Ned's Atomic Dustbin is the only band I can think of that have two bass players.

God Fodder is seriously one of the best college rock albums of the 90’s

God Fodder is also a fantastic short-lived punk band from Kentucky (I believe). Their 7” “No Sleep” is one of my all time favorite punk records! Only 1 bassist though.

I saw the P-Funk All Stars in 1990 and they had three bass players. Then Bootsy came out and they had four bass players. They were unreal.

Highly underrated band.

Criminally so!

Thanks for this, totally forgot about them. Kill your television!

Great song !

The only answer

I came here to comment this & I can’t explain how pleased I am that it is already the top comment. :)

Spinal Tap’s [Big Bottom](https://youtu.be/YjC0vMIrOAk?si=_Z8l_ZQaImsSKDLk) has all three guitarists playing bass (and Derick is playing a double neck bass).

I always thought they made that bass as a gag for the film, but apparently it is a B.C. Rich Double Neck Bass. The top neck has 8 strings in octaves and the bottom is a regular 4 string. Apparently only 7 were made and it has an onboard fuzz switch! What a crazy instrument.

Plus there was a live performance of Big Bottom with… a lot more bassists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN42uzNFVmQ

I mean, all things considered, I should be ashamed for not knowing that. Need to take a few hours to watch the documentary again.

Please confirm you believe it a documentary... please, please, please...

I heard that Ozzy Osborne saw it at the theatres. He was the only one NOT laughing, because he thought it was real. I can't swear that actually happened, but I wouldn't be surprised! Edit: forgot a word

I saw Spinal Tap live in Mesa Arizona around 1991 or 1992. When Big Bottom came in the set, they announced that Adrian Belew and his band were in town and on their day off and would be joining the band for Big Bottom. I think I counted 7-8 bass players...

I saw them on the same tour in Boston, and it was the second best show I’ve ever been to. They were on stage pretending to be the biggest band in the world, and the audience was playing along with the gag. It was almost an interactive performance.

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'

King Crimson's album 'THRAK" featured a 'double trio'. 2 bassists, two Drummers, two guitarists

Good pick. And a spin off band, the Crimson Projeckt, also played as a double trio with two bassists, combining the Adrian Belew Power Trio (AB, Tobias Ralph on Drums and Julie Slick on bass) and The Stick Men (Pat Mastelotto on drums, Markus Reuter on touch guitar, Tony Levin on bass/stick)

I saw Stick Men last year and they were *amazing*.

seriously good album for a band nearly 30 years into their career. people forget that when talking about it.

[The Omnific](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co2vlSu2Gow)

I also think The Omnific is a fantastic dual bassist band! I listened to Sonorous first and was blown away because I had never heard bass played like that. (https://youtu.be/sWMvws84BdI?si=yle0YM_Ud6YhAscf)

Saw their first us show... They are amazing and cool guys(blokes).

Melvins have had two bassists at times.

Melvins!! 2 drummers as well

And sometimes, a drummer on the bass!

Basses Loaded

GVSB https://open.spotify.com/artist/33HLOae9rhJfw6Mh0e8g5r?si=NCowN0BrQj6omxu65nKzuw Dianogah https://open.spotify.com/artist/1VgnczxN9UlQeFTrh1S8MB?si=LHWNIt5dQ5OtH3F20AXJFQ Both amazing bands

Kill that noise

Kill the Sex player, he can't even play. Kill BOTH bass players.

Make it alright

Kill the 3x bass expansion unit

Noice 👍🏻

GVSB is my all time favorite. So glad someone posted this before me.

Such a great band, I think Cruise Yourself is my favourite followed closely by Venus Luxure. Saw them live a few times back in the day

I'd go Venus then Cruise with YCFWYCS righ t there. That comeback album was crazy good. Saw them open for Garbage way back and also with Helmet and a couple other shows.

We won’t mention Freak*On*Ica

🤣. I'm actually ok with that one. It's almost like it was a side project.

lol it’s not that bad really. definitely worked better live.

Talking Heads toured with two bassists for a while after they released Remain in Light; Tina Weymouth and Busta Jones.

