While watching Spinal Tap, I was interested to see that one of their (all rather amusing) songs featured the two guitarists on bass, as well as the regular bassist playing an impressive double-neck bass. It emerged that the song is called Big Bottom, which is fitting (although the lyrics have little to do with the lower frequency ranges).
While searching for the video, I found this discussion of bands with many bassists. Co-incidentally, one of the guys I work with recently hooked up with a band he used to play for - he plays upright (double) bass. He was slightly surprised to discover that they now have another guy on electric bass... He's not quite sure how it's going to work out, but he's running with it. For now they each take a turn.
It did get me thinking about how an acoustic and electric bass would go together in the same song. I'm not completely convinced that the whole would be greater than the sum of the parts. I need to think about it a bit more, so I'll save that discussion for another day.
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