When Prince died in 2016, decades before his time, the world was deprived not only of a unique singer, songwriter and artistic force, we also lost a supremely talented bass player. The maestro didn’t often play bass live, but when he did he played with total economy and groove. To remind our community of his sheer force as a bass player, and to commemorate five years since his passing, we talk to the many bassists from Prince’s bands about his approach, and we also revisit a classic interview from 1999. BP writer Karl Coryat went to Paisley Park to meet him, only to be denied a recorder and obliged to play bass right in front of the legend. Could you have handled that amount of pressure?