A band with 2 bassists

[Colapop]

Try them out on a jazz piece - that always seems to bring out a definite clash of styles. Which can work real well or be the complete opposite. A guy I used to work with is a bass player. He's bloody good (I don't know shit about music though) he would play melodies (on his bass) over pre-recorded bass lines. No clash it sounded somehow cleaner.

[riffer]

Its called counterpoint Colapop. If you do it right it works really well.

Trouble is, if its not quite right it sounds really bad.

[Colapop]

Ah ok then.... When he did it - it sounded pretty damn good.

[Joni]

Yeah Cola thats pretty common where I come from, we just opted for 2 live players... I was on the Fender and Chris was on the electric Ibanez!

Ah... those were the days!

[phantom]

Got a dvd of one of Sting's concerts and he is playing an electric bass and he has another guy on an acoustic one but I don't suppose that counts

[ZeroIndex]

you need one doing standard-style bass, and the other doing 'tapping'.. bass-tapping sounds brilliant..

[James Deuce]

The only good thing that can come of two bass players in one band is the Drummer has a choice of girlfriends to steal off the bass players. Possibly both at once, because they'll be so stupid they'll never notice they're going out with the same guy, having been a bass player's girlfriend and all.

[thealmightytaco]

Counterpoint colapop? Genre's get stranger by the day. Emo?

And where do you get 2 bassists?! We couldn't find 1 bassist for years let alone 2, they all wanna play proper guitar, the soul-less bastards.

[hazard02]

From experience messing around in a band room back in school, it can work just fine. As has been said, just keep the two playing a different sound. If one plays something low and rhythmic, get the other to play something with a little more treble-ly and melodic. Adding a distorion pedal can give one of them a pretty unique sound too.

[SPORK]

Everyone knows if you want multiple instruments, guitar's the way to go. Bassists are the bottom of the band ladder unless played by a real musician.

Slap 4 guitarists in your band

[Devil]

Bottom of the band ladder. Hah. A good bassist leads the band.

There's nothing I hate more than shitty sounding bass.

The musical arrangements aside, you need to be very careful with the technical side of setting up two basses to work together if at some point they're going to be playing similar things, even if in different octaves.

Intonation needs to be spot on or it'll sound like arse.

[SPORK]

Bottom of the band ladder. Hah. A good bassist leads the band.

There's nothing I hate more than shitty sounding bass.

The musical arrangements aside, you need to be very careful with the technical side of setting up two basses to work together if at some point they're going to be playing similar things, even if in different octaves.

Intonation needs to be spot on or it'll sound like arse.

The key is finding a good bassit that doesn't just want to play the root notes of the guitars :/

But holy shit, I had practice with a completely awesome band today. They want me to sing (They've already got 2 guitars and 3 guitarists) Then take over full time when the other guy moves away. To become the FRONTMAN OF DOOEM.

[F5 Dave]

The only good thing that can come of two bass players in one band is the Drummer has a choice of girlfriends to steal off the bass players. Possibly both at once, because they'll be so stupid they'll never notice they're going out with the same guy, having been a bass player's girlfriend and all.

You've been a Bass player's girlfriend?

[PaddyFZ1]

Try listening to some Iron Maiden,or even better watch some of the vids, the good stuff, mid 80s. They only had 1 bassist but very talented, Steve Harris, i think his name was. You would probably need a couple of bassist to replicate that sound.