Bass part stand-ins.

[spectoremg]

Prompted by the recent Adam Clayton post (re The Edge playing bass occasionally) who else do we know of who's taken on the regular bass players parts?
Ronnie Wood - bass on Maggie May.

[Graham]

Didn't Keith Richards play on a few Stones songs? Much to the irritation of the bass player, who's name escapes me

[MrDaveTheBass]

Noddy Holder sometimes played Jim Lea's bass while Jim was sawing away at his fiddle.

[ambient]

Steven Wilson play bass occasionally when Nick Beggs is playing Chapman stick.

[scalpy]

Hendrix on All Along the Watchtower. As if the three solos, all round general arrangement and reinterpretation wasn't enough.

[Hobbayne]

Both John Lennon and George Harrison played bass in The Beatles. Its John On Long & winding Road and George on She Said, She Said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVsiIxE_6OM

[wateroftyne]

Levon Helm played bass in The Band sometimes.

[gary mac]

Dave Gilmour quite often played bass on Floyd recordings.

[6v6]

Tom Petty, e.g on the Travelling Willburies and some other stuff.

[Stu-khag]

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1455192980' post='2976829']
Didn't Keith Richards play on a few Stones songs? Much to the irritation of the bass player, who's name escapes me
[/quote]
I'm sure I read Keith played bass on sympathy for the devil.

[Mykesbass]

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1455191857' post='2976814']
Prompted by the recent Adam Clayton post (re The Edge playing bass occasionally) who else do we know of who's taken on the regular bass players parts?
Ronnie Wood - bass on Maggie May.
[/quote]

Wasn't Ron(nie) Wood actually a pretty regular bass player?

[colgraff]

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1455192767' post='2976825']
Mark Plati played Ashes to Ashes in Bowie's live band as Gail Ann Dorsey isn't a fan of slap. Gail played six string instead.
[/quote]

I didn't know that. When I saw them in the late 90s she played it, but maybe there was no one else available.

[James Nada]

David St Hubbins and Nigel Tufnell both played bass on Big Bottom.

[discreet]

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1455195329' post='2976897']
Dave Gilmour quite often played bass on Floyd recordings.
[/quote]

More often than not, I think. There was a running joke between DG and Roger Waters, who regularly thanked our Dave for getting him in the 'Best Bass Player' chart in Melody Maker.

Edited February 11, 2016 by discreet

[Lozz196]

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1455192980' post='2976829']
Didn't Keith Richards play on a few Stones songs? Much to the irritation of the bass player, who's name escapes me
[/quote]

Apparently on a fair few, though from Keefs book Bill Wyman never seemed that bothered - apparently his attitude was, you`ve written the lines, where`s the point of teaching me, just record them.

[mentalextra]

Bill Nelson's pretty handy on Bass

[TrevorR]

Aimee Mann swaps and changes between guitar and bass across a live set...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbX2jAgQOgY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbX2jAgQOgY[/url]

Edited February 11, 2016 by TrevorR

[paul h]

Scag Ricketts played bass on the first three Manta Ray's Broken Basket records.

[DaveFry]

The Beach Boys did a tour between Dec 64 and March 65 without Brian Wilson . They enlisted Glen Campbell to play bass and sing the falsetto harmonies .
-- At the same time . Respec' !

[acidbass]

Paul Simon plays bass on 'You Can Call Me Al' - the part is played on a six string bass and decorates alongside the familiar groove

[Graham]

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1455222634' post='2977275']


Apparently on a fair few, though from Keefs book Bill Wyman never seemed that bothered - apparently his attitude was, you`ve written the lines, where`s the point of teaching me, just record them.
[/quote]

Ah, I remember reading a story where they'd been in the studio, Wyman had gone off for lunch, came back and found the bass had been recorded and wasn't happy. I could easily have got that wrong though

[No lust in Jazz]

Joe Strummer played bass on Guns of Brixton when Paul Simenon took vocals - well live anyway

[media]http://youtu.be/GOt-qMfsy7c[/media]

[wateroftyne]

How could I forget Stephen Stills? Bass on the first CSN album, and occasionally at their gigs.

[Roland Rock]

David St Hubbins AND Nigel Tufnell on Big Bottoms. Does that count?

[casapete]

Sheryl Crow played bass for a while onstage I believe.
As did Bryan Adams at one point with a trimmed down band.