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04-22-2006, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Hiding from the INS! | | | Bassists who kick butt in areas other than playing bass
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I don't think this one has been done before. Here are some I thought of:
Marcus Miller - bass clarinet
Jaco - big band arrangements
Bootsy - best voice ever
Sting, Geddy - singing and fronting |
04-22-2006, 04:34 PM
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04-22-2006, 06:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | | Marcus Miller's a real renaissance man. The guy also plays sax and guitar, sings, composes soundtracks, and he's produced and written songs for a great many R&B artists in the last few years.
Richard Bona plays everything amazingly well and sings.
Mark King plays everything amazingly well and sings too.
He's not an EB player, but Edgar Meyer's just come out with an album on which he plays all the instruments, including double bass, mandolin, guitar, dobro and piano.
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04-22-2006, 06:47 PM
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Also, I can eat a breakfast burrito in one bite. 
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04-22-2006, 08:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northern CA / near Sacramento | | | You mentioned Geddy straight up, but just to embellish... He is almost a freak of nature for being able to play elaborate parts while singing. Most bassists who sing lead vocals don't do all that much on the instrument. Thumping out quarter notes or, for guitarists, strumming simple chords is not the same as playing complex lines with a lot of rhythmic and melodic structure. He has an amazing brain. |
04-22-2006, 10:27 PM
| | | | Uh...Hello?...John Paul Jones (bass, keys, mandolin, pedal steel)!!! |
04-22-2006, 10:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: small town MN | | | Hulk Hogan |
04-23-2006, 03:32 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Geddy Lee is a master, bass, vocals, keys and taurus pedal and sample trigger pedals? The mind boggles!
Kark King is worthy of mention for being a great drummer and guitarist as well as a bassist. |
04-23-2006, 05:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Brussels | | | Michael Porcaro plays drums. His brother Jeffrey once said he has better time and groove than he does!!!!!!*** how can someone be a better drummer than Jeffrey Porcaro? |
04-23-2006, 05:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Brussels | | | Roger Waters plays guitar. he also writes good songs. he also sings really well. just a good allround musician. |
04-23-2006, 05:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Sebring, FL | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by zombywoof5050 Uh...Hello?...John Paul Jones (bass, keys, mandolin, pedal steel)!!! | My thoughts exactly. Geddy Lee, too. |
04-23-2006, 05:22 AM
| | | | Willie Dixon was a great A&R man and a great song writer. Charles Mingus was a great writer, arranger, and pianist. |
04-23-2006, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | | Oteil Burbridge is a fantastic drummer.
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04-23-2006, 11:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Billy Sheehan
Geddy Lee
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04-23-2006, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: SoCal | | | Tom Jenkinson - Programming, Drums, Engineering
Tony Levin - Stick, Upright, Cello
Yeah, JPJ and Bona are velly velly impressive
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04-23-2006, 01:14 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | John Myung is also really great at breathing. He's been doing it non-stop for nearly 40 years! I wonder how many hours a day he spends practicing that stuff. |
04-23-2006, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Woodchuck Vic Wooten - Martial Arts. | I thought so when I saw that picture of him hanging horizontally on a pole, requires quite some strength to do so. |
04-23-2006, 01:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kansas City, Ks | | | John Entwistle played horns and was an artist too!!
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04-23-2006, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Ocean Springs, MS | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Vorago I thought so when I saw that picture of him hanging horizontally on a pole, requires quite some strength to do so. | Link? |
04-23-2006, 08:04 PM
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