Bands. Guitarists. No bassists.

Creed_Clicks

Following on from the 2 bassists thread in Off Topic, what about bands with no bassists. I can't think of a whole lot but I am sure there are many. Obvious one is White Stripes, also there was an English lass (name escapes me, a bit like PJ Harvey, who did gigs with drums, guitar, and someone on keys/harmonium).
Aussies Jeff Lang and John Butler have done gigs with just drummers. 
Durruti Column sometimes had no bass player live. Some smaller indie bands like Moon Duo/ Wooden Shijps used synths instead of a bass player. Not forgetting Seasick Steve until JPJ started jamming with him.

Tannin

The Doors

DarnWeight

Just a personal selection, and it's more generally about "non-standard" band line-ups (with a focus on alt/indie), but there's a few in this 'list' video I put together a few weeks back...



A sprinkling of two bassist bands in there too, for good measure!

distressed

mudslide73

The Graveltones - like Royal Blood but with a guitarist, no bassist.

Sporky

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

EricTheWeary

Go back to Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers to understand where The White Stripes, The Black Keys and others got their inspiration. 
Plenty of artistes where organ/keyboard provides a bass line. Some of Grant Green, I think some Freddie King , Matt Schofield, probably half the eighties. 

fretmeister

Metallica - And Justice For All period.

RickLucas

Hound Dog Taylor leads you to GA-20, discussed somewhere on here recently.

Creed_Clicks

@distressed I like that!

barnstorm

Wye Oak, a lot of the time. Less well known two-piece: Diet Cig.

 Although they do use a bassist sometimes now. Maximum hipster aesthetic, but they have made some cool music. Alex, the guitarist, was a total beginner when they started the band. Confidence is a big asset! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-3Rdao0Js 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4xyxlHtTQ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Aj8fz7SOk 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S_uxSLU9Ac

thecolourbox

My two favourites other than White Stripes (who are a given for any list of "bands with no bassist) are Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Kills. I see YYY have already been mentioned

The Doors have already been mentioned as well. 

White Stripes were influenced (ie, they took the same style basically) of bands like The Flat Duo Jets and The Soledad Brothers, who had no bassists either

Then The Black Keys came along and did the same but made it sound a bit easier on the ear, I guess

Lodious

Slaves had just drums and guitar. The drummer/singer stands up and hits his horizontally mounted bass drum with sticks. Pretty good band live. 

RocknRollDave

Hate it. Hate, hate, hate it.

Bands usually have a bassist for a reason….and it sure isn’t their intellectual conversational skills. 

ICBM

RocknRollDave said:

Bands usually have a bassist for a reason….and it sure isn’t their intellectual conversational skills. 

It’s so there is someone who has a clue how the PA works.

And to interpret for the drummer.

axisus

As a one off:

Jeff Beck - Guitar shop. Superb album with no bass player.

trolley

Animals As Leaders

Sporky

Japandroids.

Grangousier

The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. It's mostly the organ, but there's no bass player. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8YLxY2BziE&t=404s

scrumhalf

The Doors had bassists in the studio, but used Ray's left hand on a Fender Rhodes piano bass when playing live. 

mart

New Order.