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I'm sure it's been done before, I'm just wondering what band did it?
An opportunity has arose for me to form a band with 2 bassists. I just want to listen to a few songs of another band with the same, so I can get an idea if it will sound good, be easy to work with etc etc.
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He'll never notice the vibrations.
Two bassists could be difficult to work with, but imagine the sound it would have! Slipknot are re-nowned(sp?) for 3 drummers/percussionists. And the only reason they wanted that in the first place was to have a heavy percussion sound, instead of the classic raunchy guitars and bass, metal sound. So why not go the other way and have 2 bassists, giving a deep, dark, heavy sound.
I'm sure it's possible. Would be interesting to try though. One would mainly play the top two, deeper strings. While the would play soft, higher pitched picking. Then in the chorus', have them both doing similar things. Would sound awesome, I think!
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Two bassists would require the musical arranger to apply a bit of skill to derive the best effect. There would be little value in them both churning out the same bass line.
And to answer your question, I'm not aware of any mainstream bands that have tried this, but I'm sure it must have been done somewhere. Sting must have had some involvement with a second bassist at some stage in his career -- particularly when he was experimenting with his own prototype instruments back in the 80s.
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TWO manic depressives in the band.
Could be worse - two singers.
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A tradtional bass player to put down the rhythm and someone to do slap and pop - a lead bassist like Stanely Clarke to do solos.I've heard bass players just playing by themselves...a huge range and style,they can just go on and on.
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Now I remember - Marillion tried two bassists.
In fact Chris Squire (Fish) once said "a nightmare is two bassists on stage".
Then again, he was one of them sometimes ...
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what is it with bassists and honda VTs? i ride a vtz250 and also play the bass. the talent of the other band members will need to be 2nd to none as intergrating two bassists is no easy task. see how the other bassist plays and then see if your styles are too similarOriginally Posted by hXc
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hXc is a drummer - not a bassist
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Well as said above, I'm a drummer. I just have a thing with organising different projects to try. This being one of them.
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That's exactly what I thought.
Although there would be some places where it would be an added feature to have both the bassists doing the same, or nearly the same thing. And the guitarists doing the same. With the drums on the same rhythm. So it's all at the same time, then a break with vocals, then the 'riff' again etc...
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The band I played with had 2 - one electric and one fretless... it worked!
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Well this would possibly be a different style but that's good to know it worked. If it happens with the members we have lined up at the moment, it will turn out interesting indeed:
Singer likes: Emo, punk, rock
Bassist 1 likes: Emo, punk, metal, alternative, rock (Female)
Bassist 2 likes: Rock, metal, punk
Guitarist 1 likes: Metal
Guitarist 2 likes: Metal, punk, emo
Drummer likes: Emo, metal, punk, rock, alternative, jazz
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This band has two drummers and two bassists. Interesting.
http://www.giantrobot.com/transmissi...ary/index.html
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One band I have found that have had two bassists in their line up: Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Formed in 1987 as 6th formers. A british band. Taking their name from an episode of The Goons Show
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