I was very pleased to see Alain included. He is so underated. Alain double-thumbs and occasionally triple-pops with his index, middle and ring, using his pinkie as a pivot against the body.
You gave Mark King pretty short shrift and spent most of the time talking about his strings etc. Instead of showing a solo you could have had a clip of one of his great slap lines like Love Games or the endurance test that is Lessons in Love.
I've learned so many things from this UA-cam channel. I'm a better bass player today than I was a year ago when I first started watching Scott's channel.
Really don't understand why there's such a focus on Mark King's choice of strings... Just because he uses light strings, and Scott doesn't like his sound does not take away the influence he has had on the style of slap bass. With respect to both IMA and SD, neither of them got close to imitating Mark King on this video, and that should be acknowledged, not just that Scott prefers a heavier string. He opened the door for many players to discover slap, for my generation, and I don't think I'm alone, he was Victor Wooten or Flea, I'd never have discovered Stanley Clarke or Larry Graham if not for Mark King. Good video except that section, only IMO of course.
I’m so glad mark king is talked about here and credited for his great playing. A lot of people don’t really like him because he gets a bit slap happy which is true, but I love mark and level 42. I have to say, King isn’t a show off all the time, he has some great fingerstyle bass lines, the man is so groovy too! Listen to bass lines like Kansas City Milkman, Children Say, Starchild, Turn It On. That being said he has some great slap bass lines, his clip was just a solo here but he can really groove with slap. Listen to The Essential by Mark King, that album actually, Influences. And listen to Love Games as well. Anyway, love you guys thank you for this great video!! ❤️❤️
Get a class on SBL with Alain. He’s almost 70 and has such knowledge. I’ve known Alain for over 25 years and I know his knowledge will serve so many. 🙏 I was actually in the audience of the clip you posted. Was so good.
Mark King was a big Alembic, & Jaydee player too, along with a smattering of others. I think his best documented solo is on Guaranteed Live at the Town And Country Club on his Alembic Mark King Signature bass, just tone perfection. A formidable fingerstyle player too .
Bought the programm because I did the Fretboard Accelerator and it blew my mind. I‘m sure this one will help me finally uncover Slap Bass as I tried for years and years and than got frustrated. Dear Scott thank you so much for your teachings.
So glad you highlighted Brian Bromberg! Awesome story Ian Been listening to his smooth jazz tracks for years So much talent You should do a in depth interview with him!
I wanted to learn bass because I wanted to play like Bootsy. I took lessons from a guy named Freekbass, and he introduced me to Larry Graham by making Hair one of our lessons. I walked out of the lesson and immediately went to Best Buy to get the best of Graham Central Station.
Listening to Mark King I was thinking, "That's the brightest bass I've ever heard." Five seconds later Ian goes, "That's the brightest bass I've ever heard."
Hey Scott and Ian, Larry's tone is from his technique. Larry's bass is turned all the way up and he plays with a light touch. It keeps his sound more responsive to his hand dynamics and it makes his effects work better too. Then all he has to do is adjust amp volume to the room.
Soooo Glad you included Alain Caron!!! Such an underrated bassist. His fretless playing is outstanding too. His bass has a special synth pickup system by Roland.
Kinda dissappointed UK's Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson) didn't get a mention! He's pushed slap bass to new dimensions so many times, most easily detectable on «Solo Electric Bass vol. 1» He's my wish interview no.1 on SBL!
I have a cheap 4 string Yamaha passive bass with the same pickup set up and i find that a nice blend of both pickups give a really juicy tone, same pickup set up of on a active fordera is mind blowing
You have the most interesting, educational and pedagogical videos, and yet you manage to make me laugh and forget all the bad things in the world. You give me hope and joy every day and I am enormously grateful for that. Love you guys❤️
I think it's fair to say Mark King's Status years are the one's most of his fans like the least, as you say very bright and Hi-Fi sounding, probably down to EQ as much as the basses. His best sounding basses were in the earlier years on Jaydee Supernaturals and then Alembics before his move over to Status when Level 42 reformed back together. Both the Jaydees and Alembics were much more fuller sounding even with the same light 30-50-70-90 strings. Funnily enough he has moved back to Jaydee basses for the past few years and his sound is much more enjoyable.
