I've played bass and guitar for over 30 years now. I've owned some excellent instruments along the way. Recently, for the first time, I decided I wanted to get something along the lines of the short-scale Gibson basses used by '60s British musicians such as Jack Bruce of Cream and Glenn Cornick of Jethro Tull. Real vintage '60s Gibsons are rather thin on the ground and quite expensive when still in good working condition, so a modern reissue was clearly the way to go. A bit of research suggested that the best candidate would be the Epiphone Elite EB-3 produced in the early 2000s, but those are no longer being made and I wasn't able to find one.