Mark Percy

BASS PLAYER/ DOUBLE BASSPLAYER/ LEAD VOCALS/ HARMONY VOCALS. .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. bass player/ double bassplayer/ lead-vocals. available. 5 string fender jazz, ampeg SVT's. 4/4 double bass, transport, fast learner, make charts, knows rock-songbook, classic-rock-songbook, irish songbook, great american songbook, ella fitzgerald songbook, blues-rock songbook, scottish songbook, what have you. blues, funk, soul, gospel, jazz, jazzfunk, rock-covers, reggae, classic rock, you name it, i will play it. interested in meeting good guitarists, for blues, jazz, covers, what have you. duo gigs trio gigs, four piece on up, what have you. please call mark percy on 020-7272-2068 or 020-7561-1347. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

bass player wanted for gigging blues funk rock band. hopefully bassplayer will have some of the following things, suitable for such a band. 1) driving licence 2) vehicle 3) big powerful bass stack with big powerful head and big cab, or cabs, to keep up with marshall 50 head and 4x12 for guitar. markbass combo not suitable for old fashioned three piece, with keyboards. this band plays big old pubs, and clubs, so powerful backline important. this is not a big P.A. scenario, rather vocal cabs, with monitors, so all the power is in the backline, instead of D.I. bass into the subs and top cabs. the reason for this is easy get-in and easy get-out so a small combo no good, or markbass generation of tiny combos. whats really needed is a proper bass player with an ampeg 8x10 and SVT head, so that grinding rockfunk bass is driving the band along, with a drummer who is incredible. a big head with 4x10's or 1x15's or 2x15's is good. band has established reputation outside london. its easier to play to country gigs, because its packed out when they know were coming. the word gets around. its soul destroying to play to the barstaff in london gigs, because the gigs empty due to £4.50 a pint. or £4.50 glass of wine. were all seasoned veterans of many a campaign, so its pointless trying to bully your way in, with a combo. what we want is a big fat huge sounding bass rig, with clean headroom to spare, meshing with the power-trio, thats pumping out infectious grooves that has the women up and out of thier seats, and thier feet unglued from the floor, and happy with the band. its a fun band. larry graham funk grooves, killer shuffles, great riifs, steaming rock grooves, and the audience vote with thier feet. it would be great if you were a singer, or did harmonies, and can remember your line, instead of slipping into the lead line. if you got a good voice, all the better. if you can do backing vocals, then thats ok too.if you cant sing, or are afraid to sing thats ok too. you will need to learn two sets of 12 songs, for two sets. some gigs require three sets, so thats 36 songs. we play workingmens clubs and british legion clubs, and huge/tiny pubs, and thier not all chav's either. some of these provincial gigs are upstat up market affairs, so your expected to have good manners, and not be swearing at all, and charm the audience. we play hertfordshire, middlesex, essex, suffolk, and even norfolk. we play sussex and kent, and medway towns, even coast towns. london is a super-heavy-control-society nightmare, of swivelling cameras, taking your picture, and sending you the bill in the post, when your trying to park, and get your gear in, and not get it stolen when the wardens and cameras are harrassing you. after all, as a musician, you are a valuable member of society, providing unique skills, in improving others lives, so why be treated like a criminal, and criminalized by a system that doesent work in london, designed by anti-social personalities in govornment positions who dont understand basic life, or people, and just seek to exert tyranny and duress. come gig outside london where your valued and appreciated as the nights entertainment. go to [url="http://www.markpercy.com"]www.markpercy.com[/url] or [url="http://www.markpercy.co.uk"]www.markpercy.co.uk[/url] and go to the album section, find "mark percy live" and play track 2 'stepping out in the night' or track 3 'come to poppa' or track 12 'fool for a pretty face' yoy will find the telephone numbers on the website. this is a fun band, and we dont need the wrong guy with issues or hang-ups. so check and tick the boxes. seasoned veteran welcome, but would consider ambitious youngster, who wants to learn from old touring proffesionals. five string prefered, for those low and fat dirty gooves, but four string will do. remember that not only is mark percy a lead guitarist/lead vocals, but a bass player too. so he understands bass players, and what goes on. this is a drug free band, so as to stay on top of the music, so no bio-chemic personalities.