The first time Mark King was using Status Basses was on the True Colors Album (1984), a later called S2. Later in the 80s he changed to Alembic and then even to Music Man (beginning 90s). Also a Fender Type Mark King Model was around in the late 90s. The actual Mark King Status model showed up in the early 2000s. In my ears his sound never changed much. String gauge 30 - 90 is the main thing.
Hey, I’d like to draw attention to Jeff Berlin’s intro on FiveG, from the Bruford album One of a kind, total killer example of fluidity, amongst the rest of the tune .
Mark King brought out a signature set of strings in the 80s (Rotosound Funkmaster 30 50 70 90) , and I have used those medium to super-light gauges ever since. However, the main contributor to his sound was at the ball end, where the outer wind didn't begin until after the bridge, which they called "piano string design", ie, the first inch from the ball end was just the core of the string. The ring and sustain this gives is also crazy good.
Scott!! Im pulling you out the hole! Mark King inspired me to play bass and im not offended one bit by what you've said! I have a status like Mark kings and it is a medium scale. I use 100s (low e) on it and it sounds epic! Mark King does do the triplets and sure I heard in an interview somewhere he uses like 80s or 90s I think. Be very happy to let you have a go on my status if you wanted to. The pick ups sound fantastic playing finger style as well 👍
My Favourite Slap Bass player is Tomohito Aoki with his Atelier Z. Stuff he did with DIMENSION and Toshiki Kadomatsu was sooo good. Unfortunately he's no longer with us but I listen to his stuff every day. He was also pretty amazing on finger style and fretless!
I loved UZEB, I am from Hamilton , Canada and F bass gave me tickets to Alain workshop, I had no idea who he was. he as so cool and humble. Michel Cusson played an f guitar as well.
This popped up on my phone notifications, while I was at a Marcus Miller concert last night, in Montreal Canada. Seen Stanley Clarke two nights before as well at the same theatre
How, again, has Stanley Clark eluded yet another SBL list? One of the slap pioneers, a fusion pioneer, and the first solo electric bassist. What gives Scott and Ian?
When I first started playing in 1980, Stanley was neck and neck with Jaco as “the world’s greatest bassist”. I bought the brown Stanley Clarke album and Jaco’s debut on the same day; loved Stanley’s album and didn’t really like Jaco’s. But after Jaco died it just seemed like he went through the roof, and since then Stanley just seems to have become less and less lauded. It’s a shame; he was Mark King’s biggest influence for a start!
I discovered Brian Bromberg when I started looking into Kiesel artists a few years ago. Wow, can he play.... I just got my new bass and am looking to improve my slap game!
Please make a video on slapp bass comparing slapp bass on 4 vs. 5 vs. 6. I see the legend of slapp like marcus Miller and Victor wooten still use 4 string bass for slapp
This is the best bass channel ever, l've addicted to it for years now. I would love to see you interview or sample Abraham laboriel Snr bass techniques.
Light gauge strings are key to Mark King's sound, but the Status is perhaps TOO clean and if the mix isn't right, it can lose bottom end big time. Thankfully, though, Mark has seemed to have moved on from Status back to his more classic sounding Jaydee.
For part two: for being a total freak I'd say Doug Wimbish, but maybe also Michael Manring, who may not be slapping that frequently, but he does it differently to anyone else. Mohini Dey, Ilja Lappin, Charles Berthoud and Nate Navarro are crazy too. And in terms of being a huge influence, some important slappers are certainly Stuart Zender, TimmyC, Fieldy, Alex Katunich.
@@uboweeg agree with you. But I saw LC with both and I must say that they sound so much better with Muzz. Just my opinion. Doug is a top bass player, but sometimes...hum...often...too much notes and effects.
Let’s go back to 1973 in the UK.A bass player called Stephen Fields AKA Stephen Amazing from the band UPP.He was years ahead of his time and got next to no recognition.
If you see flea now Even him slap with parallel thumb You can see it at the closing ceremony of the olympics where they promote the next olymp in LA Flea slaps with his thumb kinda parallel
Any chance of you guys doing a podcast or course about being a band leader/ musical director, although not bass specific it would be really useful to get hints and tips for guiding your bands.
