Earth Defense Force (Arcade/SNES) - Boss Attack (CP4 Cover)

It's April again, and you know what that means: it's time for something completely different.
I'm kind of surprised I didn't already get to this one, but then I'm kind of not, given the one notoriously ridiculous part of the bass solo. (It's near-impossible to pull off on my keyboard partly due to the weight of the keys and the time it takes for them to rise after being pressed.)
Super E.D.F. is probably my favorite shmup of all time, mostly because I grew up with it, though I didn't learn to beat it until only a few years ago. I've since learned to speedrun it (as of this writing I have the SNES WR on SRC, www.speedrun.c..., and have posted score runs across all US/JP difficulties on the shmups forum: shmups.system1...