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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1373319" data-attributes="member: 2189">Come on Sleeve, rock and metal (one's a subgenre of the other) are blues based and in that music format, like jazz, in which the drums and bass make up the rhythm section.  Rock has always been guitar driven with keys a bit distant in 2nd.  Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman tired to change that but couldn't.  Besides, it's Bozzio and he does get in his licks like when he played with UK (replacing the great Bill Bruford) and as far as bass is concerned, Nick Beggs, Chris Squire, Jon Camp or Tony Levin.  Beggs and Levin both play the Chapman Stik and take bass players to a whole other level.</blockquote>