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As Air Leech said, most of the basses that you hear in classic rock (we just called it "rock" back then) were Fenders. And today is a different bass world. Back in the mid-'70s, we had Fender, Gibson, Guild, and then a huge step down to poorly built copies that made those three production-line...

Read, read, read Ed Friedland's "Reggae Bass" book and find and listen to the songs of which he speaks. His book is an excellent and comprehensive introduction to the role of the bass in not just reggae, but the whole history of contemporary Jamaican music, from mento ('50) to ska (early '60s)...