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03-15-2006, 08:07 PM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | Okay, better bassist/lead singer Mark King or Les Claypool?
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To be honest, I can't choose. They both do complicated licks while singing.
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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03-15-2006, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | Mark King, because he can actually sing.
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03-15-2006, 08:10 PM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | LOL! Oh Smug King, you may have a point!
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03-15-2006, 08:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | I'm pretty sure that Claypool would be the first to admit that his singing voice ain't the greatest. King's, by comparison, is smooth and relatively rich.
He's a notch (just one, though) below King and Claypool as a player, but John Wetton is IMO one of the best bassist-vocalists ever. His work with the '72-74 incarnation of King Crimson was just plain spectacular, as evidenced in abundance on the The Great Deceiver live box set.
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03-24-2006, 07:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: YORKSHIRE | | | Both are my favourite bassists so i cant comment.
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03-24-2006, 07:28 AM
|  | - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Moderator | | | | | Geddy Lee, with his high pitched bizzaro vocal timber and kickass basslines rules them both.
Then Claypool, but only because I think his cheese is better than Kings version.
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03-24-2006, 08:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New York City | | | Mark King, no question. |
03-24-2006, 08:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | Mark King by far.
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03-24-2006, 08:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Mark King, but Level 42's music is often unlistenable... some say that about Primus... but Level 42 is too bleh for me most of the time.
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03-24-2006, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: YORKSHIRE | | Level 42 are my favourite band, but i dislike anything after '85/'86. They started doing cheesy pop stuff  , which is nothing compared to their original '80/'81 jazz-funk stuff. Sadly, that stuff was only really popular in Europe so most of you American guys might not have heard much of that, probably mostly the pop stuff instead. You lot should listen to the Early Tapes! 
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03-24-2006, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | I remember Pitchfork once doing a "song-off" between "Something About You" and Toto's "Africa." Ultimately, they went with the latter, giving it (IIRC) 3 stars vs. only 2.5 for "Something About You."
Not that this is germane to anything, I just figured I'd bring it up.
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03-24-2006, 05:07 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | If Primus did more than take a bass riff and write a repetitious tune around it I might actually like Les. |
03-24-2006, 06:52 PM
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03-25-2006, 03:26 AM
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03-25-2006, 06:21 AM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Fargo, ND | | | My vote goes to Les, just because I am not too into Mark King's music. IMHO, Les' voice fits Primus perfectly.
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03-25-2006, 07:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indianapolis | | | Voice Mark, Bass a Tie
I would say mark has a much better voice, but it's pretty hard to say who's better because I believe once you get to a certain level you have peers and not superiors. |
03-25-2006, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Peter McFerrin Mark King, because he can actually sing. | +1 - credit goes out to Les' original style of playing though |
03-25-2006, 07:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bells Corners (Nepean) ON | | | I 'll vote for Mark King, however like some posted earlier, Geddy rules them both. |
03-25-2006, 07:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | Who's Mark King  ??
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03-25-2006, 07:54 AM
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