This is cool & more realistic.
Doesn’t make sense to me. I tend to follow the “I’d rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it” mentality towards stuff. Fire extinguishers, fuses, flashlights, G strings, B strings, etc.
To each their own, though.
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The G string on a bass guitar sounds like a banjo IMO.
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Ouch!
This type of limitation or narrow functionality is really up my alley than most and I know quite a few songs that I can play without the G string. I don’t think I’d get one soon though. I play only 4 strings on several songs on my 6 string bass maybe I’ll dedicate one of my 4 string to A D G C.
Yeah, no.
How a G string sounds is entirely up to the particular bass, strings, tone settings (onboard/ouboard/amp/plugin preamp), where the string is plucked, HOW the string is plucked/picked/slapped/popped, the player’s touch, the amount of favorite beverage consumed by the player before/during playing, and a host of other variables.
Any one or combo of these factors can cause a G string to sound like a banjo, an angel’s voice, a demon’s snarl, or anything in between. It’s the player and these tools who get the job done.
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To me is whatever works for you. I’ve listened to a lot of blues in my life, and it’s not unusual for someone like Robert Johnson to buy a six string and then add a couple more so he can play bass at the same time. There’s a lot of odd homemade string configurations from the old time blues greats.
So whatever.
I will say there’s a lot of string choices for EADG. You want to go to a different tuning or number of strings and your choices go down or you do custom strings.
He had a One or 2 stringer made by Guns’n’Guitars.
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Hooky disagrees 
that highest D there actually sounded pretty awesome 
I’ve always loved Body Count and the message in this song is so spot on. Ice T is still doing great things with that band.
I thought he was dead?
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Nah that was just acting in Edward Scissorhands. He’s actually undead.
I don’t recall VP playing the undead. He usually played the entirely human, truly crazy fuck.
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Well of COURSE a nightwalker isn’t going to give away the game by portraying one
Two string slide bass ala Mark Sandman of Morphine.
It’s not about just removing strings
His design. Strings tuned a 5th apart so every chord is a power chord. Love love it.
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You can do this to a 4-string you know 
Tuning in fifths is a thing.
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Yes, but hard to play it with a slide when 4 strings are involved and doesn’t replicate the Morphine sound, which was the point.
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