I've recently left my band of 5 years and joined another. I've gone from standard pub rock covers, where a jazz or p bass sounded right and the Stingray was a little too much, to now doing "pop goes rock". The new band have really thought about rocking up pop songs, i.e. they're not just using a bit of distortion and shouting the lyrics, there's a bit more songcraft. My Stingray is just perfect for this band, and I am encouraged to use effects, that's the biggest change. In the old band there was too much in the same frequencies and too much distorted guitar for anything but a polite clean bass tone, but now the guitarist loves the Helix SVT Beast pre set, the drummer loves the full punchy sound of the Stingray, and the singer likes it when I use fuzz or even wah in the right places. Because these guys gig more frequently than the last lot I've upgraded my cabs too.
Sadly my headless Status/ Washburn doesn't have a place in this band, nor my five string fretless. My dimarzio loaded PJ bitsa with flats on will be my backup bass. If I dare take it out the house my Jack Casady could do something in this band too.