Is that a Spector in antiqua color behind Mr Allison? The headstock looks like Spector and color looks like antigua, but I've never seen a antigua Spector before😅
Mark king uses full scale basses👍 that machine gun triplet thing he was doing isn’t a hammer on. It’s a combination of a left and right hand muted slap. Pluck the G string and do a left-hand muted slap and then do a right hand muted slap. Hopefully that Makes sense.
By the way... If you guys don't know all of the guys in the Victor video... It's Joe Wooten on keys, Reggie Wooten on Guitar and JD Blair on drums. All of these guys are legends!
By no means am i slap enthusis. But great content You all need to get LES on for a full interveiw. Talking about day of trying out for metallica to creating primus . His methods etc. that would incredible. He is by far one of my favorite musicians..
I wonder where Lewis’s blonde stingray is nowadays? Anyone know? My slap tone since I don’t own a Jazz anymore, is straight up Stingray or Warwick thumb both pups full on
I was at a concert where Larry Graham was playing with Mark King. It was a festival so towards the end his friend prince joined the stage…and after one song Carlos Santana joined…unbelievable and they were al fans of Larry. Later Carlos said in his own set: first time I played with him since woodstock
Yeah, these guys are some aliens for sure! Alain Caron’s “Slam the Clown” (and “D Code” from the same concert) are simply unobtainable for me. So is pretty much anything by Henrik, but every one of these players are exceptional! Marcus was a large part of the reason I fell into Luther Vandross (who was a Top 5 singer for me… just wasn’t ordinary at all!).
Definitely I would put Abraham Laboriel in there as well as John Patitucci and Stanley Clarke, Jeff Berlin, me personally just opinion I would remove Flea, Les Claypool other than that I like the list, it's very hard to just select top 10.
Disappointed with the clip of Mark King. Firstly, neither playing one of his most funky, musical solos, nor playing one of his most terrifying. Also, his Status sound is probably his worst IMO (and it would seem also in the opinion of many others). For me his Alembic tone and his early Jaydee tone were the best; even though he’s revived the Jaydees he hasn’t completely revived the early tone (probably because the Traces were a factor). I also wouldn’t say that his Status tone is just down to the strings (30-90); Stu Zender played 35s (thinner than average) and didn’t sound thin at all. FWIW Scott, I can’t stand Marcus’s sound. Hate it! 😂We all have our preferences.😉
I was very pleased to see Alain included. He is so underated. Alain double-thumbs and occasionally triple-pops with his index, middle and ring, using his pinkie as a pivot against the body.
You gave Mark King pretty short shrift and spent most of the time talking about his strings etc. Instead of showing a solo you could have had a clip of one of his great slap lines like Love Games or the endurance test that is Lessons in Love.
agree, he's a class in himself....if you ask me!
For those of us who love bass, this channel is gold. Thank you.
But I still hate Scott's promo letters with "one in a time" offers every month😂
I've learned so many things from this UA-cam channel. I'm a better bass player today than I was a year ago when I first started watching Scott's channel.
Really don't understand why there's such a focus on Mark King's choice of strings...
Just because he uses light strings, and Scott doesn't like his sound does not take away the influence he has had on the style of slap bass.
With respect to both IMA and SD, neither of them got close to imitating Mark King on this video, and that should be acknowledged, not just that Scott prefers a heavier string.
He opened the door for many players to discover slap, for my generation, and I don't think I'm alone, he was Victor Wooten or Flea, I'd never have discovered Stanley Clarke or Larry Graham if not for Mark King.
Good video except that section, only IMO of course.
I’m so glad mark king is talked about here and credited for his great playing. A lot of people don’t really like him because he gets a bit slap happy which is true, but I love mark and level 42. I have to say, King isn’t a show off all the time, he has some great fingerstyle bass lines, the man is so groovy too! Listen to bass lines like Kansas City Milkman, Children Say, Starchild, Turn It On. That being said he has some great slap bass lines, his clip was just a solo here but he can really groove with slap. Listen to The Essential by Mark King, that album actually, Influences. And listen to Love Games as well. Anyway, love you guys thank you for this great video!! ❤️❤️
Get a class on SBL with Alain. He’s almost 70 and has such knowledge. I’ve known Alain for over 25 years and I know his knowledge will serve so many. 🙏
I was actually in the audience of the clip you posted. Was so good.
