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10-18-2010, 10:32 AM
| | | | Famous bass players that also play guitar
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Carol Kaye - Played guitar on Zappa recordings in the 60s
Jim Fielder - Also played rythm guitar with Zappa in the 60s
Greg Lake - Switches to guitar on several songs with ELP
Sting - Nylon string guitar on a few songs
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10-18-2010, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: alabama | | | Trujillo flat-out embarrassed Hetfield and Hammett in a making-of "Magnetic" video. Flamenco-style acoustic jam; Hetfield lifted the main riff and dumbed it down for one of the songs on the album. Duff McKagen plays rhythm guitar in his side band, and is probably a better guitar player than bassist lol !
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10-18-2010, 10:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Tommy Cogbill- lots of session stuff on both bass and guitar (he's the bassist on Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man", Wilson Picket's "Funky Broadway", and Aretha's "Natural Woman". He played guitar on Aretha's "Think" when the producers asked Jerry Jemmott to try bass on it.
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10-18-2010, 10:40 AM
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Endorsing Artist: GENZ BENZ / SADOWSKY | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Shirley, MA | | Geddy Lee - Plays guitar in songs such as Passage to Bangkok, Xanadu, Resist (Live acoustic)
Im sure there are others but thats what I got for now. |
10-18-2010, 10:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Flagstaff,AZ | | | Off the top of my head, Paul McCartney played guitar with the Beatles( Stu Sutcliffe was the original bass player). Tom petty played bass for Mudcrutch, before switching to guitar.Ron Wood played bass for Jeff Beck, prior to playing with the Rolling Stones. I played guitar for 20+ years, started playing bass 4 or so years ago. |
10-18-2010, 10:44 AM
| | | | Jason Newsted played guitar for some of his side projects (Pappa wheelie for example)
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10-18-2010, 10:48 AM
|  | A figment of our exaggeration | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Way Out West | | | Jimmy Page played bass in the Yardbirds
A famous guitar that plays bass... |
10-18-2010, 10:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | | John Paul Jones can play almost anything.
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10-18-2010, 11:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denver, CO | | | tony hall, bassist for dumpstafunk, trey anastasio band, karl denson's tiny universe, etc. is a sick guitarist, fantastic singer, and claims that his main instrument is drums!
mike gordon from phish is a pretty good guitarist.
takeshi of boris plays a doubleneck bass/guitar
alan woody
kristian dunn of el ten eleven plays sometimes plays a doubleneck
reid mathis used to occasionally rock a les paul with jacob fred jazz odyssey
marc friedman of the slip sometimes plays guitar
doug mccombs of tortoise plays guitar and fender vi
dave pajo plays guitar in certain projects (papa m, slint, zwan)
kim gordon of sonic youth is about 50/50 with guitar and bass these days
sheryl crow plays both... don't know which is her main squeeze
greg burns of red sparowes plays bass and pedal steel
ben kenney from incubus was a guitarist for the roots
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10-18-2010, 11:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota - Twin Cities | | | Willie Nelson started as a bassist..... so did Waylon Jennings
Both toured with notable performers (Buddy Holly etc)
You can hear it on their famous recordings (bass influence)
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10-18-2010, 11:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | | Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots plays guitar and writes a lot of their songs on guitar.
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10-18-2010, 11:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Holtsville, NY | | | Chris Wolstenholme from Muse
Lemmy might as well have played another guitar
I'm pretty sure 90% of bass players out there own a guitar but prefer playing bass anyway. |
10-18-2010, 11:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | Bootsy Collins often writes on guitar, I dont know if hes ever played it live or on record |
10-18-2010, 12:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pelham, AL | | | Billy Sheehan also plays guitar...and is freaking amazing at it, too. he plays guitar on his solo albums, and there's some stuff on youtube, as well.
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10-18-2010, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | | Gene Simmons used to play what they called a 'scratch' guitar during Kiss' early years, He'd lay down a basic guitar track that Peter would work out his drums to. Don't know if he played any guitar on actual released recordings or not...maybe on his solo album?
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10-18-2010, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Bassist who plays guitar: WAY better than guitarists who think that they can play bass...
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10-18-2010, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holiday, Fl | | Quote:
Originally Posted by doctorpunch I'm pretty sure 90% of bass players out there own a guitar but prefer playing bass anyway. | Yeah, it's a natural learning progression to play guitar as well, but we all know that the real power lies in the groove  |
10-18-2010, 04:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sydney Sth West | | | Keith Richards played bass with Dirty Mac (Clapton, Lennon & Mitch Mitchell) and I understand, quite a few Rolling Stones tracks
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10-18-2010, 04:18 PM
| | | | bassists that play guitar
The "&" in Hall & Oates
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10-18-2010, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by pnut166 Trujillo flat-out embarrassed Hetfield and Hammett in a making-of "Magnetic" video. Flamenco-style acoustic jam; Hetfield lifted the main riff and dumbed it down for one of the songs on the album. Duff McKagen plays rhythm guitar in his side band, and is probably a better guitar player than bassist lol ! | Here we are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJrpiHLiXtg | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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