If you're not adverse to doing a little digging and buying used, I'd track down a late 90s Epiphone Ripper. Maple neck, maple fingerboard, maple body. It's really hard to find a bass with more punch than this. I picked up mine a couple years ago for 150 bucks.
More accurately, it's what the Czechs built in the 30s. With an air-cooled, overhead cam magnesium V8 in the back.
I bet you wince every time you hear "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran from this point on.
The entirety of Danger 5 is on Hulu, and you don't even need Hulu Plus to watch it.
