Does anyone know of any well known bassist/singers? The only one I can recall at the moment is Les Claypool, of corse, but I was wondering how many there are. I've tried singing while playing bass, and it's hard as hell to do... er, i mean do WELL.
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Bassist/Singers?
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Sting, Lemmy (Motorhead), Rob Derak (moe.), Gene Simmons, Bootsy (Rubber Band), Fat Mike (NOFX) are a few off the top of my head.
There's Cronos of Venom, Peavey Wagner of Rage, and Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy. There's also a funk band(not Primus) with a bassist that does some crazy slapping while singing.
Oh, and some of my other favorites, Jack Bruce and Suzi Quatro . . . and I've seen videos of Sheryl Crow playing bass and singing . . .
Jack Bruce from Cream and Roger Waters from Pink Floyd are two more I can think of. Although I'm not 100% on whether Jack Bruce sang on all the songs and I definitely know Waters didn't.
I agree that it's pretty hard to sing and play bass at the same time, but for me even being able to nail a little bit of backup vocals is pretty fulfilling.
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I agree that it's pretty hard to sing and play bass at the same time, but for me even being able to nail a little bit of backup vocals is pretty fulfilling.
EDIT: Darn, I took too long to post
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Mark King (Level 42), Jamie Reynolds (The Klaxxons), Keith Urban (in Sheryl Crow mode, but favours a P to her Guild), Richard Page (Mr Mister), Justin Curry (Del Amitri), etc.
Just thought of another one, the bassist from All American Rejects, although I'm not too familiar with their music I'm pretty sure he does both.
And don't forget Timothy B. Schmidt of the Eagles.
He's a fine singer as well as a songwriter, best known for "I can't tell you why".
He's a fine singer as well as a songwriter, best known for "I can't tell you why".
Roger Waters,Gene Simmons,Paul McCarthy,John Paul Jones(I think me might have done backgrund vocals with Page and Bonham).
Peter Cetera (Chicago); John Wetton (Asia, UK, King Crimson); Greg Lake (ELP, King Crimson); Tony Levin
Why there was a big hate on Winger, I'll never know. Kip had a solid "rock and roll voice" for the music they were doing, and the Reb Beach and Rod Morgenstein were actually phenomenal musicians with impressive resumes. I guess some people though they were too commercial and they did come in on the tail end of the heavy metal days, but I actually thought they were underrated.
I don't recall any of his bass playing be that impressive, to be honest... even "Seventeen", from what I remembering in my head. But I guess the only reason I said jokingly because I don't think he fits in with the category of some of the names being thrown around, even though I still think the guy had talent. The same can probably be said of the other guy I mentioned, Jack Blades. I was a big Night Ranger fan, and to a lesser extent, The Damn Yankees. But Jack as a great bass player? Meh. I think those guys were better entertainers.
BTW, good call on the Benjamin Orr from the cars. I actually thought some of his solo stuff was pretty good. R.I.P. Ben.
