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    Posted: July 27 2010 at 07:39
Greets, everyone!

I'm a complete newbie to classic and pure prog but it's been a while that I dig rock/metal fusion stuff, though my experience is yet too limited.

One of the bands that I've come across was JRZ System with their "Greenhouse Effect" which was a great discover to me (if you've never happened to give these guys a listen, you surely got to do that right away!). Their slapping and thumping bassline which I later found to be widely used in funk, specific sort of jam and airy but still highly-charged riffing sounded really fresh to my ears.

But I have never found anything close to this ever since. So now I'm looking for this kind of fusion or prog with a similar atmosphere. So, is there any other easygoing prog music explicitly served with a "funky feel"? I've probably put my question a bit weird but I can't figure out a better description of what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance!
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trye some Tony Levin albums, he likes to slap hes bass and play avant garde prog at the same time, or Primus.
 
also god old Steely Dan with Chuck Raynee on bass guitar is funk fore youre money, the soundtrack to Hair is funky fusion with the slapp inventor on bass Larry Graham.
 
also Marcus Miller is a solid fusion bass player who are probably the best slapper of them all
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I think you might like Guthrie Govan
 
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Thank you everyone for your recommendations! Truly appreciated.
Just one note - I probably should have stated more clearly that I'm looking more for a music that conveys a similar atmosphere rather than uses a similar (funky) technique. With that said, I'm not sure why the thread was moved Wink

Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

trye some Tony Levin albums, he likes to slap hes bass and play avant garde prog at the same time, or Primus.
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also Marcus Miller is a solid fusion bass player who are probably the best slapper of them all


I'm a bit familiar with Tony Levin and I like the stick bass (I'm all about Sean Malone's projects) but it's not just about slapping. Marcus Miller is way closer to the mood I want to get from this kind of music. Leaving out the sax that I'm not really into, this video is a direct hit from 1:24 on. So could you please make some certain recommendations on this guy? By the way, some other day I heard the band Science Faxtion that featured him. Cut the vocal, and thing would be priceless!

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Check Cosmosquad!


A couple of live tracks I watched on YouTube sound promising, though it definitely has a strong metal basis. Not quite what I was searching for but I gotta say I like what I hear, I'll give them a closer look!

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

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Hm, can't say I liked it, neither can I say the opposite... I'm not a big fan of old-school prog, not yet at least.

Originally posted by daslaf daslaf wrote:

I think you might like Guthrie Govan


I did indeed!


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Funkadelic IMO
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Yep.  Whenever anyone mentions funk and rock in the same breath It must be:
 
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