Great list - but don't sleep on Meshell Ndegeocello! She is SUPER funky and soulful.
And she don't overplay !!
oh NORWOOD FISHER from fishbone, slappedyslapps in bonin' in the boneyard!
I love Norwood. Nobody talks about him.
Mark King was a big Alembic, & Jaydee player too, along with a smattering of others. I think his best documented solo is on Guaranteed Live at the Town And Country Club on his Alembic Mark King Signature bass, just tone perfection. A formidable fingerstyle player too .
Bought the programm because I did the Fretboard Accelerator and it blew my mind.
I‘m sure this one will help me finally uncover Slap Bass as I tried for years and years and than got frustrated.
Dear Scott thank you so much for your teachings.
So glad you highlighted Brian Bromberg!
Awesome story Ian
Been listening to his smooth jazz tracks for years
So much talent
You should do a in depth interview with him!
Did you mention that Mark King is left handed but playing right handed?
Thanks guys, so much goody slap stuff here & as always great fun !
Think l'll be watching it again.
Yeah Alain Caron Slapping is his quiet superpower Slam the Clown + more Brian Bromberg he’s amazing
I wanted to learn bass because I wanted to play like Bootsy. I took lessons from a guy named Freekbass, and he introduced me to Larry Graham by making Hair one of our lessons. I walked out of the lesson and immediately went to Best Buy to get the best of Graham Central Station.
I will actually see (and hear) Marcus Miller tonight! (Montreall Jazz festival)
Awesome!!!!
Awesome, hope you enjoyed the gig!!
It was awesome! What an inspiration! It was pure bliss for 2 hours 🙂
Flea admits he got his style from Norwood Fisher of Fishbone, yet no one ever talks about Norwood.
Listening to Mark King I was thinking, "That's the brightest bass I've ever heard." Five seconds later Ian goes, "That's the brightest bass I've ever heard."
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I dont see stanley clarke. Has there been a mistake?
Hey Scott and Ian, Larry's tone is from his technique. Larry's bass is turned all the way up and he plays with a light touch. It keeps his sound more responsive to his hand dynamics and it makes his effects work better too. Then all he has to do is adjust amp volume to the room.
the neck pickup on 100% with the bridge pickup on around 75% is the sweet spot for me too, it's jazz bass heaven
Seeing Graham play reminds me a lot of Les Claypool. I'm guessing Graham must have been a big influence.
We need a video on Stanley Clarke. Dude pioneered solos on the bass
love reactions during Mark King's section but would have been great to see him shred instead haha
Soooo Glad you included Alain Caron!!! Such an underrated bassist. His fretless playing is outstanding too. His bass has a special synth pickup system by Roland.
Kinda dissappointed UK's Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson) didn't get a mention! He's pushed slap bass to new dimensions so many times, most easily detectable on «Solo Electric Bass vol. 1»
He's my wish interview no.1 on SBL!
I have a cheap 4 string Yamaha passive bass with the same pickup set up and i find that a nice blend of both pickups give a really juicy tone, same pickup set up of on a active fordera is mind blowing
You have the most interesting, educational and pedagogical videos, and yet you manage to make me laugh and forget all the bad things in the world. You give me hope and joy every day and I am enormously grateful for that. Love you guys❤️
The genius of Mark King was he was singing and writing hit pop tunes as well. Its still about the song...and Mike Lindup!
Glad to see Bromberg on list. Monster player...👌
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Fellas!!!! Man you guys are the greatest! Love you guys!
Appreciate that! Cheers!!
I think it's fair to say Mark King's Status years are the one's most of his fans like the least, as you say very bright and Hi-Fi sounding, probably down to EQ as much as the basses. His best sounding basses were in the earlier years on Jaydee Supernaturals and then Alembics before his move over to Status when Level 42 reformed back together. Both the Jaydees and Alembics were much more fuller sounding even with the same light 30-50-70-90 strings. Funnily enough he has moved back to Jaydee basses for the past few years and his sound is much more enjoyable.
