Kentaro Umezaki was featured in Bass-Playa Magazine's 2003 "Who's Who in the Upside Down and Backwards Bass World" commemorative collector's edition.   Frequently asked why he plays the instrument upside-down and backwards, Ken enjoys coming up with responses such as, "I was dropped on my head as a child," and "it just tastes better that way."   But those familiar with Eastern culture may already know the real answer—Ken points his bass guitar away from the rest of the band to obtain the maximum amount of "Chi," a concept of metaphysical energy that surrounds all living things.   Ken felt that since the rest of the band held their instruments toward the left, they were stealing his Chi, resulting in terribly noisy and vulgar bass guitar sounds emanating from his instrument in the early days of The Fifth.   By redirecting his bass to the right, he learned to control and channel the Chi directly into sounds in the sub-200Hz frequency range—a Zen like ability that only three bass players have possessed since the Han dynasty in 200 BC.   Some say he's just plain crazy, likened to a brilliant but insane Van Gogh in his later years, but either way you cut it Kentaro is a true bass master.