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Lane's Zemaitis bass ...

... and Balboa Park 1967 ...

This is a Jazz bass with flats and a pick ... check out form 2:19 onwards ...

Like roundwounds, flatwound strings differ a lot depending on manufacturer. There may be even more variation than between those roundwounds. There'll also be the differing subjective experience of the player and differences emanating from one bass or another. Some examples: a Rotosound Jazz flatwound will never feel like a TI Jazz flat; the La Bella 1954 set is hardly like GHS Precision flats; Ernie Ball Cobalt flats really do not sound like Pyramid Gold flats. But, I'd say, whichever flatwounds you decide to try, you'll always need to give them a little time to settle in, to find out how they will actually feel, how they will actually sound. A couple of months should suffice. 😏

Jack Bruce too appeared often to be using mainly one finger.

Wes Montgomery too ..

If he doesn't like how you play he should never have given you the job in the first place. I commonly use just index finger ( and a second finger only if I really need to). Otherwise I'd reserve 'two fingers' for the guitarist.

Jet Harris, then Paul McCartney, then the Stax guy and the Motown guy, whose names I didn't know.

If those are both 34" scale instruments then the frets are identical distances apart. 17" from nut to centre of 12th fret. You need a tape measure not a photo taken at an angle. If they aren't identical then you've been sold a pup.

This might interest some of you ...

I suspect I may have owned (and worn) the purple pair in 1968.

But do you have the trousers?

With the Osmonds it ain't just the bass player ...

Good colour.

Nice.

And here's Heinz on guitar ... with David Hemmings on guitar, Steve Marriott on drums, and an unknown bass player.

I see this, which is also very good ...

Ha ha, I never noticed the similarity before.

It's not just you. But you'd have to be rich or a real specialist (like Duane Eddy) to buy one. I suspect Eddy got them reduced.

And only £3000!

Would your mum agree that US English 'movies' is equivalent of UK English 'flicks'?

Take them to your local refuse tip, put them in the 'metal' container. That's it.

I'm trying to go shorter and lighter ... Supro Huntington = 8.5lbs = not too bad Fender Mustang = 6.9lbs = nice Hofner Club = 4.9lbs = ecstasy