Bands with 2 bass players
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Topic: Bands with 2 bass players
Posted By: desistindo
Subject: Bands with 2 bass players
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 19:41
| Do you know any band with two bass players? Its funny, cause other day i plugged a bass guitar in a drive distortion pedal and a friend of mine played a traditional bass, it was interesting cause de drive distotion make the bass sound like a high guitar, it will be nice if a could create a band like this, but im terrible on the bass lol |
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 20:14
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None of these are prog, but Cop Shoot Cop, Flipper and Ned's Atomic Dustbin were well-known bands with two bassists. Cop in particular did the kind of high-end/low-end thing that you mention. (Ask Questions Later was Cop's best album.) ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 20:19
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I'd say the Double Trio came pretty close. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 21:07
| Not prog, but Talking Heads used 2 bass players on their later tours in support of Remain In Light and the Stop Making Sense Tours. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 22:16
However, there are actually some people who may not know what the "Double Trio" is. So, just to clarify, it is a line-up from King Crimson in which they have two guitar players (Fripp and Belew), two bass players (Levin and Trey Gunn, though Gunn is credited as playing "Stick" and "touch guitar", I don't really know what those are), and two drummers (Bruford and Mastellotto). There's a few threads right now on "Progs Gigs, tours and festivals", and in "Prog News" about a band called Genesis Climber which they described as having two bass players. I have now idea how they sound anyway. |
jammun wrote:Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 22:20
Chapman stick: Warr guitar:  Both go way beyond the range of a bass and both involve "tappping" as part of the playing procedure. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 22:26
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^ KC did that for a while I think Magma did some stuff with 2 bassists |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 22:26
The Stick is certainly beyond the range of a bass, but that was the "purpose" it fulfilled in the Double Trio. Somwhere over on YouTube there's a nice version of The Talking Drum that shows off the capabilities of the instrument. And yes it is more tapped than strummed. As said, pretty close 
Edit: for the uninitiated, Crimson's Thrak is the reference point here. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 22:41
| So I guess it's perfectly valid to say The Double Trio has 2 bass guitars. |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 22:44
| Its worth noting Tony Levin also played a regular bass and a stand-up bass in the double trio. To see all those instruments in accion, I recommend the Deja Vrooom DVD. |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 23:00
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The French eclectic prog band Lazuli plays with both a Warr guitarist
and Chapman stick player. They also have two percussionists and a
regular electric guitarist as well. Very interesting setup. I saw them
headline at ROSfest last year and it was a brilliant show. -------------  |
Posted By: desistindo
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 07:11
| Ty for all the tips. At the moment im trying to find that KC DVD. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 08:01
Nick Beggs of Iona (previously with Kajagoogoo) :
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: findude
Date Posted: August 31 2010 at 09:36
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Una Corda had (has?) two guitarists, two bass players, and a drummer. I recommend "Three" from the "Proper Position for Floating" as an introduction to their work. There's a brief write-up here: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3061 Any tips on where to find a physical copy of their CD would be much appreciated. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 31 2010 at 09:38
Yeah, Attahk has two bassists I believe. Also, at least on the Mythes et Legends Vol. II DVD, the performance of De Futura features Jannick Top on traditional bass and Philippe Bussonnet on piccolo bass. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 31 2010 at 10:16
Actually I'd put the TH era where they had Tina Weymouth and Busta Jones in the prog section. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: August 31 2010 at 11:54
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 31 2010 at 21:29
You really want to hear Don Schiff play the Stick with The Rocket Scientists ... it's trully very good and an expression in rock music that is underappreciated. And to boot, he is not afraid to play it on stage either! One of the finest and most professional shows I have ever seen ... 1999 in the SF Progressive Music Festival when this band pop'd on stage, many people came and went and ignored them and I was standing there taking pictures and said ... ohh my gawd ... I can't believe no one is checking these guys out ... the professionalism and quality of the performance alone was worth it! And Don was on his various Sticks the whole show.
In many ways, Don is better than Levin ... I think Levin is too impatient to develop more of his play. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 31 2010 at 21:33
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Hi,
Btw ... most interesting thing with 2 bass players would be Holger Czukay with Jah Wobble.
Fun too!
In general, too much "rock music" is too stuck up on itself to have fun and experiment and do weird and different things ... it tells you that everyone thinks the bass can only do one thing ... when it can do a whole many more and modern music is not intelligent enough to experiment and have fun doing/trying completely different things ... or ... more than likely ... the commercial state of things kinda intimidates a lot of experimentation ... unless you learn to look.
But there are a lot of bass (Keyboard-SH101) and bass player combinations and Riuichi Sakamoto mixes the 2 a lot in his fine solo albums in the 90's. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: dweet
Date Posted: September 02 2010 at 16:15
Victor Wooten's solo stuff also makes use of two bass players. Anthony Wellington, Victor's "bass player", was even featured on the cover of Bass Player magazine. Anthony sticks to the more traditional low-end, which frees Victor up to solo and play more melodic lines. ------------- http://dweettoonzip.bandcamp.com/ - My neo-psychedelic post-industral post-lo-fi music . |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: September 02 2010 at 16:43
Apparently there is/was a band called Freebass featuring the bassists from New Order, Stone Roses and another famous Manchester band, but I don't know if they ever recorded anything.
And don't forget the multiple basses use by Spinal Tap on the immortal 'Big Bottom'! ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: dweet
Date Posted: September 03 2010 at 13:56
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