5 string Epi

[Psycho Bass Guy]

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.

Les attained his greatest fame with his fretless Carl Thompson 6 string.

You young people are harsh! 

That's metal. If you can't deal with it, then you've made my point for me. 

[Denis]

Tommy Gobina in Gogol Bordello plays a 5 string jazz bass and uses the low B quite a bit and it sounds great; like, all the time.

[TBird1958]

We have about 70 songs on our list right now, mostly '80s with very little '70s`or post '80s - I don't need a bass with a B string at all, but that hasn't kept me from trying. I recently had the use of a Studio 5er 'Bird for a couple weeks, very nice tone but honestly the B string was just in my way, and not of much use as an instrument for my band's setlist.
I have also done the BEAD thing with my Fenderbird, it sounds fine this way - problem is the same tho, I don't need the low notes. So I'd concur with Uwe's remarks - in my band's setting it's not needed at all.
I'd still like to have one someday tho 

[uwe]

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.  

Psycho babe, you hurt me when you say something like that, I need quick relief ...



Consumers' Notice: This song was entirely recorded without the help of artificial B strings!  

[stiles72]

This is the neck pup in my '08  Studio 5'er compared to my '07 TB+ IV pup

[uwe]

So the 5er entrails are different, it's just the housing that is identical. Danke!

[Highlander]

I recently experimented with BEAD on my headless... as I said, experimented... pass, imho...

Town Mouse and Country Mouse... each to their own...

[uwe]

In a pathetic, grovelling effort



to redeem myself with the miffed 5er community here, I have now bidded on the subject item which initiated this thread ...  

I always wanted to have one of those for their sheer unlikelihood. The SG shape is already not a great shape for a short scale bass and it is plain bad for a long scale one but it took the good people of Epi to take madness further - very German - and use it for a 5 stringer mammoth neck.

Ze absence of neck heaviness is overrrated my dearrrr friendzzz! Heaffiness ist häbbiness, jawohl.



Und ein tiefes D ist sehr gut. D wie Deutsch! 

[Highlander]

All very karmic if imo...

[Denis]

...I have now bidded on the subject item which initiated this thread ..

It gives me a perverse sense of satisfaction to post something other people end up bidding on! 

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

[exiledarchangel]

Grats Uwe, as for the uberneckdiving, fear not, check those ideas:

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=6033.0

[Pilgrim]

So Uwe, if you are victorious in the auction, will you refer to this SG as your "Panzer" bass, or your "Tiger" bass?

[Psycho Bass Guy]

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

There's an episode of "Tank Overhaul" that documents the US Army military history museum's restoration of one, even down to identifying what kind of round took it out.

[uwe]

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.

[Denis]

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.

That German tanks used gasoline engines was a surprise I only discovered a few years ago. I had always thought they were diesel until I read that most diesel fuel was reserved for the U-boats. Even with diesel, a Tiger would get the crappiest fuel consumption, but with gasoline, I shudder...