Pretty strange if I do say so myself.
1 String? lol Aluminum neck....
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 4:44 pm
by Freddy V-C
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.
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 5:23 pm
by StevePirates
See, generally, Presidents of the United States of America
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:12 pm
by Sparky
Ooohh, a teisco gold foil pup!
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:15 pm
by dezb1
I never understood why they insisted on confusing the poor brutes bass players by adding those other 3 strings...
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 8:09 pm
by Ankhanu
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.
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 8:41 pm
by Delirium
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.
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:00 pm
by dezb1
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
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:02 pm
by lorez
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
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:17 pm
by endsjustifymeans
My favorite bassist ever only used two strings...
[youtube][/youtube]
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:19 pm
by George
Bassist from The Jesus and Mary Chain uses 2 strings too. For many bassists there isn't a point to having four, sadly.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:50 pm
by cooter
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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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:35 pm
by Nick
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.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 9:26 pm
by Sparky
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.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 9:28 pm
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:04 am
by honeyiscool
Doesn't PUSA have a guitar with two bass strings in the middle?
Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:29 am
by fixxxer
[youtube][/youtube]
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:57 am
by aen
I need all four strings.
on my bass AND GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:36 am
by Ankhanu
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
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:15 pm
by Viljami
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)
