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04-22-2008, 09:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tampa Bay and D.C. | | | I just cant help myself...Mark King
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I've regressed into being a giddy groupie again. I cant stop watching his semiquavering. What a friggin Machine he still is. Mr. Kings Love Games
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04-22-2008, 10:06 PM
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04-22-2008, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | I dig how that sounds. I'm amazed that the audience stands still like that... How can you not groove and move around (even a little)?
Joe
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04-22-2008, 10:55 PM
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04-23-2008, 04:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: conditional upon harmonic Hz | | | So thats Mark King. Nice chops.
Yeah, the crowd. Are they hypnotized by those Christmas lights on Mark's bass?? I;m sitting here at 0630 no coffee yet, and I'm swaying in my seat.
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04-23-2008, 05:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | He's the reason I started playing bass in the first place!  |
04-23-2008, 07:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Elk Grove, CA | | | I'm always how he can sing so well while laying out all that slap... while staying perfectly in time.
Not a huge Level 42 fan, but much respect for sure.
Edit: In the "There's Something About You" vid, he looks so peaceful while singing, but you can hear him laying it down underneath it all. So cool.
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04-23-2008, 06:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tijuana Mex. | | | I love Level 42
Thank's for posting that.
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04-23-2008, 06:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: www.myspace.com/progressrocks | | Mark King has been as inspiration since the first time I heard him....Dig this one.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=eMzXtizKcXY&feature=related
I think this is my favorite of his performances....a little old, as he still has the trace rack. That Status sounds sweet, though. 
Funkiest white boy to ever live. Period.
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04-23-2008, 07:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Toronto | | | Absolutely awesome...I have a ton of Level42 on my iPod and listen to it whenever I need to be humbled by superior slappage... |
04-23-2008, 07:12 PM
|  | layin' it down like pavement | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | | Great stuff. He's awesome fer sure. I bought their first 2 cd's when they came out and I still play them fairly often. I also had the great fortune to see the band Live once in Providence, RI in the 80's. Mark King sang and played like that all night and the audience wasn't sittn' still that night. )-(
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04-23-2008, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | I can't be alone in loathing his tone... can I?
Great bassist, and they lay down some great pop tunes... but it's sounds like rubber bands.
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04-23-2008, 07:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | Such a smooth player. And to sing GREAT lead on top of it. I gotta get some of their stuff!
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04-23-2008, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till I can't be alone in loathing his tone... can I?
Great bassist, and they lay down some great pop tunes... but it's sounds like rubber bands. | Nope - me too - LOVED his tone on the album version of Love Games, but the YouTube example is thin city. Do REALLY dig his PLAYING however, just wish it wasn't so trebly and thin...
Jamie
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04-23-2008, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Cool. Just making sure I'm not insane.
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04-24-2008, 01:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Cool. Just making sure I'm not insane. | I'm with you too. Huge fan here - here was a great influence in the early days, in which I also dug his sound more. I must say though, to what's been said in this thread, that I've never heard him play 'funky' at all. I think he's got exceptional mastery of rhythmic accents, impeccable technique and writes some killer bass lines.
What's special about his playing, to me, is the authority of delivery and the unrelenting stream of carefully selected notes.
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04-24-2008, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Takoma Park | | | Maybe the crowd's not moving because they're asleep? "As I watch your face, you mean everything to meeee..." He may be slapping away like a 12 year-old boy, but the song is very very bad. |
04-24-2008, 01:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Akron OH | | That dude is funkier that nine miles of chitlins... Now that's FUNKY.
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04-24-2008, 01:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: conditional upon harmonic Hz | | | Eh, while I wont take anything away from Mark, funk aint just slappin'. and to be racist, I was kinda floored when I found Stu Zender is a white brit boy. Stu's gots some phat funk feel man. real phat. And we should never say "funkiest ever.." because we aint NEVER BEEN EVER.
Glad for the post to check out this Mark King... worthy of praise to be sure... cats as old as I am... ! DIG IT!
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04-24-2008, 03:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Germany | | | I don't usually like his style much but that groove is pretty nice. You know, not really funky but almost, sort of (I too am in the "Mark took the funk out of slapping" camp, if you can't tell). | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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