Thank you Mr. Shatner. I believe you have cleared up my problem. As I reflect on it, I'm sure that the bass player in that band was from Ralpha-Beta One. As the female denizens of that backward planet are known to have strong psychic abilities she must have put some Ralpha-Beta One mojo on us that makes us confuse past present and future. As this current episode of temporal distortion is the first of which I am aware, it appears that said mojo has a recurring thirteen-year cycle. It is entirely possible I will be flummoxed again in 2016.   

It also explains some peculiarities about the bass player herself. Like why she always wore those funny gloves with the ends of the fingers missing. She could fold up all those extra digits and stuff them inside the gloves and nobody would ever notice that she really had 17 fingers on each hand. It might also go a long way toward explaining why she was so fond of her bass and had given it a guy's name. It wasn't really a bass fiddle at all! It was a Ralpha-Beta One male. They are known to undergo metamorphosis several times during their life cycles, and one of the later pupate forms is almost indistinguishable from that of a 3/4 size bass violin.

(In fact, the Ralpha-Beta One male pupates three times during his life cycle. The bass fiddle form mentioned above is the final one. The earlier forms are almost identical to 1923 Gibson F5 mandolins and 1934 D-28 Martins. It is at these earlier stages of life that the defenseless males are most subject to predation, primarily by eBay scam artists and Asian gentlemen who own musical instrument companies.)