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nillacocajola
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 Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject: Multitasking Index: List of multitasking artists in RB/DLC |
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A new topic shows up every couple of months or so asking which artists in the Rock Band catalog feature one or more of the band members "multitasking," or sing as well as play an instrument. In addition, some songs feature backing vocals or, on rare occasion, lead vocals from another member of the band who usually only plays an instrument. Just figured we should have a thread to document all that mess. 
For reference:
-All Songs refers to all songs available for Rock Band, not all songs by the artist.
-Red indicates that this information is not something I have checked, and I'll need some kind of verification.
Multitasking Index by Instrument/Artist
Guitar+Vocals
Alice in Chains - All Songs [Backing Vocals]
Anarchy Club - All Songs
Avenged Sevenfold - "Almost Easy" [Backing Vocals]
The Beatles - "A Hard Day's Night"
The Beatles - "And Your Bird Can Sing"
The Beatles - "Back in the U.S.S.R."
The Beatles - "Come Together"
The Beatles - "Day Tripper"
The Beatles - "Dear Prudence"
The Beatles - "Dig A Pony"
The Beatles - "Do You Want To Know A Secret"
The Beatles - "Don't Let Me Down"
The Beatles - "Drive My Car"
The Beatles - "Eight Days A Week"
The Beatles - "Good Morning Good Morning"
The Beatles - "Here Comes The Sun"
The Beatles - "Hey Bulldog"
The Beatles - "I'm Looking Through You"
The Beatles - "I Feel Fine"
The Beatles - "I Me Mine"
The Beatles - "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
The Beatles - "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
The Beatles - "If I Needed Someone"
The Beatles - "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
The Beatles - "Revolution"
The Beatles - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
The Beatles - "Something"
The Beatles - "Taxman"
The Beatles - "The End"
The Beatles - "Ticket To Ride"
The Beatles - "Twist and Shout"
The Beatles - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
The Beatles - "Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows"
Beck - "E-Pro"
Black Tide - All Songs
Blink-182 - "All The Small Things"
Blink-182 - "Down"
Blink-182 - "Feeling This"
Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up in Blue"
Brad Paisley - "Mud on the Tires"
Children of Bodom - "Are You Dead Yet?"
The Clash - All Songs
Coheed and Cambria - All Songs
Dinosaur Jr. - All Songs
Dixie Chicks - "Sin Wagon"
Fleetwood Mac - All Songs
Foo Fighters - All Songs
Franz Ferdinand - All Songs
The Fratellis - All Songs
Grateful Dead - "Doin' That Rag"
Green Day - All Songs
Jet - All Songs
Joan Jett - All Songs
Jonathan Coulton - All Songs
Machine Head - "Aesthetics of Hate"
Mastodon - "Colony of Birchmen"
Megadeth - All Songs
Metallica - All Songs
Muse - "Hysteria"
Nirvana - All Songs
The Outlaws - "Green Grass and High Tides"
Pearl Jam - "Just Breathe"
Prong - All Songs
Queens of the Stone Age - All Songs
The Raconteurs - All Songs
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Breaking the Girl" [Backing Vocals]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Dani California" [Backing Vocals]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Funky Monks" [Backing Vocals]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "If You Have To Ask" [Backing Vocals]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Sir Psycho Sexy" [Backing Vocals]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Righteous and the Wicked" [Backing Vocals]
Silversun Pickups - All Songs
Smashing Pumpkins - All Songs
Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot"
Stevie Ray Vaughan - All Songs
Styx - "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
Styx - "Renegade"
Styx - "Too Much Time On My Hands"
System of a Down - "B.Y.O.B." [Backing Vocals]
Tenacious D - All Songs
Tom Petty - All Songs
The Who - "Baba O'Riley" [Bridge Vocals]
The Who - "Eminence Front"
The Who - "Going Mobile"
Wolfmother - All Songs
Bass+Vocals
Avenged Sevenfold - "Almost Easy" [Backing Vocals]
The Beatles - "A Hard Day's Night"
The Beatles - "Back in the U.S.S.R."
