I know right? I yearn for that tone too, don’t even get it with the same gear, the tone was in his fingers. Although I agree a semi is a great addition.
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Yes, because of my learning and trying to speed up a little bit with jugging, I remembered „A Forest“ from „The Cure“ . On concerts they used to play that song for sometimes more than 10 minutes. And the bass player goes on and on and on like forever… Brings back a bunch of memories…
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I recently bought a Framus sein from 1967. It‘s exactly that Kind of sound. They are not even that expensive at the moment.
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Anything by Joy Division or U2
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Ooh cool bass!
Thank you. Yeah I really love it. I‘ll post it in the gear section. Just thought it is a nice answer to you, mentioning that cool sound of the Hofner.
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Just bought a single of „The Beat“ or „The English Beat“ how they are called in the US. Can’t Get Used to Losing You. It brings back a nice memories of my Teenie years.
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Agree to this. Especially Joy Division which I regularly play as a DJ. Nothing brings back better the musical feeling from the late seventies. (If you‘re not going into Punk or Ska)
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I was at one of the first gigs of the first tour by the Cure. They were a massive influence, along with all the other bands I saw twixt 73-79. The years I consider I was learning what was what. Seeing the leap from 78-82 convinced me then that they would be hugely influential. The same can also be said of Joy Division and U2. Interesting to some would be going to see U2 at Barbarellas in Birmingham in 1980. The place was pretty empty, maybe 30 or 40 people. The band came on to muted applause, played the show as if it was a packed house and they were the best band that ever played there. Left us wanting more. Went to the next tour and they were queued around the block and we couldn’t get in.
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Yes they all are also to me highly influential. What a cool story with U2. In which Country was that? Birmingham UK? I have also seen some very big bands in front of a small audience. I wish I could bring them back like when I saw the Clash in Bern (Switzerland) or the Cure in Zürich in front of some hundreds of people.
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Yes, I’m in UK. I was lucky in that I was there while a cultural movement happened, unbeknown to those of us busy living it. I don’t know what I’d call it myself. Upstairs and in the back bar of the Plough Hotel, (and later Whitcombe Lodge Hotel) we got to see The Fall, The Ruts, The Damned, Scritti Politti, The Cure, and local legends that went on to be Teardrop Explodes, Killing Joke, Motorhead, and more than I can fit here or remember. Some of them showed me how to play. Some of them told me to f*%k off. But I still love every moment.
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These are cool souvenirs. Really brings in Nostalgia. Yeah we did not know then what we take part in, but it was a revolution to the music and music industry. Got to see Killing Joke more then once and they stay one of my deepest impressions. Got to listen to them when I‘m back home from work 
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Listening a lot to Lynyrd Skynyrd lately, as I discovered outstanding remastered/cleaned performances on youtube
These were the kind of bands I liked gigging with most (RnR cover bands back in the '90s)
But if I were to put my finger on one of the first albums that made me realize Bass (I was 14 at the time): Mark King’s Level 42, Lessons In Love was aired over and over a summer I spent on UK to learn English back in mid 80’s.
I guess the fact of the lead singer being the bass player, and specially King’s slap/machinegun style, a sound that wasn’t that widely known back then (let alone in Pop music!) made it stand out even more for me.
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I got into Mark King around age 14 too! I had these low quality bootlegs from live shows I found on Limewire or something, I can’t even guess how many times I listened to them. A lot! Love his sound and how tight his rhythmic feel is. Like a funky metronome!
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Like a train! 
Solo + short King’s take on Good Times riff + Love Games:
Love how he connects with audience and teases it!
Impressed also how hard he bashes the Bass, remembers me to Flamenco Guitarists!
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I love the hard hitting players. Drums, bass… there’s a time for feel and dynamics, and a time for brutal-smashings… ahhh… so sweet to see and hear.
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Louis Johnson beats the crap out of his bass like that too. His nickname was Thunder Thumbs. 
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Damn.
Maybe the coolest bass nickname ever?
Any other ones?
The bassist from Brick was just called Fudge… that’s pretty… cool?
Bass nicknames are rad.
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That should have it’s own header!
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I thought this thread could do with being brought back - just for the sake of nostalgia. 
I’m terrible for getting nostalgic when I watch the Top Of The Pops reruns/compilations for the mid 80s, but for really yanking me right back to the moment, Stanley Clarke’s School Days is the one. I wasn’t very sophisticated when it came to music and had hardly begun my bass journey (for the 1st time) but it was mesmerising - it still is - but it was also the sound track to some memorable days & nights hanging out with a good friend - she introduced me to a whole new world.
I wish I had picked something easier to play. 
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