Progressive rock with a notable bass presence
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Topic: Progressive rock with a notable bass presence
Posted By: PinkRobot
Subject: Progressive rock with a notable bass presence
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 05:31
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I'm really enjoying the basslines in Camel's music. What prog rock bands, other than Camel, have this kind of notable bass presence ? |
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 05:38
| Magma, Rush, Red-era King Crimson, John Paul Jones' solo albums, Fragile-era YES, Brand X, etc. Have fun discovering. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 05:44
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Fragile, sure- but I think Drama kicks its butt in the bass department. That album is chock full of bass, from thick growls to fretless legato.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 07:35
| Hatfield and the North |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 08:03
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Tool and Primus. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:02
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It's nice that someone mentioned Magma. Top doesn't get enough credit. Otherwise, I fully endorse Epignosis's views ------------- 
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:09
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90% of Zeuhl bands (Eskaton and Weidorje are worth a mention)
Kraan
some Gong
80's Zappa has some stand out bass work
I'll second Primus
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:15
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OK- I am blanking on a prog-metal group HEAVILY relying on the bass presence. Technical/Progressive Metal..... Someone help!  ------------- |
Posted By: Garden of Dreams
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:18
| Every Rush album has a notable bass presence; Transatlantic's The Whirlwind; Anything with Jonas Reingold (The Tangent, The Flower Kings, Karmakanic). |
Posted By: JonnyM79
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:24
| Karmakanic is very bass driven. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:33
I got it- Spiral Architect ------------- |
Drew wrote:Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:35
If you turn the knob on the left to MAX...all your prog will have a noticeable bass presence.
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:39
| Soft Machine Six, listen carefully to Hopper, Great bass playing |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:41
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 10:59
| Zeuhl |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 14:18
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Eloy (Time To Turn and Planets especially) |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 14:30
And it will also sound muddy and bad ------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 14:43
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Triumvirat-Illusions On A Double Dimple and Spartacus especially ("Illusions" has some of the best Rickenbacher bass sound you are ever going to hear) early Yes (like the Yes Album) Flash-Flash and In The Can Starcastle-Starcastle |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 15:02
| I love the bass on ELP music. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 15:43
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Yes and Rush obviously. Genesis may be less notorious but Rutherford's bass can be amazing.
Cathedral's Stained Glass Stories has a nice Squire-like bass.
Citizen Cain's Somewhere But Yesterday has also some subtle but great bass.
I also love John Wetton's work on the 2 UK albums.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 16:37
Cynic, Sieges Even, Intronaut, Unexpect (Chaoth has a 9 string bass!), Between the Buried and Me, Cult of Luna, Dark Suns, Fen, Indukti, Isis, Madder Mortem, Mastodon, maudlin of the Well, No Made Sense, Pain of Salvation, Riverside, Rolo Tomassi, To-Mera, Virus, Ved Buens Ende and Zero Hour. From none metal bands theirs Anekdoten, Anglagard, East of Eden, Gnidrolog, Guapo, Karnivool, Kayo Dot, King Crimson, NeBeLNeST, Paatos, Russian Circles, Saens, The Tangent, Tartar Lamb II and White Willow. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 16:41
| Iron Maiden. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 16:49
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No one quoted Chicago with the Spencer Davis Group cover , I'm a man.......
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Posted By: weeksandgeeks
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 16:54
GENIUS!!! ------------- Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film. |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 18:28
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Magma and Eloy spring to mind.
-------------  Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 18:55
| Nobody mentioned Gentle Giant yet? Ray Shulman has some of the tastiest bass lines around. |
Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 19:13
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Joni Mitchell's Hejira. Jaco Pastorius plays wonderful bass on that one. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 19:27
Ho Mitchell and Jaco, very good stuff 
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Posted By: MoodyRush
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 19:29
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if you don't mind jazz fusion, Pat Metheny Group's self-titled album has great jazz bass. ------------- Follow me down to the valley below. Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul. -Lazarus |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 03:26
If you can hear it. (On the unremastered version of Focus) ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: BenevolentBehemoth
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 09:02
He Speaks the truth.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 09:05
| There actually isn't a whole lot of classic prog WITHOUT notable bass presence from what all I have heard. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 09:09
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For a recent album you could check out Tartar Lamb - A Polyimage of Known Exits. The last two Kayo Dot albums as well have had considerable bass presence. You could go with anything fusion really. Tunnels has Percy Jones on bass. If you like fretless I would check that out. Also for fretless bass, Intronaut make use of it and it very much prevalent. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 09:42
------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 10:08
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Jean Louis, even though that's more avant-jazz than it is prog rock.
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 10:32
Agree. Hopper is probably one of the greatest bassists in history ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 10:34
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Also rather obscure but has some of the best bass playing I know. Pak's 2005 "Motel" has some of the most insane bass ever- and that comes from a bassist so you know it's true! ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 10:42
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there were a couple of other prog bass players that i wanted to mention, that are sort of overlooked, that made some really memorable records Wolfgang Stocker, the first bassist for Eloy, who played on their first two albums, then quit the live music scene Furio di Castri, who played on the obscure, but brilliant debut fusion album by the Italian group Dedalus both of these players were incredibly striking |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 11:00
Might as well recommend Watchtower - "Control & Resistance" album ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 11:05
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 14:47
I guess I have a remastered version then because its audible to me, but I was thinking more about Traced In Air anyway. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 18 2011 at 16:56
I believe Drama is an excellent album, but for some reason I can't remember any melodies from it, any bass/guitar/keys lines from it, etc. Dunno why is that. So I can't remember how the bass playing is on it. But anything Chris Squire did with Yes in that decade is fantastic. |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: June 19 2011 at 15:13
A little reminder for ya
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 20 2011 at 03:04
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Magma, of course; all their bass players were great and did a lot for the sound. Here an example with Jannick Top on bass: Kraan too, of course. Helmut Hattler is a bass player with an unmistakable style. Here an example: Guru Guru also always had prominent bass, sometimes played by Helmut Hatttler. Since Hattler really deserves more attention, here a Guru Guru example with him on bass. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 20 2011 at 14:21
Good stuff. Actually the first time I've heard that track. Could never bring myself to buy it but perhaps I will now.
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Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: June 24 2011 at 17:45
| pick any Magma you like and you'll find extraordinary superb bass guitar ... Jonas Hellborg, Jah Wobble, S.M.V. ... |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: June 25 2011 at 05:43
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Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant... But my recent discoveries are: (something older)  http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7219" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7219 (something newer)  http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29430" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29430  http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33339" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33339 ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: June 25 2011 at 07:37
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^ heh... Atmosphera, surprisingly enjoyable Israeli band ------------- There be dragons |