Holy necrothreads!
Did anybody find out what the OP's bass was?
A Hondo II Ric copy is worth maybe £300 (despite the body being plywood); one was famously played by Peter Hook of Joy Division for a while and there's just an auction of his memorabilia including a Hondo II (though not the one he actually played back in the day).
I've got a barebones one which I've used to fiddle about with.
The last London Show I went to there were times where it felt like my whole head was resonating with the volume wars.
Somehow there needs to be a way for people to play the amps at a level suitable to hear the kit, but not directly facing someone else who wants to hear their kit too!
Well, the normal position on the new ones is that the series treble cap is bypassed, for the "modern" sound which also means the treble pickup is louder, but you can pull the treble knob to get the "vintage" sound.