labor time to install them and the R&D cost of developing the new tone circuit would be considerable. (But not that much when you divide that cost between thousands of basses) - They are using regular P necks (all same dimensions, radius, nut width, etc.) so no added cost to cut custom necks. Also, it doesn't add any production cost to do blocks instead of dot inlays because like I said, the only way production costs increase is when a new process needs to be done at the factory, and they already do block inlays on some of the Jazz necks there, so that process is already being done regularly. The biggest cost of the neck would be the added finish on the back and headstock. To my knowledge they currently don't do any other MiM models with finished necks besides the old Duff model, so doing that custom process takes time and space, therefore adding to the production cost. The actual paint used would add some more cost but not much since they get all their materials wholesale. - The only other differences are the SD bridge pup and the Hipshot Xtender, which are third parties. This is where it gets tricky and where I’ll have to use some assumptions. Fender doesn’t say which model of Hipshot Xtender they’re using for the Duff bass but after looking at the different models it appears to be the Xtender BT7 which retails for $65. The SD they’re using retails for $85. Now obviously Fender is not paying retail prices for these things, they have wholesale agreements with Hipshot and SD. There is no way to know how much they’re paying wholesale for each pup and tuner, but I’m gonna assume that since they are agreements between highly-reputable companies, it’s most likely incredibly cheap. I could definitely be wrong about that assumption, but production costs for pups are usually very low so SD could afford to drastically slash each unit’s price if Fender is buying enough in bulk (which they are). Same goes for Hipshot. So after all the production is finished, the end result is a (badass) bass with only a couple more dollars put into it, most of that coming from using third-party hardware. At that point, If it were just a production instrument and not a signature, it could honestly be sold for around $700 and Fender would still make their usual profit. They’re a massive company with such streamlined production processes and supply chains that any added costs for them are pennies on the dollar, since those costs can be shared among the thousands of instruments they’ll produce. But since it IS a signature model, they have a contract with Duff. There is no way to know what type of agreement they have with each other, but since he is such a big name and already has an established history with Fender, he probably had a lot of negotiating power and cut a pretty sweet deal. I would assume that he gets a percentage of every Duff bass sale, which takes away from Fender’s profit. So in order to offset that, they increase the retail price. But they don’t just increase the price enough to regain what they lost for Duff’s cut. Since the bass has a huge name associated with it, they sell it to dealers at a huge markup. For example, based off of some Fender financial data, it looks like they have about a 30% profit margin with normal production-line instruments. Dealers (GC, Sweetwater, Sam Ash) *usually* pay about 50% of MSRP for instruments. A Player’s Series Precision retails for $675, so the dealer paid about $338. Since Fender makes about $101 profit (30% of that $338), that puts production costs of the P bass at about $237. Follow the same calculations for the Duff model, which retails for $1200. The dealer pays Fender about $600. If you subtract the production cost (a little more than $237, so call it about $250 just to have a number) and Duff’s cut (say 10%), Fender is still making a profit of $315, which is more than triple what they would make on a Players Series P. I know there are some assumptions in there since I had to give concrete numbers to Duff’s cut and production cost of a Duff bass, so there’s a good chance I’m off, but I'm willing to bet those numbers are at least in the ballpark. And again, I’m not saying Fender is greedy or evil for netting more profit on Duff’s basses. They see a golden opportunity to mark up one of their products and they’re gonna take it. Plus I'm sure they've done plenty of market research to see if people will still buy it at that price. It’s not that bad for the consumer I guess. You could either buy a Players Series P bass and make the same mods and save a few hundred bucks, or you could buy a bass that already has those mods and also has an awesome artist behind it. Still though, Fender could easily sell the Duff bass for $999 and still come out with a nice profit. I guess at the end of the day you’re paying a premium for the convenience of a pre-modded bass and/or for the name recognition of Duff.
$1200. Kinda where I thought it price point at. Not sure how many Kids are gonna be able to swing that? My first Bass cost me $300 and took me a whole Summer to pay off (still have it too)! Duff is a nice laid back dude and considering how his career went it's nice to see that.
