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i have no recollection of 1982 bar a football match

M8 ? 1978, in the UK LONNIE LISTON SMITH was a band DJs gave out to their fans as wild cards on white promo labels ,, there was no talk about marcus miller , until the great threshold of 1980

we do noy buy "return to forever" or the missuagusghoo orcrester ,, thats college talk ,, their way of trying to steal the crown ,, it was born on the dance floors thanks tho

Really ? just be cause you see the name it will not mean they were household names in 1978 no one knew who marcus miller was in the UK ok ?,, It was Lonny Liston Smith ok ? Checkmate , do not listen to college stories, myths, gentryfied tales

i might as well be a time traveller since few people were even born in the 70s the IBM they talk about was from 1975 ? ,, which is a year before 1976, a big year in america because it was exactly 200 years old, 1776 - 1976 CMOS U.S So windows 11 wants a new TPC & also change the Bios from "Legacy" to E1 / ? jOHN tALL bUTT

jazz rock that was not yet called fusion ,, jeff lorber ? Paul Trouble Anderson UK funk & everything it envelopes was born on the dance floors , not in a college,

very difficult for the shop , ASB rate outside its doors was one of the highest in the UK , so bad i often joke it was great the crack heads won the drugs war against the ilegal meths heads, who at times ? well guys , not great , Demark st is not the same ,, its an empty shell

no ,, & i am not telling the story ,, i just explain the outline

popswell was the guy with the tone, "everything else happened after that ,, even marcus miller was an unknown in 78 ,, if i was not for chris hill, froggy, robbie vincent , etc marcus miller would still be an unknown today basically

"Santana" was together in woodstock ,, i knew i would get this question, the only bass player at the time ,, not word n mouth , was Robert Popswell that is the sound & tone everyone wants in 1978 ,, Runin by Santana is simply a "weapon nice" popswell joint ,, yet, it pre dates level42 And, it was a tune (geek) floating around at the time, the LP even has a Jaco type tune Classic tune the main song , check it out

all those who do not know whats going on , least you got somewhere to type Macaris leaving Demark st is big , the shop is linked to Level 42 ,, we have our own story on both the band & the shop 3rd time in this blog now,, "the topic "also" includes some of the early UK funk bassists "not" having Fender Basses at all " soz ?

UK, no one really knew about those basses until Stanley Clarke did a work shop shown on bbc2 ,, remember, i did also state very few early brit funk players had a fender bass i never said why , checkmate ,

no, its important i remind people UK funk bass playing started on the street ,, in discos & clubs ,not at college , it was "not all about getting that wicked pro solo ,, it was all about getting a wicked dance track, Paul Trouble Anderson style as a Dancer of note , i was not really bothered with the band stuff, until i saw slap ,, it was key to the disco sound, thus i started bass the story is as important as when a pro basssts talks about larry graham,* how UK disco became a bellweather that had enough "street cred" to create the scene & helped to spread funk pop with bass worldwide, at that "pop level yes , Level 42 did end up winning the battle of the basses & growing out of that chris hill type party crowd, & got big was a tough pill to take, losing out yet always knew, an element "they used came through Us from "the sorce,* so all was not lost 1980 ? i immediately learned all level42 songs & including singing with bass when possible ,, thus we could "stay in the bands wheel :D eg my job via The brothers of funk days was to chase stuff like that down fast too mark king btw then went in so hard with singing & bass on future LPs he broke free ,, but by then i for one was no longer interested with getting it together as a Pop Band, stopped taking it serious, in 1983 Level42, Before Level 42, 42 years ago, > Hi Tension > the brothers of funk* > bootsy > louis johnson > larry graham

1st Alembic bass on view in UK was in Macaris ? Stanley Clarke ? Demark Street was bigger in terms of "how many shops" there were, it was also the most expensive bass on offer @ the time @ £1k ? tho i am sure they went for much less, tryed it, very well made, heavy ,fine tuning "double octave ,< very important for brit funk bassists back then, just for prospective, very few funk bassists if anyone, had a Fender at that time

its a tune that was floating around Before level42 came out ,, weaponised Robert Popswell, ;D

sportsmans bet Macaris is turned into a food outlet featuring coffee , just memory cells now, remember this bass being never seen before unless you went to Macaris,

After running an earlier Blog on early UK funk bass players , a we return to the subject again , The shop chain Mark King worked for "Macaris" has finally closed it doors in Demark Street, as stated before, we were the guys who used to jam in those shops at that time meaning Mark King got into bass plus, including seeing guys like myself The reason for this new post strange as it is, was "just 1 track" i have not heard for many years it quite simply its Level 42 before Level 42 ,, please tell us about Demark St in the 1970s & if you wish were there

it will either max out early ,, Like an Encore Bass or Over Max badly soz yeah coustom built perfect wood pro bass is great , plank of wood with 4 strings also great, music is like science ,, everything matters & nothing matters at the same time

Encore Bass , less "revs"than a Ford Escort, & because it maxes out sooner than later , with a wide fret board, you get this cheap wood sound ,, that rather works well when you need dry slappy funky tone ,

woodtone is as important as spliting hairs for those who go as far as dividing dandruff, so yeah, you got the time money & patience to work out what is best woodtone/other material for you, well done dose it matter ? probably, if you buy an expensive "all perfect" pro bass that doesn't sound & play well , it could be the wood / other saturating harmonic material its built with ,,

Breaking news ,,, Scotts Bass Lessons has created a free metronome kit with free drum loops initially did not notice any reggae drum loops at this point check out this video find links also in Scotts video , its pretty cool # Groove Trainer #

only a few guys left who can call themselves rebbles

you asked for it lol Call Dr Beckles ,, me going to the table tennis room while he exam you

still alive guys, my in bannier almost dropped off tho, injections illnesses , shapers & in favourous everywhere , its so bad i almost phoned Dr Beckles ,, what about yourself ?