| Not sure how how prescription drugs entered the picture here...but looking into it was enough to give me the hee-bee gee-bee willys.
Ran across this qoute from Plato, in trying to understand what you were getting at.
"Diseases, except where they are very dangerous should not be irritated by drugs. For every disease has a structure that resembles in a certain manner the nature of living creatures. For the the composition of these living creatures has prescribed periods of life for the species as a whole....It is the same with the constitutions of diseases: whenever anyone destroys this by drugs, contrary to the allotted period of time, many serious diseases are wont to arise from those that are a few and slight. Consequently, so far as leisure permits, one should control all diseases by regimen, instead of irritating a troublesome evil by administering a drug." -PLATO (TIMAEUS, 89B-D)
So back on the subject of Tony Scherr's bass. I think it's a great design. And I think he's a great musician too!
I do dig Gene Vincent's music. I always wondered about the bass tone on those early Blue Cap's recordings, and some years ago ran across the photos with the rare Kay Bass in the studio.
So nice that Bill Merchant and Upton have revived a great instrument design as well | 
