Favorite bass albums of prog
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Topic: Favorite bass albums of prog
Posted By: Winter_is_Comin
Subject: Favorite bass albums of prog
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:01
| This is not a poll. I am learning the bass guitar and I was just wondering what are your favorite bass albums? |
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:03
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If you want to hear cool base that may actually be learnable go with a Tool album if you want somthing that just blows your mind go with Something by Primus (prog related) ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Lota
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:05
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Chris Squire is one of the best bassist on earth so any Yes album would be fine especially Fragile. ------------- And In The End, The Love You Take, Is Equal To The Love You Make |
Posted By: Winter_is_Comin
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:09
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Maybe I expressed myself wrongly. I'm not talking about tabs or learning, just 3-4 albums where the bass really grasp your emotions. |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:15
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Tool. They are the bassyest band ever. It grasps my emotions. ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Froth
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:21
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i play bass. listen to as much records with Richard Sinclair or Tony Reeves on as possible. having said that, i spent all my time just learning wierd stuff, and i kinda regret not picking up the basics. oh well, ive got the rest of my life.
just remember, use all 4 fingers on your left hand and learn all 7 main modes. very important for playing bass.
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Posted By: walrus
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:26
RHCP albums ------------- you and whose army? |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:36
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Chris Squire's solo album "Fish Out Of Water" has some stunning bass on it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: victor77
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:43
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Cheiro de Vida "Vivo": Andre Gomes , incredible brazilian bassist Primus "Pork Soda". Les Claypool is one of the most original players
Tony Levin playing in Kinc crimson Projekcts 1 and 4
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 19:44
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Everything JOHN WETTON does on KCRIMSON.
Try HUGH HOPPER OF Soft Machine or Jaco Pastorius albums
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 20:56
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Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Synducate live release "World Tour". Featuring on bass Richard Bona a gem, a real gem. Checkout this Richard Bona bass solo from the cd:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000007ROU001007/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_007/103-4388601-7562202 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000007ROU001007/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_007/103-4388601-7562202
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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 20:59
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My favorite bass playing on any album is from Opeth's "Damnation". I don't really know, but I think the parts are really easy, but I do know that they really add a lot to the sound of the band in that album. |
Posted By: East of Lyra
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 21:20
There are many great bass albums, here's a good selection:
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Posted By: DarioIndjic
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 21:34
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Riverside both albums ,Pink floyd's Meddle... ------------- Ars longa , vita brevis |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 21:35
| Long list for you ; these are real winners: Tony Reeves (Greenslade) Mick Karn (Japan's Tin Drum), Howlett (Gong + Hillage) , Babbington & Hopper (Soft Machine and Isotope) , Tony Levin, Percy Jones , John G.Perry, Goblin's Fabio Pignatelli (on Roller), Patrick Djivas (PFM's Stati) , the remarkable Jonas Reingold (Flower Kings) , Gijs Koopman (Knight Area), La Maschera di Cera+ Hostsonaten and Finisterre ' Fabio Zuffanti, Magma's Top, Ozrics Zia Geelani (Groove baby) , Wetton (with KC), Anima Dominum's bassist, Gryphon's Philip Nestor (ridiculously good) and Taproban's devastating Guglielmo Mariotti. I could name another 2 dozen, so when you want more , Oliver Twist, just ask! Thomas |
Posted By: peterduarte
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 21:55
| King Crimson - Thrak. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 22:24
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EXSIMIO's "Carbon14" has some great bass throughout.The leader of that band is also the bass player. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 00:04
I second that... though squire is my favirote, honurable mention to Geddy lee (MP) and Roger Waters (animals)
Tool's bass player is also amazing, if your into more modern prog. ------------- 
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Lota wrote:Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 00:29
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Anything with the names Sly and Robbie are good. Any Rolling Thunder Revue era Dylan. OK Computer, Amnesiac - Radiohead Amputechture - the Mars Volta |
Posted By: willy
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 01:24
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Fragile by Yes for sure. Also Jaco Pastorius' self titled album is quite good. ------------- 
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 01:32
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My favourites: John Paul Jones - Zooma Phoenix - Cei ce ne-au dat nume (with Iosif Kappl) YES - CttE of course Black Market by Weather Report and Unorthodox Behaviour by Brand X in jazz-rock ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 02:38
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Alright! All of mine have yet to be mentioned:
Jethro Tull:
Thick as a Brick, for all the amazing bass trickery one Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond does with his instrument.
Minstrel in the Gallery, the title tune is arguably THE bass tune.
The Who:
Quadrapheania, just...because. The Ox. He was the other best.
Iron Butterfly
Ina Gadda da Vida, because no one else will mention it. Lee Dorman pumps out some pretty cool licks in the title tune. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 02:43
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'Drama' 'Gateway 2' 'Emerson, Lake&Palmer' 'Electric Savage' 'Danger Money' |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 03:53
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- Tony Levin is just amazing with "Bruford Levin". - Or Percy Jones with Brand X on MOROCCAN ROLL - There's an excellent British band from the 1970s (jazzy/funky/proggy) called Back Door, on which the bass is very much a solo instrument. And incredibly alive! 
