Something About You Bass Cover
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2021
- I hope everyone has a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Over the years, I've gotten a lot of suggestions to cover some Level 42 and I finally got around to it. Just last month someone made the suggestion that inspired me to look a bit more closely into it (generally), which led me to learning this song a few weeks ago. And, just yesterday, someone suggested this song (specifically), which led me to uploading this video today. I don't think it's my finest work, but it will have to do. I hope someone finds some value in it.
"Something About You" by Level 42 off of their "World Machine" album which came out in 1985 and featured Mark King on bass (and vocals).
I'm playing the 2006 Ernie Ball MusicMan Stingray 5 through a SansAmp Para-Driver Ver. 1. Oh, and all that talk about the old Sterling that I used to have inspired me to buy one, which just arrived yesterday and boy are my fingers sore. I'm loving it and it's just as I remembered it. It's a '98 which would be around the same year, but Lynn (like this bass) prodded me to get a Red one instead of the HoneyBurst, which she thought was "drab". I'm working on an older David Bowie song with it at the moment and may try to do a few more "Bass Collection" videos this weekend.
So many great bass players in the 80’s that were largely overlooked. Kajagoogoo, Level 42, Duran Duran, The Smiths etc…
Definitely!!!
The Music Man 5 string bass has the best B string tone!
Nick Beggs from Kajagoogoo eventually earned his recognition. He's Steven Wilson's (of the neo-prog band Porcupine Tree) bass player on his solo material and has also played with Steve Hackett and Marco Minneman.
@@tmage23 wasn’t aware of that. I’ll be sure to check that out.
Not sure I agree entirely with this. I mean, Mark King is consistently recognised as a pioneer of the bass. Plus, John Taylor is considered once of the better bassists to come from Britain. I think “overlooked” is excessive.
Great bass line and great video! Mark King is one of the best bass players of his generation.
Thanks Vincius!
*The basslines in this track were so simple, yet prominent when you heard this played on the radio, even back in the great 80's!❤👍*
Definitely!
Perfect slides, perfect timing - just perfect. This is one my top 20 favorite songs ever.
Thanks so much Doug!
NICE! I absolutely love Level 42. Mark King and Phil Gould were so good together! Gary Husband is no slouch either! Great job sir!
Thank you Rob! Happy New Year!
One of my favorite tunes! I always lay that down on the five. Bugger to sing over though , almost a difficult as finding another musician that knows Level 42 songs
Mine too! I couldn't imagine actually singing over it.
One of my favorites to jam out to growing up in the 80's. Thank you for sharing 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
So many glissando moves on this song! So 80s, so awesome!
Yes, more slides than you can shake a stick at.
Hey man, your bass covers are always appreciated. Thanks for an awesome 2021. Here's to a better year!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.
Thank you for all your videos this year Troy, and a Happy New Year to you and Lynn.
It was my pleasure Wim. Same to you!
Thanks' Troy, you did a great job on "Something About You". Also, thank you for the break down afterwards, I really appreciate it as I'm sure many others do when you do that. "Happy New Year" my friend!
Thanks so much Destin! Same to you!
Mark King - Certified Badass 🤘. Happy New Year to you and yours Troy. Thanks for all the great tunes & videos this year.
Truth! Same to you! Take care!
Thank you for this. One of my favorite songs ever.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
Great work! Love that 5 string sound
Thanks Robert!
Thank you for covering this great song. Mark King is such an inspirational and important figure for bass players. His work is exquisite. Great job Troy!
It was my pleasure. Thanks for watching! I’m glad you liked it.
Thank you for covering this, I love this song and bass line keep. up the good work
It was my pleasure. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
Happy New Year Troy, Mark King was always a great and an inspiring bassist. Love this song.
Same to you Todd! Awesome!
Yes 👏 great tune and as always you killed it 🤘
Happy New Year 🎆🎇
Thanks!
Love this tune...Thanks Troy...Happy New Year to you and your family!! Hope Mom is well...give her hugs from us...
Great to hear, Billy! Same to you! I will!
Level 42! A blast from the past! Thanks Troy!
Any time! I hope you liked it, Emm.
