One of the bands I play in is two basses and drums, it's a lot of fun. We often double parts or play harmonies instead of having the parts completely decoupled, it's pretty straightforward rock most of the time.
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Two Bassists in a band
- Thread starter Roy Blockowitch
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It could. But the music you perform would need to be arranged or composed to accommodate.
In western music the bass is mostly used as a tool of musical reconciliation. Making music flow logically. Having a second bass with its own set of logic would sound confusing IME. So the second bass part would be more of a percussion, melodic. or harmonic embellishment voice.
And another live set... to the right of that Artcore in the thumbnail is a shortscale Burns. And the whole thing is surprisingly... R&B?
Found another one which hasn't been mentioned on TB yet - Goodbye Metro. One of the closest sounds to classic rock in this thread, though they're a duo with programmed drums.
Interesting…I’m not sure how
It has anything to do with “classic rock”, though, and the guy on the Coronado is just playing guitar riffs an octave up with a fair amount of distortion.
That's exactly what I mean - the guy on the Coronado sounds a lot like a regular guitarist from a regular band. In a thread full of weird music, it's close to classic rock - relatively speaking.
I'm pretty sure Monk used both Wilbur Ware and Ahmed Abdul-Malik for a while.
How Duke Elllington got Jimmie Blanton into the band is he hired him, then stodd him up there next to Bily Taylor (NOT the pianist), who was so embarrassed by being showed up by "the kid" that he quit.
Coltrane famously had Art Davis and Jimmy Garrison on some recordings.
How Duke Elllington got Jimmie Blanton into the band is he hired him, then stodd him up there next to Bily Taylor (NOT the pianist), who was so embarrassed by being showed up by "the kid" that he quit.
Coltrane famously had Art Davis and Jimmy Garrison on some recordings.
Their backing track has a lot more than just drums going on.
There are vocal harmonies buried quite low in the mix, and it seems like guitar overdubs too - though I suppose she could be using a live harmoniser on her vocals, and the Coronado could have a more complicated parallel effects chain, than it at first appeared.
Just came across this…
No, I’m not counting the instrument, there’s a support bass player.
No, I’m not counting the instrument, there’s a support bass player.
My current band originally had 2 bassist. I laid in the pocket while the other bassist played up the scale quite a bit.
Now defunct band from Chicago - Bear Claw.
Let me find their band camp.
Love this band so much.
One night at a show in Madison WI, I saw a touring band called Almanac Man… turned to my friend
“Do you remember Bear Claw from Chicago? These guys kind of remind me of them”
His reply
“The drummer was in Bear Claw”
Small world.
Let me find their band camp.
Love this band so much.
One night at a show in Madison WI, I saw a touring band called Almanac Man… turned to my friend
“Do you remember Bear Claw from Chicago? These guys kind of remind me of them”
His reply
“The drummer was in Bear Claw”
Small world.
Yeah, I really liked Bear Claw, but for me they only existed online (never found any of their records for sale, and I don't believe they ever toured outside the U.S.A.)
At one point Duke Ellington decided he wanted more bass in his sound, so he started hiring two bassists. According to legend, that lasted until one of the bassists was Jimmy Blanton. Then no other bassist could keep up.
Also, part of Stan Kenton's motivation for the Mellophonium band was to have more bass. But he hated PA systems. He kept one bassist, but added tuba, a second bari sax, and a bass sax. I've played some of that material, and it's definitely a bassy sound, especially when the bass instrument parts are all in unison.
Also, part of Stan Kenton's motivation for the Mellophonium band was to have more bass. But he hated PA systems. He kept one bassist, but added tuba, a second bari sax, and a bass sax. I've played some of that material, and it's definitely a bassy sound, especially when the bass instrument parts are all in unison.
