I can think of very few bass guitar heroes that absolutely must have a five or more string bass for their style - Anthony Jackson comes to mind and a few others -, but for everyone of them there is a JAE, Jack Bruce, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Glenn Hughes, Colin Hodkinson, Jeff Berlin, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Paul McCartney, Sting, Les Claypool, Flea, Bootsy, Lee Sklar, Billy Sheehan, Steve Harris, Geezer Butler, the list goes on.
You young people are harsh!
Les attained his greatest fame with his fretless Carl Thompson 6 string.That's metal. If you can't deal with it, then you've made my point for me.
...I have now bidded on the subject item which initiated this thread ..
Nice Elefant, by the way!In the US, we have one of the two surviving Elefants!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elefant_USAOM-01.jpg
Compared to the Elefant/Ferdinand, even that 5 string SG Epi is a sensible design. That behemoth tank represented exactly the delusions of grandeur and longevity the Third Reich had. Like it, it probably ran out of gas first before it got that coup de grace hit.