I am not quite sure what this thread is about, it seems to be a requirement to have unusual or beat up old basses to play punk music, punk was not about what an instrument looks like, more about what instrument could be borrowed or stolen from those better off, it was about making do with what you could find or afford, unless you are modern day `punk` like Greenday then they have so much money they can have what they like and who can blame them
Punk basses are any basses, whether top quality or rubbish, I suppose we could do a thread about punk amps where the most punk one has the biggest rips in the grille cloth
Take the two ends of the old punk bass spectrum, punk had some crap bassists like Sid Vicious who could not play a note on his Fender Precision, then you had Klaus Flouride who IMO was a very good bass player on his Fender Jazz, both notable basses, J J Burnel had a great bass sound, Paul Simonon made some reasonable sounds .
Before I turned to bass I just liked the songs these bands put out regardless of the type of bass, its the music not the machine
