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They had used the chord sequence of "message in a bottle" to announce a Belgian cook ("cock" Rodman joked) earlier in the show (he wrote a book about cooking "SOS Cooking") so they only new the verse. They were surprised since the soundmix normally is a bit better and they would have known the structure better (I know the musicians too so I'm pretty sure) [url="http://www.kookeiland.be/kookeiland.asp?filename=DVD-SOS-Piet.htm"]http://www.kookeiland.be/kookeiland.asp?fi...VD-SOS-Piet.htm[/url]

Yesterday, Sting was a guest in a Belgian tv-show to talk about this new album. It wasn't rehearsed but Sting went to the stage to sing "Message in a bottle" with the completely surprised house-band. Thought I'd share this with you... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mosg6v6qDM0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mosg6v6qDM0[/url]

[quote name='Edmouk' post='649077' date='Nov 8 2009, 09:14 PM']The next one is quite unusual as it is a medium scale Spoiler with the shape of a Series I, but it has a solid body like the signature series. It was made in 1987 and I got it from a nice bass player in Paris who already owns two other Alembic basses (Elan and Essence). It was one of the few basses played by Mark King in 1988 on a Deutsche TV program (the famous bass challenge) at 4:35 mn : [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpoUHXQjwHw"]Here[/url][/quote] This bass looks a lot like the one I used to own for a brief moment. I sold it about two-three years ago (not sure since time flies) to a very kind bassplayer from Paris (he played upright too). He came all the way to the station in Brussels to pick up this bass. He was around 50 years old but can't remember his name. Might be my old bass...:-)

Thanks ! Well, it was all about paradise :-)

I helped out a band last week since they didn't have a bassplayer, I used my fretless Lefay 5, plugged in the DI (you won't understand a word he's singing, I think :-)) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXHVraiLy3s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXHVraiLy3s[/url]

I was at the casino of Ostend for a tv-show. I noticed that Toots Thielemans was there too and I just went up to him, shook his hand and thanked him for the great music he had made. He accepted my gesture with kindness although he didn't know who I was. Later on he came up to me, sat beside me and we talked about music and I mentioned his work with Jaco Pastorius. He talked about that time and I said that "Three views of a secret" was one of my favourite pieces of music ever and that I loved his playing on it. He took his harmonica out of his pocket and played the theme for me and improvised. I was speechless and it was one of the most beautiful moments in my life. I thanked him, he stood up and I went to a dressing room where I started crying. It was magic.

My brandnew Alembic Mark King Signature...hasn't been played (locked away by former owners). Took it out last Saturday for its first gig.

I had one like this one for years, was my main bass.... excellent basses, sold it however after 10 years to buy the Celinder in the bass-cbat banner. But my Sandberg JM4 won in the end :-)

It's coming to Belgium...I'm actually a bit curious who bought it around here. I bought a couple basses on bass-chat and had good experiences with UPS and Fedex (I didn't take the insurance and everytime basses arrived here in perfect condition)

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='638617' date='Oct 28 2009, 12:18 AM']I have to say that I disagree on the 'Welcome back' comment. It's not this or that, one is not mutually exclusive of the other. All forms of music have their place and time and I listen to basscentric stuff when the mood takes me. The range of bass playing used is too large to squeeze it into a genre too imo.[/quote] + 1... Just listening to some bass-related albums gives me inspiration for other situations. I try not to restrict myself, sometimes I'm able to listen to a whole Miller or Wooten album, the next day I can't stand a single note. If I have to listen to Coldplay's bassplayer for instance there's not much going on for me I'm afraid, so some occasional Caron, Pattituci, etc... blows away the cobwebbs from any routine. It comes and goes.. I wouldn't like the idea that I think bass-albums are stupid or a waste of time, I love to hear influences and new bass-stuff and on "normal" albums, you cannot find that. I do think that it's not because you're an excellent bassplayer that you're an excellent composer (I'm afraid I don't like the Jaco-solorecords, except for "Three views of a secret"..)

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='633272' date='Oct 22 2009, 11:07 AM']Did you have one? I did.....it was rubbish! (#38 of 42). Sad eh?[/quote] I had number 14...no, it wasn't that good :-)

These days it's hard to imagine what impact Mark King had in the eighties. Now we are more familiar with slapstyles etc but I remember that no one had ever heard anything like him when Love Games came out. It was new, it was fresh and new doors were opened (I can't recall anyone since then with the same influence). I heard the Level 42 album ("Almost there" was even faster :-)) and I just couldn't understand how anyone in the world could play like that and I didn't even know at the time that he also sang.. Every bassplayer talked about him and he had an enormous influence (I actually learned my 16th-feel from him ("The Chinese Way") and not from Jaco for instance). Concerning his quick mastering the bass...I really think it's a drummer thing, a local drummer picked up a bass and within a couple of days he could slap things I wasn't able to play. It's all about the polyrythms they have learned.