Members Shart Posted April 12, 2007 Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 Any bands out there with 2 bass players. Just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BATCAT Posted April 12, 2007 Moderators Share Posted April 12, 2007 I'm not in one, but it's been done. Ned's Atomic Dustbin comes to mind. They would have one guy do the lower stuff and another play melody lines higher up. Also, guitarist/singer Robert Smith of the Cure often plays melodies and sometimes even chords on a Fender 6-string bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BATCAT Posted April 12, 2007 Moderators Share Posted April 12, 2007 Doesn't brassic's band have too bassists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members crossways Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Seems like there was a band featured in Guitar player or one of those mags that consisted of three bassists and a drummer. They talked about the way they arranged parts so as to make it work. It sounded like two bands were a bassist short to me...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rich4Once Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Spinal Tap used THREE for Big Bottom! "Talk about mudflaps, my girl's got 'em!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Willie Nelson had two bass players in his band back in teh seventies. They are on Willie & Family Live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dravenzouk Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 I worked with a band WAY long time ago that the instrumentation was bass, piccolo bass, drums, percussion, and singer. NO guitard! It was great, still to this day one of my favorite bands. Music was kinda upbeat punk/dance/wave sort of thing - loved it. Then I was in a garage/punk sort of band a couple years back that already had a bassist when I started playing with them. He was going to be leaving but never did so we just kept it that way. They were guitar/bass/drums and I played regular bass sometimes, piccolo bass sometimes, and the rest of the time a hybrid instrument I made that was kind of a cross between an 8 string bass and an irish bouzouki (solid body electric). A couple of other "sort of's" to check out:Rush & Max Webster teaming up on the song "Battle Scar" - really cool bass duo intro. Bill Laswell & Peter Brotzman's Low Life - bass and bass saxophone in a way avant/jazz/noise/funk/skronk thing that's scary and cool. Kip Hanrahan's "A Few Short Notes from the End Run" with a stunning trio of bassists (Jack Bruce, Steve Swallow, Andy Gonzalez) just killing it, especially on the song Two Still in Half Light. There are others of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anesthesia Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 My band had 2 bassists. It is VERY difficult to make it work if both players are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members niceguy Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 The Police had 2 bassist way early in their history. Obviously that didn't last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gtrbass Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 James Brown's touring band had 2 bassists up until his passing late last year. The original incarnation of Morphine (in 1991) had two bassists. Phil Spector used two (and sometimes three) bassists for his wall of sound productions. So did the Beach boys records and many early '60's hits had an electric and an upright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bigfatmonkeyboy Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Far be it from me to be pedantic, but my band has three bass players - its just that two of them are the guitarists and never actually play bass with this band....... Do you mean two (or more) active bassists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratMonster Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 theres one local band that does it, they do mainly jazz fusion stuff. IMHO its overkill. We have our keys play bass lines sometimes along with our bass player, I think thats the ticket. sounds really full but not the exact same instrument playing the same lines.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members germanicus2112 Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Stanley Clarke tours with a bassist, while he plays 'lead bass'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Any bands out there with 2 bass players. Just curious Heck, it's all I can do to find ONE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LPSlinger Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Heck, it's all I can do to find ONE. Trut so pur. It took our band forever to find one good bass player. I can't imagine trying to find two good ones willing to play together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shart Posted April 13, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Thanks for the info everyone. We were thinking about joining forces with another guitarist and bassist. The bass players aren't spectacular and I have feeling that it might turn into mud music. Worth trying out I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members citizens_X Posted April 14, 2007 Members Share Posted April 14, 2007 Girls Against Boys has 2 bass players:thu:http://music.aol.com/artist/girls-against-boys/39051/biography?ncid=yInozwVMCu0000000742 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brassic Posted April 15, 2007 Members Share Posted April 15, 2007 Our band has two bass players. (Well remembered, Squid.) I know of a couple others - the Schla La Las (also all-girl) and Tom Vek (another UK indie artist, check out the song C-C (You Set The Fire In Me) occasionally uses two basses on his songs. Then there are all-bass bands like Big Bottom (ex-Band of Susans) and Rothko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scafeets Posted April 15, 2007 Members Share Posted April 15, 2007 Victor Wooten's solo tour last year -- him and two other bassists, plus his brother Reggie on guitar and a drummer. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr Songwriter Posted April 16, 2007 Members Share Posted April 16, 2007 There used to be a band called Delta 5 that had two bassists, I've got an album somewhere, they were pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members liko Posted April 16, 2007 Members Share Posted April 16, 2007 Not 2 bass players playing the same song, but a local band I know has both a male and female vocalist, and they switch off playing bass (which they're also both pretty good at) whenever the other one is singing. Cool way to cover as many songs as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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