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01-22-2013, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mmoore1  Just like two men on a motorcycle together; it shouldn't be done. | That's funny right there...... |
01-22-2013, 04:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Oakland, CA | | | I believe I have seen videos of the James Brown band with 2 bass players as well as two drummers.
Of course there is Victor Wooten and Anthony Wellington! |
01-22-2013, 04:55 PM
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01-22-2013, 05:07 PM
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01-22-2013, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by LowRoller I believe I have seen videos of the James Brown band with 2 bass players as well as two drummers.
Of course there is Victor Wooten and Anthony Wellington! | As well as Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey's collaborations.
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01-22-2013, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Vince Klortho I saw Ornette Coleman play with two bass players... | In '61 he recorded Free Jazz with a double quartet. Scott LaFaro and Charlie Haden on basses, Billy Higgins and Ed Blackwell on drums, Don Cherry and Freddie Hubbard on pocket trumpet and trumpet, respectively, and Ornette on alto sax and Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet. One of the most adventurous recordings of all time.
King Crimson used a double trio format in the '90s. Trey Gunn is a bassist who played both Warr guitar and Chapman stick along with Tony Levin on bass, stick and funk fingers.
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01-22-2013, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Hues No, Spinal Tap's three bass Big Bottom doesn't count....That's one song by a mock band. | BLASPHEMY! An original song by a very original band
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01-22-2013, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Hues There are bands with two drummers, two keyboardists, multiple guitars,etc....I've wondered if there are or have been any bands with two bassists?
No, Spinal Tap's three bass Big Bottom doesn't count....That's one song by a mock band. | haha, I missed the disqualification of Spinal Tap, but there are 3 basses not two! |
01-22-2013, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Vince Klortho I saw Ornette Coleman play with two bass players, two keyboards, two drummers, and himself on sax. There were no guitars. It was a very cool show. | In the mid 80s he had a killer double trio with 2 basses/2 guitars/2 drummers too. One of the best live shows I've ever seen. |
01-22-2013, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: St. Charles MO | | | Well, BassInvaders is all bass and drums. It's an experimental metal/rock album, but it has plenty of people with incredible pedigrees in it. No touring etc. as it's a side project, but an interesting listen nonetheless.
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01-22-2013, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Junk420 BLASPHEMY! An original song by a very original band | Exactly! They actually performed the song. It's a legitimate song in my opinion, comedy-themed or not. The 3 basses served the song theme's purpose, in a double-entendre manner.
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01-22-2013, 06:01 PM
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01-22-2013, 06:57 PM
|  | Non Serviam | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Schenectady NY | | I've done the two-bass thing a couple of times. First in a band with my ex (before she was my ex). Sometimes she played guitar and I'd play bass, and sometimes she and I would both play bass. Generally she took the high road, and I took the low. At least as far as basses were concerned. 
Then a few years ago I was in a jam/fusion thing that did pretty good in my hometown. I played 6-string bass, and functioned more as a second guitar or a synth, while the other guy laid it down more traditionally on a 4. This was a fun band, but I felt I got too far away from what bass playing is all about. Not that soloing through a whammy pedal isn't fun. 
Right now my guitarist and I are talking about starting a stoner/doom side project, with him on Hellcat VI (Schecter's version of the Fender Bass VI) and me on 8-string bass (the kind with pairs of octaves). The concept is we're both playing instruments that are strange hybrids of guitar and bass, utilizing them for maximum crushing heaviosity! Fuzz WILL be involved. 
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01-22-2013, 07:42 PM
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01-22-2013, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Passinwind | I didn't Google it ..I did a TalkBass site search. Thanks for the links.
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01-22-2013, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by TolerancEJ Exactly! They actually performed the song. It's a legitimate song in my opinion, comedy-themed or not. The 3 basses served the song theme's purpose, in a double-entendre manner. | I'm in no way dissin Spinal Tap...I saw the movie in the theater when it came out. And see it whenever I can....But the bassist is actor Harry Shear, who among a long list of other credits, is the voice of Mr.Burns on the Simpsons.
They are a mock band even if they did write and perform the songs. 
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01-22-2013, 10:20 PM
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the cure!! primary was recorded on two basses .... i think a vi was used on the studio recording. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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