Baloney Balderdash

This is my "amp-less" setup: Though my main point with this is consistency of tone regardless of whether I rehearse at home through headphones, at band jam/rehearsal through a PA speaker, or live through a PA system. But as you can see I use a combination of no less than 4 preamps to obtain the exact tone I desire.

Triangle Walks - Fever Ray

I might be daft, and not trying to be snarky, but I fail to make any sense of this whatsoever, seems to me that the sentence kind of contradicts itself. What does this mean?

Vintage voiced pickups could mean either 50's, 60's or 70's pickups though, which all got a different general basic character to each other, plus then variations within those.

Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

This is true! Would give you much more extra output power than getting an amp with double the power rating (500W, as that would only equal to just about +3dB).

Same as my band jam/rehearsal and live "amp-less" setup. My main idea with this being consistency of tone regardless of whether I rehearse at home through headphones, at band jam/rehearsal through a PA speaker, or live through a PA system. : Though my Sennheiser headphones are dying, and are currently held together with tape, after over 20 years of faithful service, so for rehearsal currently I use a set of ultra cheap Behringer studio headphones, the BH470 ones, which are actually surprisingly decent. They do not have quite the same clarity and neutral flat response as the Sennheisers, there's a bit of a boost of the lower frequency spectrum and they lack some detail in upper frequency range compared to the Sennheisers and reality, as you basically get with all cheap headphones really, and I wouldn't use them for producing music/mixing, but they do actually work really well for rehearsing bass. So if anyone's on a really tight budget and need a set of headphones exclusively for practicing bass I can warmly recommend the Behringer BH470 studio headphones. Also I don't have a photo of my current setup, but here's at least a shot of my current main instrument of choice (old shot, and the fretboard has darkened quite a bit since this was shot, and also taken on a browner hue, as Jatoba tends to do over time when exposed to sunlight):

Not if you plan to tune it E to C, and the upper strings, in my opinion, would sound better, and it'll be much easier to do melody and especially chord work on.

When The Earth Moves Again - Jefferson Airplane

Looks very 80's.

Looks cool, but it has extremely poor upper frets access.

The best phaser ever!

Transdermal Celebration - Ween

I love it! Sounds nice too.

To answer your actual question, yes, there is another way of grounding the bridge: Run a slim piece of conducting self adhesive copper shielding tape from under the bridge (of course after removing the bridge), and then, stuck to the body of the bass, down into the pickups cavity, or in the other direction, down under the pickguard and into the control cavity, and then, inside the pickup or control cavity, solder a wire to that strip of copper tape, and from there connect the other end of that wire to where you would normally connect the bridge ground wire. That will work exactly just as great for grounding the bridge as a regular bridge ground wire.

Or just get yourself a short scale bass that'll fit into a guitar gig bag like me. Though being 6'4" I still need to remind myself of having to duck every now and then, to avoid the top of the bag/head of the bass hitting the upper ledge of doors.

You might consider string spacing as well, which indirectly influence on the width of the fretboard. I briefly owned an Ibanez SR306, that i tuned low D, as in 2 half steps bellow regular 4 string bass E standard tuning, to high D#, and for the money it's an amazing bass, but, combined with the fact of being used to play short scale bass, I just couldn't get along with the wide fretboard, despite string spacing only being 16.5mm. I can't possibly tell you whether you need a low B or low E will be all you need, but if I was you, which I wasn't last I checked, I'd go for a 5 string with 16.5mm string spacing, and preferably medium or short scale (though I realize that doesn't leave many options). My current main instrument of choice is a just 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, tuned to G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass tuned in regular B standard tuning.

Why so? Edit!!!: Yeah, right, got it, technically, if average would be around 50%, but that means absolutely nothing in reality in regards of the issue discusses.

I would love to have one of these, or the 50W PF-50T version. Love the fact that it got a transformer DI out, meaning you get the full poweramp and transformer sound from that DI, and could just run it into a poweramp if the relatively low wattage of the amp is not enough, but still have the sound of the full amp. I actually once owned a 60W Ampeg B-15, the 1968 version of the B-15S, which I very much regret being stupid enough to sell, it was a phenomenal amp. And despite its age, and taking quite a bit of abuse in the about 12 years period where I owned it, I never had any issues whatsoever with it. Congratulations! Edit!!!: Also these amps look damn cool, got to be the coolest amp design ever!

I suppose you got a fair point there, at least as the system works now, just look at the US.

From different, strictly logical, perspective popularity will always be a strictly quantitative parameter/statement, and can never be a qualitative parameter/statement.

Pizza with chicken, mushrooms and green and red pepper fruit, eventual with chili (the kind that is chili flakes and seeds in oil) as well (and of course including the basic tomato sauce and cheese as well), is my go to pizza, and absolutely delicious.

"Law of Jante", here in Denmark, as also mentioned in that Wiki article.