Your favourite Camel bassist?

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Nice to meet another Sinclair's fan. I've just listened to Nine Feet Underground!!

Poll Question: Who is your favourite Camel bass player?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Doug Ferguson	4	[40.00%]
Richard Sinclair	3	[30.00%]
Colin Bass	2	[20.00%]
David Paton	1	[10.00%]
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RaphaelT Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 17 2005 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 1453	Topic: Your favourite Camel bassist? Posted: October 06 2005 at 14:39
	Nice to meet another Sinclair's fan. I've just listened to Nine Feet Underground!!
	yet you still have time!

DEzerov Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 340	Posted: October 06 2005 at 12:24
	Got turned on to them with Raindances followed by Breathless, so Sinclair gets my vote....In fact, I've enjoyed every project he's been involved with.
	The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol

RaphaelT Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 17 2005 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 1453	Posted: October 06 2005 at 10:01
	David Paton - the very same, he was also a member of Alan Parsons Project. Thanks for the replies, it is nice to find fellow Camel fans.
	yet you still have time!

chopper Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20030	Posted: October 06 2005 at 07:59
	The rhythm section on "Snow Goose" is just awesome, especially on the title track (tight as the proverbial monkey's bum). Wasn't David Paton in Pilot ("oh-oh-oh it's magic") or is that someone else?

proger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 03 2005 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 944	Posted: October 06 2005 at 07:33
	i dont know about the last bassist. but i will say that "Doug"- is my fav...
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bluetailfly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 28 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1383	Posted: October 06 2005 at 00:19
	Wow, now this is an extremely specialized question to throw up to the prog world in general. I wish I had the time to devote to repeated listenings of all Camels albums so that I could form ideas and opinions about the various bassists' styles. It woud be a dream come true.
	"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."

Trotsky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771	Posted: October 06 2005 at 00:08
	Richard Sinclair is better in many respects, but Camel made the vast majority of its best music with Doug Ferguson, which is what gives him the edge for me ... in this poll
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RaphaelT Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 17 2005 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 1453	Posted: October 05 2005 at 14:30
	All wonderful musicians and always important members of Camel, because they were also singers of the band. But every change of bassist brought a change of style. For me Richard Sinclair's era is their best -but I will always respect Doug Ferguson for Moonmadness and Snow Goose. Also Colin Bass sang perfectly on Pressure Points and later albums, along with David Paton - who played and sang on marvellous "Stationary Traveller". Please vote!
	yet you still have time!