The Beatles - "Can't Buy Me Love"
The Beatles - "Drive My Car"
The Beatles - "Get Back"
The Beatles - "Getting Better"
The Beatles - "Hello, Goodbye"
The Beatles - "Helter Skelter"
The Beatles - "I'm Looking Through You"
The Beatles - "I've Got A Feeling"
The Beatles - "I Saw Her Standing There"
The Beatles - "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
The Beatles - "Paperback Writer"
The Beatles - "The End"
Beck - "E-Pro"
Blink-182 - "Dammit"
Blink-182 - "Down"
Blink-182 - "Feeling This"
Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"
Mastodon - "Colony of Birchmen" [Backing Vocals]
Motörhead - All Songs
Pearl Jam - "Black" [Backing Vocals]
The Police - All Songs
Queens of the Stone Age - "Go With the Flow" [Backing Vocals]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Sir Psycho Sexy" [Backing Vocals]
Rush - All Songs
Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye" [Backing Vocals]
Silversun Pickups - "Melatonin" [Backing Vocals]
Slayer - "Black Magic"
Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing"
Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot" [Intro Vocals]
Thin Lizzy - All Songs
Drums+Vocals
Avenged Sevenfold - All Songs [Backing Vocals]
The Beatles - "Boys"
The Beatles - "I Wanna Be Your Man"
The Beatles - "Octopus's Garden"
The Beatles - "With A Little Help From My Friends"
The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"
The Dead Weather - All Songs [Backing Vocals]
Dream Theater - "Constant Motion" [Backing Vocals]
The Konks - "29 Fingers"
Underoath - All Songs
Multitasking Index by Musician
*Getting to work on this...*
**Work in progress -- lots of this stuff to cover, you know.
Please let me know of any other instances where this shows up or any changes that need to be made and I'll be sure to keep this thread updated regularly. Thanks!
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DPooch 
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Melatonin and Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups are voxbassed as well.
Backing vocals, that is.
Since they're the same note but a different pitch, they're technically still charted, but..
You know what I mean. >_>
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Drums + Vocals
Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood" |
Actually, neither Damon nor Del play drums, considering that in real life, the drums on Clint Eastwood are (apparently) a drum machine. Hard to know for sure though, since a whole host of different people have worked on the Gorillaz.
Also, if we are talking about the actual Gorillaz, as in the cartoon characters, then Russel (the drummer) isn't the one doing the rapping. It's Del, the ghost in his hat, that does.
The only reason that your drummer in game does the rapping is because they couldn't have a ghost appear out of their head (though that would have been awesome). |
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nillacocajola
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| DPooch wrote: | Melatonin and Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups are voxbassed as well.
Backing vocals, that is.
Since they're the same note but a different pitch, they're technically still charted, but..
You know what I mean. >_> |
Updated -- thanks! I can't believe I forgot that... for the longest time I assumed Nikki was the lead vocalist, until I saw the Lazy Eye music video. 
| cdylan wrote: | Actually, neither Damon nor Del play drums, considering that in real life, the drums on Clint Eastwood are (apparently) a drum machine. Hard to know for sure though, since a whole host of different people have worked on the Gorillaz.
Also, if we are talking about the actual Gorillaz, as in the cartoon characters, then Russel (the drummer) isn't the one doing the rapping. It's Del, the ghost in his hat, that does.
The only reason that your drummer in game does the rapping is because they couldn't have a ghost appear out of their head (though that would have been awesome). |
Yeah, I just checked on that a minute ago. I meant to check all of this stuff before I posted it, but I must have let that one slip. Thanks. |
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DPooch
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| nillacocajola wrote: | | DPooch wrote: | Melatonin and Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups are voxbassed as well.
Backing vocals, that is.
Since they're the same note but a different pitch, they're technically still charted, but..
You know what I mean. >_> |
Updated -- thanks! I can't believe I forgot that... for the longest time I assumed Nikki was the lead vocalist, until I saw the Lazy Eye music video. |
Yeah.. >_>
Brian's voice is kind of.. high pitched.
