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    Posted: September 21 2004 at 17:57

If you want to check out some really powerful bass sounds try "The Angler's" "Guide To Deep Sea Fishing"

They really give their bass a battering!



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Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

Originally posted by Eddy Eddy wrote:

to angel rat. I love squire but his base is not powerful.. its soothing

Shocked He has a base? I thought that he had feet, like most humans....Confused

And really HUGE feet, according to Jon Anderson...

I never looked at his basse playing as soothing. I still think his strong Rickenbacker sound in combination with his strong, well-crafted, thoughtful and confident way of playing makes him sound powerful.

 
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Jack Bruce on Frank Zappa's Apostrophe
Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water
Helmutt Hattler, Kraan's  bass player especially on their first 5 or 6 albums - especially Live, on which Hattler takes the lead from most of the set.
The bass playing on Amon Duul's The Dance Of The Lemmings, has stuck hard as a favourite for several decades - btw my Mantra Records CD reissue has 6 track segments on the CD, but many more tracks are listed on the insert (but alas no times). Can anybody enlightment me by proving both track titles with timings?
Yeah-really good apostrophe.And on sleep dirt(ocean is the ultimate solution some double bass is awesome.
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If it's bass pedals you crave just listen to Genesis. Also check out Hollow Afternoon by IQ. Jazz bass? Percy Jones, Jeff Berlin.

Anybody out there remember the fuzz bass in Break Song by Vanilla Fudge? Not exactly prog, but it caught my attention ( at an early age I might add ).
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Originally posted by Eddy Eddy wrote:

to angel rat. I love squire but his base is not powerful.. its soothing

Shocked He has a base? I thought that he had feet, like most humans....Confused
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2004 at 19:33

 defenitly king crimsons red zappa 123!

 

to angel rat. I love squire but his base is not powerful.. its soothing
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

The bass playing on Amon Duul's The Dance Of The Lemmings, has stuck hard as a favourite for several decades - btw my Mantra Records CD reissue has 6 track segments on the CD, but many more tracks are listed on the insert (but alas no times). Can anybody enlightment me by proving both track titles with timings?

It is very powerful on "Stumbling over melted moonlight", although it is a bit helped by the distortion effect.



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Jack Bruce on Frank Zappa's Apostrophe
Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water
Helmutt Hattler, Kraan's  bass player especially on their first 5 or 6 albums - especially Live, on which Hattler takes the lead from most of the set.
The bass playing on Amon Duul's The Dance Of The Lemmings, has stuck hard as a favourite for several decades - btw my Mantra Records CD reissue has 6 track segments on the CD, but many more tracks are listed on the insert (but alas no times). Can anybody enlightment me by proving both track titles with timings?
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Now the all-time top bass for powerful bottom sound is on this album:

(If you do not believe, then just have a listen here)

why do you think the bass is very exposed on the picture?

http://www.mp3.com/albums/6902/summary.html

A special mention to King Crimson's Lark's Tongues In Aspic.



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Anything by Wetton-era Crim, and Chris Squire (especially on 'Fragile').

I also love the bass sound on Thinking Plague's 'A History Of Madness'.

And let's not forget about JY Theriault's huge bass sound on Voivod's 'Nothingface'.

 
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Definitely Red, as first choice, but there's some powerful bass on many a Zappa album - e.g. "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch".

I love the bass sound on "Live At The Target" by Twelfth Night, especially on "After the Eclipse" in those mesmerising solo moments - although my vinyl copy sounds a little underproduced. Can't wait to get the remastered CD!

The bass on "Script for a Jester's Tear" is pretty resonant too.

And, because I think it's the original prog metal album as we understand prog metal now, "Master Of Puppets" by Metallica has drop-dead gorgeous, powerful yet sublimely understated bass courtesy of Cliff Burton (RIP).
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Like, ummm, John Wetton has some really good sounds, stwiking his guitaw vewy woughwy!
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John Myung can make his bass sound very prominently, without losing a miligram of his immaculate skill!! 'Awake' and 'Scenes from a memory' are, as I feel it, the two DT albums where the bass is specially featured in most places. 

Another prog-metal act in which the bass turns out to ve a veryveryvery much important element for ths band's sound is Symphony X: both Thomas Miller (first 4 albums) and Mike Lepond (next 2) are really noticeable.



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I'll second that- Red has some killer bass sounds.

"The Yes Album" and "Close to the Edge" have some of my favorite Squire moments of all time

If the rest of the album had been more like "The Barbarian", ELP's first album would have been a clear contender.

Metamorfosi "Inferno" is pretty bass heavy but it may be just a unique mixing technique...

and Spock's Beard "The Light" does some simple but powerful things with the bass too

 

 
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KIng Crimson's RED.Specially on Starless(really raw bass)

 
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Eloy - Time To Turn

Rush - Moving Pictures

 
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Originally posted by Prog_Bassist Prog_Bassist wrote:

Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:


  1. Three of a Perfect Pair by King Crimson (Wetton at his best)



uh...That's Tony Levin.

But I really like Hold your Fire by Rush, Relayer by Yes, Foxtrot and The Lamb by genesis.

You're right Prog Bassist, I was trying to mention RED, but I don't know why I wrote Three of a Perfect Pair, maybe because I upgraded my Lasser Disk to DVD yesterday.

Stupid lapsus of my part.

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Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

  1. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (Mr Waters of course)

Nothing but words of wisdom my dear friend! Roger is "the man"...

 
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Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:


  1. Three of a Perfect Pair by King Crimson (Wetton at his best)


uh...That's Tony Levin.

But I really like Hold your Fire by Rush, Relayer by Yes, Foxtrot and The Lamb by genesis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY
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How about H to He Who am the Only One....House With No Doors...by VdGG
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