Mark King interview - Much Music Tv 1987

Mark King interview - Much Music Tv 1987 - Blue Jaydee Bass

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Canadian Tv host Erica Ehm interviews Level 42’s Mark King on the program ‘Much Music Tv’, from late 1987/early 1988. Mark demonstrates how to setup the action on the rarely seen blue Jaydee Supernatural series 1 bass and proceeds with some serious slap 🤣👏

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@danielhicks4826 10 ай бұрын

Listen how delightful and sweet and nice and even genuine some women reporters or whatever like this lady were back then, what a great era it must have been. And Mark King making Fleas slap look almost ordinary since at least 1981.

@ladylaois8184 2 ай бұрын

I totally agree

@danielpalmersofficial 5 ай бұрын

Wow, Mark King is a bass genius and he has so many underrated bass lines!! 😀👍

@8draupadi 3 ай бұрын

Loove this miracle Man

@KRAZEEIZATION 4 ай бұрын

Fancy bass. Fancy chops. Fancy slap technique. Fancy lady very impressed!

@MrRedrocket42 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant post Lee! Mark made this appearance the night before Level 42 opened for Madonna's Who's That Girl show at The Exhibition stadium in Toronto.

@michaelb.42112 2 жыл бұрын

WoW, another time warp video where Mark has an iPhone in 1987... Oh wait, it's just a tool kit. That blue JD is gorgeous ! Mark is always humble and in 1987 this was MIND BLOWING playing. It STILL is today 35 years later, but as always, the bar gets raised.

@daraGTC 11 ай бұрын

One and only Mark King ❤❤❤

@samsonwoods5448 Ай бұрын

Mark King " DID NOT INVENT SLAP BASS, Larry Graham of Sly & The Family Stone did in 1968, do your homework sista!!!!!!!

@marcraygun6290 Жыл бұрын

My late friends wyn had early eighties jaydee he had from new , I seem to remember he was always meaning to get it sorted out for years

@MrJoebiz24 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. This was exceptional.

@mustardbassman 2 жыл бұрын

If I were to order a Jaydee series 1, I think it would be in this colour!

@dissyduster 5 ай бұрын

looks easy im thinking of getting one he said get the best you can get makes it easy work.

@funky_monk_9796 2 жыл бұрын

Great find, thanks Lee for uploading! Haven't seen this interview before, captures MK really nicely. Cool interviewer too.

@LeeTavMusic 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a great interview isn’t it! 💥👍

@funky_monk_9796 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeeTavMusic Again, it makes me think what else Mark could have done as an improviser in the jazz realm. Phenomenal ability.

@franzjosephamrein2663 6 ай бұрын

He's unique in his kind of playing somehow

@funky_monk_9796 Жыл бұрын

Revisiting this one 😀 does anyone know who his bass tech was, who 'did a runner'?? There must be more of a story there... 😃

@nunoharris Жыл бұрын

Hi Whats the brand of the pedal that Mark King was using? Thanks

@clancywiggam 6 ай бұрын

That woman, like many women before her, has just realised that bassists make the best lovers.

@stephenalanmoore7278 Ай бұрын

She does seem rather taken with him.

@newbbietrader9918 2 ай бұрын

mark king a beast playing...... and the girl interviewing is a bit sexy by the way hehe....

@df3575 6 ай бұрын

He seemed to answer the question of when he started playing the bass as "1979, 80". That seems impossible given they were recording as a band in 1980. They released their debut full album in 1981....and were performing live then. He learned in a matter of months?? Id like to hear a more fulsome answer from Mark about his process and time it took to learn how to play in order to be clear about it. Is there any video or text available that answers this?

@MG-iv9nw 3 ай бұрын

I heard that from an early age he learned to play guitar as well as playing the drums; the drums being his forte. I believe he became so good a drummer that at the age of 11, a covers band, doing the usual pubs and wedding venues around the Isle of White, asked his parents for permission for him to go and play for them. So possibly a combination of playing two instruments (one to a high standard) perhaps led to his super fast bass development? Other than that I agree that he's quite vague on the matter to say the least.

@df3575 3 ай бұрын

@@MG-iv9nw hey.....thank you, MG. I appreciate the additional information. Indeed, given the timeline, he's more than vague....it's weird. Almost suspicious. Not sure why....it seems like a great story.

@MG-iv9nw 3 ай бұрын

It could be just a touch of genius he as with the bass guitar. I even heard that it took him a year from picking the bass up for the first time to making the first early recordings with Level 42!!! But like you I'm not sure what to believe. Thanks for the reply@@df3575

@LeeTavMusic 24 күн бұрын

It’s a great point, I was thinking this the other day. Three factors imo that has been said many times before; started drums and guitar at an early age, bit of a prodigy and also worked in ‘Macari’s’ music shop in London full time for, ok, maybe only 6 months but I think if he was doing that day in day out… add all those factors and he was in the right place, right time. I think so anyway 😆💪

@df3575 23 күн бұрын

@@LeeTavMusic Thanks, Lee. My point is: why do we have to guess at it (thats pointless)? Why not hear it directly from Mark? Why's he so completely opaque about it? And why doesn't anyone try and actually pin him down so he gives a clear direct answer? ....even if it's "I don't want to tell you" that's a clearer and more honest response than anything it seems he's given.

@OGBrawlerina Жыл бұрын

Mark was so hot in the 80s. 😍😋

@rickygarcia5662 Ай бұрын

Double thumbing wasnt done back then so he is basically hitting every single note without rest except maybe for the hammer ons and taps which i think was already being done then.So you c asn probsbly cheat this solo snd still get th e same effect witjout losing your thumb.

@jaydeebasssociety268 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to know the current whereabouts of this bass.

@stephenalanmoore7278 Ай бұрын

Mark has amassed a huge collection of bass guitars over the years, which he still keeps at his home on The Isle Of Wight. I recently saw an interactive interview with him (which is also still on KZfaq) where he had them displayed all over the room that he was sitting in. A very impressive collection.

@FGMP78 6 ай бұрын

Monster, giant, myth. Sonething wasn't properly adjusted on the E string

@rainblaze. 2 жыл бұрын

Man she's a pistol

@blake7871 Жыл бұрын

80’s chicks were hot.

@wanttoknow9690 2 жыл бұрын

sounds horrible through that Marshal guitar amp

@stephenalanmoore7278 Ай бұрын

I think that it sounds great. Ahhh...well. Horses for courses.

@peterjanjanin9883 2 ай бұрын

Louis Johnson is faster....

@stephenalanmoore7278 Ай бұрын

It's NOT a competition. Mark King has always had huge respect for other bass players such as Billy Cobham, Louis Johnson, etc. He's also a huge fan of influential bands like the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was just demonstrating a little of his bass playing technique because she asked him to. That's all.

@LeeTavMusic 24 күн бұрын

With respect, I’d be impressed if you can find evidence of Louis playing quicker than that… he doesn’t have the technique; he is unbelievably fast considering how far away he comes to hitting the neck but he doesn’t play as fast as this for sure.. glad to be proved wrong! 👍

@samsonwoods5448 11 күн бұрын

"Billy Cobham is not a drummer, you r showing ignorance, and your bias!!!!!!!@@stephenalanmoore7278