err...my bass has six strings, which=not for retards, it's also tuned differently to a lead guitar, none of my lead guitar friends can play it, and i can, but i don't think they are retards. Giving things more texture is just one of the million things you can do with a bass or any other instrument THAT YOU PLAY WELL. Otherwise you're just giving a potentially decent piece of music a disease, which i reckon is the net product of bringing that kind of attitude (that brought this thread about in the first) to music as a whole, it makes us all sad people in the end i'm hungry i know a guy called trevor fish, i wan't that name, it makes me smile all stoopid