Earbrass Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Soft Machine were guitarless in several of their line-ups in the early seventies - as for example on Soft Machine 6. Quote
BetaFunk Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 (edited) [quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1374573125' post='2150190'] Soft Machine were guitarless in several of their line-ups in the early seventies - as for example on Soft Machine 6. [/quote] They didn't have a guitarist on the 5 albums before 6 apart from one track where Hugh Hopper plays acoustic guitar on one of the early LPs. Edited July 23, 2013 by BetaFunk Quote
ras52 Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Van der Graaf Generator are frequently guitarless as Peter Hammill hops between guitar and piano. They're also bassless! Quote
BassTractor Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 (edited) Soft Machine and Van der Graaf Generator in consecutive posts! I must be dead, and someone's made a mistake at that pearly gate thingy. b, b Edited July 23, 2013 by BassTractor Quote
BetaFunk Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 (edited) Who needs a guitarist when you can play a bass like this? The great Roy Babbington @ 22.20 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnyKYDy6O8Y[/media] Edited July 23, 2013 by BetaFunk Quote
Dimwit Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Was talking to a mate about this and he mentioned Morphine. Never heard of them before now, but am liking it so far. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEYKrFJgRo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEYKrFJgRo[/url] Quote
Bassmonkey Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Check out Zeus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOGF2y1aisk Mad but compelling..... Quote
alyctes Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Morphine, VdGG, Melt Yourself Down are all personal favourites. Quote
BetaFunk Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 [quote name='Dimwit' timestamp='1374582512' post='2150432'] Was talking to a mate about this and he mentioned Morphine. Never heard of them before now, but am liking it so far. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEYKrFJgRo[/media] [/quote] You may have heard of them earlier if you had read post #9 of this thread. Quote
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