EssentialTension

Cinematic Soul

Jet Harris was the first bassist I was aware of and listened to very carefully. I didnt have a bass or even a guitar but I still mimed his playing in my bedroom.

I asked my son, who I am afraid to say is more widely knowledgable about music than me, if he was familiar with Piero Piccioni. Of course he was, and then also recommended the more contemporary El Michels Affair ...

Agreed Jazz bass and flats played with a pick nearer to the neck is very much the sound of that era and that could easily be what this is but I feel I hear something else, maybe in the recording process or pre-amp. Listening again , I am more leaning towards it being an electric bass with flats and pick. Anyway, it sounds great.

Thanks for posting, I really liked it. I'd say could be double bass too.

https://zemaitisguitarcompany.com/

Zemaitis A22B MF - made in Japan -

Lake Street Dive - Obviously

Is that a Zemaitis bass?

All good advice here but also don't forget that in a live situation (I mean the Dog & Duck, not a symphony orchestra) you will often get away wiht poorer intonation than you would in a recording studio. Relax.

Good covers need to be either pretty close to the original, at least in feel but better in actual notes and arrangement. Or the band needs to successfully rearrange the whole song into a completely new and musically interesting version. Either way, talent and playing for the song not for oneself are required. IMHO of course.

We used to play it in The Jump Jive Rhythm Five. Circa 1982. There were six of us.

Last Thursday, Mulatu Astatke, the Godfather of Ethio-Jazz, at 24 Kitchen Street in Liverpool - only UK gig on European tour. Very great night. Here's a video from 2019.

I had a set of Thomastik flats on a Precision bass for nigh on ten years and then I broke the A string. 🥴 The replacement never sounded the same. 😕

If you are going to change the strings, then many people here will volunteer to take the old ones off your hands. But the usual advice from flatwound users is don't change them.

I had one of those and to my eye it always looked like sonic green.

Just rediscivered this one ...

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/117779-herbie-flowers-jazz-bass-replica/

I've heard tell of people who could play 4'33" after no listens!

Definitely persevere. And realise that lots of things that happen at gigs, including bumnotes, missing the bridge, etc, and weak intonation, sound much worse when you listen back to a recording than they did in the live situation.

If I liked it enough to pay for a refinish, I would buy a pre-damaged bass.

Agreed.