If you haven't had time to practice together for a specific gig, you do need to be familiar enough with your bandmates to get the endings and beginnings down and some sort of signals for "tag this", "repeat", and "end now". The intros and endings are what folks remember!
I have sat in for missing bassists a few times and even though the material may not be difficult, or may even be familiar, I do find it stressful until I figure out "how" they play and what the signals are. I remember playing a couple of years ago with a band that had practised quite intensively on a set of songs that I was familiar with, but their style was to insert a number of unexpected breaks in the music during most songs. I knew the songs, but trying to watch for the often almost invisible signals that a break was happening, was tiring. Second time through I had some notes on the breaks and it went much better - nothing worse than playing through a break when everyone else has suddenly "STOPPED".
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