| Bass made more sense to me when I started seeing it from a bunch of different angles... I would broaden your horizons, play some blues (STV, Duck Dunn's work) some funk (The Meters, RHCP, James Brown, Parliament) mo-town, jazz...w/e.
Your clearly into prog so there is always Rush, and Yes, I've been listening to a lot of Liquid Tension Experiment lately (half of dream theater)...TOOL.
I listened to a bit of prog and then got real into psychedelic hard rock...Zappa, Les Claypool (Frog Brigade, Oysterhead). | 