But awesome.
Nikki probably sings one song in their entire discography by herself. I think.
Edit: Though, I never actually thought it was a girl. S'weird.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure "Eminence Front" doesn't count. I thought Daltrey did the guitar and Pete did the vocals without any guitar. Could be wrong though.
Also, Mastodon - voxguitar and voxbass (backing vocals) for sure.
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nillacocajola
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| FlamethrowerGuy wrote: | I'm pretty sure "Eminence Front" doesn't count. I thought Daltrey did the guitar and Pete did the vocals without any guitar. Could be wrong though.
Also, Mastodon - voxguitar and voxbass (backing vocals) for sure. |
Wow! I never knew Daltrey even played guitar -- and I've been a Who fan for some time now. Shame on me. Oh well -- this video from a studio session shows Pete playing as well. It's likely that he recorded the guitar and vocal tracks separately during the initial recording, but in the instance of this thread, that information will mostly be irrelevant -- it's troublesome to track that information down in all instances; also, live performances still require the multitasking factor, so I'll include them regardless.
Updated with Mastodon and Thin Lizzy. Thanks! |
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Kawigi
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| FlamethrowerGuy wrote: | | I'm pretty sure "Eminence Front" doesn't count. I thought Daltrey did the guitar and Pete did the vocals without any guitar. Could be wrong though. |
This video shows him doing both (and I think Daltrey is doing some of the guitar as well).
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Aesthetics of Hate by Machine Head features voxtar.
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nillacocajola
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Rapstah wrote: | | Aesthetics of Hate by Machine Head features voxtar. |
Done. Much appreciated.
By the by, the format's not awful, but it isn't exactly good, either -- does any one have any suggestions? I was thinking...
-Add a "Multi-Instrumentalist" section, for songs where one member of the band played all or most instruments (most N.I.N., Feel the Pain, etc.)
-Change the format to a song-by-song basis rather than a grouped basis that would accommodate more information on the song (for example, rather than Almost Easy being in every list, I could put all that info in one place)
-Following the above suggestion, I could always include a shorthand list like the current one for quick reference
Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. |
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DPooch
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Um, I just thought I'd throw this out there.
Doesn't Anarchy Club have only 2 members?
So it'd make sense if ONE of these would apply to them.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| nillacocajola wrote: | | cdylan wrote: | | Gorrillaz stuff |
Yeah, I just checked on that a minute ago. I meant to check all of this stuff before I posted it, but I must have let that one slip. Thanks. |
First off that isn't me XD
2nd of all Funky Monks by RHCP also has backing vocals by John. You might want to add that Sir Psycho Sexy is technically Voxbass and Voxtar because Flea and John both do the high part. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| Nirvana is voxtarred, as is Smashing Pumpkins. |
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nillacocajola
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| cdylan13 wrote: | | nillacocajola wrote: | | cdylan wrote: | | Gorrillaz stuff |
Yeah, I just checked on that a minute ago. I meant to check all of this stuff before I posted it, but I must have let that one slip. Thanks. |
First off that isn't me XD
2nd of all Funky Monks by RHCP also has backing vocals by John. You might want to add that Sir Psycho Sexy is technically Voxbass and Voxtar because Flea and John both do the high part. |
...what the hell?  I don't have any idea what was going through my head when I typed out the quote box. Damn, man... I think I was updating the thread with the stuff from your post on the other thread about the Chili Peppers. But, still... damn.
Second, thanks. I'll update that.
Added all mentioned above -- Anarchy Club is another band that features the rhythm guitarist (Keith) singing lead, but interestingly enough, Adam does most all of the musical work, including guitar solos. I had no idea. Thanks guys! |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Does Metallica (and some other bands, I'm sure) count since the guitar part that James Hetfield plays is almost never the part that you're playing? He does rhythm guitar and I can't think of an instance where you're playing rhythm guitar in a Metallica song, so I'm not so sure if that really counts here.
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