Favorite Prog Bassists!

[Lady Kayri]

+1 John Lodge (I'm a long time fan of the Moodies) and also one for Gary (I think the last name was Scholt? or something similar) who was with Starcastle; died a few years back.

 

[Lady Kayri]

Whoops - It's Gary Strater, and he's been mentioned, missed that the first time thru the thread

 

[jarrhead]

JUSTIN CHANCELLOR!

 

[jazzgeek79]

I say John Wetton, mostly because of how the 1973 King Crimson rhythm functioned as a whole, which really makes for the best bassist in any genre.

 

[schnigges]

John Jowitt

 

[B Sus]

Colin Marston (Link Removed / Link Removed)
Jordan Eberhardt (Link Removed)
Arif Mirabdolbaghi (Link Removed)
Fred DeCoste (early Link Removed)

 

[rcarraher]

Geddy Lee, Eddie Jackson, John Myung, Colin Marston

Chris Squire from Yes.

 

[escaraBAJO]

Chris Squire
John Wetton
Tony Levin
Janick Top (Magma)
Bernard Paganotti (Magma)
Patrick Djivas (PFM, Area)
Colin Hodgkinson
Richard Sinclair
John Greaves (Henry Cow, National Health)
Anyone who played with Zappa

Plus Francis Moze from early MAGMA

 

[FretlessWarrior]

Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree and Sean Malone of Gordian Knot and Cynic - both extremely different, but extremely tasty fretless bassists.

Malone

 

[matrok]

I say John Wetton, mostly because of how the 1973 King Crimson rhythm functioned as a whole, which really makes for the best bassist in any genre.

A truly wonderful unit. My favorite Crimson line up.

 

[Lobster11]

Julie Slick -- Adrian Belew Power Trio!

 

[Relayer71]

Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Ray Shulman.

 

[apehead]

Where do you even begin?

Francis Moze (early Magma), actually, make that any Magma bassist!
Chris Squire (Yes)
Richard Sinclair (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
Mont Campbell (Egg)
Jean-Luc Martin (Mona Lisa)
Andre Bernardi (Eskaton)

I know I'm missing a ton, but that's all I can come up with off the top of my head.

 

[bwab]

John Myung
Colin Edwin
Billy Gould (faith no more - they have the proggy edge to them sometimes right?)
James Leach - sikth
juan alderete - Mars Volta
Dave La Rue
Tony Levin
Pete Trewavas - Marillion, Transatlantic, Kino

these guys have really helped me progress with bass, Myungs work introduced me to using 6 strings for one!!




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[squidfiste]

Old:

Tony Levin & John Wetton

New:

Juan Alderete (Mars Volta) and Suzanne Sterne (Ruby Bullet).

My 2 cents.

 

[Hoover]

Old:

Tony Levin & John Wetton

Hey, just because John & Tony are elegible for a free AARP subscription is no reason to disparage their work!

 

[squidfiste]

Hey, just because John & Tony are elegible for a free AARP subscription is no reason to disparage their work!

Ha, as soon as I hit 'post' I thought that might not sound right...

 

[Kyo6JM]

Other than that, Kristoffer Gildenlöw is high up there. He's in Pain of Salvation.

Used to be...


The following bassists have impressed me again and again with their inventive playing:

John Wetton
Geddy Lee
Chris Squire
John Myung (more early on than now)
Sean Malone
Trey Gunn
Dave Meros (Spock's Beard)
Pete Trewavas (underrated based on his Marillion work, shows his full talent in TransAtlantic)
Kristoffer Gildenlow (see above)
Philippe Bussonnet (Magma - he plays some really crazy stuff!)
Tony Grey (if you want to count Hiromi's Sonicbloom as a prog fusion band )

And I agree about Thomas Miller, I really miss his contributions to Symphony X.

 

[Hyperfreak]

Trewavas, Levin.

 

[playbass1983]

Colin Edwin, Tony Levin, Geddy Lee, Justin Chancellor, John Myung, Jeff Caxide, Mike Rutherford, Martin Mendez...the list goes on.