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02-04-2013, 10:42 PM
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This is the thread for all the guys who think their band has to have a guitarist, and for the rest of us to post examples why this is false.
Up first, Camaron de la Isla. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0-ED...ture=endscreen
This might not be a great example because there is a guitarist on the track, but he add little to it. The performance contains three separate bass "solos" and at the end a cheesy guitar solo performed on keyboards.
A little background for those of you interested: Camaron was one of the great flamenco singers of all time and at this point in his career they tried to make him a pop star. I'm not claiming it's a good song, because it's not, but it's a good example of how you don't need guitarists to start a band.
Feel free to add your own examples to this thread.
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02-04-2013, 10:50 PM
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02-04-2013, 11:25 PM
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02-05-2013, 05:48 AM
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02-05-2013, 06:25 AM
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02-05-2013, 09:00 AM
|  | When I come around, homeboy, watch yo nuggets | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Big Business doesn't need a guitarist, or a third person. They pretty much shoot the "we'll sound too thin" argument down in flames. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oms30OlFeL0 |
02-05-2013, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Unrepresented Big Business doesn't need a guitarist, or a third person. They pretty much shoot the "we'll sound too thin" argument down in flames. | Saw a video of them at "Hellfest" and they had some dude rocking an Explorer up on stage with them. 
Perhaps Om, Man is the Bastard/Bastard Noise or Subrig Destroyer is a better example.
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02-05-2013, 09:14 AM
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back in the Jaco days...they did quite well without a guitarist 
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02-05-2013, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Pacman Wait, you start a thread about why your band doesn't need a guitarist, and as proof post a video of a band with....a guitarist? Who, by the way, is the driving instrument on the track.... | +1
If you say that you don't need a guitar player, you should show some good examples of bands without guitar players.
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02-05-2013, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Pacman Wait, you start a thread about why your band doesn't need a guitarist, and as proof post a video of a band with....a guitarist? Who, by the way, is the driving instrument on the track.... | That was funny. I hadn't even bothered to look at the video. I was just answering the question.
Also, although it's does not immediately associate with this thread's topic... Not just guitar, but often pianists play their shows completely unaccompanied. Pianists play both the bass & treble sides simultaneously.
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02-05-2013, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Houston, TX | | | It all depends on what your music needs. My band might be able to make it without a guitarist (man, would it ever be easier lol), but our music would lose something without it there. YMMV, that's what's great about music...if you can make it work, more power to ya!!
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02-05-2013, 09:30 AM
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02-05-2013, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Meddle Saw a video of them at "Hellfest" and they had some dude rocking an Explorer up on stage with them.
Perhaps Om, Man is the Bastard/Bastard Noise or Subrig Destroyer is a better example. | I've seen them perform both with and without a guitarist. I assume it's an aesthetic choice. |
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02-05-2013, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by CrewsControl | Yesterday I heard a great piece that was all strings and percussion. No horn section.
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02-05-2013, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman Wait, you start a thread about why your band doesn't need a guitarist, and as proof post a video of a band with....a guitarist? Who, by the way, is the driving instrument on the track.... | I chose that clip because it's what inspired the thread. Those three little bass solos reminded me of the conversations I've had here with people who constantly complain about guitarists, "guitards," and the guitar itself, yet claim that they have to have a guitarist if only for the solos.
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02-05-2013, 06:24 PM
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