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02-15-2006, 08:20 PM
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Hey guys - To me, McCartney comes to mind, but what other good bass guitarists were also very good at another instrument? It doesn't have to be guitar, but I would think guitar and piano would be the most common.
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02-15-2006, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Skel Hey guys - To me, McCartney comes to mind, but what other good bass guitarists were also very good at another instrument? It doesn't have to be guitar, but I would think guitar and piano would be the most common.
Skel | Here are a few that come to mind:
Sting, Gerald Albright (sax and bass), Wilton Felder of the Crusaders (sax and bass), Prince (bass and everything else), Larry Blackman (bass and drums), Marcus Miller (bass and bass clarinet and keys), Jerry Bergonzi (sax, bass, and everything else), Sheryl Crow (guitar, bass and keys) |
02-15-2006, 09:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Boulder, Colorado | | | Yea, actually I read that Carol Kaye (actually she told me herself) was a guitarist and one day she just got the "Fender Bass" thrown in her lap, and the rest is history.
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02-15-2006, 09:23 PM
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02-15-2006, 09:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NYC/LI | | | Flea's pretty awesome on trumpet (his first instrument), he plays on The Mars Volta cds and I know for sure on "Idiots rule" off Nothing Shocking. John Entwhistle played the french horn on a song that I can't remember.
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02-15-2006, 09:32 PM
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Jimmy Page plays fair Guitar, he was the bassist for the Yarbirds.
Ronnie Wood for the Stones, Guitar, played Bass for the Jeff Beck Group.
Geddy Lee plays some Syth.(Can't spell it right now, I don't know squat about keyboards.
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02-15-2006, 09:57 PM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | Marcus Miller also plays sax. Stu Zender started out on guitar, and still plays. I don't know if Prince counts, but he plays everything......well! Noel Redding also was a guitarist first. Randy Hope Taylor also plays guitar for Jeff Beck, and Ricky Kinchen, bassist for Mint Condition, plays a Les Paul guitar on 4 songs in the set. Bootsy is a helluva drummer.
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02-15-2006, 10:50 PM
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02-15-2006, 11:10 PM
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02-15-2006, 11:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lowell, MA | | | Al caldwell plays every instrument ever created.....and he plays them all better than we ever can.
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02-15-2006, 11:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Boulder, Colorado | | | Good info - this make me think there are a lot of us on TB that probably know more than 1 trick as well.
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02-15-2006, 11:35 PM
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its kinda the other way around, his main is guitar, but he pretty much plays everything, and well. |
02-15-2006, 11:40 PM
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02-16-2006, 12:26 AM
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02-16-2006, 12:40 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Les Claypool can play the drums as well as bass, and Mark King started as a drummer but lost his kit on some ill-fated venture in europe, so when he was back in England he joined and band and had to play bass.
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02-16-2006, 12:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hick Town, Saskatchewan | | | Geddy Lee is great on bass, synths, and keys, and a decent guitarist
Jimi Hendrix was a good bassist and guitarist (although he is overrated)
Prince is a decent bassist and a good guitarist
Sting's ok at bass and guitar.
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02-16-2006, 01:37 AM
| | | | John Myung, he played violin at the age of 5 and started playomg bass at the age of 15. Also Abbath from Immortal was a bassist then played guitar, but he wasnt to flash on bass |
02-16-2006, 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted by CBAnaesthesia Sting's ok at bass and guitar. | I hate it when people say stuff like this, especially other bassists. You think we'd know better. Sting is not a chops monster or a NAMM player, but he was more than "ok".
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02-16-2006, 06:09 AM
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02-16-2006, 06:09 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | T-Bone Wolk also plays guitar. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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