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Icarium 
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 Posted: May 03 2009 at 18:11 |
i think Trevor Bolder who played for Bowie on Hunky Dory is quite good (he also played on Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Zane and others. Gary Thain of Uriah Heep is also a very good bass player, and Chris Squire have som cool and tight bass groows (anybody heard Roundabout  ), and Geddy Lee is graet. but my all time favorite bassplayer prog and not-prog is the imensly underrated Dee Murray (Elton John) his playing is beond this world som times  especialy on tracks like Daniel, Gray Seal, the Ballad of Danny Baily, Nikita and many others (his not a Prog bassist) but his skills are equal with Squire and G Lee. sadly he past away loosing for cancer in 1992 an become only 45 yers old  . one of my tru idols as a bass player and mucissian (my littel tribute). 
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Posted: May 03 2009 at 14:46 |
Stanley Clarke is nothing short of incredible on Return to Forever's first.
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Les Claypool anyone? |
Great choice 
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himtroy
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Posted: May 03 2009 at 14:13 |
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Never been a Claypool fan. I place him with Victor Wooten and shred guitarists, he can technically play like crazy, but i can't sit there and listen to how technically proficient somebody is for very long without it sounding good.
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OzzProg
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Posted: May 03 2009 at 12:23 |
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Les Claypool anyone?
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himtroy
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Posted: May 03 2009 at 12:10 |
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Hugh Hopper is great. As is Richard Sinclair, he's much groovier with Hatfield and the North than Caravan (though I like Caravan just as much, it's not as bassy.) And even though I'll get yelled at for not being prog I'm going to say Jack Cassady has it, this is one of my favorite bass solos-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrTS7b028A8. Pretty damn progressive bassing for a song they've been playing since the sixties
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Roland113
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Posted: May 02 2009 at 22:53 |
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Give me Jonas Reingold any day. His work at the end of 'Unfold the Future' specifically 'Devil's Playground' is majestic. This is the way that a Fretless should sound.
Tony Levin does a lot of great work as well.
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I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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zachfive
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Posted: May 02 2009 at 19:15 |
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^^ You sir, beat me to the punch. Holland is indeed the man!
Edited by zachfive - May 02 2009 at 19:15
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Gorgo Ourgon
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Posted: May 02 2009 at 15:11 |
Dave Holland ...he played with Miles during his electric period. Check him out with his quintet in 2002:
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lazland
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Posted: May 02 2009 at 15:06 |
Nov wrote:
Jonas Reingold for me.
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As he is blasting through the speakers now, absolutely agree -ask me next week when something else is on 
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nahnite
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Posted: May 02 2009 at 11:49 |
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I have to go with Geddy Lee. And Chris Squire isn't too bad as far as grooves are concerned either.
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Nov
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Posted: May 02 2009 at 09:43 |
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Jonas Reingold for me.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 02 2009 at 01:20 |
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Gustaf Hielm.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 22:07 |
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^indeed!
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mr.cub
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 17:25 |
Does Stanley Clarke count???
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 17:23 |
jimidom wrote:
Tony Levin can groove with the best of them. Jeff Berlin isn't too bad either, and don't forget Jaco. |
The grooves on One of a Kind are classy stuff 
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 14:35 |
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These are the prog/fusion bassists I wish I could play like:
Ray Schulman (The guy from Gentle Giant, as Swan Song said), Hugh Hopper, Jannick Top/Paganotti/other Magma bassists, Geddy Lee, Stanley Clarke (Return to Forever is on here, right?), Marc Rosenberg (of Eskaton fame), Jaco, some of Wetton's lines from KC, other Zeuhl bassists I've not mentioned, Les Claypool, Levin, John Entwistle, etc.
And the more I listen to Wooten and try to play his stuff, the less I agree his stuff is groovy. The majority of the time I put him in the same category as I place the shred guitarists...talented, but just doesn't keep my interest very much anymore. His music generally doesn't seem to display very much emotion in my opinion.
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 12:29 |
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Zia Geelani of Ozrics is a groove meister, Percy Jones, Mick Karn, John G.Perry, Mike Howlett , Hugh Hopper , Hansford Rowe, Paganotti/Top, Levin and the incredible Jonas Reingold. Many more to come....
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dwill123
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 12:23 |
Paul Jackson (Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters)
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: April 30 2009 at 11:31 |
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The guy from Gentle Giant?
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jimidom
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Posted: April 30 2009 at 08:20 |
Tony Levin can groove with the best of them. Jeff Berlin isn't too bad either, and don't forget Jaco.
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