Yeah, definitely not cheap but honestly that's pretty good for an artist series bass from Fender, especially with unique features like the all black neck and headstock that seperate it from other basses. Don't get me wrong, I love GnR and Duff but I'm considering grabbing this bass just because it seems like a really solid bass and it's unique. But you have a point, it's going to take me a summer of working to get it or similar Fender basses in this price range.
Duff right on the money. So many players think their 'The One.' This just leads to resentment within the group. That's EGO getting in the way. For all the 'Its all about ME' players out there, remember it's called a GROUP for a reason.
Peter Baltes, Ian Hill. Jason Newsted became a GREAT bassist when Bob Rock taught him to lock in with the drums instead of copying the guitar note for note. Lemmy is solid. Unique was of adding thickness to the sound
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The bassline in sweetchild is as iconic as the guitar
Noit'snotjk
Really? What rhcp song?😮
@@enriqueruiz3093lol what
In my eyes even more!
You can hear the hardcore/punk influence in that line.
For me, Duff plays bass properly. He understands the bass playing religion.
You can’t be selfish as your role is to support other musicians in the band. Without your support, properly deployed, the band doesn’t work.
Like he says, if you’re looking to be the focus of attention then the bass isn’t the instrument for you.
My bass players - Duff, Lemmy, Paul Simonon.
Okay, explain Cliff Burton then. Explain Les Claypool. Geddy fucking Lee. Bass can be whatever you want it to be.
@@Realest6 It always depends on the role you have in your band. Any instrument can be the lead but the band needs to accomodate for that. I love playing like these guys but you still need to understand what role the bass usually serves in music.
@@salty_3k506 well no shit, but i mean you can do a little more. especially in a solo. McKagan's "solos" are like he's scared too play too much. bass is very versatile
@@Realest6 Yes I know. I play bass myself and I love more complicated bass playing but not everyone wants that.
Jared Followil of Kings of Leon has show that the guitar bass can be more than that
Duff has always seemed like the coolest dude and man I wanna try this bass out!
His tone actually sounds pretty similar to what you usually go for.
He can relate to beginners due his lack of skill
@@lowlifeangler lol is that it?
@@patrickhunter Well, stuck with the worst singer and a couple drunk ass guitar players
lowlife74 Axl is one of the best vocalists of all time
Duff's bass tone is like a warm blanket.
I really love the Fender black headstocks
Its So sharp
I do to tried to order one from Sweetwater and they said there at least 2 to 3 weeks out, I'm thinking months.
yeah the black headstocks always look more deluxe
Why Duff is so underated? He Is one of the Best bass players ever, He put his signature on every GNR song and influece many people (and mysefl) to play bass guitar
When you can sing the basslines in a song, you know how powerful of a player that person is, and that's Duff.
That slither bass line man i missed scott and velvet revolver
This guy has one of the best bass tones I've ever heard.aside from Geddy Lee,Lemmy Kilmister,Flea,Justin and Chancellor....i kinda dig this guy's tone
Ikr. Like shit, one of the thickest bass tones I've ever heard
Justin and Chancellor
I mean geddys early tone in rush from like 2112-signals was ripped right from guys like chris squire. Just sayin. I love geddy but he did not create that tone.
@@trenken Geddy said in his rrhf indictment that Chris was a big inspiration of his growing up and loved his tone
Absolutely love this man. He was very influential and iconic to me growing up as a young bass player. He knew his role and thus helped me understand where bass fits in. Izzy played his way as did Slash. They did not mirror parts at all. Duff found a sticking point with the drums and created his own creative lines and drove the rhythm home. Legendary if you ask me.
one of the most underrated rock bass players of all time
no cap
No cap x2
This new David Bowie signature looks sick!
LOL
LMAO
Holy shit he does look like Bowie, I never noticed
He looks a lot like him lol!
Kind of a bowie and Iggy pop bastardization...
