Tracks with two basses

[Matthew Fisher]

Heard any tracks with two basses lately? Here's one that surprised me because I've heard it many times before and never noticed. Maybe this was the first time with headphones.

 

[nolaguy]

"Stop in the Name of Love" by The Supremes has two bass lines. Best heard in a stereo mix with headphones.

 

[Wolford]

Lou Reed - Walk on the wildside

 

[AL_BASS]

I believe RHCP's new album has a song "Go Robot" with the two bass lines on the same track.

 

[nixdad]

The Beatles - "Think for Yourself."

 

[Matthew Fisher]

"Stop in the Name of Love" by The Supremes has two bass lines. Best heard in a stereo mix with headphones.

Sure does! Never noticed that either. One very deep, one mid-rangey.

 

[Matthew Fisher]

I have written several songs that have multiple bass parts. Here is one of them, all instruments played by yours truly. Download and enjoy :

"Walking Towards Infinity" Copyright © Jeffrey P. Scott 1982 All rights reserved.

Nice! I think I hear some Rickenbacker Rickenbacker Rickenbacker Rickenbacker Rickenbacker Rickenbacker Rickenbacker in there. Nothing sounds like a Ric.

 

[Matthew Fisher]

I believe RHCP's new album has a song "Go Robot" with the two bass lines on the same track.

Yes, sounds like one fingerstyle, one slap.

 

[Goatrope]

Temptations "shakey ground"

 

[XontheP]

It sounds like Tom Petty's American Girl has 2 basses (or overdub) in the intro.

 

[Mildew Jones]

Battle Scar (Max Webster/Rush in the studio...David Myles the distorted bass, Geddy playing what sounds an awful lot like a fretless)



MJ

 

[Mildew Jones]

The Melvins/Tool...Divorced



MJ

 

[nixdad]

There's a whole slew of Beach Boys tunes which feature up to 3 basses at once: electric, upright & baritone guitar (referred to as "tic-tac" bass.)

 

[BroBro]

Miles Davis - Tutu (Marcus Miller i think from memory one slap, one fretless?)

 

[Wolford]

Spinal Tap - Big Bottom. Seriously, this should have been the first song mentioned.

 

[devnulljp]

Dumpstaphunk have two bass players, and they're awesome

 

[lz4005]

Pretty much every song Phil Spector produced in the 60's had a P bass with flats and a foam mute being doubled by a BassVI or a Dano 6 string bass. Literally hundreds of songs.

 

[old spice]

The Dreadful Great:

 

[TrevorOfDoom]

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, and a few more by The Police.
Sting recorded both electric & double bass.

 

[Bob_Ross]

"That Voice Again" by Peter Gabriel features a bassline that Tony Levin doubled almost verbatim on Chapman Stick. Real obvious on headphones...those infrequent moments where the Stick and bass parts deviate will cause your head to explode!