First 5 string acoustic?

[OldGit]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XD654101NE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XD654101NE[/url]

Renaissance - Forever Changing 1979.

Is this the earlist provable sighting of a 5 string acoustic bass?
Nice Jensen's too

[SJA]

Jaco Pastorius had a 5 string acoustic (with a high C), I think in the 70's...have to dig around for a pic.

ps. who made that acoustic? I presume a UK custom builder- Fylde, Manson, Kinkade, Button?

Edited March 15, 2008 by SJA

[SJA]

[url="http://www.jacop.net/hammock.html"]http://www.jacop.net/hammock.html[/url]

[OldGit]

[quote name='SJA' post='158148' date='Mar 15 2008, 07:47 PM'][url="http://www.jacop.net/hammock.html"]http://www.jacop.net/hammock.html[/url][/quote]

So that's 1979 too Anything earlier?

[SJA]

it says elsewhere he used it on a recording in 1975.
I've an old copy of Bass Player that lists basses he used- I'll have to dig it out to see if it says when it was made.