lol, it's true when your playin metal songs that it really feels empty without a bass player, and drop tunin like Akira said is a pretty nice soudn if you're jamming alone, just perhaps not very versatile if you want to play a huge range of bands (I know a heap of bands do drop tune).

The otha day i was watching chili peppers at slaine and i was pretty impressed with flea even though he comes accross as not the brightest person, he's pretty damn good at bass.