When Mark King played with Larry Graham at the jazz cafe.

[bubinga5]

you gotta love this.. cant say i will ever love 2 basses playing at the same time but it these two I heard on the grapevine that Mark has been playing with Princes band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKIbcWEErrU

Edited August 15, 2013 by bubinga5

[sblueplanet]

Amateurs :-)

[molan]

I heard a few horror stories about MK & LG at one of these gigs. Apparently it was really quite embarrassing

[steve-soar]

Good grief, how awful. What a racket when King came on.

[Dad3353]

The drumming's good.

[risingson]

The smiley faces of doom on those graphic EQs!

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1376606976' post='2176893']
I heard a few horror stories about MK & LG at one of these gigs. Apparently it was really quite embarrassing
[/quote]

What happened?

[molan]

Loosely - Mk stumbled on stage, fannied around with his amp, pedals etc and came across as very unprofessional. LG eventually cut across him when he finally got his gear working because his playing was messy and pretty much pushed him into the background.

This wasn't a sound-check issue either as they'd had plenty of time earlier in the day to sort everything out.

I heard this from two different sources so I'm guessing there's an element of truth in here somewhere

[risingson]

Ahh well, a clash of egos I guess. The clip doesn't do it for me, although slap playing rarely ever does.

[wombatboter]

Both of them are great players but this doesn't do it for me...has nothing to do with any kind of funk either.
I saw some footage of the North sea jazz festival with Larry Graham, Santana, Prince and Mark King.
Suddenly they were all human when they started to jam...sloppy endings, didn't listen to each other, struggling with gear and their ego's. I suddenly realised the power of rehearsal even on their level.

[chris_b]

It's interesting to see how great players are locked into their own style and how they are not very good at being flexible.

[White Cloud]

I agree that 2 basses on stage slapping (or playing in any other way) away at the same time is never going to be the musical event of the year...but come on guys - it's a bit of fun.

If any of us had been standing in the venue watching it with a beer or two we would all have probably enjoyed it on some level (42)!!

Both great bassists in the short history of the bass.

[juliusmonk]

The obvious would have been a duel, right? Puts out a show, and gives space to each other. Also, can somebody please take that fuzz pedal away from LG. The man who stole our beloved dirty Prince from us... Unforgivable

[matski]

Fat, balding, middle-aged blokes shouldn't wear leather trousers.

[EBS_freak]

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Fat, balding, middle-aged blokes shouldn't wear leather trousers.
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[lefrash]

I enjoyed that until they tried to play together. Its amazing how differently that same riff sounds when two (great) players play it. Different slap techniques sound totally different. Thats great until they play the same riff in tandem.... all of a sudden it sounds a rabble! As others have said though, if I was pint in hand at this gig, I probably would have loved it!

[molan]

[quote name='risingson' timestamp='1376609157' post='2176941']
Ahh well, a clash of egos I guess. The clip doesn't do it for me, although slap playing rarely ever does.
[/quote]

From what I heard it wasn't an ego thing - MK was basically rubbish and unprofessional in he middle of LG's gig and LG clearly wasn't happy

[witterth]

yet another "suck the joy out of the event" thread, god guys, lighten up a bit. jeezzus.

BTW Mark King is better at slap than Larry Graham so Nerr nerrr na ner nahh!!(true)

Edited August 16, 2013 by witterth

[witterth]

[quote name='matski' timestamp='1376650944' post='2177307']
Fat, balding, middle-aged blokes shouldn't wear leather trousers.
[/quote]
well said "slim" (bloody hell)

Edited August 17, 2013 by witterth

[molan]

Gosh, that Mark King bloke is a truly incredible player. I bet he never has an off night.

Such an entertaining guy and full of originality as a musician as well.

Just can't get enough of his incredible, and faultless, technique . . .

[witterth]

[u][media]http://youtu.be/5dnxQv13LvI[/media] larry graham looks out of his depth to me[/u]

Edited August 17, 2013 by witterth

[RoRi]

Complete show NSJF 2013 (+ Prince and Santana): [url="http://player.ntr.nl/nsj/?id=2013_video_larry_graham"]http://player.ntr.nl...eo_larry_graham[/url]

[lou24d53]

We get it, you're a Mark King fanboy...

[witterth]

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We get it, you're a Mark King fanboy...
[/quote]
And your point being? Boy?

Edited August 17, 2013 by witterth

[lou24d53]

[witterth]

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