MacDaddy

There was a free music magazine called Making Music, who absolutely loved the Marlin Sidewinders. They must have been on the payroll 😉

Where's the line between "a decent bass for the price" and "a decent bass"?

It's all relative. How much did you pay for your car? Do you take it out on the roads?

The Fight of the Century. Docu-drama about the first Ali vs Frazier fight. You don't have to be a boxing fan to enjoy it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p098l4b4/episodes/downloads

Pics! 😀

Judging by his past behaviour it's likely the others in the act will only be made aware of his shenanigans when they don't get paid.

The Rockonteurs podcasts by Gary Kemp & Guy Pratt.

Bands that were so bad, no major record label would touch them.

Off the top of my head: Mark Mendoza Bootsy Collins Larry Graham Billy Sheehan

"who are your influences" often translates as "who are your favourite players", but these are completely different questions. I 💕 Bootsy Collins (as indeed you all should 😜) but I don't play or sound anything like him. I've been influenced by @Steve Lawson not necessarily his (amazing) playing, but more his philosophy. The main influence on my bass playing is classical guitar, because that's where my technique comes from. But to answer the OP, yes, I was asked who my favourite bassists are when I joined my Alt-Country/Americana band, and none of them were from that genre 😆

Camille and Kennerly

Google "Simon Napier-Bell books".

What about finger style and really low?

Me too. But on one strap I have an extra strap lock further down so I can lower the bass and look cool 😊

My old Hamer Blitz bass. Sounded like a Precision on steroids and looked as cool AF 😎 It was just too big for me 😔

I would love to be in an 80's cover band, one that did the image and everything 😁 Good luck!

That would be one example.

Vocal ability can sometimes take second place to the ability to front the band and engage the audience etc. but it depends on the band.

The bit of something it lacked, was cured by a good set up? It's often the case, I've never understood how you can try an instrument on display in a music shop that plays terribly, when it could have been tweaked for 5-10 mins to be playable.

We've been showing the same Hootenanny for 17 years and you haven't noticed, BBC confirms https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/weve-been-showing-the-same-hootenanny-for-17-years-and-you-havent-noticed-bbc-confirms-20231231243994

Er, I've been thinking about it since last year? 😊

Possibly going to sell a bass to fund a custom replacement. Is one-in one-out an exception?

Used to do 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Great bassline. Currently doing The Lemonheads version of Mrs Robinson.

To answer the OP, yes. Peavey Vypyr VIP 3. Designed for guitar and bass. I've gigged it with both.

I think you're right, text to speech software would not work on emoticons, I didn't think of that 😟 Apologies to the OP.