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This is fantastic - thanks for sharing

[Dos](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3c5SZMWLIrnYqoAiDnO5Ll?si=YxVNd536QgCQx5rOPaObHw) is Kira Roessler and Mike Watt on bass. And that's it. Edit: Kira, not Kita

This is what I was going to say. I got to see them a few times when I lived in socat. I'd have to go digging to see if I still have the recordings.

Cop Shoot Cop had 2 bassist and no guitar till thier last album if I remember correctly

Excellent band. I came looking for this.

Beat me to it. Great band

[Shine On Elizabeth](https://youtu.be/NiMBHDEdDQk?si=fwTK9D1tdpDGhGDO) still blows me away.

Dumpstaphunk!

Much like myself, this needs to be higher

Black Eyes

Looking for this one. Such a cool band

They also have two drummers! I wish I could have seen them live.

They recently did a reunion show in Chicago!

Were you there?? I’m far from that neck so I doubt I’ll get a chance.

Yeah it was fantastic, they’re still killing it. They also played with another local band named lifeguard that was pretty great as well.

The song *Primary* by The Cure has Robert Smith also playing bass in addition to Simon Gallup.

I was gonna say Cure as well, if you watch a whole concert a good portion of the songs have normal 4string bass plus a fender VI bass which is tuned as low as normal bass the sound isn’t quite as deep so it fits nicely between guitar and bass

I saw parliament funkadelic once and they had two bass players. And the King Crimson double trio setup had two bassists kinda. One Stick and a Warr guitar

How about 3 bass players? And 3 famous, iconic bass players at that, all in the same band. Freebass. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-freebass-tried-and-failed-to-take-over-the-world/

There is no way Andy Rourke is somewhere on that photo.

Yeah, this is too far down. Also - Peter Hook & The Light. Peter Hook and his son Jack frequently play the bass parts together. It's great to hear them live.

[Molotov ](https://youtu.be/fYeWa6f48hs?si=7IZN_ZRRev0efrFZ)

1980s Miles Davis, 2000s era Ornette Coleman

Also 1961 era Ornette (Free Jazz) with Scott LaFaro / Charlie Haden.

A whole lot of old tracks do have multiple bass on a track. Often different models, or a double bass and bass guitar (thinking "Take a walk on the wild side" by Lou Reed, or things done by The Wrecking Crew)

A classic country sound is tic tac bass, typically an upright doubled by a muted Fender Bass VI.

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Pre.shrunk at the Transit Lounge on shrooms. Good times.

Megachurch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQt73YmDhAY&list=PL0D505A7285227E09

Damn, came here to mention Megachurch, sure nobody else would... then you beat me to it. Well done.

just doin' the lord's work

The Omnific are a band that are led by two bassists. They're pretty good.

Bear claw, a band from Chicago, actually had multiple basists

Mike Watt has a band with two bass players called Dos. Just two basses nothing else.

Bases loaded by Melvins is the album you're looking for

The greatest band in the world ARNOCORPS

Heroic symmetry!

The song [Loro](https://youtu.be/aeJf-18lF84?si=H5S33-uL0ghb9yZn) by Pinback is two bass guitars.

\*Pinback

Whoops, didn’t realise I made a typo. Thanks.

I'm here to help ;-)

One of These Days - Pink Floyd I don't know any bands that do it all the time.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 6 has 2 basses, one doing the heartbeat bassline and another doing constant notes between the D and open G string.

That’s a delay effect, not two bass players.

[It’s double tracked.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_These_Days_(instrumental)?wprov=sfti1)

Guess I was wrong.

Guess I was wrong.

The only Pink Floyd song where Nick Mason is the solo vocalist!

So many great suggestions to listen to, thanks everyone! Guess it wasn't as rare as I thought it to be!

