You've gotta like this. One band with no guitars and two bass players. One plays a '78 RD and the other a 60s (?) EB0 with added J-pickup.
http://www.superfastgirlieshow.com
Link doesn't seem to work?
https://www.facebook.com/SuperFastGirlieShow
I can see that working well (can't see the FB right now.... or ever, depending on privacy settings; I don't have an account). Both instruments can work very well as surrogate chordy rhythm guitars. With a a stock EBO, you're best off doing this sort of thing above the 10th fret and an RD (Artist, never played a standard) just loves dirty chording when in expansion mode. Seriously, anybody with an RD Artist should try it; if you have a nice (lower powered) tube head you don't even need a distortion/OD pedal.
My Artist's Moog went binward in the 80's, along with the frets, and the bridge pup... :vader:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naCqbVqtPLE
they kinda suck...
My ears! >:(
Hell, I'd go see them if they played around here!
;D
It's like a couple of death metal guitar players tried to go all hipster and now play bad punk versions of their old songs on bass. I've never seen one band so encapsulate the failings of so many different styles of music at once.
enemymine did this two bass thing much better. well as 'better' as it can get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RawObDuYPfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zGZafJUzI
While not necessarily my favorite band, these guys did it a long time ago and were much better at it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGI6mbD0E9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nSezRWIH6g
Neds Atomic Dustbin had two bass players as well, for what thats worth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_-4iGdSD0
:thumbsup:
Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on May 23, 2013, 03:13:13 AM
It's like a couple of death metal guitar players tried to go all hipster and now play bad punk versions of their old songs on bass. I've never seen one band so encapsulate the failings of so many different styles of music at once.
I play with another bassist in our litigation in-house band. It works well and is fun. Burkhard, a finger player, plays mostly Fender 5-strings with a crisp sound, he lays foundation unless he's slapping, and I, a pick player, play short scale Gibsons with a fuzzy sound, laying foundation when he's slapping and "lead baritone" (lots of high register, bending and chording) when he is laying foundation. We never need to have the basses run over the PA, with two bass rigs left and right, we're the stereo bass attack!
I'm surprised that hardly a professional band ever uses two bassists, the "overlapping frequencies" argument against it is vastly overrated in my opinion. It all comes down to the two bassists having discernibly individual sounds (and rest assured: nothing you play on, say, a short scale Gibson Flying V bass sounds as if it was played on an active Fender 5-string Jazz) and styles (Burkhard's and my playing are in parallel universes that hardly ever cross unless we want to). If Geezer Butler and Chris Squire plyed in the same band, I believe that would be just as complementary as Sting and Larry Graham. I believe I'd like to hear Glenn Hughes (for his rhythmic accents) and Paul McCartney (for his sense of melody and harmony) together, I could envisage it just sounding fine.
when i saw elephant's memory, lennon's old backing band, they used two bass players. this was somewhere in the early seventies.
No reason why two bassists can't work well as long as there are two distinct enough bass parts in the music.
Willie Nelson had 2 bassists when I saw him.
The London Philharmonic has a few... ;D