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05-17-2009, 01:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Louisiana | | | Solo bassist singers?
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I'm looking to see if there are any/many solo bassist singers out there. I was a singer way before I ever took up bass, and I can't imagine my musical life without my voice. So I want to combine these two loves.
If you have any recommendations, please share links and YouTube videos. I really want to see what types of things are out there to figure out where I want to fit in.
I've seen Trip Wamsley sing and play live, and I thought he slayed the crowd. A friend here on TB also gave me a YouTube link to Nathan Hughes which I thought was pretty good.
Link to Nathan Huges, "Glove" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNsfE1j48rw
Anyhow, I am looking forward to any suggestions the TB collective might have for me. Thank you. 
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05-17-2009, 01:39 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Northampton Mass | | Gonzalo Silva is a wonderful song writer who plays bass. I'm not sure if it's accurate to use words like "pioneer"but he's he first I knew of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDILEG4l2R4
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05-17-2009, 05:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Sulphur LA | | | Check out Seth Horan. He's all over the web. Great stuff, I think. |
05-17-2009, 05:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jacksonville and Pensacola, FL | | | I've been looking for some of this as well. I would really like to get into solo bass (and plan on doing so after I get a nice looper), and thought about singing at the same time. Granted, I'm not that great of a singer, but I thought it would be good to have another tool of expression.
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09-29-2010, 10:22 AM
| | | | I am a good singer. I want a 6 string bass and tune it to EADGBE.
Is it a good idea?
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09-29-2010, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by TRIPSTER Check out Seth Horan. He's all over the web. Great stuff, I think. | +1 - Seth's stuff blows me away. My favorite is "Anonymity"
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09-29-2010, 10:53 AM
| | | | I do some solo playing/singing at some local open mics - but not like any of the people you've cited. I don't do much in the way of chords (other than some double stops) and for the most part, I'm just playing slightly-modified "standard" bass lines (and sometimes just root notes). As a general rule, if I can get folks to sit in with me on stuff and make it a pick-up band, I do - solo is just my fallback position.
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09-29-2010, 11:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Tuscaloosa , Alabama | | Check out this guy. He goes by "That 1 Guy". I saw him live opening for buckethead and he put on a great show. He doesn't actually qualify as a bass solist as he plays the coolest homemade instruments on the planet. It's like 2 stainless steel tubes with strings attached. It also has what look like midi triggers on it as well. I think he uses some programmed tracks as well as a loopstation. To top it all off he is playing two drum pedals with midi triggers as well. I bet he is one interesting dude. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcmrY...eature=related |
09-29-2010, 11:17 AM
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09-29-2010, 11:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Los Angeles | | | There's a guy here named David1234 I think. From Australia. He's got some really cool stuff that I saw!
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09-30-2010, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by skwee | She's fantastic. I enjoy all the clips of hers I've found, but I wasn't asking for something like this. She has other musicians with her, and I meant solo (or even sole, if you prefer) musician, not "soloist."
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09-30-2010, 09:38 AM
|  | Some carrots are humiliated publicly | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Syracuse, NY | | Definitely check out Seth Horan! Especially his new album, Clang and Chime. I helped produce it! 
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09-30-2010, 06:17 PM
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09-30-2010, 06:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N.H. | | | Seth Horan. I caught him live at a clinic. Great performer, singer, bassist and overall
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10-08-2010, 07:23 AM
| | | | I got the same concern.I want to write such songs but I get stucked after the verse. I need some resources that helps with this style.
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10-08-2010, 07:39 AM
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