Exception here. Loved his Status tone.
His Alembic tone was incredible, especially when he was using two big Eden stacks (such as the Isle Of Wight live DVD!)
Mark played Statuses in Level 42 with the original lineup in the 80s. Like you, I much prefer the Jaydee.
The first time Mark King was using Status Basses was on the True Colors Album (1984), a later called S2. Later in the 80s he changed to Alembic and then even to Music Man (beginning 90s). Also a Fender Type Mark King Model was around in the late 90s. The actual Mark King Status model showed up in the early 2000s. In my ears his sound never changed much. String gauge 30 - 90 is the main thing.
Mark could be given a slab of wood with literally horsehair for strings and make music.
hah, Mark King's sound - the most hated sound if we could trust the opinions from various bass fora ;)
Great to see Alain Caron! I’d like to add Melvin Lee Davis, Scott Ambush and Vince Loving.🤘
Great list. Maybe a top 20 next time! I would’ve liked to see where you guys would place Abe Laboriel and Mark Adams from the group Slave.
I think a lot of why Alain Caron sounds like synth is he’s got the Roland GK divided pick up on the bass as well
Hey, I’d like to draw attention to Jeff Berlin’s intro on FiveG, from the Bruford album One of a kind, total killer example of fluidity, amongst the rest of the tune .
Mark King brought out a signature set of strings in the 80s (Rotosound Funkmaster 30 50 70 90) , and I have used those medium to super-light gauges ever since. However, the main contributor to his sound was at the ball end, where the outer wind didn't begin until after the bridge, which they called "piano string design", ie, the first inch from the ball end was just the core of the string. The ring and sustain this gives is also crazy good.
Scott!! Im pulling you out the hole! Mark King inspired me to play bass and im not offended one bit by what you've said! I have a status like Mark kings and it is a medium scale. I use 100s (low e) on it and it sounds epic! Mark King does do the triplets and sure I heard in an interview somewhere he uses like 80s or 90s I think. Be very happy to let you have a go on my status if you wanted to. The pick ups sound fantastic playing finger style as well 👍
Here’s an idea. The bromancers DevAllison could have a day out to The Isle of Wight and interview Mark King.
I like this idea!
@@devinebass I’ll look forward to the video.
I was at that show at the Larry Graham show the Dakota . I also was his barber for 12 years.
My Favourite Slap Bass player is Tomohito Aoki with his Atelier Z. Stuff he did with DIMENSION and Toshiki Kadomatsu was sooo good. Unfortunately he's no longer with us but I listen to his stuff every day. He was also pretty amazing on finger style and fretless!
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I loved UZEB, I am from Hamilton , Canada and F bass gave me tickets to Alain workshop, I had no idea who he was. he as so cool and humble. Michel Cusson played an f guitar as well.
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This popped up on my phone notifications, while I was at a Marcus Miller concert last night, in Montreal Canada. Seen Stanley Clarke two nights before as well at the same theatre
What ? I didn’t know this Brian ! An absolute beast 🙏
How, again, has Stanley Clark eluded yet another SBL list? One of the slap pioneers, a fusion pioneer, and the first solo electric bassist. What gives Scott and Ian?
When I first started playing in 1980, Stanley was neck and neck with Jaco as “the world’s greatest bassist”. I bought the brown Stanley Clarke album and Jaco’s debut on the same day; loved Stanley’s album and didn’t really like Jaco’s. But after Jaco died it just seemed like he went through the roof, and since then Stanley just seems to have become less and less lauded. It’s a shame; he was Mark King’s biggest influence for a start!
I discovered Brian Bromberg when I started looking into Kiesel artists a few years ago. Wow, can he play.... I just got my new bass and am looking to improve my slap game!
The opening to "Lessons in Love" is why I became a Mark King fan.
Mark King put me off slap bass for 20 years
Great video guys!
What about "Slither"?
Mark King wasn't doing open hammer thumb plucks. Triplets. Pluck, left hand muted whacking thing, thumb. Rinse and repeat.