Omg yes I love this song 🎵 wow 80s was the best bass songs ever such melody and soundtrack thankyou for your playing bass 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸and also love that Tina turner song amazing 👏 have a happy new year.
Awesome! I'm glad you liked it. Thanks Nelson.
What a great song and what an interesting bass part. Thanks for reminding me how good Level 42 is- amazing!
Glad you liked it! Thanks Emilia, for watching and taking the time to comment.
Man this was cool. I forgot how much I like this song and never noticed the fantastic bass line. Well done!
Thanks Dan!
Always loved this song! Thanks for showing a different way to play it. Sounds fabulous.
And…Happy New Year!
Thank you kindly!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for covering such an awesome song by a virtuoso bass player like Mark King in fine fashion. This song takes me back to my college years. Thanks Troy and all my best to you and yours in the New Year.
My pleasure Mike! Thanks and take care!
Watching you gives such more perspective on the role of a bass player…especially on this piece…these lines are so well composed…awesome Troy….👍
Thank you very much Dave! The fact that it probably started out as a keyboard line might have something to do with it.
You never disappoint. Thanks for covering this slapper!
Thanks! My pleasure!
Love it! Great job you've done. Maybe because I spend a lot of time listening to various year Rewind Festivals on you tube. Thanks for the big grin I'm now wearing.
Happy New Year to you and yours!
Wow, thank you Mike!
Happy New Year to you and yours!
Thanks Art! Same to you!
Another tip top cover! Love the 5-string!
Thanks again!
This is a fantastic bass cover have a wonderful happy new year
Thanks, you too!
Mark King!🤩
Nice job Mr. Troy!
Thanks Patrick! 😃
I love it ! Just love it !
I'm glad to hear that! Thanks James!
Awesome Troy this song is still on my play list right after leaving me now and lessons in love great job that low B sounds awesome! It’s amazing how well you learned that like Mark sat and went over it with you!👌
Thank you so much Jas!
Happy new year Troy. What a wonderful bass line. The 80s produced so many sweet and iconic sounds and melodies, thanks for posting.
Same to you Sam! Totally agree!
This song has great groove T. Great job, and love the pickup growl on this bass.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
I love this song! You did a great job, but that wall behind you is insane! I love it! 🤘
I’m glad you liked it, thank you. Most of the masks are from Death Studios.
Sweet cover 😊
Thank you!! 😁
Happy New Year Troy. great job showing this
Same to you Larry, and Thanks!
Loved it! Great way to end the old year and to start the new one. Happy New Year, Troy!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for covering my favorite song by my favorite band!! I have really enjoyed your previous covers. You make it look so much easier. I am merely an amateur bass player and wouldn't have considered attempting to learn to play this song or other Level 42 songs before now. I could totally do this after your demonstration! Thank you for this!! Blessings!
Thank you so much Teresa!!
Thanks Troy, another in my list !
You bet!
Great cover as usual Troy and happy new year to you and Lynn!
Thank you very kindly!
Love the sound! I always liked the ray5, very nice played
Thanks Sergio!
Played guitar for years, thinking about getting into bass. I’ve watched pretty much all your vids and really enjoy them - especially (but not only) the ABBA tracks. Hadn’t realised how killer some of their bass lines are
Very cool! Thanks so much... I really love playing the ABBA stuff.
You are awesome brother!
As are you! Thanks a lot!
Wicked job, I really enjoy this playing this song on bass!! ✌️😙
Thank you Daniel. Awesome!
@@TJH3113 No problem, it’s quite easy compared to most of Mark King’s other bass lines. ✌️😙
Great Troy! Ya know I KNEW you would do this song before too long, it's a great one! Oh yeah, Happy New Year to you & your wife...
Thanks Jeff! Same to you!
The timing is very impressive on this one
Thanks.
Great bass line, not too busy but just enough. Well done.
Agreed. Thanks Bob.
Finally! Someone does a great cover to this amazing song! Love the masks tho! 😀🔥
Thanks so much! Most of the masks are from Death Studios.
Awesome interpretation ✨🔥
Thanks Syd!
Happy New Year .... 👍👍👍👍
Same to you!!!
