Crimson´s bassplayers
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Topic: Crimson´s bassplayers
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: Crimson´s bassplayers
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:48
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Just for their work in Crimson! Wetton has played with ...everybody, but only his work with Crimson counts...ok??? Well, Ill go with Levin ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:52
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Lake, Wetton, and Levin. But ill go with Wetton...for the moment. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 19:48
| Starless! |
Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 20:07
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Levin was most talented, and he was also incredibly original and innovative. Wetton's bass is very impressive as well, he can make his bass howl like some incredible beast, but he lacks Levin's precision. ------------- 
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Posted By: CaincelaOreinim
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 20:13
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I like Levin, Gunn, and Wetton out of the ones mentioned, can't choose a favorite. Gunn's work I thought would've made things much more interesting had he worked more with his actual guitar side of the Warr Guitar like at the end of The Deception Of The Thrush. I'm sad to see him go, as I thought he was just getting started, but then again, like when I met him in California as part of a convention, he told me he needed a change, been playing within Fripp for 10+ years. Wetton's had his time, and its clearly gone and over (if you ask me)...Levin's material on the other hand will always be great and I forward to Crimson Line-Up 8 soon! |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 22:58
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Hard one... but my vote goes to Mr. Levin... what a bass palyer, a god of the four strings... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Oxygen Waster
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 23:18
| I felt like Wettons' work on Crimso'...(Especially Starless) had a Jam Band Vibe to his Bass playing wich was a really nice change from the Previous Bassists.My Vote goes to him. But it is Quite a hard one. |
Posted By: Someo Therguy
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 23:19
| THE LEVINATOR - He'll be back. |
Posted By: raindance
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 01:26
| Wetton...no contest. His bass playing brought some stability & melody to an otherwise chaotic sound! |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 01:42
| Wetton and Levin. The latter is probably the best of the lot, but then I prefer what KC did with Wetton (though Discipline is a great album). BTW, there is one bass player missing from this list... On In the Wake of Poseidon, the bassist was not Lake (who only did the vocal parts), but rather Peter Giles, drummer Mike Giles's brother. |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 14:01
| Greg Lake |
Posted By: condor
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 14:35
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The evil screams Wetton produced on Fracture
during the blitzkrieg part are pure cathartic bliss. I have never heard a bass sound anything like it before or since. |
Posted By: condor
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 14:35
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The evil screams Wetton produced on Fracture are
pure cathartic bliss. I have never heard a bass sound anything like it before or since. |
Posted By: kajkeron
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 14:54
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I love Wetton the most but as a bass player he is far worse than Levin and Gunn.
Gunn has a better musical taste than Levin, though. Levin is a kind of a perfect machine. He can play everything, and it seems that it doesn't matter for him if it's KC or Seal. 
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Posted By: Sterling
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 18:32
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Yea, but can Wetton or Lake play the Stick? How about those Funk
Fingers, you know the drum sticks that Levin tapes to his fingers and plays with them? Levin is so talented, creative and seems like a really nice guy! I Pick Tony Levin!! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 19:17
1 vote for Boz  John Wetton  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 00:17
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Levin all the way.
------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: Tommy
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 01:32
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Don't be fooled by the gimmickry. Any decent bass player could play funk & with a stick. |
Sterling wrote:Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 02:44
| Bass playing skills alone, not including vocals, I vote for Mr. Wetton. It's close though between him and Mr. Lake. |
Posted By: Someo Therguy
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 03:29
Stick is a gimmick? Ever played one? |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 03:52
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Wetton. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |