The two piece band explosion

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Just wanted to know what everybody thought about the recent explosion of two piece bands. Like the White Stripes.

― bob smelser (monsterforaday), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I likes me some two piece bands! With two people it's easier to remember their names, anyway.

― Candice DeLorenzo (divifold), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Dud. Get a fucking bass player.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for New Haven's Furors?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

And, Jojo and Tommy, classic.

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

what about when they have a bass player, like ovo or lightning bolt? smartass.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

oh and monarch were a two piece band explosion until they broke up.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

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― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

what about when they have a bass player, like ovo or lightning bolt? smartass.
That's ok then. I like Lightning Bolt :P

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Get one wayback machine and search:
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

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― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

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― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

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― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

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― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

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― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 10 June 2006 05:59 (twenty years ago)

In my experience the problem doesn't tend to be "they don't have a bass player" so much as "the guitarist sucks and the vocalist probably does too." The two-piece format seems especially vulnerable to awful gimmicky concepts, since only two people have to think something is a good idea in order to run with it.

On the other hand, you have great bands like the Gossip, which is a three-piece but Beth Ditto doesn't play any instruments, so it's a guitar-drums-vocals band that sounds much MUCH fuller and more interesting than that, I guess because now the guitar and vocal can be doing different things and filling out space in the arrangement, whereas when the guitarist is the one singing you tend to get rhythmic strumming coffee-shop stuff.

Somewhere in between: Cars Can Be Blue. Discuss?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 June 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)

See also House of Freaks, K's Choice. Every generation gets their own shitty bass-less band.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 10 June 2006 11:00 (twenty years ago)

its such a weird thing...a band...
with a name thewosnames
its so strange.
its kind of imbecilic.

― alicer (alicereed), Saturday, 10 June 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Used to be you replaced the drummer with a box. Nowadays, you replace the bass with nothing.

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Saturday, 10 June 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

The Flat Duo Jets must be the granddaddies of this kind of thing.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 10 June 2006 12:00 (twenty years ago)

the bbq + king khan show & the leather uppers are both fuckig amazing

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 10 June 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Search: bands with 2 members who play lots of instrument, so you could never guess they are only two while listening :No means no, Ween..

― emekars (emekars), Saturday, 10 June 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I reccomend everybody go out and grab Death From Above 1974's "Your a Woman I'm a Machine" It's dance friendly, the songs are fast loud ,heavy, and build up and end abruptly. Before you can realize DFA1974 is a two piece, drum and bass band.

― bod smelser (monsterforaday), Saturday, 10 June 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

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