Please make a video on slapp bass comparing slapp bass on 4 vs. 5 vs. 6. I see the legend of slapp like marcus Miller and Victor wooten still use 4 string bass for slapp
They do, but Alain Caron and Henrik Linder both play 6ers. the real challenges on the 6 are accuracy and muting!
Awesome videoooooo !!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
This is the best bass channel ever, l've addicted to it for years now. I would love to see you interview or sample Abraham laboriel Snr bass techniques.
When the slap finger points to me it is P Bass or Jazz with only the neck pickup! I’m so glad IMA prefers this too. The tone is SO good!
I like this guy Aram Bedrosian. He plays slap on acoustic bass and it's amaze balls
Light gauge strings are key to Mark King's sound, but the Status is perhaps TOO clean and if the mix isn't right, it can lose bottom end big time. Thankfully, though, Mark has seemed to have moved on from Status back to his more classic sounding Jaydee.
For part two: for being a total freak I'd say Doug Wimbish, but maybe also Michael Manring, who may not be slapping that frequently, but he does it differently to anyone else. Mohini Dey, Ilja Lappin, Charles Berthoud and Nate Navarro are crazy too.
And in terms of being a huge influence, some important slappers are certainly Stuart Zender, TimmyC, Fieldy, Alex Katunich.
For me, the ideal slap sound is a good jazz bass with both pickups at 💯!
One name... Doug Wimbish. One track, King of the Beat (Tackhead live).
Yeah, Tackhead were great..... 'Hard Left' got me into slapping after hearing it back in the day
@@nickd.6365 100%, great track, years ahead of its time. Always loved the aggression in What's My Mission as well from the same album.
Yes !! But not the good player for Living Color , too much notes and effects.
@@callingchristiano hmm, I love Muzz Skillings as well but Doug's bass on Stain album is exceptional and really suited their direction at that time.
@@uboweeg agree with you. But I saw LC with both and I must say that they sound so much better with Muzz. Just my opinion. Doug is a top bass player, but sometimes...hum...often...too much notes and effects.
😅 Scott, you ruined Mark Kings sound for me. The strings do sound thin, Mark is regardless still amazing
Jerry Peek and Dave LaRue were doing "Country-fied Slap Bass" 40 years ago with Steve Morse.
Let’s go back to 1973 in the UK.A bass player called Stephen Fields AKA Stephen Amazing from the band UPP.He was years ahead of his time and got next to no recognition.
If you see flea now
Even him slap with parallel thumb
You can see it at the closing ceremony of the olympics where they promote the next olymp in LA
Flea slaps with his thumb kinda parallel
No Stanley Clarke? He's such a beast, tho.
Mark King on the Jaydee is sooooo Much Better. Sure he uses light strings, but that Status was also ultra bright. Jaydee all day long ..
Mark King sings while playing difficult bass lines. This is a talent few bass players have...that puts him on another level as well.
Very true! Lessons In Love while singing is a serious challenge!
@@devinebass For me the singing is the only bit I can do for the entire song. 😉😂
Any chance of you guys doing a podcast or course about being a band leader/ musical director, although not bass specific it would be really useful to get hints and tips for guiding your bands.
Potentially, that's a really interesting subject!
I wonder if Larry's giant sleeves are muting the strings a bit, near the bridge. In that clip specifically.
Forgetting Alain Caron???????????????? Are joking guys?????
Umm did you watch the video?!
Is that a Spector in antiqua color behind Mr Allison? The headstock looks like Spector and color looks like antigua, but I've never seen a antigua Spector before😅
Mark king uses full scale basses👍 that machine gun triplet thing he was doing isn’t a hammer on. It’s a combination of a left and right hand muted slap. Pluck the G string and do a left-hand muted slap and then do a right hand muted slap. Hopefully that Makes sense.
His Status basses are 32" scale.
@@TrevBec yes! But for the majority of his career he’s used Jaydee basses and a has recently switched back to them they are full scale 👍
Yup, was quite surprised they got that one wrong really, That was really the original machine gun slap technique to me
@@samba1412 exactly!
By the way... If you guys don't know all of the guys in the Victor video... It's Joe Wooten on keys, Reggie Wooten on Guitar and JD Blair on drums. All of these guys are legends!
