trivia-name bass playing lead singers!

thedrowner

right
myself and mr.nolegs ahd another one of our silly arguments last night at the 66e gig. johnny decided to jokily piss us off by telling us that when lead singers play bass the band/song automatically becomes crap. i challenged this. he asked me to name 10 famous bands who's leadn singer played bass. i came up with 3:

the beatles
level 42
the police


come on people lets beat johnny down

i know theres a famous female singer out there who does, just cant think who it is, is it roxette???? drat!!!!

Richie

Mr. Elton Mullally

johnnynolegs

ah ah ah i have to put in my side of the argument here - i did not say they were crap i said it did not look right and it was automatically harder for them to get famous.............

tony 2 tone

Er...........Thin Lizzy, damn can't think of any more.................

thedrowner

woohoo

thin lizzy

there ya go, stick that in yer pipe and smoke it johnny
(oh, abnd i wrote a repy to u in yer boards beer events post....he he he he)

johnnynolegs

oh yeah thin lizzy

Paul Hare

Primus






paul

www.ginsengmusic.com

thedrowner

in fairness johnny u didnt say that last night u just called them crap-i know u were trying to rile us up, im not trying to put u down r anything

i dont think having a bass playing lead singer is a contributing factor to them not succeeding. if they have the talent, they will succeed. if u look at all the bands who have failed, i think you'll finds that there is just as little bass playinglead singers in comparison to those who play ryhthm, lead or none at all.

Paul Hare

OOhh and the Bass player from Queens of the Stone age sings a fiew songs.

Trev M

The Police? Sting played bass yeah?

thedrowner

my list so far:

the beatles
the police
level 42
thin lizzy
new order
primus

tony 2 tone

Originally posted by Paul Hare
OOhh and the Bass player from Queens of the Stone age sings a fiew songs.

he's not a lead singer/main man though

tony 2 tone

what about joy division? or am I off?

johnnynolegs

Originally posted by thedrowner
in fairness johnny u didnt say that last night u just called them crap-i know u were trying to rile us up, im not trying to put u down r anything

i dont think having a bass playing lead singer is a contributing factor to them not succeeding. if they have the talent, they will succeed. if u look at all the bands who have failed, i think you'll finds that there is just as little bass playinglead singers in comparison to those who play ryhthm, lead or none at all.

i didn't say they were crap i said it didn't look rite!!!!!! gggrrrrrr

thedrowner

oh my goodness

and i quote

'this song is going to be crap coz the lead singer's playing the bass again'

i know it was a joke!!!!

u never mentioned that last night, and if u did, i didnt ehar u

i know u were messing about the whole crap thing!!!!


calm down

and check the reply u go on the boards beer thing

thedrowner

oh my God im in so much pain my kitten just climbed up me

tony 2 tone; i dont think he played bass

i know he wore his guitar up really high!

johnnynolegs

well it serves u rite rosemary and obviously u weren't listening cos u were busy munching down on monster munch and not giving me any :P

Keithaburke

Oh yeah... Thin Lizzy... just kidding. Somebody say Sting... or the Police again.

There was a coversy band that used to play around called "the great escape" Their lead guy played bass. But they were actually just covers... so booo for them.

What about drummers who were lead / main men...

Phil Collins... excuse me.
and eh...

ah.. I'm going home.

Keith

thedrowner

excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me i offered!

the police

happy now keith????

johnnynolegs

haha saying it again does not add to your list my non crisp sharing friend hehehehe

mumblin deaf ro

Brian Wilson from the beach boys did both. Whaddabout Bootsy Collins - he did it too and with such class. The lead singer of Morphine, whose name escapes be. He plays a two string bass and sings (other members are drums and sax).

Lunar superstar

Monaco and Mansun


and of course the god that is *PRINCE*

johnnynolegs

well there u go roasemary i think u got ur 10 well done

Trev M

What about Lemmy in Motorhead haha Class!!!!

Cozpyro

Jack Bruce from Cream - He released some solo stuff too

Muppet Monarchy

Spacehog
Motorhead?
Dodgy?

Paul Hare

Hey these bands all together would make a interesting compliation album, don't you think?

I myself used to be the frontman playing bass, along time ago, now I've retreated to just backing vocals.


- The Doves,
- The Presidents of The United States of America ( well both played modified basses)


Paul

www.ginsengmusic.com

startled_frog

Slayer, Biohazard and NOFX

frank05330

THE REVS...

hehehehehehehehehe.

thedrowner

yay

go me and my list

so what do we have now?

the beatles
the police
level 42
new order
thin lizzy
primus
monaco
mansun (are u sure about mansun?)
cream
motorhead
dodgy
spacehog
the doves
presidents of the usa
nofx
slayer
biohazard

thank u ppl, for helping me in my vendetta to prove JNL wrong!

thedrowner

blind guardian
the revs
type o negative
morbid angel
chicago
pink floyd

thats from the lovely
people on the rock/metal forum

ta very much!

My name is Mud

Les Claypool (ex-Primus) -
The Frog Brigade
Oysterhead

Blink 182*...sorry, thats all i could think of



*how sad is that?

polarbelly

the datsuns

Cozpyro

I was waching a 'Where are they now' thing over the weekend and I noticed that Deep Blue Something (the ones who sang Breakfast at Tiffanys) have a bass playing lead vocal.

Not sure if you want to add that to your list though!

Graemo

Don't forget "Rush"

mumblin deaf ro

..and you left my suggestions off your list: Brian Wilson, Bootsy and Morphine. Their memory will not be erased (please read in spooky voice)

Lunar superstar

the wallls -- both steve and joe play bass

yip mansun deffo have a bass/singer!

Raggamuffin

do mike watt? kim gordon? kimdeal? lou barlow count????

startled_frog

Nile is another band.