2 basses no guitar

subdude67 · #1 07-20-2011, 06:34 AM

last weekend on our local jam club lots of musicians turned up but the ony guitarist passing by came without a guitar..........

but there was another bass player, for the first time ever.

without a guitarist present, the owner of the club was worried that he had to cancel the jam for the night. manuel, the other bassist then said we should just play anyway and he'd fill in for the missing guitar.

i thought this might be fun and boy was i right! the dude played like a devil, i it was awesome. i never played with another bassist, it was amazing and sounded great, the crowd loved it too and we did some cool funky stuff with him soloing like there is no tomorrow.

so, could this be the end of the guitarist? fancy that.......

makkE · #2 07-20-2011, 06:54 AM

Sounds cool, I'd love to try it too. Did you set your EQ's in a special way?
I alway think, with two basses, one should be like a P+Flats, holding the bottom, the more ventourous should be a J+Rounds, just tone wise.

SoVeryTired · #3 07-20-2011, 06:59 AM

Is anyone else thinking 'Spinal Tap'?

subdude67 · #4 07-20-2011, 07:03 AM

ampwise i didn't have to do anything with my eq, left everything on the normal setting. i only tweaked the treble and pickup balance on the bass guitar a little.
the other bass was a fretless epiphone with a reversed headstock and flatwound strings straight into the mixer so the 2 basses had very different sounds but they complimented each other well.

Mayers · #5 07-20-2011, 07:14 AM

I did it in a jazz and classical context. It was nice no weirder than any two of the same instrument playing together ...

Staunch · #6 07-20-2011, 07:27 AM

‪Dianogah "What is your Landmass?" live in Louisville - 06‬&rlm; - YouTube

autodidact · #7 07-20-2011, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SoVeryTired

Is anyone else thinking 'Spinal Tap'?

Exactly what I was thinking...

‪Spinal Tap-Big Bottoms‬&rlm; - YouTube

NoiseNinja · #8 07-20-2011, 08:37 PM

Bands and songs with more than 1 bass player

**StrangerDanger** · #9 07-20-2011, 08:38 PM

Check out DUMPSTAPHUNK

JimB52 · #10 07-20-2011, 09:41 PM

Hard to top this version -
‪Spinal Tap Big Bottom Live Earth Video‬&rlm; - YouTube

The1bassist06 · #11 07-20-2011, 11:09 PM

I seen a vid of Marcus miller and Victor Wooten playing together. Simply amazing.

Swicked · #12 07-20-2011, 11:15 PM

I plan on starting a bass,bass,drum band in the near future

UnfortunateTony · #13 07-20-2011, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JimB52

Hard to top this version -
‪Spinal Tap Big Bottom Live Earth Video‬&rlm; - YouTube

I about lost my mind. That is HILARIOUS!

Wasted Bassist · #14 07-21-2011, 01:41 AM

I'm in a band right now with two bassists and a drummer. Works pretty well for us. Then again we are a prog-doom band... so we're not even being that creative.

GrapeApe · #15 07-21-2011, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by subdude67

i never played with another bassist, it was amazing and sounded great, the crowd loved it too and we did some cool funky stuff with him

I think this makes you some kind of weird bass-lesbian.

Carruj · #16 07-21-2011, 10:46 AM

Victor and Steve Bailey playing "Chick from Corea"

‪Bass Extremes - A Chick From Corea‬&rlm; - YouTube

shadow_FIX · #17 07-21-2011, 03:52 PM

It can and does work, as long as it's done appropriately. Generally there would need to be a "lead" bass and a "rhythm" bass in order to avoid crossing frequencies with each other. Ive jammed with a few other bass players on a few different occasions and had good experiences all around. Both players just have to be sensitive to what the other is doing.

LowEndMan2112 · #18 07-21-2011, 03:59 PM

Anybody heard of SMV?

Saw them live and damn! Wooten + Miller + Clarke = Magic!

subdude67 · #19 07-22-2011, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by GrapeApe

I think this makes you some kind of weird bass-lesbian.

!!!

dirkdabass · #20 07-22-2011, 11:33 AM

It can and does work, as long as it's done appropriately. Generally there would need to be a "lead" bass and a "rhythm" bass in order to avoid crossing frequencies with each other. Ive jammed with a few other bass players on a few different occasions and had good experiences all around. Both players just have to be sensitive to what the other is doing.
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Greyfox, last week. My campsite had the blessing of three (yes 3!) banjo players, two guitars, fiddle, mando...it was loud, you see. Master bassist Andy Gallo had his five string acoustic Dean and a Pignose. My poor little Tacoma didn't stand a chance of being heard - till Andy shared an input with me on the Pignose. Whew, what a glorious setup. Yes two basses can work. Any instrument combination has to serve the music, the song: to do so, the players have to use their ears. Andy plays rock solid bass(yay 5 string); I kinda spend a lot of time in mid-register. Damn it was fun. When one of the banjop players picked up his doghouse it was bass madness.