Lovely bass solo starting at 2:30! 
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Sunflower Bean is also a good example of a singing bassist.
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Fami showing the F-Chopper school of bass off
Love this post. It was after discovering all the Japanese female bands (band-maid, hanabie, nemophilia) and then The warning that I picked up the bass.
Only woman I’ve not seen in the list is Este Haim and her incredible bass face
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Gail Ann Dorsey, with David Bowie.
Under Pressure.
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That is so cool! This is from the video description (for those who don’t read the descriptions). It’s also very cool.
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Recorded live at the Madison Square Garden, New York on January 9, 1997 for David Bowie’s 50th birthday benefit concert.
The audio from this video comes from a 1997 bootleg CD originated from a soundboard digital stereo source. The quality is outstanding, the mix is not brickwalled for broadcast. The video comes, allegedly, from HBO’s promo VHS tapes - unfortunately, the quality is not so good. This concert was only officially released by HBO’s pay-per-view service on March 8, 1997.
"(…) like ‘Under Pressure.’ I said to him, ‘There’s no way I’m going to be able to sing and play that — are you kidding?’ He was like, ‘I’ll give you two weeks.’ And then he walked out of the room, so I had to figure it out.
This was early on during the Nine Inch Nails tour. We got better at it throughout the years. It started with him asking if I’d seen him do it with Annie Lennox for the Freddie Mercury tribute. I said, ‘Yeah, of course. Everyone saw that.’ He said, ‘I have a tape of that. Have a listen and maybe we can do our own version.’ (…)
What’s emotional for me these days is looking back at that time now. I’ve just grown so much because of him. I owe him so much as a musician. It all changed my life tremendously."
(Gail Ann Dorsey, “Rolling Stone”, 2016)
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Thanks for posting the description, @TheMaartian.
I’ve seen interviews with Gail AnnDorsey, she is an incredible musician, but incredibly humble with it. You see this in the quote above. Not only is she a fantastic bassist, she’s also a damn fine singer! Oh, to have a fraction of a percent of her talent!
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Recently started listening to a stoner rock band from Norway - Slomosa. I was lucky to catch a live stream of their performance at Hellfest 2025 and bassist, Marie Moe, blew me away! Awesome band that’s making waves lately. Check em out!
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I did. Like them a lot. Here’s their Hellfest 2025 set.
And their Freak Valley Festival 2024 set.
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Pacifica, Ines (guitar) and Martina (bass)
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I like this!! Great bass tone as well!
Thanks for sharing these!
Kiyoshi sounds awesome, F-Chopper Koga too. Very badass! And Juna Serita, I enjoyed the combination of bass, drums, keyboard and shamisen!
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I didn’t know them. They sound awesome!
They really sound a lot like Ramones! 
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Their nickname is the Osaka Ramones. They put their story to music
How cool would it be for your musical heroes to say “we’re hanging it up, but we’re going to tour your country one last time and we want you to open for us”
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That is completely awesome 
Fami (on her signature bass)
With her band
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Headless? Humbuckers!? They’re allowed to play configurations other than jazz and PJ basses in Japan?
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I was about to say that you do see humbuckers sometimes but then I couldn’t remember any famous artists with them.
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