Level 42 Before Level42

[Steve Browning]

Off topic? Have we worked out what the topic actually is?

 

It would be great if we could have a clear post setting out exactly what is being said. Any attempt to engage with the OP to garner such a response is met with unintelligible ranting (to my feeble brain).

[drTStingray]

On 28/12/2021 at 08:55, 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.

 

 

Translation hidden back on p5.

[Steve Browning]

5 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

Translation hidden back on p5.

Which elicited this reply:

 

the dance floors were exciting,

think the music industry thing was a drink too big & a sandwich too small, for me especially

 

yes, there was a lot to it, Denmark st 1976 -80 ,, fact No1, get it right ,

[drTStingray]

You have to read between the lines (or the commas)!! We have had these threads before and whilst some is difficult to follow much is not that challenging… I get the impression he thinks some of us don’t get the points he’s making - which is very likely if you weren’t there - it’s extraordinary really that there was a whole U.K. dance scene based around several bands and really good dance music (with exceptional bass) in the early 80s - hence the responses……. 🤪

Edited December 29, 2021 by drTStingray

[Bean9seventy]

3 hours ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

I've been pondering this thread for quite a while now and I'm pretty certain Level 42 is before Level 43. Following the same logic it's after Level 41. 
 

those who know The 42 bus route : D

[Doctor J]

[Bean9seventy]

2 minutes ago, Bean9seventy said:

cannot belive i have 4 whole pages of geeks talking about geek stuff, from eating spuds to cleaning ferrets,, wow

 

before i get into the next chapter on Fender basses i would like to shout this bass player out  ,, young guy, a little shy ,

 

saw him doing the entire Bowie, Roxy Music vamp in soho recently ,, & yes he can slap little bit Hello Guy

 

[drTStingray]

21 minutes ago, Bean9seventy said:

43 is good as well 😏

 

https://youtu.be/JSj0PXJ6d5Q

[Escobars Dad]

Senõres, can I interest you in a leetle taste of highest quality Colombian Plaster Jama? It may make this thread more, how you say, comprehensible.

 

Adios Amigos, till next time.

[Reggaebass]

This is getting weird now 😁

[SpondonBassed]

4 hours ago, ezbass said:

If they’re real hair, it must’ve taken ages to find enough of that colour to make a full syrup, unless judicious amounts of peroxide was used on the standard colouration of said hair.

 

Nah.  Yak pubes.

[Raymondo]

13 minutes ago, Escobars Dad said:

Senõres, can I interest you in a leetle taste of highest quality Colombian Plaster Jama? It may make this thread more, how you say, comprehensible.

 

Adios Amigos, till next time.

Hola Amigo.

 

Say hi to skinny next time you meet.

 

[SpondonBassed]

4 hours ago, ezbass said:

He certainly played it in our lounge, he was very talented (my parents’ friend, not Lou Macari).

 

Not many people know that squeezebox skank originated on the lounge floor.

[EssentialTension]

20 minutes ago, Escobars Dad said:

Senõres, can I interest you in a leetle taste of highest quality Colombian Plaster Jama? It may make this thread more, how you say, comprehensible.

 

Adios Amigos, till next time.

 

¡Ojalá!

[Bridgehouse]

[SpondonBassed]

 

Who mentioned otters?  Long b4stard rats!

[SpondonBassed]

There's ANOTHER chapter on Fenders!

[Bridgehouse]

1 minute ago, SpondonBassed said:

There's ANOTHER chapter on Fenders!

Chapter 11 filing in court?

[BigRedX]

From my recollection of the late 70s (from 77 onwards) if you were playing bass in any sort of covers band that was doing Top 30 hits rather than "rock" you needed to have your slap bass chops up to scratch.

[upside downer]

21 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

 

Does this bike have derail-leur gears?

[skankdelvar]

2 minutes ago, upside downer said:

derail-leur

[Bridgehouse]

2 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Is that Parker from Thunderbirds smoking a pipe? 

[skankdelvar]

10 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

Is that Parker from Thunderbirds smoking a pipe? 

 

It's my old pal and wing-man Bertrand Russell, he of Russell's Teapot fame.

[SpondonBassed]

12 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

Is that Parker from Thunderbirds smoking a pipe? 

 

No.  But here is Walter Matthau sniffing superglue as consolation.

 

[dave_bass5]

My old band used to rehearse at a studio in Old street called the Warehouse (IIR). Level 42 used to have the room before us. We used to get there earlier and earlier and just sit outside listening to them.