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1 hour ago, Thunderbird said:

I used to like him and always thought his moderation was fair 

Yeah, icastle was a good bloke.

You do get a 10 watt Vox amp with it as well, which makes the BIN seem a lot more sensible.

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

3 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

So the point here is that:

 

- Most funk bass players in the U.K. didn’t play Fender basses.

- The scene as we know it now was emerging, and the narrative imposed on history doesn’t always resonate with someone who was there at the time (see the 60s etc.)

- At the time Mark King wasn’t considered a funk pioneer, but this label has been applied retrospectively

- There was a small group of U.K. funk bassists clustered around London and Denmark Street that pioneered the genre

 

This is all good stuff. Personally, the fusion stuff here and the white socks, shirt strap Acid Jazz stuff that emerged from it leaves me utterly cold, but I’m sure the scene was a lot of fun.

 

 

...and Marcus Miller would be working in a McDonalds today if it wasn't for some guys that used to hang out in Denmark St. 😂

47 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

OK!

 

F*#k it!

 

Somebody give me the red pill!

If this goes on much longer I'll want a cyanide pill. 

36 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

For the uninitiated, Mark King was originally a drummer - worked in a London music shop (Macaris says @Bean9seventy) - the IOW stuff predated this AIUI. It was only when someone pointed out to me he was playing drums on bass that I suddenly got the principle. He borrowed a Gibson (EB2?) bass for their first recording session doing Love Meeting Love. The band I was in at the time covered that song (I think the keyboard player had a 12” single of it). MK was turned on to the Jaydee Supernatural bass by Gary Barnacle’s (sax player who played with them and recorded with them - did lots of sessions in the 80s) brother’s white Jaydee. 
 

If you buy Stuart Clayton’s excellent tab/manuscript books on Level 42 there’s a lot of info on the band history and Mark’s instruments. 

The first person I ever saw using a Jaydee was Steve Barnacle when he was in Rick Wakeman's band.

42 minutes ago, Grimalkin said:

So Macari's won't have a physical presence in Denmark St anymore. It's over.

Macari's has been closed for a while now, it's not a recent thing.

3 minutes ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

Ah, crystal clear. Thanks for clarifying!

Here to help. 🙂

42 minutes ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

Was this an influence as well?

 

Sorry....

 

 

With your Mark Kingly and wasp-waist and swivel-hippy, show you had, and I must say it showed it first self in pictures with the rhythmic contrapole of the wobbling of the hipper, sideways with the thumb and tilty, gave him that expression both also with a little doggy-lublike in the eyebold which he conveyed to the smaller femailode of the specie, coupled with his music because he did trittly-how fine on the strims, helped him along the roamer [....] I heard it first of all in Macari's in the early mordy: I was doing the shavit-huff with my razor blade, which of course is a safety one, and suddenly, suddenly he did a little slappity syncopole or a drop-it and how, or something he did and caused a jerkit over a pimplode and I've been suffering ever since!

7 minutes ago, ambient said:

I thought it was just me.

Nope, I haven't got a f*cking clue either.

Just now, Bassfinger said:

He did indeed, John Glascock was seriously ill and Anderson had put him on salaried leave.  Anderson did a blummen good job of too, really hit his stride.

Totally agree, there's some lovely bass playing on that album.

1 hour ago, Bassfinger said:

A left field suggestion,  one that caught the attention of ny bass orientated ear recently;

 

Stormwatch, Jethro Tull.

Ian Anderson played most of the bass parts on that album.

21 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

...'cos it sure as hell depressed me.

 

Someone posted this photo on my home village's FB group of a local band from back in the day.

 

 

'Hellooooooo' says I - there can't have been many custom colour P's in the UK - never mind our little part of the North East - back then.

 

Intrigued, I went on the hunt and tracked down the bass player's step-son, who still lives in the area along with the man himself.

 

I asked the step-son what happened to the bass.

 

"Yeah, it was a sort of pastel turquoise pale blue finish. He sold it about ten years ago for pennies (£150 if my memory serves me well)."

 

*sigh*

 

 

He probably sold it for thousands & just told his family he got £150 for it.

The Light Pours Out Of Me - Magazine

If I Had a Hammer - Trini Lopez

Flying North - Thomas Dolby

Marathon - Rush

23 minutes ago, tom1946 said:

how do I connect the bass station for a live sound? I have a trace combo. Or will I need something else?

 

It'll be fine through your Trace combo.

31 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

On the Novation Bass Station 2 - why on earth did they make the lowest note a C?

 

Surely they should have made it a A to match the low end of a piano?

It's to do with the keybeds available to the manufacturers.

Most companies, apart from the giants like Yamaha & Roland, don't manufacture their own keybeds, they just buy them from a company that does.

Most, if not all small keyboards with a two octave range will have a keybed that starts at C because that's what is available to them.

Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren

Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk

5 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Although not all are pointy, I do have a thing for superstrats of that era. The Bacchus is an early 2000's imposter, though.

Love the Hamer Centaura!

The Bacchus is sweet too. I've got a bacchus bass & a guitar & they're both superb instruments.

Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

Life and How to Live It -REM

Sit Down - James