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 03:56
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Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water Brian Eno - Another Green World / Before and After Science Soft Machine - Third Robert Wyatt - Shleep King Crimson - USA UK - UK -------------  Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 04:16
Ditto, ditto on both accounts. For 'emotion,' you also must listen to Stanley Clarke on RTF, Romantic Warrior. His acoustic and electric bass offerings on just about every song is truly remarkable....
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Posted By: dedalus
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 04:29
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Tool: Aenima (Justin Chancellor)
King Crimson: Discipline (Tony Levin)
Rush: 2112 (Geddy Lee)
Primus: Antipop (Les Claypool)
Flower Kings: Unfold the Future (Jonas Reingold)
Karmakanic: Wheel of Time (Jonas Reingold)
Camel: Snow Goose (Doug Fergusson)
IQ: Subterranea (Jon Jowitt)
Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time (Steve Harris)
Liquid Tension Experiment: Liquid Tension Experiment (Tony Levin)
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 04:48
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Eskaton - 4 Visions (+ their next two albums) Area - Caution Radiation Area (+ next two albums) Three greats: Jannik Top, Hugh Hopper, Richard Sinclair, ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 05:02
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try some Rage Against The Machine... i know, sounds weird but the guy is great... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 05:32
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I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Jack Bruce... all the Cream albums are worth checking out for great bass playing.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 05:37
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Anything Jonas Hellborg plays on
Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water has its moments.
A couple albums with Alphonso Johnson: Allan Holdsworth's Velvet Darkness and Flora Purim's Open You Eyes.
Can't go wrong with Jack Bruce - Cream's Wheels of Fire for instance - and not forgetting some of the duo-bass work he did with Steve Swallow on a few Kip Hanrahan albums.
Jaco Pastorius for taking great jazz fusion flavoured folk albums by Joni Mitchell and making them superb - if anybody can come up with a duo as sublime and energising as that of Brecker and Pastorius on The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (Joni's Shadows & LIght) let me know. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 06:29
I can't. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 06:50
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Pain Of Salvation- The Perfect Element- Kristoffer Gildenlows bass work is simply stunning here and has to be listeneed to carefully as the bass line sometimes pops up in unusual places. Dream Theater- Scenes From A Memory- John Myung is hugely talanted in this album had them all playing at their best. The Tangent- The Music That Died Alone- Johnas Reingold is a brilliant bassist Weather Report- Heavy Weather Soft Machine- Third Marillion- Script For A Jesters Tear The Mars Volta- De-Loused In The Comatorium Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood, Suger, Sex, Magik/ Mothers Milk As a bass player I can tell you that all these really grabed me for their bass work. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 08:19
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Marillion - Pete Trewavas is master of melodic bass lines. "Script..." and "Fugazi" are best, with "Script..." having the edge. Pointer left Trewavas loads of room to articulate his intricate style.
Twelfth Night - Clive Mitten played a 6-string. "Live at the Target" and "Fact and Fiction" both feature some stunningly emotional bass playing, and are both so different, I recommend both.
Camel - Doug Ferguson is underrated primarily because he's a lynchpin rock bassist first and foremost - but he was capable of great melodic writing. "A Live Record" is probably the one to get, but "Mirage" and "Moonmadness" are superb.
Pink Floyd - needs no explanation. Waters was always on the money... but my pick is "Meddle", with "DSOTM" and "Animals" coming close behind.
Yes - Chris Squire's bass playing may be over the top sometimes, but when he got a groove going, it was hard and complicated. My preference is for the very early groovy stuff, so my pick is "Time and a Word". I can't listen to Jon Anderson, so I'm not very familiar with their later stuff.
Hawkwind - Lemmy hardly ever comes up for discussion, and yet his basslines are hard, hypnotic and manic. He did some brilliant stuff with Motorhead in the 1980s too. Go for "Space Ritual" by Hawkwind and "Overkill" by Motorhead. "Doremi..." and "Warrior on the Edge of Time" are other great Hawkwind picks, while "On Parole" and "Ace of Spades" are great Motorheadbangers.
Radiohead - Colin Greenwood is master of the understated bass. That this style is actually very hard is something difficult to get across to people who prefer a million notes a minute. I particularly like his work on "OK Computer".
Couldn't mention bass without mentioning Holgar Czukay - try "Monster Movie" by Can - if that's not quite your thing, then "Ege Bamyasi" or "Tago Mago" should have something for you.
Keith "da Missile" Bass from Here and Now is another with an awesome style, if you want to get a bit of a reggae/rock groove going - "Theatre" is great, but you might find "Give and Take" more interesting. Personally, I'm very keen on the bass lines on "Fantasy Shift" - but that's not an album I'd recommend to everyone, it just means a lot to me.
Stranglers (OK, not Prog...) - J J Burnell's style is unique, powerful and melodic. I couldn't pick a single Stranglers' album, as the bass is stunning on all of them - so go for the 1977-1982 collection.
