1 string bass

Delirium · Post by **Delirium** » Mon May 30, 2011 4:39 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fender-Jaguar-inspi ... 43a7478e15

Pretty strange if I do say so myself.
1 String? lol Aluminum neck....

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Mon May 30, 2011 4:44 pm

I think Alex James from Blur has a 1-stringed bass. He never used it in Blur but I read in his autobiography that he used it on this...

[youtube][/youtube]

...because the bassline only has one note in it. And at the only ever Fat Les gig he broke the string.

Kind of a shit song but I like Blur.

EDIT: Upon further listening there is considerably more than one note in the song. My bad.

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Mon May 30, 2011 5:23 pm

See, generally, Presidents of the United States of America

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Mon May 30, 2011 6:12 pm

Ooohh, a teisco gold foil pup!

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon May 30, 2011 7:15 pm

I never understood why they insisted on confusing the poor brutes bass players by adding those other 3 strings...

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:09 pm

dezb1 wrote:I never understood why they insisted on confusing the poor brutes bass players by adding those other 3 strings...

HEY!
Some of us can handle 2.

Delirium · Post by **Delirium** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:41 pm

Freddy V-C wrote:I think Alex James from Blur has a 1-stringed bass. He never used it in Blur but I read in his autobiography that he used it on this...

[youtube][/youtube]

...because the bassline only has one note in it. And at the only ever Fat Les gig he broke the string.

Kind of a shit song but I like Blur.

EDIT: Upon further listening there is considerably more than one note in the song. My bad.

Had a friend of mine not posted this video the other day, I would not have realized this was a (parody?) of The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony.

Rather weird to have a bass with only one string, though I should be one to talk, my bass had 1 in tact working tuner head for a long time, then it broke off mysteriously.

Ankhanu wrote:
dezb1 wrote:I never understood why they insisted on confusing the poor brutes bass players by adding those other 3 strings...
HEY!
Some of us can handle 2.

Hahah now that I think about it it really is not so rediculous. Unless you play bass like Lou Barlow, you really don't need those strings, it just looks cooler that's all.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon May 30, 2011 9:00 pm

Delirium wrote:
Ankhanu wrote:
dezb1 wrote:I never understood why they insisted on confusing the poor brutes bass players by adding those other 3 strings...
HEY!
Some of us can handle 2.
Hahah now that I think about it it really is not so rediculous. Unless you play bass like Lou Barlow, you really don't need those strings, it just looks cooler that's all.

I used to play in a band where the bass player never tuned the A D and G strings as he said he had no use for them... and all joking aside he was a fuckin great bass player

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Mon May 30, 2011 9:02 pm

dezb1 wrote: Hahah now that I think about it it really is not so rediculous. Unless you play bass like Lou Barlow, you really don't need those strings, it just looks cooler that's all.

I used to play in a band where the bass player never tuned the A D and G strings as he said he had no use for them... and all joking aside he was a fuckin great bass player[/quote]

first band I played an instrument in I played bass and if I played anything other than the E or A string or above the 10th fret I got a kicking. Root, 3rd and 5th was all I needed and that was on our "jazz" numbers

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue May 31, 2011 4:17 pm

My favorite bassist ever only used two strings...

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George · Post by **George** » Tue May 31, 2011 4:19 pm

Bassist from The Jesus and Mary Chain uses 2 strings too. For many bassists there isn't a point to having four, sadly.

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Tue May 31, 2011 6:50 pm

endsjustifymeans wrote:My favorite bassist ever only used two strings...

Loved Morphine. Sandman was about as smooth on bass and vocals as it gets. For about a year I'd listened to Yes every night before I would drift off to sleep.

Here's a one string bass and 3 string cigar box guitar all in one.
Richard Johnston.

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Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue May 31, 2011 8:35 pm

George wrote:Bassist from The Jesus and Mary Chain uses 2 strings too. For many bassists there isn't a point to having four, sadly.

I would think you want 4 just to not warp the neck or anything.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Tue May 31, 2011 9:26 pm

Playing the root and fifth? Boorrrrring. But I really didn't give a shit about bass until I got into the Dead. Bass = groove machine.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue May 31, 2011 9:28 pm

Nick wrote:
George wrote:Bassist from The Jesus and Mary Chain uses 2 strings too. For many bassists there isn't a point to having four, sadly.
I would think you want 4 just to not warp the neck or anything.

I think that's why alot of two string bassists string in the middle two spots.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:04 am

Doesn't PUSA have a guitar with two bass strings in the middle?

Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it.

fixxxer · Post by **fixxxer** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:29 am

[youtube][/youtube]

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:57 am

I need all four strings.
on my bass AND GUITAR!

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:36 am

I play across all 4 strings (all 6 on my VI), but, one of my major influences is a duo with bass and drums, the Inbreds:
[youtube][/youtube]

And another, Duotang:
[youtube][/youtube]

There are plenty of examples of bass style that barely use the instrument

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:15 pm

I personally need em all, because how could I make the bass go SKWEEEEEEE if I had only E and A? (my playing style is somewhere between Lemmy and a guy just beating his bass)