Bassists who Sing

[air_leech]

Jack Bruce can sing.
he isnt the best singer in the world but he can play the fretless and sing at the same time while I cant do even one of these things alone as good as he does.

 

[Debased]

roger waters

You're kidding, right?

Water's may very well have the worst voice I've ever heard on a professional recording.

 

[Marley's Ghost]

relley i can only think of 1;john entwhistle but i would like to know who you guys no.

 

[ARCtrooper225]

Nobody has said Lemmy yet??

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

One from a new poster and old lurker...

Add Oteil Burbridge. I just saw him and his band at the Bamboo Room in Lake Worth, Florida last month and the man can SING. and PLAY!!!

Great show. Try and catch him if you can.

edmidlifecrisis

 

[JAUQO III-X]

Lamont Johnson from the R&B/Soul/Funk group Brainstorm(and solo artist)and he does it while playing fretless.


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[cdef]

That guy in Fastball.

Yeah, Tony Scalzo. Very appealing voice, and with Miles Zuniga also singing they hit a Lennon-McCartney kind of level at times. It's great stuff.

EDIT: Fastball's website reveals a new bass player, an Austin girl called Harmoni Kelly. Tony Scalzo now plays rhythm guitar.

 

[RobinBetton]

esperanza spalding

 

[DeaconK]

Peter Cetera, ex-bassist for Chicago, now solo.

 

[Rich600]

Ben Kenney(Incubus)
Caleb Schofield(Cave In) I choose him for screams though.

 

[jerry]

Peter Cetera, ex-bassist for Chicago, now solo.

Speaking of Chicago, Jason Scheff.

When I saw this thread the first name that came to my mind was Will Lee, awesome singer!

 

[Stifflip]

Danyel Morgan of Robert Randolph & the Family Band

 

[andyroo]

I gotta say +100000000 to everyone who said Richard Bona, not only a killer bass player, but a great vocalist too.

 

[dougjwray]

Aimee Mann (although she mostly plays acoustic guitar these days, in live performance, anyway)

Of course, McCartney.

But the grand prize winner:
Jack Bruce, who is such a great singer that he's been sought out by high-class folks like Kip Hanrahan, Michael Mantler & Carla Bley, etc., for that alone. And yes, he can play and sing just about anything simultaneously, even staying in tune on the fretless.

 

[PhR]

John Gustafson (Quatermass, Hard Stuff, Ian Gillan Band, Roxy Music. etc)
Kasim Sulton (Utopia)
Boz Burrell (King Crimson, Bad Company)

 

[excane]

How can you forget Doug (dUg) Pinnick? Amazing voice - rock and soul in equally huge measures, not to mention awesome bass tone.

+10010​

 

[gkbass13]

my favorite is danyel morgan from robert randolph and the family band. he hits some amazing falsettos!

 

[Jeff Martinez]

Marco Hietala of Nightwish.

+1

Kip Winger
Pete Steele
Sting
Peter Cetera

 

[DWBass]

Sheryl Crow
Nathan East

 

[Matt Till]

Nobody has said Lemmy yet??

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3689974&postcount=10