...there's a pattern here - I like my basslines hard, melodic and inventive - not over-fussy. Bass is a surprisingly delicate and subtle art-form, oft-derided by guitarist for having less strings and hence being the easy option - but give a guitarist a bass, and laugh as they try to play chords or leads!
...and those are almost all of my own main influences as a bass player  ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:08
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Hatfield & The North - Rotter's Club Anything by The Pentangle Anything by Weather Report Pay attention to Ralphe Armstrong, a bass player in Jean-Luc Ponty's band. from non-prog: any of 70's Queen's albums - John Deacon is so underrated... Paul Simon - Graceland. Check out Baghiti Khumalo on bass! ------------- |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 12:52
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Percy Jones wirh Brand X ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 13:05
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^ Also check him out in Tunnels ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 16:19
... and don't forget that "American Idol (judge)" Randy Jackson. He played some damn nice bass for Ponty in the mid-80s.
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Posted By: EinTon
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 17:05
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Lacrymosa - Joy of the Wrecked ship (with a nice fretless bass, played by band leader Chihiro Saito) Henry Cow - Leg End, Unrest |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 17:51
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Like previous people have mentioned, Zeuhl is a great genre to look for great bass players in. Check out Magma (MDK and Udu Wudu), Eskaton (Four Visions), and Dun (Eros) for some awesome bass playing. -------------   |
Posted By: uknoel
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 19:00
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It would depend on if you are a pick, or finger player. |
Posted By: Castlevania
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 22:03
I didn't read all 3 pages of this thread, but other than fragile, Relayer has some killer bass playing on it. |
Posted By: fungusucantkill
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 22:09
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Anything Jaco- go listen to "slang"
Primus for your bluegrass funk metal needs (seas of cheese and frizzle fry)
Mr. Bungle. to get that weird Trevor dunn sound man, they rule.
and look up some of the mahavishnu orchestra. good stuff man -------------  
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 22:13
Picks are for the WEAK!!! ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 03:23
True - you can't get a really good feel for the instrument or the music if you use a pick - but you can get a harder sound.
Horses for courses, I say.
A real musician uses both techniques - and then some more. ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 07:04
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdUmjQV_5I&mode=related&search - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdUmjQV_5I&mode=related&search = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwa5xYKjPU - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwa5xYKjPU
Just what I like. ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Yontar
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 09:39
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dream theater- any early material and metropolis part II john myung has developed into one of the greatest technical players ever jaco- his self entitled/ weather report- heavy weather with his superhuman touch and crisp fretless tone he captured bass as a melodic and root centered instrument. He had a really unique soul, and used that in his music. return to forever- romantic warrior, hymn of the seventh galaxy stanley is an amazing player. totally precise with a cool chorded approach and loads of right hand finger speed due to years of 7 hour practices everyday. rush- farewell to kings, moving pictures opeth- blackwater park, morningrise john derfalla had a cool folk approach to the bass, and martin sounds like a modern version of blues influenced metal players like geezer butler. cynic- focus/ gordian knot/corlandt sean malone is almost like a reincarnated version of jaco playing in a progressive metal outfit. He had a great sense for melody and tone, and made some beatiful lines on all of his projects atheist- their trilogy of albums roger patterson was a super fast aggressive player and one of the few pizzicatto players in death metal. tony choy had a very jazzy approach to metal music and helped add texture to this technical metal outfit. Yes- Fragile, Closer to the edge, basically anything chris has a distinct style and is one of the few picking style players that I appreciate. Symphony X- Any album Lepond is a super solid player with the abilities to tap, solo, and play with romeo when needed. Otherwise he writes very geddy lee style lines with plenty of bass and some melodic aspects as well. Rush- Anything In the moving pictures, farewell era, basically anything Geddy developed one of the most unique styles in prog. Melody finally became an important part of rock bass lines with the inception of rush. Flat out the dude is a legend for playing his lines on bass, singing, and playing keys all in one concert. Niacin- Anything Billy sheehan is a monster. He incorporates every technique into his sound and he freaking owns it all!!! These are just a few major recommendations. Welcome to the world of bass. It is a far more interesting instrument than many will lead you to believe, and is far more versatile than you can ever imagine. Learn the various styles, techniques, and genres and hopefully youi will have as good of a time as I have had. Good Luck!!! ------------- basically in a few words, prog metal owns! 
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 10:13
of course you could just grow out your nails like a classical guitarist and then you could get a harder sound while finger picking Of course, I prefer to use my face ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 11:30
You hit the bass with your face?  How does that style work again?  ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 11:47
| Chris Squire is always worth a listen. He usually multi-tracks the bass and plays it fast. |
Posted By: Yontar
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 13:13
i wouldnt say they are for the weak, more for the tone impaired......  ------------- basically in a few words, prog metal owns!
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Posted By: Yontar
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 13:26
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anyone think that some of vic wooten's stuff could be considered somewhat progressive??? I consider it more on the soul side, but some of his tunes are really cool solo pieces that I think are semi-progressive. ------------- basically in a few words, prog metal owns!
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