Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Polls
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Favorite Magma bassist?
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedFavorite Magma bassist?
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12
Poll Question: Who is your favorite Magma bassist?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [11.11%]
13 [48.15%]
2 [7.41%]
2 [7.41%]
7 [25.93%]
0 [0.00%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted

Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
sublime220 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 21 2015
Location: Willow Farm
Status: Offline
Points: 1563 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2015 at 11:34
Jannick Top is and will always be number one.
There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2015 at 05:55
When I listen to BP's first solo album 'Paga', I can see why many regard him as the best, but Top is just relentless. And that bass line of De Futura is just impossible to play. I can't work out how he does it - effortlessly when you watch him. The accelerando in the piece is breathtaking.
Back to Top
CosmicVibration View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 26 2014
Location: Milky Way
Status: Offline
Points: 1327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2015 at 09:15
I’m a huge Magma fan; I have all their DVD’s and most of their cd’s.  However, I do not know the names of the bassists.  They’re all magnificent, but if I had to choose it would be….

Who is this guy?





Edited by CosmicVibration - August 26 2015 at 09:39
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2015 at 00:57
^ Bubu (Bussonnet) - yet another OUTSTANDING bassist.
Back to Top
hellogoodbye View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP member

Joined: August 29 2011
Location: Troy
Status: Offline
Points: 7251 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2015 at 03:52
Finally, Top at the top Thumbs Up
Back to Top
CosmicVibration View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 26 2014
Location: Milky Way
Status: Offline
Points: 1327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2015 at 08:32
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

^ Bubu (Bussonnet) - yet another OUTSTANDING bassist.


Any relationship to Philippe Bussonnet?   Same guy?
Back to Top
akaBona View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 15 2010
Location: Finland
Status: Offline
Points: 2082 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2015 at 17:52
Jannick is the man, though I have the highest admiration to Bussonnet and Paganotti!
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2015 at 00:48
^^ Bubu is a nickname Vander calls him !!

Edited by Tom Ozric - August 28 2015 at 00:54
Back to Top
Padraic View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: February 16 2006
Location: Pennsylvania
Status: Offline
Points: 31165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2015 at 10:03
BUBU

Paga a close 2nd
Back to Top
The Neck Romancer View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 01 2010
Location: Brazil
Status: Offline
Points: 10183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2015 at 16:12
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

When I listen to BP's first solo album 'Paga', I can see why many regard him as the best, but Top is just relentless. And that bass line of De Futura is just impossible to play. I can't work out how he does it - effortlessly when you watch him. The accelerando in the piece is breathtaking.

That's an awesome record. His fretless solo on the opening track is on par with Jaco's solo on Havona.
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2015 at 17:09
Originally posted by The Neck Romancer The Neck Romancer wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

When I listen to BP's first solo album 'Paga', I can see why many regard him as the best, but Top is just relentless. And that bass line of De Futura is just impossible to play. I can't work out how he does it - effortlessly when you watch him. The accelerando in the piece is breathtaking.


That's an awesome record. His fretless solo on the opening track is on par with Jaco's solo on Havona.
Excellent observation !! That's EXACTLY who I think of when I hear Talk Back. Such a shame Paga isn't more well known. Oh, I think he's a great singer too.
Back to Top
hieronymous View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 27 2012
Location: Oakland, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2015 at 00:52
I still haven't voted! Listening to AKT VIII, Bruxelles - Théâtre 140 from 1971 playing stuff from the first three albums, including Mekanïk Kommandöh, with Francis Moze, we'll see if it affects my vote.

Originally posted by The Neck Romancer The Neck Romancer wrote:

Top's sound is actually pretty awful on Magma's studio albums, in my humble amateur bass player's opinion. The best register of his monstruous technique and tone is on the VanderTop live album Paris 76.


I agree Re: Top's sound. I think even just the topic of sound is interesting for this consideration of Magma's bassists. To me, sound-wise Bernard Paganotti built on what Jannick Top started. But maybe Jannick Top felt more like a "core member," with later players seeming more like "the bassist" - not a bad thing of course! But the whole parallel Ork storyline, for example, points to a creative voice not often found this close to the source.

There is also the break between Jannick Top's earlier stuff with them and Üdü Ẁüdü (though only a couple of years max) - this is when Paganotti is in the band. Attahk is interesting too - there's a stylistic shift, and the introduction of the air bass/earth bass concept.

Anyway - still undecided! I did put on Köhntarkösz, only got to listen to Part 1 - looking forward to Ork Alarm!


Edited by hieronymous - September 05 2015 at 23:46
Back to Top
zravkapt View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 12 2010
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 6446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2015 at 01:40
How many of you can correctly guess which of those five bassists plays on this song?
Magma America Great Make Again
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2015 at 09:27
^ Who else but Top !!    And I still don't dig Euryhtmix 🚧 - no-go zone for me.
Back to Top
hieronymous View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 27 2012
Location: Oakland, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2015 at 13:48
Jannick Top was in Space too, though there are a lot of tracks with synth bass - wonder if he played those lines?

For me, I think the Vander/Top displayed incredible potential that somehow didn't reach its apex, at least in the stuff that I have heard. Or maybe De Futura is the apex...
Back to Top
Todd View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
RPI / Heavy Prog Team

Joined: December 19 2007
Location: California
Status: Offline
Points: 3472 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2016 at 19:49
Bubu
"I have seen the broken sky turn blue."



My Gnosis Ratings
Back to Top
Nogbad_The_Bad View Drop Down
Forum & Site Admin Group
Forum & Site Admin Group
Avatar
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team

Joined: March 16 2007
Location: Boston
Status: Offline
Points: 20161 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2016 at 20:33
Bubu for me, mainly as I've een him 4 times, simply astonishing
Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/
Back to Top
hieronymous View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 27 2012
Location: Oakland, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2016 at 22:45
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Bubu for me, mainly as I've een him 4 times, simply astonishing
Nice! I'll be seeing him for the 4th time in March! It's true - his sound and his playing are impeccable - the energy with which he plays is perfect.
Back to Top
BaldFriede View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: June 02 2005
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 10261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2016 at 04:07
Originally posted by CosmicVibration CosmicVibration wrote:

I’m a huge Magma fan; I have all their DVD’s and most of their cd’s.  However, I do not know the names of the bassists.  They’re all magnificent, but if I had to choose it would be….

Who is this guy?



It's Bussonet.


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
Back to Top
Frenetic Zetetic View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 09 2017
Location: Now
Status: Offline
Points: 9233 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2018 at 02:04
Jannik

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.148 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.