Duff cuoting the clash just made me love him even more. Joe strummer was a legend
This video was not long enough. I kinda need this bass in my life. That jam towards the end though. YES.
I love Duff's basslines
Starting off with Velvet Revolver instead of GnR. My kinda guy Duff.
one of the coolest and most recognisable bass sounds, without the need to go wildly technical.
Interviewer acting like he doesnt know the bass specs lol
in general like he is a car driver
hahahahahahahahahah
0:29 The sound of my teenge years.
Velvet Revolver' Slither
Phenomenal player - unforgettable bass lines - love
I played it at my local music store and it's superb. So cool that the Signature Bass is based on the discontinued Fender Jazz Bass Special. Love the feel of it.
It's nowhere near as good though.
4:34 duffs signature fill
Yeah, I know exactly what you are talking about. I have always called that the 'Duff Bounce'. The bounce, in combination with his rattly, tone with a lot of high end makes the transition between chords interesting. There is a metallic rattle or clank to his playing that is very tasteful. It shouldn't be, but it is.
Bass part from Velvet Revolver - Slither / Duff is AweSOME as ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my top 3 bassists of all time
who are the other two?
John Myung and Ryan Martinie
Me too...my first bass hero, when I was 11 yrs old, I'm 36 now:) My other top two would be Rex Brown and Victor Wooten, but Ryan Martini's right there! Fucking love Mudvayne. Close call!
With Simon Gallup !!
My top 3:
-Cliff Burton
-Duff Mckagan
-Dave Ellefson
I know that no one cares lol
I've just give this video its 3850 thumb up. Duff is amazing. Along with C.J. Ramone, Flea and Eric Avery, he is one of my favourite bass players and he pushes me to learn and play the bass long ago in 1992, when I was an 8 years old kid listening UYI I and II
I recently took up bass, it’s been fun, it was also awesome to discover that the 3 bassists I like most are all pickers like me not finger players. Duff, lemmy and Paul McCartney.
Same bro check out Mike dirnt too 👍
Playing a heavy sound with pick has it uniqueness in delivering the tone of sound. Only few fingerpicking bassist manage to deliver that by using fingerslyle i.e late Cliff Burton and Robert Trujilo.
I’ve got this bass for nearly 2 years now, it really is wonderful 😃
Any issues?
@@TheKamu666 not really, I’ve changed the strings as I prefer Elixir and it came with Fender strings.
YES…! My favorite artist video so far. Most people try to shred and show their chops. I like that the most successful bassist of them all doesn’t go there. He just plays a bit, with a guitar player, which is cool, and mostly talks about his inspiration and story. How cool. Love it ❤
Can we get a Geezer Butler signature P Bass for early Black Sabbath tones
the witchfinder general Check our the EMG Geezer pickups. Put them in whatever P or PJ you like.
I realize this was like a year ago and you've probably found it by now, but Lakland makes a Geezer signature bass(it's a P-type design)
Matt’s killing it, awesome musician
That's always been a great sounding bass. One of my favorites. Always loved the vintage white finish on it.
That tone is AMAZING.
Congrats, Duff! You survived the whole thing.🔥🔥🔥
Duff is in one of the top five greatest bands of all time period..he knows what he is talking about
Possibly one of the best bass tone of the bussines!!
We need a Matt Sweeney Signature!
caplippi lol
I wonder if I am the only person who knows his band chavez.
My two favorite bass players tone are David Ellefson and Duff’s!
The opening bass line to 'Peace Sells' is powerful enough to resurrect the dead.
They are also my favorite bassists and I'm a guitar player
Ever saw Megadeth in concert? Couldn't hear Dave, but I certainly felt him. (the guitars made me deaf for 2 days!)
@@JuanCruz-un9jy thats awesome
Man you ain't lying! After all these years I look back and listen to those albums and the tone has aged well.
