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mark King? i agree.

So people like Louis Johnson, Bernard Edwards and Bootsy Collins had 80's mullets and "jackets with the sleeves rolled up etc,etc" when they were playing slap bass in the mid seventies did they Bassman? You fucking halfwit.

You were practically wanking yourself off one here one day after you'd managed to play some (probably very shit) slap bass one weekend. I seem to remember a name change even ensued.

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I raped myself once. My mind was telling me no but my body, my body was telling me yes.

Saw Bootsy a few weeks ago playing a tribute to James Brown. I was up the front when the great man handed me the mic and I treated the audience to my vocal debut. It was fun at the time but I'm glad it hasn't ended up on youtube.

My singing career came to an abrupt end when Bootsy slam dived on me and shoved his way into the audience.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

Was it "SlapBassman"?

Please say it was even if it wasn't!

I beg your pardon. I have never played slap bass in my life, so do me a favour and get your facts right. Must have been someone else your confusing me with. I have never, and would never play slap bass.

I may have said one or tunes were 'funky' but not slap bass. I'm talking Blondie/Franz Ferdinand style, which isn't slap bass...you fucking halfwit.

Don't start back tracking now Shirley. You said you;d played a slap bass line, and one of the old codgers in your band said you'd sounded "like flea".

And can you explain those time travelling black bassists from the mid 70's? How did they get their 80s mullets?

You fucking halfwit.

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I raped myself once. My mind was telling me no but my body, my body was telling me yes.

I have never played slap bass. I hate the sound, why would i play something i don't like? I'm not backtracking at all.

What part of that can't you understand? it's a pretty easy sentence that i have just typed above. Read it again. you fucking halfwit.

Flea. yes Flea does play 'some' slap, but at other times he plays normally, and the parts that he plays normally, we had a tune that i played some bass in a similar style, once again, not the slap parts. Ok?

Was this the song you had to play at half speed because you couldn't play it accuratly at the correct speed?

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

Backtracker.

Now how about those mullets?

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I raped myself once. My mind was telling me no but my body, my body was telling me yes.

eh? what you on about half speed? You've lost me.

Maybe it was that one you tried to play really slow, but couldn't because you found it hard to keep time? I think you said it sounded "like Pink Floyd"?

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I raped myself once. My mind was telling me no but my body, my body was telling me yes.

there's a bloke at work, who has still got a mullet. I think he must have had it for 30 years now. It's now gone grey.

Mullets were bad, and i can honestly say that i have never had a mullet. Life's bad enough without having a mullet. Although, i did once have a flick.

Ah, i remember now. Yes, for the hell of it, we tried to play not a song, just a jam, at ridiculously slow speed, which is hard to do. It was fuckin slooooww. Possibly slower than Floyd in their slow moments.

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5 Leaves Left

13/11/2007


FORMED in January, 2006, 5 Leaves Left took their name from the running-out slip in a packet of cigarette papers.

Friends Sam Walsh, Ged Staley, Gordon Allen and Paul Walmsley initially got together to jam in their bedrooms, but they became frustrated with having to keep the volume down and quickly recruited drummer Phil Bradley and moved in to a rehearsal room.

They have been rehearsing twice a week ever since and now have at least 30 original songs in their repertoire.

Gordon said: “Our sound has been described as 80s-influenced rock, but it is all our own: melodic, layered, driving, thought-inducing and passionate.

“We haven’‘t rushed to get out there, as we wanted to get it all right first. We have played a few gigs in Oldham and have started moving further afield.”

Paul who plays the bass in the band added "I really like playing slap bass and model my style on Mark King from Level 42 quite a bit"

Click on the Audio link to hear 'Dead Already'.

Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/5leavesleftuk


I think the phrase Banged to rights comes to mind?

very good:rolleyes: Funnily enough, our ex-drummer likes level 42. He used to keep suggesting that i should learn slap bass. Naturally i told him i thought it was a bag of toss, and had no intention of doing so.

Oof....musical differences already and not even one platinum album up on the wall yet.

I had a mullet in the 80s. Not afraid to admit it. I had very long hair in my mid teens. I was staying with my mate and his older sister was a hairdresser in Dublin - she was responsible for Bono's "Red Rocks" mullet. She badgered me for several days about cutting it and I finally relented. I ended up with an uber-mullet. Big spikey top, shaved at the side and about halfway down my back.

Thinking of growing it long again.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

Hang on Slart, you had a mullet in Mary D's last season or was that a syrup?

He did! He bloody did. I knew i wasn't imagining it.

ESM'd suit a mullet. He should try it

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Not a syrup. Like Saxondale, I still have my own locks. I might grow a beard as well.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.