❤️! I found it helpful too. I don't even have a bass? Love and all my best wishes to you and family, for 2022. 👍🤘
Who could ask for anything more than that? Thanks David!
Very clean the way you play. Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
Troy that was outstanding!!
Thanks Todd!
Great bassline and cover, you nailed it troy 👍
Thanks a lot!
Goose bumps Troy. You know I love the sliding!!! Happy New Year to you, Lynn and your mother!!!!!!!!!!!1 Marvine :-)
Thanks Marvine!
What an innovative bass line. Well played Troy.
It is, isn’t it? Thanks a lot Eric!
That was great. I really enjoyed it.
Thank you very much!
Love the cyclops mask by the way. From Sinbad. Awesome.
I got that one many years ago from Jeff Keim at DeathStudios. I believe it was his personal copy. Thanks!
Whoa! Troy on a fiver.
Impressive!
GREAT tone and GREAT song choice...
Thanks Sean!
Great playing! Happy New Year!
Thank you Kate and I wish you the same!
Very nice cover and explanations. Thank you Troy ;-)
Thank you Jonathan, for watching and taking the time to comment.
Another awesome job Troy. Mark King is def one of the best bassists in my lifetime. You rocked this bro
Thanks so much!
I can see why you need the fifth string on certain songs. Amazing cover x
It comes in handy once in a while. Thanks Sue!
Great song, and great job.
Thank you Philip.
YouTuve Level 42 playing this live and watch the pure joy on Mark Kings face, and when they do Lessons in Love. Gonna go do that now, be right back Troy. A++ as Usual!
Yeah, he’s great, isn’t it? What surprised me most was how he finds the time to fuss with his tone controls in between playing.
you make this look so easy Troy. Happy New year
Thanks Steve and take care!
Amazing
Thank you Adrian
Awesome as always!! Thanks for throwing in the four sting version, I was going to ask in the comments how it would be done, no need now.
Happy New Year to you too!!
Thank you Rich! Did I say in the video that I was originally going to do it on a 4 string. I changed my mind at the last minute.
@@TJH3113 Hey Troy!! in the video you said you initially learned it on a 4 string (7:10) and were going to do it on a 4 string, but because the low C and D yo were hearing on the keyboards you switched to the 5 string. After the playthrough without the backing track you showed what you were doing to play it on the 4 string (13:30). I could sit and watch you play for hours!! I can only hope that someday I have about a thimble full of the talent that you have!! You're the BEST!!
@@richoliver2217 Well, he plays it on a four string so it made sense initially. A couple of factors led me to use the 5 string. One was, like I said, I was hearing the low notes played by the keyboards. Also, since I'd made a few other small modifications to the bass-line, that the 5 string would work in that spirit. Probably the biggest reason I use the 5 string was because I had it out to do the video for the "Bass Collection". Just keep playing as much as you can and play the bass-lines played by the people you most would like to sound and play like and you'll get there... and beyond.
Bravo!!!
Thank you!!!
Happy New Year, man
Thanks, and the same to you!
Uaal beautiful bass happy 2022bass life
Thank you!
Great job!
Thanks!
Happy New Year!! Kinda surprised to see you doing this one. Sounds great though!! Happy music yay!!!
Same to you! Me too! Thanks shorty.
@@TJH3113 LMAO!!
i love your cover, the best of all youtube
Thanks so much, Cristian.
excellent !
Thank you!
Nice to see someone playing a 5 string that actually uses the B. Most don’t need it they don’t it’s there
I rarely use it myself... both the bass and the B string.
Making a 5 string sound like it was meant to sound. Not easy. Mark King is a master and underrated. Glad to hear you say it was challenging.
Thanks so much Jordan.
Very nice!
Thanks Tommy!
The ‘little crap that drives you crazy’ is why we keep coming here🤣. We are your tribe! I always played this on a 4 and found myself craving that low C.Sounds real satisfying. Great work Troy.
Thanks Mark!
Buddy ❤
Perfectly Amazing!
Slap is not my Forte.
I tried to learn this a long time go.
Your approach is perfect with I was thinking.
Thank you for posting!
Thanks so much.
IMHO that bass sounds better than any bass you have. And Mark King is just phenomenal
I'm very glad you liked it! Yes, he is!
