No way, they're definitely the best thing about this.

I was wondering about that the multiple machines, I don't really know the various Yamaha sequencers that well so I don't know if one's a drum machine and the other is the sequencer playing all of the other parts, or if it's two identical sequencers (that's what it looks like to me) but my guess is that they're using the built-in sounds and used two to get more voices.

Looking at it again, the one behind the guitarist (on the right) is a sequencer, the one to the left is the tone module for the electronic drums.

Oh, I thought there was a bass player in the band. Too distracted by Grandma over there.

I think he is a bass player.

he's playing a bass in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMlozm63a3E

so it's an easy mistake, he's clearly got a bass player's personality

Or to be more specific, it goes Steely Dan -> 801 -> Talking Heads -> Radiohead, something like that.

And I left out Roxy Music because I felt like it.

Something that I have to keep reminding myself

Steely Dan=/=Dire Straits

except for when they played songs together:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=99336