Maybe my favorite bass player great attitude and great chemistry with slash learning his bass lines from appetite was very instrumental in my own aspirational style thanks man killer bass tone
I enjoyed the section the most in G'n'R - mainly in "Use Your Illusion" where Matt and Duff made a killer duo. Those two locked with eachother so good it was the goosebumps everytime I lisened them both playing.
This guy has some serious stage presence and I saw him in 89'....
Oh my god....that is the most unbelievably beautiful bass guitar i have ever seen!
The Fender P Bass is the Best all around in my opinion . It's a simple flawless design and is standard for bassists.
I need a Duff bass. So badass
I want this bass so bad. Duff is king 🤘
Damn Duff has such a great overdriven tone
Yeahh that sounds awesome, it was weird without his chorus effect
Picked up this bass from the store today. I love it!! 😍
He Actually helped keep Scott Weiland sober for a while. So he can put that on his resume
Bass tone for years! Top man!
BEAUTIFUL tone. Well done, Mr. McKagan. 👍👍🎵🎵
Definitely one of the cooler looking basses from Fender.
Nihal Nayak you should see his fender aerodyne
The tone is absolutely sick! 🤘
Duff is the reason why i want to be tall man playing bass
Duff is the coolest guy that you would just love to down a few beers and chat endesly at a bar
Jesus Christ, the way these guys talk about the Hipshot D-Tuner, you'd think it hadn't been around since the early 80s.
What is this strange magic of which you speak?
Yeah. When they called the D-tuner a Hipshot😁
I named my 1st dog Duff when I was 13, I'm 40 now. Everyone thought it was a simpsons reference, but it was a coolest bass player reference. I have a sweet 70s jazz but kinda want one of his basses. Can't have both lol
Do you have Duff's bass?
1:00 unless you're Duff McKagan
Such a cool dude and the Bass sounds killer!
I have a Black one. Beautiful bass, I get compliments left and right, other musicians are blown away, a Jazz neck on a P-Bass body! My only gripe is the MIM craftsmanship isnt as good as I expected, but it is what it is.
I have the black one as well. I love it! I wish they made a 5 string version of it too.
To anyone who doesn’t know. The Fender Squier PJ bass for about £200 is a brilliant instrument and sounds excellent.
My first bass lmao
Yeah it’s great for GNR
Mario Chartouni same.
This bass kick ass.
Cool, Duff dude. You're awesome with the bass.
4:10 love it i have this with my Hummingbird right now.
This man is legendary!!
Anyone know if there’s a real version of what they start playing at 1:20, sounds so dope I need to know!
Best aging rock star hands down
I don’t know man, there are definitely bands where the bass player stands out the most.
Congratulations then
@@Adefesio94 lol I'm just engaging in the video. Focus on creating and not destroying my dude :)
The Chili Peppers definitely. Flea is the star of the show, especially now that Frusciante gone.
most post punk bands
I agree but I also don’t think that was his point. He was saying you shouldn’t be playing in a band to be the centre of attention, and that if you are in a band for that reason it’s the wrong reason.
Velvet Revolver-slither so good!!!!!
Duff is the coolest musican ever
Fender should do a Davie504 Signature Bass
Hahahaha with the 🇮🇹 on it haha
Chowny already have
I always digged in his playing, that even though he plays with a pick, his sound is so full.
Duff my hero..
THAT BASS!!!
Bruh, Duff hasn't aged a flippin' day.
Just gets better
Damn, Matt is errrvrywhere.
I ain't mad at it. 👌🏾
One of the sickest PJ basses that Fender has made so far! Sounds so exactly how a rock bass should sound, and the additions of a hipshot, Seymour Duncan bridge pup, and an upgraded tone circuit and toggle switch give it that modded vibe that a ton of bassists like to go for. But come on, $1200 for a Mexican-made instrument? I know that Fender's quality control has been incredible for the past few years, but that still seems a little much for a Fender import. It's definitely still within the price range where it'll sell well, but I think seeing "Made in Mexico" across the front of the headstock will turn a lot of people off. Maybe they're thinking the name recognition of Duff will make up for that, idk. At the end of the day It's still a badass bass.
