This is just a detail in all that great work, but this was the first time I ever heard this: "Early basses had flatwound strings and damping under the chrome cap, for a short, dry double bass sound. Soon players removed that damping and in the 1970s Rotosound came out with the first roundwound strings."I knew early electric bass strings were primarily flats, but I had never heard that rounds weren't even available until the early 70s. I've always preferred flats, but I started playing the electric in 1967 and there were flats on my '63 P-bass when I got it.
Great article! Thanks for sharing!
If I'm right only Danelectro used rounds. Entwistle went to Rotosound to make the roundwounds for normal basses.
The story goes JAE bought several Danelectros cos he broke te strings.