Mark King


Mark King (born 20 October 1958, Cowes, Isle of Wight) is an English musician. He is most famous for being the lead singer and bassist of the band, Level 42. In the early 1980s King popularized the 1970s-era slap and pop style for playing the bass guitar by incorporating it into pop music.
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_King_%28musician%29)


I grew up listening to Level 42 in my ska/funk/punk/new wave era. He was a white black man , who lay down thunder-strikes on his bass, and is just a funky technician.With a unique vocal to go with his Bass, and as lead singer of Level 42, he put the slap-bass into pop music and made it good.

Check some links out


and with Level 42 "Lessons in love - Live"


Here's some links

http://www.level42.com/

http://www.level42.150m.com/biography.html

http://www.musiclovers.de/mark_king.html

http://www.bassplayer.com/article/royal-return-/July-2010/117423

Dane Alderson. 

Dane hails from Perth, Western Australia and is fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in the jazz world. Dane is innovative and displays virtuosic control of his instrument. Dane has played for top jazz artists like James Morrison as well as pop and R&B artists around Australia.
Prepare to be blown away by one of Australia's best kept secrets!

Check out some of his clips below.

This video is a bit shady, but he plays some nice Riffs in this one.


Here's another one with my nephew Howie Morgan, who I will also profile.



Here's some links I found for Dane

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455363


http://www.facebook.com/people/Dane-Alderson/589650782


http://www.myspace.com/void2006
http://www.perthjazzsociety.com/programme/detail/1589

I was going through some old files and came across some old video clips I had, and found some good stuff in there I 'd thought to share with you. Many of my musical influences varied when growing up in New Zealand, including Country, Blues, Waiata (Traditional Maori Song), Rock, Funk, Disco, Reggae, Electro, and Top 40 (at the time).

I realised alot of the stuff on my files were influential both in the way I play music, and in the sounds I like to hear.Having way too many to list here, I will  post up stuff regularly on artists and links.

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