bassists who aren't

[wdinc01]

Mic Todd from Coheed and Cambria was a guitar player before he joined the band. But he's a pretty good bassist, so I guess that only partially fits what you're looking for.

And yeah, I've also heard that Gilmour did a lot of the bass recordings for Pink Floyd.

 

[Jimbob Jones]

Roger Waters didn't play all the bass lines on the pink floyd recordings, Dave Gilmour did a lot of bass work in the studio. The most famous example being the fretless solo on "Hey You" from The Wall.

 

[Tired_Thumb]

this is kinda in the topic i guess

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYrTKXLYH0

well they claim hes a bassist but hes not really is he?
thats not a bass solo either!
its like a guitar with longer strings (piccolo strings maybe?) put on a 4 string bass

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oNqEq6y7-Wo&feature=related

whats he done to that poor rickenbacker
im just so curious why practically no one has noticed this and is just shouting things like "he has such a unique sound he is a god" and crap like that, i just dont understand how everyone can be so nieve

Wrong topic. This is about bassists who had somebody else record their parts on albums. Also, do a search on Joey DeMaio, he was just discussed to death a month or so ago.

 

[Sneckumhaw]

this is kinda in the topic i guess

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYrTKXLYH0

well they claim hes a bassist but hes not really is he?
thats not a bass solo either!
its like a guitar with longer strings (piccolo strings maybe?) put on a 4 string bass

Maybe he's not playing bass in this one clip, but he is a bassist, he plays bass most of the time, like it or not.

 

[seanm]

Maybe he's not playing bass in this one clip, but he is a bassist, he plays bass most of the time, like it or not.

+1 I can't understand why people are so against this clip. The crowd obviously loves it and he gets a chance to be the front man for one song.

 

[Spector_Ray]

That video reminds me of one of my great unrequited bass lusts: an American NS-2. I did, however, own the five string version, and it had a slap tone to die for.

BTW: Winger definitely nails his parts!

Man, I used to be able to get a fat tone like that from my NS-2 and Ampeg setup. My Euro 4 doesn't have the low end balls through the rig I'm playing through now.

 

[vegas532]

Someone mentioned Sleeping Giant's bassist in a thread about distortion tones...I know for a fact that the bassist didn't play a note on the album, and it was through no rig of his own.

 

[Rickett Customs]

Roger Waters didn't play all the bass lines on the pink floyd recordings, Dave Gilmour did a lot of bass work in the studio. The most famous example being the fretless solo on "Hey You" from The Wall.

If I can remember correctly, Roger actually played all the fretted basslines and refused to play a fretless, Thats where Gilmour stepped in.

 

[air_leech]

Maybe he's not playing bass in this one clip, but he is a bassist, he plays bass most of the time, like it or not.

after watching that youtube vid I actually think he has a frustrated guitarist syndrome.

 

[maniacmetalhead]

Rick Savage was originally playing guitar with Pete Willis in Def Leppard, but they couldn't find a bass player and after it was decided that Pete was a better guitarist, Sav started playing bass.

 

[quadebass17]

pete wentz is the first to come to mind....

 

[BigSwami]

If I can remember correctly, Roger actually played all the fretted basslines and refused to play a fretless, Thats where Gilmour stepped in.

Waters actually has almost no sense of pitch, and he admits as much. He's practically tone-deaf. He'd be a slow-motion car crash with a fretless.

 

[JRod4975]

I was a jazz/rock guitar player about a little less than a year ago when a local hardcore band asked me to play bass for them. Since it's a lot of traveling I accepted and now I love playing bass. I have not picked up my guitars in so long. The strings are rusting.

 

[agreatheight]

pete wentz is the first to come to mind....

I saw something this weekend on TV where Pete was out screamo-ing in the crowd and had no bass on, yet the bass playing continued. At the very least that means that particular section was being played off stage, but it's very possible that he wasn't playing at all for that performance.

For the record, I rather enjoy Fall Out Boy's albums, so I am not bashing them, just reporting what I saw.

 

[jmac]

I'm new to TB, but I have some information to add to this thread.

First, I wanted to play bass from the first time I heard Steve Harris on Piece of Mind. That album also was my first exposure to metal. It changed my life.

Second, I was at a Gary Willis clinic held at Bass Specialties in Bensalem, Pa. Gary was originally a guitar player. I was surprised to learn this as he's such an accomplished bassist.


Finally, I saw video of kip with Cooper. He attempted to play a bass solo. It was the worst thing I've ever heard. His sound was terrible, his playing was terrible. It was just bad. At the time I didn't know who he was.

FF years later and winger is hitting the scene. I take my girlfriend at the time to see them live. He spent most of the concert swinging the bass and playing with it (not actually playing it). I guess that is the bassist equivalent to lip syncing. Based on that performance I don't consider him a bassist.

 

[Rickett Customs]

Now that I did not know.

Also Kip had wrote the song "bang bang" on the Kix album "midnight dynamite (1985), back in the day before winger.
Anybody in the NE remember Kix?

 

[Webtroll]

I started on guitar but never really thought of myself as a guitarist; it was a means to meet chicks. A friend asked me to play bass for his band and so I got an old P bass and a bass cab for my Peavey guitar combo and from there on out I was in love. The chick part didn't work out as well, unfortunately (so I still have a couple of guitars haha).

 

[agreatheight]

Kix, yes... sadly I do remember them, hahahaha!

As for Kip, he's a pretty good bassist but in Winger he was certainly more of a frontman / singer / performer. It was the 80s!

I met Kip in Santa Fe once - he was actually a real nice guy.

 

[not_jason]

I have always suspected that Rivers played all the bass on Weezer's first record. Based on what I know about Matt Sharp's skills at that time, and based on the fact that it's virtually all root notes, it just sounds like a guitarist tracking bass to me.