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--Mark wrote: "have to have a bass player.. infact it was just me, the drummer and the singer, she also fired off samples. small band... big noise!!!" Yeah, it's cool that you said this, Mark. Lately I"ve been fascinated by the concept of a band with only a drummer and a guitarist (with augmenting effects). I'd never really listened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (mostly because their singer puts me off a little bit) but a friend of mine who is enamored with noise and distortion guitar (and who I really respect a lot as a musician) hipped me to the fact that this guitarist is really cool and innovative: and that's his approach. I also found out that he is using a lot of live looping to clone himself in live shows (to pull off parts that are obviously overdubbed on their records). I picked up a CD and an EP of their's and have really enjoyed what he's doing with one guitar. Also, my multi-instrumentalist friend, John Connell (who plays everything from traditional Persian Ney and Daf to synthesizer to Black Metal guitar and who was one of the really cool newbies at the festival this year) said a really cool thing that I never thought about. He said that most of the ethnic world uses this paradigm: One string instrumentalist and one drummer. There is an amazing amount of freedom when there is only one guitarist and one drummer and there is also a primalness that is very cool and deep potentially. I really love that thought...................I'm just being the equivalent of a Tuareg playing guimbry and an accompanying Bendir , when I play electric guitar and drums (thanks to looping) What other single guitar/drum groups are out there, per chance? PS by the way, I changed the name of this thread, purposefully for future researchers in our archives. I think it's better to have more things to search in the search archives (but I also am mildly afraid that I'll upset the person who started the original thread when I do this)