bass player with lead and harmony vocals available. 4/4 double bass also. 5 string fender electric bass. classic ampeg SVT rig. transport. vast experience. all styles. likes roots music like blues, funkrock, jazz, reggae, country, what-have-you. acoustic soothing gentle, or blistering rock'n'roll, you name it. seasoned veteran of many a campaign. please check [url="http://www.markpercy.com"]www.markpercy.com[/url] or [url="http://www.markpercy.co.uk"]www.markpercy.co.uk[/url] or call 020-7272-2068 or 020-7561-1347.

please go to markpercy website on the internet, to see full list of stolen equipment and van, in a totally suppresive act targeting a musician. please telephone mark percy on 0207-272-2068 or 0207-561-1347. or contact islington police station.

stolen from north london N19 area, in the early hours of friday, 118-5-2012, a mercedes T1 square front early sprinter diesel mercedes van, in white and green, with clamps, chains, and locks on it. inside was the followingequipment, so please call 020-7272-2068 or 020-7561-1347 and check out my markpercy website on the internet, for pictures in all sections, and call islington police station. 1) fender deluxe 5 string jazz bass, scalloped frets, and artworked with semi-precious stones that says MOUNTAIN inlayed into body. see my website for mark percy . 2) blonde full size double bass with EMG and ashworth pickups, in black gigbag. 3) hartke XL 4X15 metal speaker cabinet, with "mark percy" CNC routed into it. on it. 4)hartke XL metal speaker 2X15 in mega 250 cab, same as norman watt-roy's cab 5) ampeg SVT-II with unique front-end attenuator mod, in mesa boogie diesel amp wooden case. 6) ampeg svt 3 pro in black oakley rackcase 7)marshall PA 400 in bag 8) 2x10 JBL PA cabs in green. 9) monster bass cables in red flightcase briefcase. 10)monster cables in PA leads black ABS flightcase. 11) double bass stand double bass metal stool, beyer boomstands, quicklock PA tripod stands. 12) trace elliot boxer 30 with hartke XL 10 metal speaker. 13)marshall MG30DFX 14) huge realbook folders, huge folders of country, blues, funk, rock, jazz, with charts and lyrics. 15) bass and guitar re-fret-tools, 16) teaching folders. 17) camping gear, first aid, military rations, suvival gear, towropes, rescue ropes, jumpleads, auto tools and diagnostics.

mark percy main road 4/4 blonde double bass stolen 18-5-2012 inside mercedes van. N19 area north london. this bass is a unique instrument and has the following features. EMG 6 string precision bass split pickup on end of neck, control box under neck at top, shaller oyster bottle cap pickup at neckjoint under fingerboard, fishman B100 vintage bridge pickup located in bridge wings, and cast metal black tailpiece, black leather bowquiver, vintage mahogany endpin and special shaft, with footrubber. pirrastro strings, heavy duty soundpost, huge fat resonant sounding bass, that is tweaked to maximum. heavy black gigbag, with many quality leather straps from horse farmshop saddle and riding leathergoods makers. you can check out my site to see similar 3/4 double bass in brown. on [url="http://www.markpercy.com"]www.markpercy.com[/url] under FIRST PRIORITY this is a totally suppressive act, designed to destroy a musician. this bass has done many many gigs and sessions , and is battered from so many trips. it doesent have more miles on it than a 57 CHEVY, but has a few dings and scratches. please call mark percy on 020-7561-1347 or 020-7272-2068 or call islington north london police station.

mark percy's main fender deluxe jazz bass 5 string stolen. see [url="http://www.markpercy.com"]www.markpercy.com[/url] under EQUIPMENT section, or MAIN priority section. this bass is heavily customized. please call mark percy on 020-7272-2068 or 020-7561-1347 or call islington north london police station.

stolen from N19 north london area inside mercedes stolen van. one vintage ampeg SVT-II valve tube amp head, inside mesa diesel black wooden case. this amp has a noticable front end modification, whereby there is the addition of an additional knob, where the BRIGHT jacksocket used to be, that attenuates the input gain, to cope with active basses, and high output passive basses, to reduce klipping, and match the input level, like on later ampeg tube bass amps. a picture of an almost identical amp can be seen on my website [url="http://www.markpercy.com"]www.markpercy.com[/url] under EQUIPMENT section. please call mark percy 020-7561-1347 or 020-7272-2068 or call islington north london police station.

