When I was visiting Rick Fielding last summer, and we did our rounds of his favorite music store haunts, I spotted an antique (I think German made) 6 stirng banjo ... It had frets. But it was a six srting BANJO, not a guitar on a banj body. It had the fifth drone string, like a five string, and the four G tuned strings, but it had an additional lower string. I loved it! Being a guiatr player converted to banjo, this instrumenbt made snse to me! It allowed me to do some bass lines that I always want to do but can't because I run out of scale!

'course the instrument was pretty well beat and suonded like sh*t - but I liked the idea!

I know, I know; learn to play the banjo, fool!