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Poll Question: Who's your FAVOURITE ? (not the best)
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
37 [44.58%]
3 [3.61%]
5 [6.02%]
10 [12.05%]
7 [8.43%]
11 [13.25%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.20%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.20%]
0 [0.00%]
4 [4.82%]
4 [4.82%]
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    Posted: February 21 2009 at 19:31
Sorry if I forgot an important one.
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I went with Wetton from this list.

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My favorite is not on there.
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My favorite is the best, but since he's not here (and neither is my second favorite), I went with Chris Squire.
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Voted Roger Waters, a very underrated bassist.
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Originally posted by claugroi claugroi wrote:

Sorry if I forgot an important one.
 
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Originally posted by crimhead crimhead wrote:

My favorite is not on there.
 
who's your favourite ?
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

My favorite is the best, but since he's not here (and neither is my second favorite), I went with Chris Squire.
 
Who are your first and second favourites ?
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I don't know all of them, but from my faves you're missing John Entwistle, Geezer Butler, Neil Murray, Jonas Reingold, and some others, but no worries!

Besides the list having real famous ones, obviously being awesome like Wetton and Squire, I'll go for the overlooked Ray Shulman which is really a fantastic player, which surely get few votes.
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Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

I don't know all of them, but from my faves you're missing John Entwistle, Geezer Butler, Neil Murray, Jonas Reingold, and some others, but no worries!

Besides the list having real famous ones, obviously being awesome like Wetton and Squire, I'll go for the overlooked Ray Shulman which is really a fantastic player, which surely get few votes.
 
Yes, but I'm talking about progressive rock. If I was talking about rock in general, I'd add maaany other bassists (Entwistle and McCartney being one of them)
 
And really, Ray Shulman is an overlooked bassist. For me, there's a draw between him and Squire. The best ones
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Originally posted by claugroi claugroi wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

My favorite is the best, but since he's not here (and neither is my second favorite), I went with Chris Squire.
 
Who are your first and second favourites ?




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respectively.
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^those are not the best, this one is:



The tallest and greatest bassist ever!Approve



Saw that solo live!Big smile


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I voted Shulman because of his overall musicianship which is almost funny. Someone once wrote about Devin Townsend that he was greedy, hogging all the talent. The same could be said for virtually every member of Gentle Giant.
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Chris Squire.
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If you want my two favorite upright bassists:



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That would be Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederse and Ray Brown, respectively.
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Originally posted by claugroi claugroi wrote:

Sorry if I forgot an important one.

you mention Helmut Köllen, which is nice because German bass players are very rarely mentioned, if at all. he committed suicide some 20 years ago; who knows how he might have developed?
nevertheless, there are in my opinion a lot of better German bass players, like Matz Steinke, Gerald Luciano Hartwig, Peter Kühmstedt and, most important of all and highly influential for many many German bass players, the great Helmut Hattler, who should be mentioned in any bass poll and would certainly get my vote in many
here a little video of him:
http://tinyurl.com/csehto
but don't worry, Hattler never gets mentioned in any bass polls, just like German musicians generally don't. drum polls never include Mani Neumeier or Jan Fride, to name just two excellent German drummers, guitar polls don't mention Roman Bunka (who probably is my favorite guitar player of all), sax polls don't mention Roland Schaeffer (who is also an excellent guitar player), Klaus Kreuzeder or Klaus Doldinger, and so on. it is quite amazing indeed.
the same is true for other nations, of course. I could mention, for example, a lot of French bass players too, like Patrice Congas, whose style I like immensely; it is very pumping, but at the same time very relaxed, which is quite rare


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Well, the choice is obvious here...Hammond, followed by...hmm...Wetton, I think. 

Missing are Steve Harris of I Ron Maiden and Johnny Boy Entwhistler of The Who. 

Oh, and, since we're all being all hoity toity with our "insert great bass player here," I also nominate Charlie "Beatcha Down With a Beatstick" Mingus. He totally rocked. Out loud.
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Chris Squire easily.

I'd vote for John Wetton and Nic Potter as well.


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Out of these it's Squire and Wetton pretty evenly, and from out of the list I could bring in Geddy of course and Doug Ferguson from Camel. He's one of my biggest favourites. Other favorites would be for example Martin Mendez from Opeth, Paul McCartney and, possibly mentioned for the first time ever in a Progarchives bass player poll: Mike Dirnt from Green Day. Especially Insomniac is full of fantastic rock bass work.

BTW I respect Roger Waters for letting his bassist ego go on Amused to Death and hiring other players to do his thing. If I remember right he plays bass on only one song on that album, and not even all the lines.
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Chris Squire is my favourite in prog terms and I also have much love
for Tony Levin, Geddy Lee, John Myung and Billy Sheehan. Cacho has
mentioned my prog related bass machine: Geezer Butler, a freak of nature
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