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Oxygen Waster 
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 Topic: Your Favorite Bassist?
Posted: February 01 2006 at 02:51 |
Im obsessed with the Bass Guitar and obviously Prog is a great genre to listen to with its large array of Brilliant Bassist.Most of the best Bass players in the world can be found in progressive rock bands.
I cant really pick just one but: Les Claypool(my hero),Chris Squire etc..
So who's your favorite Bassist? No need for a poll
Also,If you know of any eclectic interesting Basisists New or Old please let me know.
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Norbert
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 02:52 |
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My favourite is surely Chris Squire.
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OldFatherThames
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 02:54 |
Jaco Pastorius
Percy Jones
Armstrong (the guy with Jean-Luc Ponty)
Ray Schulman
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Oxygen Waster
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 02:56 |
 OldFatherThames wrote:
Jaco Pastorius
Percy Jones
Armstrong (the guy with Jean-Luc Ponty)
Ray Schulman
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Schulman is incredible, I agree!
What bands are Jaco and Percy from?
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OldFatherThames
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 02:59 |
- Percy Jones - Brand x (Amazing bassist )
- Jaco - solo (look for his first solo album, unbelievable fretless), weather report, and play with many jazz musician like pat methney
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Oxygen Waster
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 02:59 |
Bassists seem to get less attention than other professions i find,sorta irritating sometimes.
Thanks for the suggestions Old Father, I'm always looking for new and intrigueing Bass Players to listen to...especially solo artists
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OldFatherThames
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 03:02 |
Oxygen Waster wrote:
Bassists seem to get less attention than other professions i find,sorta irritating sometimes. |
Well, it's true. Punk and some rock too destroy the reputation of the bass guitar....sadly.
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Rising Force
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 03:09 |
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Steve Harris! He has many amazing bass performances... Like To Tame a Land, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Powerslave, Phantom of the Opera, 2 Minutes to Midnight, Gengis Khan, Invaders, and The Number of the Beast. I'd say Powerslave and Killers are his best bass performance albums. But my favorite bassline from his is the wicked evil sounding bass solo Only the Good Die Young. It gives me chills. Also, he has a great bass sound and clear presence. His bass isn't burried underneath the guitars, it's in your face. And his right hand technique is godly.
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Oxygen Waster
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 03:13 |
How is this Sean Mallone I've heard of?
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Hemulen
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 03:29 |
les claypool
jaco
sasaki hisashi
geddy lee
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BaldFriede
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 03:59 |
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Helmut Hattler of Kraan and Guru Guru is definitely worth checking out. He should be much better known, but Guru Guru and Kraan are probably too obscure. He also played in short-lived projects like Liliental, Highdelberg or Tab Two and published one solo album (Bassball, showing him swinging his bass guitar like a baseball-bat hitting a ball at you on the cover). In the 70s he won many bass polls in German music magazines, against excellent players like Squire or Pastorius.
Another one that should be named: Gerald Luciano Hartwig of Karthago, Embryo, Guru Guru and the Roman Bunka Band (a German guitar and oud player who also deserves a lot more attention; he used to play with Embryo). I am pretty sure that, as usual, no-one is going to check out my recommendations though.
Jannik Top of Magma.
Else the usual suspects which have already been named by others (Percy Jones, Jaco Pastorius, Chris Squire...)
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Ross Emerson
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 04:05 |
Oxygen Waster wrote:
How is this Sean Mallone I've heard of? |
Fantastic, check out Gordian Knot's Emergent, it's a heck of an album.
As for my favorites, I gotta go with Victor Wooten and Stanley Clarke (too hard to choose between them).
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 04:28 |
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what about john wetton? . he did some amazing stuff in his crimson times (a bit less later)
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 04:33 |
Chris Squire...jaco pastorius is boring as hell 
Stu Hamm and jeff berlin is excellent tho!
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 04:35 |
And usually the best bass players plays either jazz or funk 
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BiGi
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 04:58 |
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My personal favourite one is Chris Squire, for the timbre of his bass guitar, for his speed (check out Relayer) and his ingenuosity (CTTE, Fragile and Drama are outstanding examples)
Honourable mentions: Steve Harris and Paul McCartney (listen to I want you for an example...)
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A flower?
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 05:09 |
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Chris Squire! Bass is the most influencial instrument in prog!
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I talk to the wind... It tells me to burn things
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 05:32 |
Jaco Pastorius boring? 
Stanley Clarke 
Tony Levin 
Felix Pappalardi (bassist and producer of Mountain)
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Posted: February 01 2006 at 06:58 |
Hemulen wrote:
les claypool
jaco
sasaki hisashi
geddy lee
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Ruin's most recent bassist and a remarkable player!
Jannick Top's work with Magma is also well worth checking out.
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