5 bands who THINK they don't need a bass player

#music #bass #bassguitar

[Alexc]

The Cramps!! Bloody hell, The Cramps!!

[bobbycoltrane]

That Motley Crue crack was cold-blooded man

[tiesthatbind]

The motley crue one was a low blow. Sixx is an absolute fucking legend.

[omgman]

One of my favorite bands growing up was One Eyed Doll. They were originally a duo, the guitarist/singer and drummer. Then they got a third who became the drummer, the old drummer became the bass player, then the bass player left leaving them a duo until the stopped making music

[PeppermintKid_]

The first two are literally my favorite bands 😭

[jeshX]

the only one i could think of was the white stripes, but it’s a duo so it makes sense

[gumbly]

Slomatics. They’re absolutely heavy but they don’t have a bass player. However they play in Slomatics tuning with involves tuning the low string to a low F#.

[daniellawhorne]

Day 210 of asking for Brian Gibson's bass tone from Lightning Bolt!

[WastelandChef]

I’ve seen the Black Keys live and they had a Bass player. Actually a really good session artist. Songs in Studio have Bass

[MaineMotman]

The yeah yeah yeahs, The pack A.D. local H.

On the flip side- bands with a drummer vocals and bass, Death from Above 1979, and Awesome Snakes from the two person band of the two members from "The Soviettes" band

[redeveredev]

You need to do a short on Squarepusher. Bass player without a band (mostly). Insane virtuoso

[klaxoncow]

Hey, Ray Manzarek was an awesome bassist, even if he was playing it all with his left hand on a keyboard.

And, as others have noted, the Doors did use bassists when recording in the studio.

There just wasn't a permanent bassist in the band and when they played live, because Manzarek's left hand was just so good at playing bass, it made having an actual bassist in the band redundant.

But the studio recordings do have real bass on them, from session bassists.

[mckaigg]

I saw a band at a local amusement park. three horns, guitar, drums, percussion, keys, 12 dancers (6 couples). Covering JLo, Shakira, Miami Sound Machine tunes. NO BASS PLAYER! There was a Hartke amp up there but I realized they had the bass loop off the keyboard running through that. Bass is such a fundamental element of that style and they still went without.

[grahamehadden]

What about a list of bands with 2 or more behs

[blissmaster]

Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop has Tony Hymas playing bass lines on synth. and it's a great (Jeff Beck) album

[demoanddestroy]

Mobina Galore
Canadian two piece.. Worth a listen

[togue]

When I saw Bruce Cockburn about 15 years ago he had a drummer and a violinist but no bass. Although it was a great show I would have preferred to see a bass player there as well.

[JustaRandomGuy]

From Entertainment onwards Sleater Kinney had bass in recording btw

[anthonybernero]

I saw Buckethead a few weeks ago. He had no bassist. There was bass, but it was a backing track he was playing over.
I had a blast, but it was rather strange.

[theawesomeayla]

I’d say My Chemical Romance. They have a bassist yeah, and I love their music but you can’t ever really tell that there’s bass in their songs