Very cool!
(I loved seeing/hearing that big, beautiful ARP Quadra on the Mama tour. I played one in a shop the day of the show and was very impressed.)
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Favourite Prog Bassist?
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Very cool!
(I loved seeing/hearing that big, beautiful ARP Quadra on the Mama tour. I played one in a shop the day of the show and was very impressed.)
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Ok you posting that emboldened me to post this, a digression perhaps but if seeing for the first time, most likely a welcome one
Justin Chancellor from Tool without doubt.
Julia Slick from Adrien Belew Power Trio has some seriously amazing bass chops though and is on my top 10 list of my favorite bass players as well.
Not sure if you would really count Mr. Bungle as progressive rock, I guess technically it would be more like experimental/avantgarde rock, and Trevor Dunn is otherwise mostly known for playing jazz in the more experimental end of the spectrum, but yes Trevor Dunn is an amazing bass player as well and also on my personal favorite top 10 list.
Justin wins though, even if I guess both Julia and Trevor might be technically more proficient, he truly masters to make bass lines that really effectively drives the songs while at the same time both being extraordinarily melodically catchy and profoundly rousingly groovy in whatever odd time signature you throw at him, and then Tool is one of my absolute favorite bands too.
Julia Slick from Adrien Belew Power Trio has some seriously amazing bass chops though and is on my top 10 list of my favorite bass players as well.
Not sure if you would really count Mr. Bungle as progressive rock, I guess technically it would be more like experimental/avantgarde rock, and Trevor Dunn is otherwise mostly known for playing jazz in the more experimental end of the spectrum, but yes Trevor Dunn is an amazing bass player as well and also on my personal favorite top 10 list.
Justin wins though, even if I guess both Julia and Trevor might be technically more proficient, he truly masters to make bass lines that really effectively drives the songs while at the same time both being extraordinarily melodically catchy and profoundly rousingly groovy in whatever odd time signature you throw at him, and then Tool is one of my absolute favorite bands too.
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I was at both nights of this show!
I was in the library with the kids and found Mike Rutherford’s autobiography. So I took it home and read it. He mentions the production issues in that (around page 72 IIRC). So I stand corrected. I’ve also been relistening to a lot of the old stuff and have changed my opinion. He was actually really good. His live tone was far better than the album mixes though.
Saw him last year with Steve Hackett and got tickets for the Selling England tour this year. I was impressed by him last year.
Man, Jonas never fails to impress me. Does anyone know what he is using to achieve his sound here?
Steve Harris from Iron Maiden.
You might not think they're prog rock, sure, but I'm convinced there's way more progrock in there than most progsnobs aficionados would care to admit. 
Then again, I am decidedly not a progrock fan, and barely know what one classifies into such a nebulous genre, but Maiden's always stood out as a little bit bigger than a lot of the other NWOBHM and "classic" metal stuff, and to me they absolutely qualify for prog. Reference things like the "Seventh Son" or "Final Frontier" albums, tracks like "Rime.." or "To Tame a Land," etc. YMMV. I'm not gonna argue, like I said, I'm not seriously into this style of music, but I do like to point out things that serious types might have overlooked.
(I'd also throw in for Lemmy in Hawkwind who, to me, gets about half of the peak Hawkwind albums that are the most progrock to me, the other half of those are Paul Rudolph, but at this point I'm willing to defer to the prog gatekeepers that I'm conflating prog with "spacerock" or "psychedelic" and, well, I am coz as I said, this isn't really a style I've cared to dig into)
You might not think they're prog rock, sure, but I'm convinced there's way more progrock in there than most prog
Then again, I am decidedly not a progrock fan, and barely know what one classifies into such a nebulous genre, but Maiden's always stood out as a little bit bigger than a lot of the other NWOBHM and "classic" metal stuff, and to me they absolutely qualify for prog. Reference things like the "Seventh Son" or "Final Frontier" albums, tracks like "Rime.." or "To Tame a Land," etc. YMMV. I'm not gonna argue, like I said, I'm not seriously into this style of music, but I do like to point out things that serious types might have overlooked.
(I'd also throw in for Lemmy in Hawkwind who, to me, gets about half of the peak Hawkwind albums that are the most progrock to me, the other half of those are Paul Rudolph, but at this point I'm willing to defer to the prog gatekeepers that I'm conflating prog with "spacerock" or "psychedelic" and, well, I am coz as I said, this isn't really a style I've cared to dig into)
A must listen is "Song for America" Dave Hope's tone and playing is incredible!
I'm late to the Richard Sinclair fan club. Early this year I bought the Blowing Free CD set of various prog groups around 1972, A lot of the groups I already had CDs by, but not Caravan. It sent me down a YouTube rabbit hole and to Amazon with my credit card. Great stuff!
Bert Ruiter of Focus. Great (long) track with bass solo from 6:15 - 13:00. I should add that this double LP was recorded in 4 days which should give you an idea of what each member brought to the table prior to booking studio time.
