Prog Rhythm Sections
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Topic: Prog Rhythm Sections
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Subject: Prog Rhythm Sections
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 15:55
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Vote for your favorite prog rhythm sections from some classic lineups. This is a multiple choice poll so vote for all your favorites...but please only vote for them once  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 15:57
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Ramsey - Hyatt (echolyn) (Oh, I didn't see "classic". Still...) ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 15:58
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Hard for me to vote against Bruford - Muir - Wetton. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 16:02
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Rush's dynamic duo with any Bruford-related project coming behind. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 16:05
Wyatt and Hopper could be mentioned ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 16:05
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Horizons wrote:Posted By: HannesHolmqvist
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 16:16
| Bruford - Wetton. There's just so much energy! |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 17:17
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If I had to choose only one, I'd go with Bruford & Wetton (they were a monstrous team in '73 & '74), but I voted for ones where I felt the pair was greater than the sum of it's parts... Bruford & Squire Bruford & Wetton White & Squire Bruford & Muir & Wetton Giles & Lake Weathers & Shulman Peart & Lee Barlow & Hammond-Hammond ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 18:04
| Voted for the classic VDGG rhythm section, assuming Hammill's keyboard contributions can be included in that option. His parts are very rhythmically-oriented and play a huge role in the pulse and foundation of the band's works, especially in the mark II years (Godbluff onward). |
Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 18:11
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Bruford - Muir - Wetton Evans - Banton and of course Harrison - Edwin (Porcupine Tree) -------------  |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 18:25
This.
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 18:29
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Ferguson/Ward and Cook/Esau (or Jowitt) are both simply sublime.
Mosley/Trevawas, Peart/Lee, McCulloch/Reeves and Weathers/Shulman are all superb too. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 18:33
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Bruford/Wetton. (Expected more metal on a 'best rhythm' poll though. Then I saw the 'from classic lineups' bit.)
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 20:16
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Percy Jones-Phil Collins (Brand X); Jones-Narada Michael Walden (Nova) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 20:25
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Bruford and Wetton were kings for about three years. Honourable mentions go to Lake/Palmer, Bruford/Levin and Lee/Peart. Also for a time Bruford/Squire. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 21:12
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Lieby and Czuky ------------- 
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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 21:27
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 23:47
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Barlow & Hammond-Hammond followed by Cobham & Laird. Also: Pegg & Mattocks from Fairport Convention. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 01:16
Pip Pyle and Richard Sinclair 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 02:54
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Peart/Lee and Bruford/Squire. ------------- 
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 03:16
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Entwistle & Moon
Of course, if only the archives considered them prog, Baker & Bruce were streets ahead of any other rhythm section. |
Posted By: Morsenator
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 04:54
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Voted for Peart&Lee, Palmer&Lake, Bruford&Squire and Mason&Waters. However my personal favourite is definitely D'Virgilio&Meros (Spock's Beard).. mm, tasty! 
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 06:37
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Peart/Lee, followed by Bruford/Squire
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Posted By: proggy
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 10:09
| Glascock/Barlow should be the choice |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 14:49
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This is like the most important part of a band for me. If the groove and rhythms not tight, it just doesn't captivate me. It's the backbone; it's what hold everything in place. I wanna say Holger and Jaki of Can, cause they were tight as hell. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 16:59
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^ I'll go with Can's rythm section as well, followed by Barlow - Hammond-Hammond, Palmer - Lake, Bruford - Wetton and Collins - Rutherford. -------------  
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 17:35
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Collins/Rutherford ------------- |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: May 14 2013 at 04:11
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Bruford & Anyone, with a special reference to King Crimson!
P.S.: I miss here a phenomenal rhythm section: Van der Linden - Ruiter (Focus). ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: May 14 2013 at 10:14
Last night I was listening to Islands and thought, damn I should've included Ian Wallace - Boz in my poll  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 14 2013 at 11:43
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Too many excellent duos........in the end I voted for Bruford -Wetton as my favorite for the sheer power of it all. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: MonsterMagnet
Date Posted: May 15 2013 at 09:52
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They are not in the list but I would say Yoshida Tatsuya and Ryuichi Masuda or Christian Vander-Jannick Top |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 15 2013 at 23:43
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The rhythm section of 'Chicago' - Danny Seraphine and Pete Cetera, bonded like crazy glue in the early days. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 16 2013 at 08:20
THIS! ------------- 
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 17 2013 at 13:23
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Peart and Lee. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: May 30 2013 at 18:24
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Zoltan Csorsz and Jonas Reingold are amazing! ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 30 2013 at 19:06
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Peart/Lee ~ any with Bruford ~ Barlow/Glascock ~ Marangolo/Pignatelli ~ Erskine/Pastorius ~ Cobham/Laird ~ Collins/Rutherford ~ White/Squire ~ Ward/Ferguson ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 31 2013 at 00:07
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Hellmut Hattler & Jan Fride - KRAAN
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 31 2013 at 03:18
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So many excellent combinations but I voted for Bruford and Wetton from Crimson. Worth mentioning also is the unjustly neglected work of Lee Jackson and Brian Davison of the Nice and Refugee For me though, the greatest ever bass and drums combination in Prog, (akin to the genre's Sly and Robbie )has to be Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can (the greatest dance band Prog ever had) |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: May 31 2013 at 11:07
Lee Jackson and Brian Davison are definitely deserving of an honourable mention, they've done some great work especially on The Nice's Ars Longa Vita Brevis and the Refugee album with Patrick Moraz. Lee Jackson's original bass line on Rondo defeated Greg Lake even though Jackson apparently tried to teach him it in person. Lake ended up doing having to do a simplified version with ELP.Glenn Cornick and Clive Bunker are my favourite Tull rhythm section, Cornick in particular did some really powerful bass work in the early days of the band, and it's a shame he seems to have done so little of note since. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 31 2013 at 17:06
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Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: June 04 2013 at 10:01
| Tortoise - Doug McCombs (bass), J McEntire (drums), J Herndon (drums), Dan Bitney (drums, percussives) |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 04 2013 at 23:00
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Clive Bunker and Glenn Cornick of early Tull! ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 05 2013 at 02:13
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Howlett / Moerlen of Gong (just listen to "Isle of Everywhere" from "You", which starts out simple, but thr two gradually complicate matters), Hattler / Fride and Hattler / Neumeier of Kraan and Guru Guru are excellent too. Also Vander / Top and Vander / Paganotti of Magma. Actually Magma always had great rhythm sections. A very underrated rhythm section are Meid / Leopold / Fischelscher of Amon Düül 2. Meid is a jazz trained bass player, and you can definitely hear that; together with a powerhouse of two drummers the rhythm section is excellent.. And of course Czukay / Liebezeit with their hypnotic rhythms. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |