ohiowa wrote:If you want to do a simple rock thing you've got: Om, Lightning Bolt, Pink & Brown, Duotron, Mates of State, Vaz, USA Is A Monster, and a bunch of others to compare yourself to. Most of these bands stick to two instruments and to be honest it gets a little monotonous, but then again so do most normal(three or more person) rock bands.

Lightning Bolt? Monotonous? I don't wanna quibble here, but I'm quibbling...

How about two-pieces that have just bass n drums? Only one I know of is Dead Unicorn - http://www.myspace.com/musicforendtimes. Check out Yellowstone or Eruption for the more powerful jams on their MySpace. In fact everyone at EA should check them out, and if you like what you hear PM me and I'll send you a copy of the whole album.

Boombats wrote:How about two-pieces that have just bass n drums? Only one I know of is [url=http://www.myspace.com/musicforendtimes]Dead Unicorn -

Om is only bass and drum and they fucking rule.

Boombats wrote:How about two-pieces that have just bass n drums? Only one I know of is Dead Unicorn - http://www.myspace.com/musicforendtimes.

Big Business is the only one I know of.

smashy smashy (gentry densley) is the fullest I've ever heard of a two piece. drums, baritone guitar. they released one album, and it's insanely good.
I can upload it if anyone is interested.

i feel like a lot of people try this and it usually sounds like it is missing a bass player. i have seen the following effectively fill out the bottom end for bands with only guitar and bass instrumentation:

- tuning down/playing a baritone guitar
- putting the guitar signal through a crossover around 500Hz (you may recognize this technique from that dan rathburn interview in tape op way back when), compress the shit out of the low end and then put it into a bass amp/cab
- splitting the guitar signal and putting one signal through a pitch shifter and then into a bass amp.

i feel like tuning down was the better of these three. granted, i have seen all three work well.

not sure if art tunes down for tiny hawks, but he does play through a sovtek mig100 through 4x12 and an svt head thru 8x10. they do rule it, also

iron lung used to do the crossover thing, but now they have a bassist

skatingbasser wrote:

Boombats wrote:How about two-pieces that have just bass n drums? Only one I know of is Dead Unicorn - http://www.myspace.com/musicforendtimes.

Big Business is the only one I know of.

Ruins (the Japanese one?)
Death From Above (1979)

And I know theres way more.

Another two bands with just guitar and drums (from Australia) are Hotel Wrecking City Traders and Radiant City.

I saw The Evens in Manchester. Seriously impressive in a small venue - Levenshulme Snooker and Bowls Club.

my friends had a two piece Bass and Drums for a while. They were awesome

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