Female Bass Players

[SteveXFR]

14 minutes ago, dmc79 said:

I mentioned her! Loved them until their 2000 split. Not paid much attention since 

 

I missed your comment. I kind of gave up on them around the same time. I saw them at Glastonbury in about 2015 and saw too much of Billy's gut in his I'll fitting shirt. It was like watching a second rate Smashing Pumpkins tribute band. 

[Dad3353]

[Jonesy]

Billy Corgan seems to have a thing for female bassists. As well as those already mentioned, he's also played with.....

 

Ginger Pooley....

 

 

 

Nicole Fiorentino.....

 

[lozkerr]

On 12/10/2022 at 15:23, Smanth said:

What is missing!

Who here is a female  bassist!!

Late to this party - apologies - but there's me at least 🙂

[Jonesy]

There's also Fiona Kitschen from Tropical F-uck Storm..

 

 

 

And Hiro-chan, from Otoboke Beaver....

 

[SteveXFR]

4 minutes ago, Jonesy said:

Billy Corgan seems to have a thing for female bassists. As well as those already mentioned, he's also played with.....

 

Ginger Pooley....

 

 

 

Nicole Fiorentino.....

 

Nicole was with them when I saw them. She was pretty decent. 

I guess he recruits female bassists for the backing vocals. Same case with Pixies I guess.

[xgsjx]

Laura Lee has a fantastic sound & sublime grooves. 
 

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

Is this the right place to say I really can't be doing with Khruangbin?

I find their music to be incredibly tedious, mediocre and wet?

 

[xgsjx]

Nah. The more I listen to them, the more I like them. 

[CookPassBabtridge]

12 hours ago, Rich said:

 

Oh good lord. 💜

 

 

Oof, incredible. I remember seeing a performance of her playing a crazy solo with a sunburst jazz bass with Prince. Just spent the the last 20 mins unsuccessfully trying to find it 😂 If I manage to track it down will share here. 

[meterman]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Is this the right place to say I really can't be doing with Khruangbin?

I find their music to be incredibly tedious, mediocre and wet?

 

Eh?

 

You’ll be saying you don’t like Khruangbin next!

[Leonard Smalls]

14 minutes ago, meterman said:

You’ll be saying you don’t like Khruangbin next

I've changed my mind! I no longer find them to be like a beige painting in a beige frame on a beige wall in a room with a beige carpet with a beige turd in the middle of it...

They're vibrant and pushing the boundaries of music!

 

[Dad3353]

26 minutes ago, meterman said:

Eh?

 

You’ll be saying you don’t like Khruangbin next!

 

I'll freely admit to not seeing, or hearing, the interest. The expression 'Money for old rope' comes to mind. I deliberately had a go at listening to the clip above, and gave it much longer than usual, but abandoned just the same at five minutes. Good luck to 'em, but it's not for me. One group, long gone now, did a similar thing, but well : Meï Teï Shô. (No female bassist, but good stuff despite that...)

 

 

Edited October 15, 2022 by Dad3353

[SteveXFR]

I've never heard of Khrangbin or whatever it is so I thought I'll check them out on the you tube. Holy crap they're dull. The beigeness was far worse than @Leonard Smalls suggested. Even their instruments are beige

 

[Leonard Smalls]

2 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

The beigeness was far worse than @Leonard Smalls suggested.

I was being nice! (ish)

But I fail to understand all the love they get. 

Though to be fair, there's thousands of other bands that loads of folks like that are immho somewhere behind the line going from trite to sh1te!

That's the beauty of taste...

[Ricky 4000]

Agreed. Very beige IMHO too.

 

I'll just leave this here  :

 

 

[SteveXFR]

37 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

I was being nice! (ish)

But I fail to understand all the love they get. 

Though to be fair, there's thousands of other bands that loads of folks like that are immho somewhere behind the line going from trite to sh1te!

That's the beauty of taste...

 

I particularly enjoyed the thinness of tone from their instruments and the drummer who will never be accused of over playing 

[xgsjx]

For me, it’s the laid back simplicity that I like about them. The groove, the open sunny day sound & the way the guitarist is not like 100000000 other guitarists. 
But yes, they’re not for everyone. 

[SamIAm]

On 13/10/2022 at 12:12, Emiiliaa said:

And Julia Hofer is the best.

+10 for this!!!

 

And is it wrong that I really fancy her!?

 

S'manth x

Edited October 17, 2022 by Smanth

[Bleat]

The drummer looks like he's thinking about what to have for dinner most the time, the guitarist really needs to invest in a bottle of Timotei for his rancid looking mop, I didn't hear what the bass player was doing as I naturally tune out the sound of Jazz basses, plus I was distracted by the swaying hips. 

 

 

[MacDaddy]

Lena Wende 

 

 

 

 

 

[Vin Venal]

I enjoyed the way the drummer looked like he was there under duress.

[SteveXFR]

On 15/10/2022 at 17:41, xgsjx said:

the way the guitarist is not like 100000000 other guitarists. 

 

The guitarist sounds like a confused jam session guitarist 

[Stingray5]

Interesting thread and as I read through all six pages, many of the female bass players I would have mentioned, were already mentioned. Except Marta Altesa! (I think):

 

Edited October 17, 2022 by Stingray5

[xgsjx]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

 

The guitarist sounds like a confused jam session guitarist 

Very good. 🤣