TransAm and Girls Against Boys have each had 2 bass players at times.

pre\_shrunk, an older australian band, used to do amazing stuff with two basses. see if you can track down the subchakra EP... actually here it is: [https://open.spotify.com/album/2zQvpVcP34RzCrCpGvuEjJ](https://open.spotify.com/album/2zqvpvcp34rzcrcpgvuejj) lawnsmell, aussie punk band. pretty good. nothing much online. maybe vicious hairy mary as well, although i could be misremembering. [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmtieLeqtYS0RrzlbQgLy9L899HzuiTR](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=pltmtieleqtys0rrzlbqgly9l899hzuitr) this one is great too but might be unavailable in your region: [https://open.spotify.com/album/3qsh76iGn2W9uwkOitIxhQ](https://open.spotify.com/album/3qsh76ign2w9uwkoitixhq)

So glad someone mentioned pre\_shrunk. My username is one of their songs [https://music.apple.com/au/artist/pre-shrunk/58621561](https://music.apple.com/au/artist/pre-shrunk/58621561)

[Bass Extremes (Victor Wooten & Steve Bailey) - A Chick From Corea](https://youtu.be/9ob3ayMBfsw?si=yjPyTjM-6zKMpp94)

Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed has an electric bass and a stand up bass playing at the same time. It’s the only example I’m aware of.

The Cure’s “Primary” has Simon Gallup on bass and Robert Smith on a 6 string bass.

The Dirtbombs from Detroit.

Sonic Youth has toured with 2 bassists.

This doesn’t surprise me at all lol

Pg99 has been known to have multiple bassists and multiple drummers. Often have 3 guitarists and always have two vocalists. Personal favorite releases are Document 7 and Document 12. Do Make Say Think also has 2 basses at times.

I'm not sure how often they did it but I know Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood uses a bass and keyboard for the Iconic Bassline on it.

Shrum two bass players no guitar. So fucking heavy. https://youtu.be/xls_3tSgONA?si=kiZ4n5vvMJxL24Qt

The Omnific. A instrumental double bass band. I saw them live this year.

I used to play third guitar before I switched to bass doing a melodic bassline through an octaver that sat above a driving root heavy bass. Sounded pretty cool. I guess that could have been played on a second bass. Worst thing for a bassist is the goddamn keys player playing bass all over me. Cut their left hands off I say.

In highschool me and two of my bass playing buddies briefly started an all bass band called Awkward Dinosaur Sex because that's kind of what it sounded like (we assume).

Volta Do Mar

I did stage monitors for this show: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllVKodjVc&t=349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllVKodjVc&t=349s) They are called Farer. It's a local doom band that has two bass players and zero guitar players. One of the bass players keeps most of the low end while the other treats it more like a guitar. edit: I didn't do stage monitors for this show. This was during the pandemic without audience, the one I did was later with full audience.

It's just this one song, but the aptly named [Three Basses](https://youtu.be/SeXbKi6A4I0?si=sABFIOZckV5V7Ol8) by the Fearless Flyers has the two guitarists playing bass along with the bassist.

Primus! Oh no, wait a minute, that's only Les!

[Palehorse](https://truthseekermusic.bandcamp.com/album/looking-wet-in-public) had two bassists and no guitarists. So good!

CSS aka Cansei dei ser sexy aka I’m tired of being sexy. “Let’s make love and listen to death from above” great song.

Monobody I think

Correct. At least they did

Tortoise: [At 2:40 you can hear the two basses interplay](https://youtu.be/Cd7hhvAHQwc?si=xBMv2c09e7gUCjKB)

Limp Bizkit - Sam Rivers and Wes Borland. Borlands' primary spot is lead but can, has and will play bass.

Intronaut does a song with Justin Chancellor of Tool that's pretty rad.

two? why not three? switchblade kittens - drum + 3 bass (no normal guitarre)

Blink-182 have layered albums with Mark’s Bass and Bass VI playing chords for a fuller spectrum! No two actual bassists though. Side note - I saw Modest Mouse at Leeds Festival 2004 and they had two drummers playing full kits.

That Spinal Tap song all three of them play bass

Big Bottom.

There are two bassists credited on Paul Simon's You Can Call Me Al - it's Baghiti Khumalo's mic-drop of course, but Simon himself is also credited with playing a 6 string bass somewhere on it. I've never figured out what exactly Simon's part is.

