I was a huge fusion and prog guy when I was younger. I learned a lot, and advanced my technique by leaps and bounds trying to cop lines by Stanley, Percy Jones, Jeff Berlin, Ralphe Armstrong and others. Brand X, Bruford, Return to Forever, solo SC, solo DiMeola, Jean Luc Ponty, Jeff Beck (Wired is a virtual bass lesson put to disc) were my favs. The genre pretty much died around 1980 as far as I'm concerned. I rarely listen to any of it now (but I'm still a prog geek), and I rarely use much of what's left of the technique I had developed. I've found more joy in serving a good song than being the "look at me!" guy.