This is inspired by a few intriguing posts in the thread on tunes with prominent brass sections. Basically, some videos of multiple sax playing were posted - by @Paintcharge and @Guest-starring_Id; and this was my contribution, Davey Payne of The Blockheads doing his thing on Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - double sax solo @~2.35.
So this begs the question: what else is out there? I mean, playing two saxes at once is impressive, but what other combinations have been achieved? One-man bands would count, of course, but any combination is interesting, I think.
I’ll leave it to @Paintcharge and @Guest-starring_Id to repost their discoveries here, if they wish. But what else have we got?
Always have to post my own personal favorite two saxes/one dude example–Morphine, “Super Sex.” It always amazes me how rich a sound they wring out of a little cocktail drum set, two saxes and a bass with only two strings–oh, and Mark Sandman’s excessively sexy vocals. Rrowr.
Pardon the subtitulos en espanol, the video without them seems not to exist any more.
I guess I have to post this link to “Frankenstein” again:
What I was really looking for was this awesome one-man band featured on BBC World Music around 20 years ago, he had a website, too. I have to dig up the tape I made to find his name again.
One of my biggest regrets is that by the time I put it together that the guy singing “Murder For The Money” in Wild Things was the same guy who sang lead for Treat Her Right (I bought the cassette tape of their first album on the strength of “I Think She Likes Me”) and realized there was a whole bunch more music to enjoy it was too late to catch Morphine live. That guy was way to young and way too talented to just drop dead like that, although it could be argued he was lucky to die doing what he loved most. Not many can say the same.
Q: Why two strings?
A: (I suppose) Turns out two is plenty
And it immediately reminded me of Seasick Steve, who plays a guitar tooled up with only three strings. And he qualifies for this thread because he plays the Mississippi drum machine at the same time. Here he is doing exactly that, to great effect:
What’s so impressive is the amount of noise he gets out of (in effect) half a guitar.
As the resident Dylan superfan, of course he’s the first who came to my mind. And doesn’t almost every drummer play four different instruments in a way with their four extremities (or three in the case of Def Leppard)?
And doesn’t almost every drummer play four different instruments in a way with their four extremities (or three in the case of Def Leppard)?