Prog Rock albums with impressive bass

[mellowinman]

Whoa, time out...

Am I reading this correctly? Did you really just use the sentence "Chicks like them" in a thread about prog rock?!?!?!

This might be the first time ever in the history of the world!

I have dated and made love with gorgeous women who love prog rock.

Sucks to be me, I guess.

 

[RDUB]

Another vote for Percy Jones and Brand X. Just listened to Moroccan Roll last night. An all time favourite...

 

[Ric5]

Prog Rock albums with impressive bass

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Yes, King Crimson, ELP

 

[Marley's Ghost]

I have dated and made love with gorgeous women who love prog rock.

Sucks to be me, I guess.

No pics no hot prog babes.

 

[okcrum]

Another vote for Percy Jones and Brand X. Just listened to Moroccan Roll last night. An all time favourite...

...and another. Brand X had some great drummers. Percy and Mike Clark is another great Brand X section.

 

[Michedelic]

Three years, seven pages and no mention of Hugh Hopper(Soft Machine)or Richard Sinclair(Hatfield and the North)? Amazing! Sad! Canterbury is to prog as Memphis is to rockabilly. Hugh was the daddy of them all, and did a lot to utilize fuzz on bass as a texture rather than an occasional blast of distortion. Sinclair, although an understated player, navigated non-stop complex time and chord changes AND sang at the same time. Honorable mention to Mike Howlett(Gong)and Bill MacCormick(Matching Mole, Quiet Sun, 801, Eno, Phil Manzanera, etc).


Pink Floyd is not prog, just as any Kraut rock bands are not prog.

 

[Guitarodeo]

Yes Roundabout is exactly the song I think about when I hear "progressive rock."

 

[Buchada Azeda]

Magma - K.A (2004)

Apart from using an invented language in their music, everything by that bunch of French maniacs has awesome basslines. Their 1975 live album, Hhaï, has wonderful fuzz bass delivered by Bernard Paganotti.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZSZU42qOM

They're still alive and kicking and their bass player since 1996, Philippe Bussonnet, is the BEST bassist in prog these days, second to none.

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Three years, seven pages and no mention of Hugh Hopper(Soft Machine)or Richard Sinclair(Hatfield and the North)? Amazing! Sad! Canterbury is to prog as Memphis is to rockabilly. Hugh was the daddy of them all, and did a lot to utilize fuzz on bass as a texture rather than an occasional blast of distortion. Sinclair, although an understated player, navigated non-stop complex time and chord changes AND sang at the same time. Honorable mention to Mike Howlett(Gong)and Bill MacCormick(Matching Mole, Quiet Sun, 801, Eno, Phil Manzanera, etc).


Pink Floyd is not prog, just as any Kraut rock bands are not prog.

Sinclair was a wonderful singer as well.

YEAH!!!!

I'm building myself a jazz bass tuned in fifhts only due to Magma.

I tune my Geddy in fifths because of them :3