@Bean9seventy : If you could type, because you are not writing at all, some clear well structured sentences, it would be very helpful as there is some really useful information in the coded messages.
Deciphering these chaotic amount of words is quite tiring, even if it's interesting.
Make an effort, be concise, precise and structured, which should be the case as you program drum lines, but doesn't seem that obvious.
There's always a before for everything in the universe, but something can become a catalyst and Mark King was one of those, clearly using his jazz rock, that was not yet called fusion, roots and adding a very personal drumming style slap that was and still is really different from whatever you can hear when it comes to slap.
That said his fingerstyle playing is really terrific too and too many people seem to forget it.
He also knows Indian music a lot.
If you were there at the beginning, as you seem to tell us, you certainly know that there was no singing intended, but that it was the triggering factor that really launched Level 42 and Mark King.
Mark King also didn't know that the Gould brothers were excellent lyricists, but that's another story.