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Two Bassists in a band

#204
I'm thinking of jazz fusion bassist Wayman Tisdale. He played piccolo, and always had another bass laying down funky lines. He recorded many albums, including one with Toby Keith, who just passed yesterday.
If you like funky jazz, or piccolo bass he's worth a listen.
May they both RIP.
 
#207
Les Fret said:
Hmm..acquired taste shall we say.
Two bass players is acceptable at best, but three is just overkill. :)
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One of my old bands had a song which required four of us on bass.

Three distinct parts, but one was for the most part two basses in unison, only deviating slightly in places.

Live, it sounded absolutely glorious, and was really fun to play.

However, when we recorded it, the whole thing just worked better with two basses, and the unison parts played on guitar.
 
#210
Kip Hanrahan's 1983 album "Desire Develops an Edge" features a track which has both Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Steve Swallow on electric bass. (Sorry, I can't remember the title.)
Swallow's initial influence on electric bass, Jack Bruce, is also on a lot of tracks, singing or playing.
 
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bassdude51 said:
I'm too lazy to find it in my Lp/Cd collection but I have a live recording of one song by Jimi Hendrix with Noel Redding and Jack Casady on bass at the same time.

Sounds terrible!
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What you're referring to is the Winterland Concerts boxset. Out of curiosity, I broke it out, and Jack actually plays on two tracks, "Killing Floor" and "Hey Joe", 10/10/68. What I think you're remembering is the copious amounts of amp distortion, contributing to a murky low end. Hendrix live would often be a loosey goosey jam anyway, and Jack(no stranger to overdrive)was ripping it up. It didn't sound that awful, just spur of the moment riffing, perhaps sloppy, but that's what went on in those days. There was another track(the name of which escapes me)where Noel, by himself, goes off on a pointless meandering 'solo', which sounds like he actually has a fuzzbox on. He's the only one who coukd make a Sunn tube bass rig sound bad(Felix, on the other hand, was a monster).
 
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Michedelic said:
What you're referring to is the Winterland Concerts boxset. Out of curiosity, I broke it out, and Jack actually plays on two tracks, "Killing Floor" and "Hey Joe", 10/10/68. What I think you're remembering is the copious amounts of amp distortion, contributing to a murky low end. Hendrix live would often be a loosey goosey jam anyway, and Jack(no stranger to overdrive)was ripping it up. It didn't sound that awful, just spur of the moment riffing, perhaps sloppy, but that's what went on in those days. There was another track(the name of which escapes me)where Noel, by himself, goes off on a pointless meandering 'solo', which sounds like he actually has a fuzzbox on. He's the only one who coukd make a Sunn tube bass rig sound bad(Felix, on the other hand, was a monster).
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Thank-you for finding the Hendrix recording that I could not remember. I've not played the song/songs in years and all I remember was the low end sounding terrible muddy with no definition. Major boomy thunderous sound!

I'm not knocking Noel but he was actually a guitarist. Sometimes the guitar mentality comes out from a guitarist when he/she plays/tries to play the bass. (I hope I don't catch flak for that statement!)
 
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bassdude51 said:
Thank-you for finding the Hendrix recording that I could not remember. I've not played the song/songs in years and all I remember was the low end sounding terrible muddy with no definition. Major boomy thunderous sound!

I'm not knocking Noel but he was actually a guitarist. Sometimes the guitar mentality comes out from a guitarist when he/she plays/tries to play the bass. (I hope I don't catch flak for that statement!)
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I was never impressed by him, and can never understsnd the apologetic admiration for him. He just lucked out by being in the right place at the right time. Hendrix was quoted in that boxset(and keep in mind that this was two years into the band's existence)that Mitch was the one he was afraid of losing. I saw the JHE around a month after those shows, my third rock concert, it was something of a lackluster performance. Redding looked like he wanted to be somewhere else.
 
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Thread poster..........please excuse my tangent.

Michedelic said:
I was never impressed by him, and can never understsnd the apologetic admiration for him. He just lucked out by being in the right place at the right time. Hendrix was quoted in that boxset(and keep in mind that this was two years into the band's existence)that Mitch was the one he was afraid of losing. I saw the JHE around a month after those shows, my third rock concert, it was something of a lackluster performance. Redding looked like he wanted to be somewhere else.
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WOW! You saw JHE! WOW! WOW!

He played here in Columbus Ohio at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. I would have been around 16 maybe 17. I could not afford to go! My friends and cousin went. It was probably like about $6 a ticket back then. With inflation, $6 back then would have been like $75 today. Anyway, I didn't go and missed it.

I read an article about Noel a long, long time ago. He basically said that he get robbed. He got very little money. Not by Jimi but the manager. (Was it Chaz Chandler?)
 
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bassdude51 said:
Thread poster..........please excuse my tangent.



WOW! You saw JHE! WOW! WOW!

He played here in Columbus Ohio at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. I would have been around 16 maybe 17. I could not afford to go! My friends and cousin went. It was probably like about $6 a ticket back then. With inflation, $6 back then would have been like $75 today. Anyway, I didn't go and missed it.

I read an article about Noel a long, long time ago. He basically said that he get robbed. He got very little money. Not by Jimi but the manager. (Was it Chaz Chandler?)
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Mike Jeffery…
Michael Jeffery (manager) - Wikipedia
…Chandler's business partner, was apparently the villain in that story, although I've read that after Janie Hendrix took over affairs decades later, she wasn't too kind either.

I was just in Jr. High at the time, had just started playing bass, but it was all a blur to me…
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The place was built in the 30's, horrible acoustics, just another gig of an endless tour for him. Before that, I saw the last go-round of Eric Burdon and the Animals(ironically, where I live now, he used to live down the road, ran into him at the grocery store), then before that, Paul Revere and the Raiders, kinda at the end of their days of relevancy.
 
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