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I'm sure people do. Thing is, when 'in concert' a bass with a bit of drive, grind etc. on it can actually sound very clean. A lot of songs that appear to have clean bass on them turn out to be quite hairy when you listen to them in isolation.
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This very true.
Also I have found over the years the actual bass might dictate what kind of sound you use. For the past 5 or 6 years I've used only jazz style basses and found cleaner sounds complimented the jazz two pickup sound. Now I'm using a P bass I can't get enough of those dirty sounds via a Tech 21 VT500. This amp never really did it for me until I got the P , now a perfect match.