PMT in Oxford

[OldGit]

[quote name='Cantdosleepy' post='91246' date='Nov 20 2007, 08:16 AM']At the risk of appearing completely ignorant, who's Mark King?[/quote]


Hey look, I know this is a friendly forum etc, but if you ask that sort of question without at least bunging "name of person" + Bass into google and/or youtube you are going to get a reaction as if you were being funny ...
You can at least do a bit of ground work yourself if you don't want to appear like a numpty...

This is Mark King's funniest youtube apperance by far
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAY-zURlGA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAY-zURlGA[/url]

[thedontcarebear]

I don't think Mark King is a bassists bassist, he was in a very famous pop band.

[Cantdosleepy]

[quote name='OldGit' post='91469' date='Nov 20 2007, 01:41 PM']Hey look, I know this is a friendly forum etc, but if you ask that sort of question without at least bunging "name of person" + Bass into google and/or youtube you are going to get a reaction as if you were being funny ...
You can at least do a bit of ground work yourself if you don't want to appear like a numpty...

This is Mark King's funniest youtube apperance by far
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAY-zURlGA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAY-zURlGA[/url][/quote]

A fair point indeed. I could have googled him, or wiki'd him.

But then again 90% of the info on this site is available through google. I wanted to hear who he was from basschatters, in the same way that when you're chatting with mates down the pub about a film a mate just saw you ask him what it's about, and don't google the synopsis on your mobile. Sense of community and all that.

Thanks for the youtube! Something that I would not have found on my own through Google! Hooray for the community!

[Jam]

[quote name='cheddatom' post='91456' date='Nov 20 2007, 01:27 PM']Was it dented?[/quote]

I don't think he stayed long enough to find out!

[David Nimrod]

Re. famous bass players -

No one's under any obligation to know anything of course...

But it seems pretty odd not to want to find these things out.

If only because it's great hearing stuff I could never play ;-)

As to Mark King, well he's been pretty influential as a player.

Whether you like his style or not you need to know his sound.

[cheddatom]

[quote name='Jam' post='91479' date='Nov 20 2007, 02:01 PM']I don't think he stayed long enough to find out![/quote]

I thought you were joking when you said he dropped it! That's a pretty nasty thing to do, even if the staff were snooty.

[David Nimrod]

[quote name='Jam' post='91442' date='Nov 20 2007, 01:15 PM']Anyway he picked up a guitar and had a look at it, and one of the assistants said "don't pick up the guitars if you can't afford them".

So he just dropped it and walked out.[/quote]


What a rotten thing to do to a guitar... I always hate it when people smash them up on stage too...

He seems arrogant, he should've just given the idiot working there a few choice put-downs instead.

[Jam]

Yeah, if it were me, I'd have put the guitar down very gently, then dropped the staff instead.

But then that's just me.

And as for him being arrogant?

I DID say he was a guitarist..

[David Nimrod]

[quote name='Jam' post='91489' date='Nov 20 2007, 02:16 PM']And as for him being arrogant?

I DID say he was a guitarist.. [/quote]

[ped]

Just goes to show! I get on OK with them and they seem quite knowledgeable folk to a certain extent. The Welsh(?) chap is a nice guy - my friend bought a guitar from there recently and all was well. They do, however, have those hard cases with union jack/newspaper/skull and bones designs available from Thomman for about £35 for £80 odd which isn't on!