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    Posted: April 30 2009 at 07:47
Name one who regularly can lay that bottom down that just gets you groovin'. Prog bassists aren't normally noted for this either but in listening to Colin Edwin, especially in some of the non-metalesque Porcupine Tree, I realized his patterns can actually get funky. Of course Geddy Lee is known for this as well, but Neil Peart doesn't always come through with the drum pattern to match it. 
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Since The Flecktones are here, I think it's safe to say that the grooviest bassist is Mr. Vic Wooten.
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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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The guy from Gentle Giant?
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Paul Jackson (Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters)
 
 
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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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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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Originally posted by jimidom 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 Cool
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Does Stanley Clarke count???
 
 

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^indeed!
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Jonas Reingold for me.
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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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Originally posted by Nov Nov wrote:

Jonas Reingold for me.


As he is blasting through the speakers now, absolutely agree -ask me next week when something else is onWink
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Dave Holland ...he played with Miles during his electric period. Check him out with his quintet in 2002:
 
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^^ You sir, beat me to the punch. Holland is indeed the man!

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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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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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Les Claypool anyone?
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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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