What type of Bass did Lonnie Turner Steve Miller Band play?

Answer 1

http://www.bassplayer.com/article/lonnie-turner/dec-06/24274 It appears that Lonnie Turner was playing Fender instruments ( a-1957 Precision Bass) until "Book of Dreams", when he bought a very early Music Man Stingray: Yes! I had been playing a 1957 Fender Precision-and I loved it to death-but I started to feel like it didn't really sparkle, like it didn't have the punch I wanted. So I took it into the shop and found out the pickup windings had gotten pretty thin. The guy offered to replace the pickups, but then he told me, "Wait, a guy here was just at the NAMM show, and he saw a whole new line of basses Leo Fender is getting ready to release through his new company, Music Man." So I got my hands on one right away, and it was a thing of amazing beauty-except, what's with the battery? I had no idea. But then I hit a G, and then an F#, and then an F-and you could actually hear the difference! Unfortunately, this new miracle bass was $600-without a case-and I had never paid that much even for a car. But I decided it was worth it, and I've never regretted it. I still own that bass; it's serial number B002-123, so it's the second-ever Music Man bass. I used it to cut all of Eagle and Book of Dreams, as well as the first couple of Eddie Money albums.