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Just like you can play many of the same notes on similar instruments in the same family. Like the range overlap between a cello and a double bass.
Those notes have a different tonality to them. The cello has a faster attack due to the shorter string length and the smaller body being easier to vibrate. The double bass has a slower attack but a greater swell to the note bloom.
There are fretted double basses around, and in the good old days some players used to tie gut around the neck in the note positions as temporary frets.
The fretless bass guitar, when strung with roundwounds has quite a unique attack to the note that many players describe as "mwah" - there is nothing else that sounds like that.
It really is a different instrument, albeit in the same family.
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Another superb album you wouldn't expect Pino to be playing on is Nine Inch Nails 2013 album, Hesitation Marks. Check out the track All Time Low for some v cool playing. Also, look up the live show by NIN, on youtube, called Tension 2103. Pino was the bassist for the tour, and this film is simply brilliant - stunning show, brilliant playing and fantastic visuals. Again, regardless of whether you like NIN or not, this will surprise you.
and even more coolness
I remember laughing at an interview with a bassist in Guitarist magazine years ago.
When called for a session he cockily said "you're only ringing me because you couldn't get Pino, aren't you?"
"Yes. That's exactly why I'm calling you".
Jagger agent claimed it was an audition. Pino stated something like "I'm Pino, I don't audition"
He got paid.
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from the get-go, you wonder- what's that crazy distorted-octaved moog solo churning through the whole song and totally overshadowing the remains of what is a catchy little pop song? and where's the bass?;)
Also, the fill landscape on Pete Townsends Give Blood is spectacular.
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Doesn't take anything away from Paul Young and Pino though - it might be the first hit to have a fretless electric so prominent, and it really made that sound recognised.
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Fret position markers are for wimps. Judge pitch by your ears rather than your eyes. Slide to the required pitch. Throw in some longitudinal finger vibrato to disguise this "cheating". Bury everything in some combination of Chorus, Flanger and short delay and nobody will spot your cock-ups.
Previous contributors have name-checked Jaco, Pino and Mick Kahn. I wish to add Les Claypool, Patrick O'Hearn (solo artiste, Frank Zappa) and Barry Adamson (best known from Magazine).