Bands with Two Bass Players

[super al]

Back when I used to write tunes in a band we occasionally supported a Southampton band called Toupe. 

Grant Sharkey and another on basses (can't remember the other guy's name, Karl I think) + a drummer. A little bit like Primus, a little like Zappa and great fun to watch.

I can remember supporting them at the Joiners and a musician mate came to see us, he was amazed a band consisted entirely of rhythm section 😱.

[Painy]

 

[Fozza]

I think The Cure sometimes have two basses going in some of their songs - a regular four string and a Fender VI.

[Marc S]

Killing Joke's bass player "youth" aka Martin Glover, briefly formed a band called "Brilliant". They appeared on TOTP with 2 bass players back in 1982, I think
Also, I have seen a couple of bands with both a DB player and bass guitar (not often, and I can't recall who - but I have seen it)

[Rumple]

Evil Blizzard have 3 bass players I believe, don't look them up though as they might give you nightmares 😃

[GisserD]

Put it in a Dumpstatah!!!!

 

 

[MacDaddy]

11 hours ago, Painy said:

 

Later on at a hastily called band meeting at the local play-park and after an awkward 15 minutes going on the swings and down the slide workout saying anything I eventually told him he was out of the band. 

This is how all band sackings should be done!

[thebassist]

Rothko had three bassists but the last time I saw them perform, they had two - great band - so much power.

[BigRedX]

Shiina Ringo did a tour and DVD album with the band Hatsuiku Status that featured 3 bass guitarists.

And of course there's Freebass with Peter Hook, Manni and Andy Rourke.

[Happy Jack]

I'm in a band with two bass players.

Mind you, one of them plays lead guitar.

[casapete]

16 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

I'm in a band with two bass players.

Mind you, one of them plays lead guitar.

AWB scenario then! 

[knirirr]

There are two bassists on this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Monk-Montgomery-Bass-Odyssey/release/2001440

[missis sumner]

2 hours ago, Painy said:

 

Great.

Now you've got me shopping for Bongos...

 

😆

[Skybone]

1 hour ago, Rumple said:

Evil Blizzard have 3 bass players I believe, don't look them up though as they might give you nightmares 😃

Evil Blizzard actually go 1 better than that, with 4 bass players. 

Great band.

[Hobbayne]

This one has two bassists and the guitar player is even playing the bassline on a Les Paul! 😂

 

[BigRedX]

But one of them isn't actually playing her bass most of the time. 

All those musicians on stage and they still have to have the synth part (which is the main non-vocal tune IMO) on the backing track!

[Leonard Smalls]

32 minutes ago, Skybone said:

Evil Blizzard actually go 1 better than that, with 4 bass players. 

I see your puny 4, and raise you 11...

 

[Monkey Steve]

One of my favourite bands:  Girls Against Boys:

I also saw John Paul Jones on his Zooma tour with has Nick Beggs in the band, albeit that they didn't play bass at the same time, with Beggs mostly on Chapman stick and I think switching to bass when JPJ played keyboards

[Ruiner]

Cop Shoot Cop!

 

Edited December 5, 2018 by Ruiner

[keeponehandloose]

[Hellzero]

Nobody mentioned SMV ? 3 bass players named Stanley CLARKE, Marcus MILLER and Victor WOOTEN, here live :

 

And certainly not my project called Mildje with 3 basses (1 fretless soloing, 1 destorted rhythm bass, 1 grooving the same patern in 4,5/4) and 1 drummer, only 1 track called Stuyvenbergh during 45 minutes and played live only once for a jazz event... Arythmical and deconstruted piece of music that took 6 months of rehearsal to be in ... place. Great memories there.

[Rumple]

4 hours ago, Skybone said:

Evil Blizzard actually go 1 better than that, with 4 bass players. 

Great band.

I'm pretty sure the lead singer is/was a member on here.

[2elliot]

Monkey Boy 

 

[Fozza]

60s band Marmalade (of Ob-La-Di Ob-Le-Da fame) featured two bassists in the line up for a time - a four string and six string.

 

[COLB]

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