Bands with no guitars

[Bassmonkey]

Went to see Retox last night at Leeds' Brudenell Social Club. They were good (hardcore screamers playing at breakneck speed) but the 2 supports were pretty unusual. First Cattle - a bassist, 2 drummers and a singer. The bass was distorted as hell but sounded immense. Reeling from that, the next up were Zeus - 2 piece Italian bassist and drummer. Again, all sorts of effects and distortions but strangely compelling. Really tight and bloody loud. Who needs a guitarist eh?

[tonyquipment]

Death from above1979 is decent

[steve-bbb]

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1374140873' post='2145653']
Went to see Retox last night at Leeds' Brudenell Social Club. They were good (hardcore screamers playing at breakneck speed) but the 2 supports were pretty unusual. First Cattle - a bassist, 2 drummers and a singer. The bass was distorted as hell but sounded immense. Reeling from that, the next up were Zeus - 2 piece Italian bassist and drummer. Again, all sorts of effects and distortions but strangely compelling. Really tight and bloody loud. Who needs a guitarist eh?
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not knowing much about what is exactly yhe best bass for metal and all that....

i do observe from all the threads i read here that metallurgists do seem to be very fond of this downtuning malarky

does this herald the way for some not too distant utopia where all guitars will have big chunky strings and long scale lengths?

[fumps]

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1374140873' post='2145653']
Went to see Retox last night at Leeds' Brudenell Social Club. They were good (hardcore screamers playing at breakneck speed) but the 2 supports were pretty unusual. First Cattle - a bassist, 2 drummers and a singer. The bass was distorted as hell but sounded immense. Reeling from that, the next up were Zeus - 2 piece Italian bassist and drummer. Again, all sorts of effects and distortions but strangely compelling. Really tight and bloody loud. Who needs a guitarist eh?
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Aww that sounds interesting I wish I would have gone now

[neepheid]

No guitars in one of my bands (The Inevitable Teaspoons) - vocals, keys/mouthy, trombone, sax, bass, drums.

[Adee]

LET'S MEET JESUS
[url="http://letsmeetjesus.com/"]http://letsmeetjesus.com/[/url] a superb 3 piece : Bass / Drums / Vocals

[url="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-Meet-Jesus/193896950645586"]https://www.facebook...193896950645586[/url]

[url="http://youtu.be/2VJnmz_CQIQ"]http://youtu.be/2VJnmz_CQIQ[/url]

Edited July 18, 2013 by Adee

[Coilte]

"Aka Moon" are one of my favourite non-guitar bands.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByT3uLFiY0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByT3uLFiY0[/url]

[JTUK]

It'll never catch on...

[BetaFunk]

Morphine

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdlIZhzJeQ[/media]

Edited July 18, 2013 by BetaFunk

[EliasMooseblaster]

No guitar...no bass either!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKUgpDVPRHE

[Fat Rich]

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1374146197' post='2145722']
It'll never catch on...
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Keane did a lot to help that

[EliasMooseblaster]

[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1374147194' post='2145742']
Keane did a lot to help that
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Oh god, I'd forgotten about those whinging dullards...which kind of proves JTUK's point!

[RhysP]

Ben Folds Five.

[iceonaboy]

[quote name='tonyquipment' timestamp='1374141359' post='2145661']
Death from above1979 is decent
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+100 to that mate, love 'em!

[Gust0o]

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1374140873' post='2145653']
Went to see Retox last night at Leeds' Brudenell Social Club. They were good (hardcore screamers playing at breakneck speed) but the 2 supports were pretty unusual. First Cattle - a bassist, 2 drummers and a singer. The bass was distorted as hell but sounded immense. Reeling from that, the next up were Zeus - 2 piece Italian bassist and drummer. Again, all sorts of effects and distortions but strangely compelling. Really tight and bloody loud. Who needs a guitarist eh?
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You should also check out Castrovalva - their bassist, Ant, is on here somewhere, and they make a big racket. Last seen supporting Turbowolf at Brudenell Social Club

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhRHurqWql4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhRHurqWql4[/url]

[steve-bbb]

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1374147255' post='2145745']


Oh god, I'd forgotten about those whinging dullards...which kind of proves JTUK's point!
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But to be fair Keane are good in that they make Coldsore sound interesting

[xgsjx]

I tried to start a band with no guitars (or maybe 1 to play some funky wah stuf, etc), but ended up with 3 of them! Put one on drums though.

Anyway, here's some bands I like with no guitarists...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0apbeC8Gz8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bVI8vJw2To

[lojo]

didnt dexys do this for a while ?

[KevB]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR_Q7ZbhO6w[/media]


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w8pbGz7E8c"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w8pbGz7E8c[/url]

Edited July 18, 2013 by KevB

[timmo]

I have never seen any guitars in Westlife

[lefrash]

i play in a non guitar hip hop band. The sound is intentionally sparse so that its all about the tight rap and drums. In fact before myself and the keyboardist got involved it was a duo! So its perfectly doable.

What I hate though, is when a bass player tried to mimic what a guitarist would do. Whats the point in doing something on an instrument when its easy enough to do it on an instrument that will make it sound great!

Edited July 18, 2013 by lefrash

[Graham]

Can't find any decent videos of them, but Palehorse are great - 1 drummer, no guitarist, 2 bassists and an angry bloke shouting

[BernardJazz]

I played a venue in Birmingham last year where a band had a bassist/vocalist + drummer. Absolutely loved them, especially since the bassist was nice enough to let me use his cab.
Unfortunately I can't find any of their stuff on youtube, but there's some stuff on BandCamp - [url="http://gagreflex.bandcamp.com/"]http://gagreflex.bandcamp.com/[/url]

[adamlunt]

El Ten Eleven are my fav no guitar band

[arthurhenry]

Niacin