I understand what you are saying but Fender already has that demo covered with the American Performer series. Same price, Corona-built, but without the Hipshot, the SD Jazz pup, the inlays, the 3-way, the tough as nails polyester finish, and of course the Duff name. Put another way this is a $675 MIM Player series with the upgrades. Are they worth it? OEM Hipshot alone is worth $100 so I think it is very close. From Fender's point of view a USA Duff would have to come in at near $2K and does that price you out of fan/player reach and leave you strictly with collectors? Shooting for the collector market first is what put Gibson in bankruptcy so I think it is a good call.
@@JeffreyTheTaylor I totally get what you're saying, and you have a really good point. The bass would have probably ended up being too expensive to sell if they went for an American-made model, so I totally respect that Fender went the import route to save the consumer some money. My one hold-up I still have is the price. If you break down the production costs, it still seems like they're marking the bass up a LOT in order to maximize their own profit. Again, that's totally fine; Fender can obviously do whatever they want, and they know a lot more than I do about maximizing profits. But look at is this way:
After comparing all the specs of Duff's bass to the Player Series Precision, the differences are:
- PJ configuration instead of just P
- Upgraded electronics (SD pup, TBX tone circuit & toggle switch)
- Upgraded neck (block inlays, neck & headstock finish)
- Hipshot Xtender
Now look at each difference from a production perspective. Keep in mind that the only way each difference would increase production costs is if new processes at the factory need to be done to achieve this difference. (Besides the SD pup & Hipshot Xtender which I'll get to in a sec)
- The PJ configuration wouldn't add any cost because they could be (and most likely are) using the Active Deluxe PJ bodies that are already routed for PJ configuration.
- The upgraded tone circuit and toggle switch would add some production costs. The price of the added *hardware* would be infinitesimally small because wholesale metal & plastic are hella cheap, but the added labor time to install them and the R&D cost of developing the new tone circuit would be considerable. (But not that much when you divide that cost between thousands of basses)
- They are using regular P necks (all same dimensions, radius, nut width, etc.) so no added cost to cut custom necks. Also, it doesn't add any production cost to do blocks instead of dot inlays because like I said, the only way production costs increase is when a new process needs to be done at the factory, and they already do block inlays on some of the Jazz necks there, so that process is already being done regularly. The biggest cost of the neck would be the added finish on the back and headstock. To my knowledge they currently don't do any other MiM models with finished necks besides the old Duff model, so doing that custom process takes time and space, therefore adding to the production cost. The actual paint used would add some more cost but not much since they get all their materials wholesale.
- The only other differences are the SD bridge pup and the Hipshot Xtender, which are third parties. This is where it gets tricky and where I’ll have to use some assumptions. Fender doesn’t say which model of Hipshot Xtender they’re using for the Duff bass but after looking at the different models it appears to be the Xtender BT7 which retails for $65. The SD they’re using retails for $85. Now obviously Fender is not paying retail prices for these things, they have wholesale agreements with Hipshot and SD. There is no way to know how much they’re paying wholesale for each pup and tuner, but I’m gonna assume that since they are agreements between highly-reputable companies, it’s most likely incredibly cheap. I could definitely be wrong about that assumption, but production costs for pups are usually very low so SD could afford to drastically slash each unit’s price if Fender is buying enough in bulk (which they are). Same goes for Hipshot.
