Oh dear, I doubt whether that Sweet clip would pass PC barriers today.
White guys doing a calypso spoof with black guys limbo dancing around them (IIRC, limbo dancing was to originally entertain white slave masters who would let the slave who managed to get low enough without toppling go free, but it might have tribal African backgrounds too).
Great bass sound, but is that really how those Italian Dynelectros (not the original Danelectro, the Dynelectros were made of wood and actually qualitywise the more worthy product) sounded? Early Sweet were notorious for not being allowed to play on their singles (Phil Wainman, their producer, would get the usual suspects of English sessioneers in to do the job which is why a lot of early Chinn-Chapman glam sounds so similar), so this might be a Gibson bass for all we know. That said, Steve Priest would have been nimble-fingered enough to play this, he was no slouch on the bass.
Uwe
