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06-09-2007, 08:43 AM
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Anyone know any recordings that I could check out?
I'm just wondering if anyones ever successfully done it, I'm talking any bass style, slap and finger,pick, heck even upright and electric. Not playing the same line but as different instruments, as a lead or coutermelody
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06-09-2007, 09:53 AM
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06-09-2007, 10:05 AM
| | | | The band Molotov has two bass players, one usually plays clean and the other with effects/distortion. |
06-09-2007, 10:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | You talking recording or live. Recording its done all the time especially recording by bass players as leaders. They will lay down mulitple parts of varying complexity and timbre.
Live again look at bass players as leaders. Victor Wooten use two to three bass players. Frees him up from holding down the bottom to play other things. Meshell Nedgeocello on live and recording mulitple bass players and parts. Marcus will do it once in a while. It's not common, but done for years. Plus keyboard bass and bass together goes on a lot. Hard part is finding two players who can work together, think like arrangers, and stay out of each others way.
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06-09-2007, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by DocBop  You talking recording or live. . |
I'm talking both.But I really want to see/ be able to hear them.I dont want to just hear someone effectively playing an overdub.Two distinct voicings, without standing on each others toes. |
06-09-2007, 10:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | There have been numerous threads on this topic. Search this forum and Bassists, and you'll find a lot of discussion of two-bass bands. I'd recommend checking out Ned's Atomic Dustbin, particularly the album "God Fodder."
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06-09-2007, 10:47 AM
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06-09-2007, 11:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Palm Coast Florida | | | Almost all old "Big Band / Jazz" from the 20's, 30's, and 40's had 2 bass players. Some of them even had 3 or 4 bass players. It was mostly done for a bigger sound, but it was usually different parts or splitting parts. If you were in band in highschool and remember 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th chair and so on, usually 1-3 played one part 4-6 played one part and 7-9 played one part. At some points in the song these parts overlapped, but was usually varied some.
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06-09-2007, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by paradigm_shift Anyone know any recordings that I could check out?
I'm just wondering if anyones ever successfully done it, I'm talking any bass style, slap and finger,pick, heck even upright and electric. Not playing the same line but as different instruments, as a lead or countermelody | I'm being lazy, just giving a tease. There are zillions of other successful examples. Gary Burton: Passengers. Eberhard Weber on EUB, Steve Swallow on BG. Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz, many others. Talking Heads: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads Jack Dejohnette: Album Album, Rufus Reid, URB; Howard Johnson, tuba. Pharoah Sanders: Live At The East, Stanley Clarke, URB; Cecil McBee, URB
Other guys I've seen do it live exceptionally well include Sun Ra, Stanley Clarke, Mingus, Willie Dixon, Vic Wooten, and the late-80s Miles band with Foley on lead bass. Ornette's mid-80s band was probably my favorite, but good luck finding those albums. 
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06-09-2007, 02:39 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | The lastest David Liebman 'Back On The Corner' has Anthony Jackson and Liebman's regular bassist Tony Marino. Along with Passinwind's Ornette Coleman suggestions you can check out Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, he always had two bassist, and on the early albums it was the great Melvin Gibbs and Bruce Johnson.
The Ornette and Decoding Society albums are also a great antidote for any happy-gurlmon-smooth jazz overindulgence.
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Originally Posted by jerry The Ornette and Decoding Society albums are also a great antidote for any happy-gurlmon-smooth jazz overindulgence. | |
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