Two Gibson basses in one band....

Chris P. · May 22, 2013, 11:18:11 AM

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

Chris P. · May 22, 2013, 11:19:04 AM

Link doesn't seem to work?

https://www.facebook.com/SuperFastGirlieShow

Granny Gremlin · May 22, 2013, 12:53:20 PM

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.

Highlander · May 22, 2013, 03:58:30 PM

My Artist's Moog went binward in the 80's, along with the frets, and the bridge pup...

nofi · May 22, 2013, 03:59:03 PM

they kinda suck...

Dave W · May 22, 2013, 07:35:36 PM

My ears!

Denis · May 22, 2013, 07:44:55 PM

Hell, I'd go see them if they played around here!

Chris P. · May 23, 2013, 01:41:29 AM

Psycho Bass Guy · 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.

nofi · May 23, 2013, 05:40:34 AM

enemymine did this two bass thing much better. well as 'better' as it can get.

Psycho Bass Guy · May 23, 2013, 05:09:52 PM

While not necessarily my favorite band, these guys did it a long time ago and were much better at it:

Nocturnal · May 23, 2013, 06:20:15 PM

Neds Atomic Dustbin had two bass players as well, for what thats worth.

Rob · May 23, 2013, 06:41:17 PM

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.

uwe · May 24, 2013, 06:32:34 AM

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.

nofi · May 24, 2013, 08:24:50 AM

when i saw elephant's memory, lennon's old backing band, they used two bass players. this was somewhere in the early seventies.