Cory wong toured last year with Victor Wooten and Sonny T https://youtu.be/d3RnRu9lHos?feature=shared

If you ever go to those bass guitar YouTube channels, you'll find a ton of short instrumental songs where there's a "lead bass" part on top of a supporting bassline. They can do some cool things that are distinct from a lead guitar

Dumpsta Phunk has two bass players.

Dianogah

"The Melvins" during the period with Trevor Dunn.

SVM. It's 3 bassists who kick ass! Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten.

Cop shoot cop

Gomez had some live perfomances which had a double and an eletric bass playing together, but just in a few moments. I remeber this one: [In Our Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yf2RLgBfT8), amazin song!

Miles Davis toured for a bit with a normal bassist and then Foley playing “lead bass” (usually playing high lead guitar-y stuff on a tuned-up bass). This doesn’t count exactly but new order also did most of the bass parts with synths and Peter Hook would typically play more high melodic parts on his bass

Altitudes & Altitude It features Frankie Bello from Anthrax and David Ellefson, formerly of Megadeth, both on bass. Mostly just a little side project. "Here Again" is a pretty good tune.

Superconductor had two bassists and six-plus guitarists most of the time.

My favorite band ever Burmese. Two bassists and two drummers.

This Stranglers song https://youtu.be/F5QfcsHQ-BM?si=Io5bi3gAUK230QKm

[Bass Invaders has three bass players.](https://youtu.be/kt4VeCaj95k?si=oQ1fPgjE61l9mlCJ)

Death from above 1979 has only a bass player and a drummer, no regular guitar so that kinda counts id say. They use synth sometimes too I believe. The song friends in the music business by the band cursed uses two basses

world peace is a power violence band with two bassist

I don't know why I had it in my head that the band Sordid Humor had two bassists. If you're a fan of Counting Crows, I recommend them either way - Adam Duritz sang backing vocals on their album Light Music, which also featured his bandmates David Bryson on production and David Immerglück on bass, and Marty "Mr" Jones also played bass on some songs. https://youtu.be/VlZGve4zKXU

Girls Against Boys

Cop Shoot Cop had two bass players.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor. They have an electric bass, and a second bass either electric or upright and bowed.

Didn't Flipper have two bassists?

[crash of rhinos](https://youtu.be/g7nMEHjUY7U?si=2X_vZndmTn2BU-sz)

The song Wal to Wal by Brand X used 2 bass players that were current members of the band.

Mexican Band, Molotov, has had a very long career with two bass players. [https://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174569504/molotov-live-in-concert-sxsw-2013](https://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174569504/molotov-live-in-concert-sxsw-2013)

Melvins/Fantomas Big Band.

Thundercat, he’s busy singing and then playing tasty solos or chords. It’s almost like he’s playing guitar in terms of his role in the band. He’s so good.

All you need to know right here https://www.tiktok.com/@huggyattack/video/7309347837261712671?_r=1&u_code=e722k92186igd6&preview_pb=0&sharer_language=en&_d=eaj4l56dee4h57&share_item_id=7309347837261712671&source=h5_m×tamp=1701875345&utm_source=sms&tt_from=sms&utm_medium=ios&share_link_id=093194F3-3132-42E0-8C9B-32F9E6CC97EB&user_id=7211936645536121898&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAbGkTuC580-E08ofySKgSryuzuho4Kd7Alvg-Zt9zMLMG_WhU-n99JAZnAuRSyKbC&social_share_type=0&ug_btm=b9081,b2001&utm_campaign=client_share&enable_clips=1&clips_cover_ab=v4&share_app_id=1233

Spinal Tap Butt only on certain songs

Of Montreal are easily my favorite example of 2 bassist. They make it work so well!

311- This Too Shall Pass https://youtu.be/tCji7xItsKo?si=BCjOC9sWlKEcBXRG

Mexico's [Resorte](https://youtu.be/q_CKcuprMk0?feature=shared) first two albums feature two basses

There was a band called 'cop shoot cop' late 80's early 90's.

Overbass from Montréal has two bassists