I play a Fender Jazz (red) and I've been playing for about 6 years. I'm really only a casual player these days, but I use to play it quite a lot when I was younger. These days I just crank up the distortion and play slow, dirty, crushing strums for 10 minutes, then play some more.
I've been playing bass for more than five years. I have a squire P that I've mutilated, an Ibanez cheapo, and a gretsch short scale that I recently purcahsed. Fun as hell.
All my friends are bass players.. You'd expect there to be more guitar players then bass, but I only know of 2 other guitar players (besides me) at my school.. Guitar is dying omg!
Seriously though, bass is cool, if I could get one for cheap I'd go for it. And all of you better be finger pickers, no picks for basses.