Love the Isle of Wight been there many times it’s a fabulous little island but by far the greatest thing about the place is that the original incarnation of this band came from there kingy and his pals have just been a powerhouse of Brit funk for years now top drawer music
That solid drumming gives Mark the freedom to do what he does, and keep it sounding as tight as I’d does. All true masters of their instruments, seems we are losing that in popular music. Now it’s computers, auto-tune and so many trying to outdo each other sounding the same. Sucks getting old and finding pop culture so boring and uninspired.
@@warrenbass7350the Bass player is Excellent. Only Mark king plays Bass that yes there are other Bassist but none off them Sing and play thump Bass at the time.
Mark King, Tony Franklin, Bernard Edwards and Nick Beggs broke so much ground back in the 80s. they took what was traditionally an underpinning instrument and drove it to the front.
Oh! At last! Somebody mentioned Bernard Edwards. (Not taking away from King, just no mention of the greatest riddim bassist of all time! He was THE man!
Mark King is my bass hero and boyhood favourite, but one of the reasons I also love Bernard Edwards is that he had a heart attack on stage and carried on playing whilst with Chic! THAT is bass commitment! (Read all about it in Nile Rodgers' autobiography) ALL LEGENDS!
Truth from world's biggest Who fan. Mark is amazing. If all he did was sing and write he would be heralded for his skills. That bass playing is otherworldly like Entwistle.
Gotta bring in a couple more names here: Pin Palladino and Geddy Lee may not be Brits (who cares anyway? talking fave bassists, ffs) and yet these isles did birth Chris Squire. RIP all our great inspirations 🥰🥰
It was an amazing show I was there. So great to see them again live incredible musicians and Mark King is off the richter 💙💎🙏 The queue to get in went on forever they are as popular as ever!!!
I was jumping up n down, on the sofa to Level 42, 38 years ago. Before I knew what a bass was, let alone play it. Thank you Mark, Mike, & the brothers Gould 🙏
We heard Mark and his GANG 40 Years (!!!) ago in 1983 at Discotheq „Airport“ in Würzburg/Germany to exactly this song !! It was epiphany- Can t believe it!! Dont stop FUNK Mark!!!
I saw him in Portsmouth at The Kings Theatre (on his birthday) and they were great! You can certainly see that they still love what they do, and still deliver!
I saw L42 at the Hammersmith Odeon in the early/mid 80's and here they are, there again and just as bloody fantastic as ever. I so wish they would come down under & play Sydney!
My God, this brought me back to my early days as a concert photographer in the early eighties when I worked for a music paper called Echoes! I photographed them back then at Hammersmith Odeon so this is so retro! 👏🏾👍🏾🙏🏾 🏴🇸🇪🇹🇹
It was a brilliant night in Hammersmith. We were in the audience and it's great to see this close up video. Fantastic band and fantastic audience. Long live Level 42 - keep it funky!
I saw Level 42 in Groningen (The Netherlands) in November 2023 and the gig was still pretty good. First time I saw them was in 1987 also in Groningen. Still one of my all favorite bands.
What can one say? Best slap bassist ever! I rate Bernard Edwards over Mark King for rhythm, but I don't see Nile Rodgers on guitar. I love Marks deep and heavy sound.
@@SgtSteel1 The bass guitar Mark is using for some decades, Jaydee (JD) is a British basses (and guitars, but not known for their guitars) manufacturer. This model is the Jaydee MK Supernatural Classic Series 1, here with the pearl inlays on the fretboard, these are extremely good instruments made one at a time, piece by piece, only on order. This bass and the unique playing style of Mark King is what that makes the band unique, but I don't want to forget his brother Nathan King on guitars and the fantastic Mike Lindup on keyboards.
Mr King is simply an amazing bassist, the best of the best! Happened to be in one of their concerts in Asia back in the 80s, it was an awesome experience!
It’s amazing that after some *42* years Mark has kept his genius virtuoso bass playing style intact. The great endearing factor is still the very slightly off vocal which I mention with the greatest respect…
What makes Mark great is that he is not only a great bass player of the very higher order but he can also sing at the same time. That’s hard and many other great bassists simply don’t do this.
…simply. There are that are rising stars now. But King has been a very underrated bassist- who has a brilliant solo album called ‘Influences’. Look at Mononeon, Munir Hossn for starters. But I doubt that anyone can or needs to better King’s style. I’m convinced his drumming skills set him up for singing machine-gunner slapper
What a beast... He's still got it. I wonder if the thumb is still insured for a million bucks like back in the day. By the way, the venue is now the Eventim Apollo, I think. Lots of history there..
The King of them all. No matter what he plays, he always seems like he has a bit more left in the tank, another gear to shift up to. I am speechless with admiration.
Saw Level 42 on the recent tour -nver seen them live before.Mark King blew my socks off-in 50+ years of gig going I have seen some pretty spectacular musicians (including Stanley Clark at his peak) and this guy is right up there on the top table..jaw droppingly good.
What a great this was I was up in the circle.even though I've been a fan since the 80s I never got to see them live til this tour thanx to the groups on fb.i was in extreme pain this night but would not have missed it for the world.
Mark used to play insanely fast solos bk in the day when he was breaking boundaries...like on physical presence live album...he got nothing to prove these days