So after all the production is finished, the end result is a (badass) bass with only a couple more dollars put into it, most of that coming from using third-party hardware. At that point, If it were just a production instrument and not a signature, it could honestly be sold for around $700 and Fender would still make their usual profit. They’re a massive company with such streamlined production processes and supply chains that any added costs for them are pennies on the dollar, since those costs can be shared among the thousands of instruments they’ll produce. But since it IS a signature model, they have a contract with Duff. There is no way to know what type of agreement they have with each other, but since he is such a big name and already has an established history with Fender, he probably had a lot of negotiating power and cut a pretty sweet deal. I would assume that he gets a percentage of every Duff bass sale, which takes away from Fender’s profit. So in order to offset that, they increase the retail price. But they don’t just increase the price enough to regain what they lost for Duff’s cut. Since the bass has a huge name associated with it, they sell it to dealers at a huge markup. For example, based off of some Fender financial data, it looks like they have about a 30% profit margin with normal production-line instruments. Dealers (GC, Sweetwater, Sam Ash) *usually* pay about 50% of MSRP for instruments. A Player’s Series Precision retails for $675, so the dealer paid about $338. Since Fender makes about $101 profit (30% of that $338), that puts production costs of the P bass at about $237. Follow the same calculations for the Duff model, which retails for $1200. The dealer pays Fender about $600. If you subtract the production cost (a little more than $237, so call it about $250 just to have a number) and Duff’s cut (say 10%), Fender is still making a profit of $315, which is more than triple what they would make on a Players Series P. I know there are some assumptions in there since I had to give concrete numbers to Duff’s cut and production cost of a Duff bass, so there’s a good chance I’m off, but I'm willing to bet those numbers are at least in the ballpark.
And again, I’m not saying Fender is greedy or evil for netting more profit on Duff’s basses. They see a golden opportunity to mark up one of their products and they’re gonna take it. Plus I'm sure they've done plenty of market research to see if people will still buy it at that price. It’s not that bad for the consumer I guess. You could either buy a Players Series P bass and make the same mods and save a few hundred bucks, or you could buy a bass that already has those mods and also has an awesome artist behind it. Still though, Fender could easily sell the Duff bass for $999 and still come out with a nice profit. I guess at the end of the day you’re paying a premium for the convenience of a pre-modded bass and/or for the name recognition of Duff.
That's a really cool P-Bass. That's everything you need in a bass. Nice work by Fender and Duff.
The director of this video is so DAMN good
Cant believe i have this at home
I just ordered this bass. Can’t wait to get my hands on it! It just looks and sounds so fucking awesome!!!
How is it?
I’ve got the Fender Boxer and it is awesome P/J very similar instrument. Totally different animal to my Ric 4001.🇬🇧🏴
I love you Duff!!!!!
$1200. Kinda where I thought it price point at. Not sure how many Kids are gonna be able to swing that? My first Bass cost me $300 and took me a whole Summer to pay off (still have it too)!
Duff is a nice laid back dude and considering how his career went it's nice to see that.
Yeah, definitely not cheap but honestly that's pretty good for an artist series bass from Fender, especially with unique features like the all black neck and headstock that seperate it from other basses. Don't get me wrong, I love GnR and Duff but I'm considering grabbing this bass just because it seems like a really solid bass and it's unique. But you have a point, it's going to take me a summer of working to get it or similar Fender basses in this price range.
I love Matt Sweeney
Mike Ness & Duff Mckagan are my fucking heros.
That super bassman sounds amazing
wow, i need this bass!
So cool. Like the man himself.
1:18 What is the name of that song?
Duff kicks ass
I ordered this bass a month ago and I will still have to wait for it for maybe 3-4 weeks 😭😭😭
Love that tone..
Fender should make a classic vibe jazz bass special
Haven't comprehended a thought you've explained ; picking up
Duff right on the money. So many players think their 'The One.' This just leads to resentment within the group. That's EGO getting in the way. For all the 'Its all about ME' players out there, remember it's called a GROUP for a reason.
Ok this was badass
i love you Duff🤘🔥🔥
Humble
Thanks 2 duff recommending steampunk emporium in wellington cbd everyone started shopping there
The 2 best pick bass players: Duff McKagan and David Ellefson.
Mike dirnt too
@@bagaspratama440 Of course
Krist Novoselic too
Peter Hook.
Peter Baltes, Ian Hill. Jason Newsted became a GREAT bassist when Bob Rock taught him to lock in with the drums instead of copying the guitar note for note. Lemmy is solid. Unique was of adding thickness to the sound
Velvet revolver ♥