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What song are you guys working on learning?

Alvabass said:
Right now I'm working on Mark King's "Mr. Pink" bass solo. Great old-school (no double-thumpin') slap solo! I can figure it out by ear, but I'd love to have an accurate transcription of it. Having to repeat and slowing down the recording for getting the right notes and articulations becomes an annoying thing after some time of repeating it.
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I'm a huge Mark King fan; greatest funk bass player ever! :) Which version of Mr. Pink are you working on? There is a studio version and several live versions.

btw, I just picked up a vhs copy of live at Wembley. There is only one ballad during the whole show, and the rest is pure Mark King funk!
 
prickly_pete said:
I'm a huge Mark King fan; greatest funk bass player ever! :) Which version of Mr. Pink are you working on? There is a studio version and several live versions.
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Man, it's a live version I got from the Net and I'd like to know in which record was released (Before starting the solo, Mark says "Hey!"). I haven't been a Level 42 fan because their music is too eighties for me and I don't have one single record, but I'd buy this one at Amazon blindfolded. Not only he's a great player. His tone is awesome! :cool:
 
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Alvabass said:
Man, it's a live version I got from the Net and I'd like to know in which record was released (Before starting the solo, Mark says "Hey!"). I haven't been a Level 42 fan because their music is too eighties for me and I don't have one single record, but I'd buy this one at Amazon blindfolded. Not only he's a great player. His tone is awesome! :cool:
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Level 42 was a great funk fusion band mis-cast as 80s new wave pop. The studio stuff is pretty flat, but the live stuff is amazing! I suspect the version of Mr. Pink you have is from A Physical Presence Live -- import available from Amazon. Also check out the 2001 one DVD concert Live at Reading, also available from Amazon. btw, Mark King was using Alembic and JD basses back in the 80s.

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NorM said:
Frankenstine
Canon in D
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Is that Frankenstien by Edgar Winter? I love that tune. I play it myself, Learning the ketboard parts are great too. The only part I don't play is the keyboard part towards the end. So I've rearranged the song, I now call it Colenstien as a joke to myself.

Colin
 
We played Brick House the other night as a sh!t-kickin' country tune. I was root-five-ing my butt off.

I'm not saying it was good, but I will say it was funny.
 
I can only imagine!

I am actually coming to you from Orlando, Florida today. I'm a big kid who still can't enough of the amusement parks, and now that my boys a big enough to ride the monster coasters with me - woo hoo!

I digress... :rolleyes:

Saw a rocking band at Pleasure Island in Downtown Disney. They did Brick House and I decided I was going to noodle with it when I got home...

Bum - bum, bum, bum - bum - bum! :p
 
TK, did I ever tell you that my cousin drummed for Skynyrd for years?

He'd take my mom and his mom backstage. Lord, two old southern ladies in a Skynyrd dressing room! But they were super nice to the ladies, and that goes a long way with me.

Are we off topic yet?

Where's that freaking robot?

Jack
 
Nope Jack you did not. We cover a lot of songs here in Kansas. Skynyrd is what we get the most requests for. I sure wish that plane hadn't crashed. They were just hitting their stride.

We have 200 covers on our list now. Still learning Skynyrd. :)

tk
 
tkarter said:
Nope Jack you did not. We cover a lot of songs here in Kansas. Skynyrd is what we get the most requests for. I sure wish that plane hadn't crashed. They were just hitting their stride.

We have 200 covers on our list now. Still learning Skynyrd. :)

tk
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"I Know a Little" is a fun Skynyrd tune to cover :)

Actually we just finished a toughie called "(I Wanna Go) Higher" that included brass parts. Very quick & precise parts but we all worked pretty hard and "Got 'er done". Yeah!
 
bovinehost said:
I have to work on rockabilly and country stuff for Cowpilot, but when I want to just lay back and get happy, yeah, XTC rocks.

Latest weirdness - "Key's in the Mailbox" and a seriously bizarre Y'allternative version of "I'll Stop The World and Melt With You".
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How about XTC's "mayor of simpleton" or "peter pumpkinhead" these would go over great at SLO.
 
AC/DC - Powerage.

EDIT: I just put Sarah McLachlan on. It's amazing how powerful a song can be with one well placed note every so often...
 
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spectorbassguy said:
"I Know a Little" is a fun Skynyrd tune to cover :)

Actually we just finished a toughie called "(I Wanna Go) Higher" that included brass parts. Very quick & precise parts but we all worked pretty hard and "Got 'er done". Yeah!
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I have fun doing every Skynyrd song we do. Just takes me a bit to catch onto the basslines. Leon was a tough one to follow IMHO.

We also do the new Skynyrd too. Same response.

Makes it fun being in a cover band. Our originals are building as well. Having fun along the way is what I play for.

We don't have any brass so we improvise a bit on some. 8 of us in the band and we can't cover Skynyrd completely :eek: :eek:

Never seen an accurate skynryd tab anywhere. Therefore tab doesn't exist in my book. MOISTI

tk
 
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