stolen from north london N19 area. inside stolen mercedes van. one heavily customized fender jazz bass deluxe, with following modifications. scalloped frets from twelth 12th fret upwards, with double dot inlays all the way up the top of the neck, heavily artworked back of bass, with deep inlay of polished precious stones fragments and rainbow moonstones, in the shape of MOUNTAIN, with a cross on the T part. the neck heel joint is shaped for upper fret axess. on the front is a funk channel carved for the developed thumbing technique of larry graham, where the channel lets you get your thumb under the strings, for monster thumb-funking grooves, like on JD basses. it also has thumb recesses by each pickup, a bronze nut, tortoiseshell scratchplate, cherry sunburst, the neck has been shaved down, and oiled, gem inlayed headstock with cross and moonstone, has cigarette burns on headstock, and is battered and worn everywhere on the body and neck from endless gigs and sessions. this is a totally suppressive act, designed to destroy a musician. this bass is totally unique, and can be seen on my website under EQUIPMENT to see the rear artwork, and under FIRST PRIORITY to see front of bass. please call mark percy on 020-7272-2068 or 020-7561-1347 or call islington north london police station. theft occured on 18-5-2012 as a targeted musician.

stolen from north london N19 area. on 18-5-2012. a mercedes van was stolen, with the following bass gear inside. ampeg vintage SVT-II head in mesa boogie diesel black wooden case with special modifications. ampeg pro 3 in oakley black rackcase. hartke metal speaker 4X15 cabinet with mark percy CNC engraved into it, custm built for mark percy by APS roadbox. hartke metal speaker 2X15 in MEGA 250 series CP cases 70's cabinet with expamet metal grill, this cabinet is just like norman watt-roy's old JBL K140 2X15 cabs. one stentor 4/4 blonde ply double bass, in black gig bag, with EMG pickup system, and fishman pickup system. trace elliot boxer30 with hartke 10 inch metal speaker. marshall mg30dfx combo. bass leads red flightcase briefcase full of bass monster cables and shure 545SD unidyne II microphones. leads trunk full of monster cables, and shue 545SD unidyne III microphones. green JBL E 110-8 2X10 PA cabs. marshall PA 400 in soft SKB zip up bag. qiucklock tripod stands. double bass stentor stand in grey. double bass metal adjustable stool in black. advanced refretting tool kit. advanced bass tech tool kit. huge folder of lyrics and charts for american songbook of jazz and blues standards. huge lyric and charts book for rythm and blues and rock/country/pop songs. spanning decades. camping gear. first aid kits. rescue gear of towropes-jumpleads-automobile/truck/tools. clothesbags full of decent clothes. this is a totally suppressive act, depriving a musician of tools and transport. occuring on 18-5-2012 this has happened 4 four times in four years, from also home, storage, vehicles, garages. of intense targeting for total wipeout. please call mark percy on 020-7272-2068 or 020-7561-1347 or call islington police with any information.

speakon connectors have greater surface area connectivity as opposed to phono jacks. thicker cables, like 4.5 have less resistance than thin cables. replacing your skinny cables, and phono jacks, especially on big wattages, noticably improves the sound. P.A. guys know this. so should bassplayers. use decent electrical solder too. the old leaded solder is great, and flows out nicely, like an argon-arc TIG weld. plus, you will have less hassles too. buy the four pin speakons, as the two pin ones are incompatable with four pin ones, and are not interchangable, and cause trouble. get an engineer to do your amps, with a preferred hole cutter that works by tightening a nut and bolt to punch the larger hole. that way there is no unwanted tank cutter filings and swarf kicking around, causing enturbulation, and generally enturbulating the area with turbulence. cheers, mark.

secondary dominants are bassicaly the use of a five chord, often written thus, G7 or F7 or any note for that matter, placed elsewhere in the scale of chords. the major scale of chords goes thus:- major, minor, minor, major, major(V or V7) minor, minor 7th/flat five, major. the roman numerals are I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. so you can stick a secondary dominant on the two-chord, or the six-chord, for starters. you can actually stick them anywhere. so you use the dominant shapes of triads, arpeggios, extended arpeggios, to make the chord sounds in thier new places as well as its origional position. there are minor stacks of chords. there are also modal stacks too. go to my free manual for bass, on www.markpercy.com there you will find tons of useful stuff for free. cheers, mark.

the EMG precision 6 string pickup is ideal for bass players, when confronted by a medium to large gig, and soundman enquires into your setup. by making a slanted block to mount your pickup on, that fits the end of your fingerboard, with velcro, or hidden mountings, the P.A. guys will absolutely love you, when you plug into the D.I. boxes, or stage box inject. the sound is wonderful, along with your normal transducer pickup, removing thier headaches from the equation. its easy to make, and install. you can even make a controls/battery box hide under the fingerboard. cheers, mark.