Actually, I've had a five-string banjo since the mid-seventies, but I play a drop-thumb frailing style which... I have no idea what that means. Someone told me, back around 1979-80, that that was what I played.
I owned a bass once... In junior high school, I bought a Kent Bass for $25. I think I sold it about 6 months later, when I couldn't figure out how to tune it. And I didn't have an amp.