t-rex arms! so funny. I also have a short scale because I simply cannot reach anything on a regular scale bass.
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My main bass is a Fender Jazz Bass, just love it. I also have a Hofner violin bass it’s short scale and has that early Beatles sound.
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I have a standard Jazz, and I’m about to pull the trigger on a fretless P. I can work them, but it’s so much easier with a short scale. On the regulars scale, I don’t have the reach, so I’m practicing sliding.
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Pretty! I like those basses a lot.
Classics! I’d love to add a Hoftner-style bass to my repertoire, if only to amuse myself at home playing along with Paul. 
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This brings up a great subject - not sure if it fits here or not… but: naming the bass? Anyone out there a bass namer? I never have been. I usually call them “The Modulus” or “The P-Bass” - feels like a name, but it’s not an extra naming process. I’ve always been curious how people go about giving their instruments names.
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New bass day! I go back to Iowa frequently to see Mom and do stuff for her around the house. I thought it would be nice to have a bass around, so I went to GC and picked up a Bronco and a Fender Rumble 25, and the ancillary gear that goes along with it.
I asked Mom for a corner to store it. She said the bass was so pretty I could leave it in the living room as art. Lol! I played the Billie Jean groove I painstakingly learned. She was impressed. I can also do a passable intro to Smoke on the Water.
The tinkerer in me won’t be satisifed, so when I come back next month, I’ll have new strings and a better bridge. I’ll bring my setup tools too.
That’s right. Mom still has shag carpet in the breezeway!
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The bass is rad… the shag carpet though - steals the show!
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love that bass, the color and the whole mod thing going on in that house, those tiles are cool.
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Looks great!
My grandma had a carpet rake just for shag carpet!
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Yeah, the carpet is clearly the main subject in this photo. 
Let us know how you like the Bronco! I haven’t played one for years, I remember being kinda meh about it.
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I don’t know if it will be meh, or not. But it will serve it’s purpose and give me something to do while I’m visiting Mom.
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For sure. Didn’t mean to diss your new bass, hope you love it.
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I know you didn’t. It’s all good. I’m such a noob still, that any bass is cool as heck. It will probably stay that way, too. 
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Loving all these basses, y’all.
Oh, here is my bass. It’s an Epiphone SG-style, but it’s shorter scale than the EB-3 that they sell now (30.5"). I hope to some day be worthy of it.
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Love the short scales!
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Oooooooh pretty.
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- from your posts, I can see and hear that you love the funk and the jammy jams… but with a bass like that, do you think you have it in you to try out something like… this? I love these guys…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ehMs9i_Ik
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Wow that beard is off the chain. And I love the tone of that bass, so huge and boomy! Those big fat neck humbuckers are neat.
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I will definitely try out stuff like that. I grew up loving bands like Cream , which is partly why I was attracted to my SG-type bass, but also because it was the best sounding short-scale in the store when I was ready to buy. Love hardish rock like Led Zep (one of my first concerts was Black Sabbath–ha!), and psychedelic rock, and I love punk, all of it. I am only halfway through Josh’s B2B course, but I look forward to all the rock bass lines coming up. I do gravitate these days toward R&B and funk and jazz, but at this point I can’t quite see me playing all those slaps (but we will see). Really the 12-bar blues is the first thing I have been able to master.
This bass I have seems versatile. I have been playing with those four knobs, and I found it can sound smooth, it can sound twangy, and switch that switch to #2 and turn up all the knobs… nasty! Thanks for the link to Kadavar! They are a throwback yet have their own style. I kind of love it when the bass player is just standing still, contrasting the front man/woman. Glad to know great hard rockers are still blooming.
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