Nick Beggs was ABSOLUTELY INSANE!
Still is!
Mark king was beyond belief live
I'm sure!
Nice touch as always Troy!! I think you have hit just about every bass player I have admired...so no need to make requests ....you always get to them eventually!! I had a couple of level 42 CD's back in the day and was kind of uncharacteristic music for my tastes but I really liked the music. BTW I am still in awe (but not surprised) that Dave Hope used your videos to relearn his songs!!! Happy New Year!!
Thanks Jack! Sometimes you can move them up the queue quicker if you ask for them... sometimes. Yeah, that Dave Hope thing was so surreal. Same to you.
As much as I love this Sterling, I keep eyeing the Bruce Thomas behind you in this and other recent videos. It's still on my very short list of next acquisitions. FYI, I was talking to my luthier about it last week and mentioned your concern/experience with customs charges (or lack, thereof). He informed me that there are typically no charges under $1,000 in value. Happy New Year, Troy! Wishing all the best for you & Lynn and those close to you in 2022!
Not to nitpick, but this is actually a Stingray. That being said, if the house was on fire and I could grab only one of these basses (this one or the Bruce Thomas), I'd grab the Bruce Thomas. I haven't put it away since I got it and I play it all the time. I love it. Well, the customs thing is good to know. I was sweating it for a bit before it got here, wondering how much more I'd owe on it. I don't think Canada has the same thing going on though. I once bought a $10 remote for my camera and paid over $30 in shipping and customs charges for it.
Covering anything by Mark King is no easy feat but well done on this track, as always. Happy New Year and all the best to you and your family.
I assumed that anything by Mark King would be inaccessible to me, but this was not too bad at all. Thanks so much and I wish you the same!
@@TJH3113 Mr. Pink would be challenge.
@@ultimatebasses Yeah, I just listened to a bit of Mr. Pink and decided to keep looking 😂
@@TJH3113 Lying Still on the World Machine album isn't overly complicated.
Happy new year, Troy!! Greetings from Brazil 🤘
Thanks and same to you Nathan!
Great song. Mark King gave me superwound bass strings in 1988
It is, isn't it? How cool is that?!
Geez you make it look so easy 😲
Thanks (It’s not)
Great selection!! One of the reasons I went straight to bass guitar instead of the guitar then bass route!!
Thanks Frank!
Old school Bowie? I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to that!
Well, it's off his 5th album but, for him, that's still fairly early.
@@TJH3113 - Mmm. An album I know very well (obviously). It has to be Hang On To Yourself then?
Great song great band Awsome cover.
Thanks!
@@TJH3113 Happy New Year
Yes Troy!! I'm a huge Level 42 fan , and the reason I took up bass playing watching endless videos of Mr King ...
Great cover 👌 maybe you could do some more L42 covers?! 😉 Try Starchild , a great bassline and one of my favourite songs ..
Very cool! I'm glad you liked it. We'll see...
It was Mark King's bass playing that got me into playing the bass
Awesome!
Level 42. Yes!!
Thanks Tim!
Incredible Mr Hughes!!! Great to you covering some Level 42. I’ve never been much of a fan myself, but I will always acknowledge Mark King and his playing as pretty damn great. I don’t really like using the term “underrated”, because it is very thrown around especially within musicians, but in my opinion, Mark actually is quite underrated as a bass player. And it’s great to the see Stingray back making appearances, still sounds great😀👍.
Thank you Master Daniel! Great point made. Mark King truly is "underrated". It's funny when you hear people say that Paul McCartney or John Paul Jones are underrated.
TROY - "see what i can do" - and you come out nailing it like this. Awesome as always. Always said - just want 1% of the skill that Geddy has in first finger and 1% of Mark's thumb.
Saw them when they finally got a promoter for USA dates in 2010. Even better live, but sadly heard they lost money on it and hard to get back.
Know your not a large fan of Slap - but maybe a cover of Dune Tune.
Best way to start new year was finding this. Happy New Year to you and family!
Thanks so much! While I'm not a huge fan of slap, I'd say that Mark King is one of the more tasteful slappers around. Take care!