EssentialTension

Here's one ... https://www.talkbass.com/threads/the-real-james-jamerson-amp.854013/

Geezer Butler stacked up with Laney.

Early Black Sabbath were also associated with Laney ... and Iommi still is.

Only when he was pretending to be Carol Kaye on all those Beach Boys albums.

You bet, it does.

I stole this from Talkbass but here's how to sound like Jamerson ...

If you ain't interested do not listen to this Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell version of ANMHE. Sounds like Jamerson all the way through.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/306522-gig-bag-for-es-335-bass-jack-casady-hollowbody/

Articles on playing bass in fifths

I saw the axcellent and fanatstic show a couple of weeks ago ... and very nice to see you in action.

Jack, you just had to bring up the Beatles again, oh dear.

Here's the Motown guitar and bass preamp if you've not seen it before ...

What do you think of this?

http://www.bobbabbitt.com/smf/index.php/topic,148.0.html

https://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/1/541.html?1020196543

Red Mitchell tuned his double bass like a cello; it can be done. And I think the French electric bassist Jannick Top plays, or has played, cello tuning.

I had a Tony Franklin fretless Precision and it's the one bass I strongly regret selling.

I played fretted for over thirty years without ever thinking about even trying fretless. Then I got a gig, without any audition, with a band who, it turned out later, thought I did play fretless - no-one seems to know why they thought that. I liked the band so I bought a lined fretless Fender Jazz and it turned out that I could play fretless at least well enough. The Jazz got replaced by an unlined fretless Fender Precision which in turn was replaced by a Takamine B10 hollow bodied bass. It also led me to an NS electric upright and then to a double bass, which, although I could get a tune out of it, did prove either beyond my ability or beyond my motivation or beyond both. After eight years that band is no more and I am without any unfretted instrument.

And due to being no dullard I agree with discreet.

Adjusting pickup height may help. However, some people think that substanitially lowering action, or substantially raising action, also can affect tone as the strings have less (or more) space in which to vibrate giving a richer (or not) harmonic spectrum. That's why with a lowered action one needs to play with a lighter touch; with a higher action one can more freely dig in. But I think it's fair to say that this claim is disputed.