Every location in the USA is a high disposable income area!!!
I think I heard the statistic that only 10% of the people on earth make over 65k USD per year. Where are they..... probly mostly USA!!
No the millenial does not. I think he is in the top 10% though.
I'm too uninterested to do so either, as 99% of my surfing is in ad free territory!! I usually just x-out those articles and do a wikipedia search for my subject.
But back to the flats...I don't understand the tone chasing of the '60's tones. Just put on any flats on a Fender bass, get a tube amp, crank it up, and voila! You are any '60's bassist at the Cow Palace!! That's all they had to work with up until Dallas Arbiter and Alembic.
As an example: I have heard the Jack Casady tones, and all I am hearing is his bass thru an overdriven amp. His fingers do the talking on the rest. People also thought he had a Starfire on early recordings but turns out he was using a Jazz bass. So their ears could not hear a difference between the two basses, that shows. People initially not being sure which album he used the Starfire on is telling. Not even Jack can say if the Starfire was on one of the Airplane albums or not (Baxter's/Crown?). Its in the interview. He doesn't remember to what extent/if he used it.
I believe that some basses have a distinct sound. But : Tube amp, fingers, and pick your distinctive sounding bass, and that's all one can do.
I will say I used Chromes though because they sound the brightest to me of all the flats i have heard/tried. I like bright, but I am not trying to sound like anyone but myself either. Though I find a Pbass and a 4003 bass the most pleasant to my ears no matter who is playing them.