Favourite Prog Bassist?

[rtav]

Anyone know of Marcelo Perez Schneider from Presto Vivace?

Watch this: bass solo introduction that will leave you speechless. The play throughout will knock your teeth out. As with all prog metal, the vocals, not so much.

 

[10cc]

Ross Valory is one my favs.

 

[kesslari]

Waiting for the Brand X show to start...

 

[Btbp]

I've yet to go through all 10 pages though I will, some of what I've seen some of the posts mention Fusion players rather than Prog, unless the intent was "progressive" vs. Prog as in Prog Rock, bassists.

While after Prog I got deep into Fusion, as it was the time for that genere, and still have a lot of time for guys like Percy, Mark Egan, Jimmy Haslip, Scott Ambush, Jeff Andrews (RIP), Jaco, Stanley, Ralphe, etc. etc. they're not Prog Rock players like the usual Squire, Lee, Rutherford, Greg Lake, etc. I would suggest a similar thread for Fusion players, there are so many great ones. But...I'll always be a hardcore Prog person.

Bands like The Dixe Dregs / The Dregs fall a bit outside pure Prog to me but are certainly very progressive. I'm not even sure how to categorize Tull, the Glenn Cornick, who I love, days were one thing and the post-Cornick days were something else.

As I believe this to be this is a Prog Rock thread and as the masters Squire, Schulman and the like have already been mentioned, I'd add some that might not be here, like Jon Camp/Renaissance, Joe Macre & Carey Ziegler/Crack The Sky, Werner Frangenberg/Triumvirat, Gary Strater/Starcastle, Carl Cadden-James/Shadow Gallery, John Siegler/Utopia, Lee Jackson/The Nice, and a ton of others who aren't coming to mind at the moment.





And if talking Neo-Prog then there are Dave Meros/Spock's Beard, Pete Trewas/Marillion/Kino/Transatlantic, Jonas Reingold/The Flower Kings, Thomas Miller/Symphony X, and a ton of others who aren't coming to mind at the moment.

(if you don't know this, you will thank me for it, is arguably up there with Close To The Edge or The Gates Of Delirium or Supper's Ready, the end, with the Taurus pedals, is right out of Supper's Ready)


For kinda Prog/New Wave there was Sandy Horn of The Spoons....

And then there were these guys, who were just brilliant, check East To West

 

[kesslari]

And.. bloody brilliant.

 

[bassistkll]

Does Ambrosia count as progressive? I'd say so. Way too much talent in that band. Joe Puerta played beautiful bass lines and sang lead and harmony vocals.

 

[Btbp]

I'd say they are really a mixed bag, because while they did kind of mellow Rock stuff, they also did killer things like

and

which are quite Proggy.

Puerta was and is a monster player, check out the Bruce Hornsby DVD with Jerry Garcia, Joe kills on that.

 

[jerry]

I'd say they are really a mixed bag, because while they did kind of mellow Rock stuff, they also did killer things like

and

which are quite Proggy.

Puerta was and is a monster player, check out the Bruce Hornsby DVD with Jerry Garcia, Joe kills on that.

Their Road Island LP was pretty adventuresome

 

[Btbp]

Will definitely give that a listen

 

[Jazz Ad]

Is prog metal ok ? I find Lars Norberg fantastic.

 

[Btbp]

Is prog metal ok ? I find Lars Norberg fantastic.

Well I put Symphony X and no one complained so I guess so. Never heard of Spiral Architect, will check them out.

 

[NYCBass]

Hands down Chris Squire

 

[LBS-bass]

View attachment 3360499 And.. bloody brilliant.

Indeed!

 

[sean_on_bass]

Jonas Reingold (Flower Kings)

This guy here...so damn underrated. He can go from a Squire sound to Jaco at the turn of a hat. A big influence for me.

 

[sean_on_bass]

Got to see my personal hero/goddess Julie Slick last night with Adrian Belew. I don't have any video from last night, but here's a decent vid I found on YouTube from the opening night of the tour a couple of weeks ago:

Jealous...guessing you saw the RVA gig which i really wanted to go to.

 

[Lobster11]

Jealous...guessing you saw the RVA gig which i really wanted to go to.

Yup, that's the one. And not to rub your nose in it, but it was as good as you thought it would be. Adrian was great, of course, but as usual, people walked in talking about him, and walked out talking about his bass player. Every time I see Julie play I think she can't get any better, and every time she proves me wrong.

But don't despair: Check the tour dates at Invalid Link Removed: They're coming back around to D.C., eastern PA, and some other places that might be within your reach in April, and then New York in August.

 

[N4860]

This guy here...so damn underrated. He can go from a Squire sound to Jaco at the turn of a hat. A big influence for me.

Yeah I can't believe he never gets mentioned here. He is definitely inspired by Jaco, no doubt about that.

 

[Bassist30]

Hadrian Feraud 2013

 

[jmlee]

I have a great, long-standing love for Greg Lake (sadly may he RIP). I plugged my iPhone into the car stereo today and when I hit that input, up comes King Crimson's "A Man A City" from the extended version of "In The Court Of The Crimson King". It came in hard and loud and my daughter and I just about jumped out the sunroof—which was inconveniently closed. Anyway, I turned it off and the next thing I noticed was my daughter who's 10 humming the intro in perfect pitch. (She's a very musical kid.) Anyway, I turned it back on and we enjoyed all 11:44 of it on the way home from school. I was reminded again how much I loved Greg's singing and that super-bright jazz bass tone—especially in ELP, but in Crimson too. It's on full display in this 40th Anniversary Concert.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I am majorly pissed at E and L for the truly stupid reason they cancelled the show we were going to see a few years ago. Apparently Greg and Keith were having a row and they didn't play the show.