Super disappointed Ian had not heard Alain Caron in Slam the Clown.
Do you know Mr. Tetsuo Sakurai ( ex. Casiopea )?
By no means am i slap enthusis. But great content You all need to get LES on for a full interveiw. Talking about day of trying out for metallica to creating primus . His methods etc. that would incredible. He is by far one of my favorite musicians..
We would love to Les on for an interview, i'm sure it would be incredibly interesting!!
I'm at the 23:00 mark. Where is Norwood Fischer?
Mark King is the King.
Taste is individual and subjective! Each to their own!
@@devinebass Sorry, overseen that You mentioned him in Your fantastic Video.
How dare you forget Lee Rocker! 😅 Love the content boys!
marcus miller has such a nice pop tone
So we went from the banana bass to the tomato bass. Got it. lol Sounds killer btw ;)
Alain is probably one of the best underrated slappers I've ever heard!
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WOJTEK PILICHOWSKI is missing from this video
Who? That looks like a Xbox redeem code
He's an incredible Polish bass player, check him out!!
@@devinebass oh wow! Ok
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I'm half polish, this comment is gold. One of my friends once said " you polish guys with your dissonant writing " 😂😂
Great slap ‘o sound: Tony Levin with his funkfingers (f.i. King Crimson’s ‘People’ / Peter Gabriel’s ‘Red Rain’ (Secret World live album)!
Both pickups please, that's rhe right slap sound. Just turn the volume up ✌️
Thank you for introducing me to Brian Bromberg!
I guess Mark King's tone is so thin because normally his lines are doubled by synth bass that fills in the low end.
Doug Wimbish. Very different approach and technique. Slaps with his fingertips. He’s got the Larry Graham thumb, too.
Kai Eckhardt - check out Vital Information "Fiafiaga" album!
I'm commenting before I watch. I hope Brian Bromberg is on this list! He has been flying under the radar for FAR too long
Great list, but it's just too small. Jonas Hellborg is up there too, his creativity is awesome.
I'm with Scott on this one, Mark King with a 45-105 set instead of the 30-90 set he normally uses. That should bring back some oomph in his sound.
just dialing some low end into the sound will help a lot too
I wonder where Lewis’s blonde stingray is nowadays? Anyone know? My slap tone since I don’t own a Jazz anymore, is straight up Stingray or Warwick thumb both pups full on
I was at a concert where Larry Graham was playing with Mark King. It was a festival so towards the end his friend prince joined the stage…and after one song Carlos Santana joined…unbelievable and they were al fans of Larry. Later Carlos said in his own set: first time I played with him since woodstock
Yeah, these guys are some aliens for sure! Alain Caron’s “Slam the Clown” (and “D Code” from the same concert) are simply unobtainable for me. So is pretty much anything by Henrik, but every one of these players are exceptional! Marcus was a large part of the reason I fell into Luther Vandross (who was a Top 5 singer for me… just wasn’t ordinary at all!).
Stanley Clarke?!
So cool to see Alain playing the dual split coil F-bass! It's my main gigging bass but I don't think I've seen anyone else playing that configuration.
What about Abraham Laboriel?
Agreed, maybe top 20. Would’ve been in my top 5
Definitely I would put Abraham Laboriel in there as well as John Patitucci and Stanley Clarke, Jeff Berlin, me personally just opinion I would remove Flea, Les Claypool other than that I like the list, it's very hard to just select top 10.
Disappointed with the clip of Mark King. Firstly, neither playing one of his most funky, musical solos, nor playing one of his most terrifying. Also, his Status sound is probably his worst IMO (and it would seem also in the opinion of many others). For me his Alembic tone and his early Jaydee tone were the best; even though he’s revived the Jaydees he hasn’t completely revived the early tone (probably because the Traces were a factor). I also wouldn’t say that his Status tone is just down to the strings (30-90); Stu Zender played 35s (thinner than average) and didn’t sound thin at all. FWIW Scott, I can’t stand Marcus’s sound. Hate it! 😂We all have our preferences.😉
there was probably a neanderthal that played a sweet slap bass line on a vine and invented funk...goat'd