Chords for Mark King of Level 42 plays a TC Electronic RH750 bass amp

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_ _ [G] And on [Dm] bass, the [Bb] man, [Dm] the living legend, Mr.
Mark King. _
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[G] The first bass that I [B] owned was the JD Supernatural [N] _ 0003 SA. _
And I [Em] got that in 1980 with the first advance that we had from the record company, and I've
still got it.
And _ John Diggins very kindly [F] just [D] serviced it for [E] me a little while back.
It's lovely.
[Bb] It's like an old [Ebm] girlfriend, you know.
[G] I had a Gibson, but it wasn't mine.
It didn't belong to me.
It belonged to Martin [Bb] Daly, who [E] was the manager of [Em] the music shop I worked at.
And that's what we took into the studio to record Love Meeting Love in 1980.
[D] But it was never my bass.
[G] And that was sort of how I got into using the light [A] strings, because it was actually
a short scale bass.
[G] And I like the fact that the [Bm] strings were very _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ [G] bendy, which I found, once again, it's
another expression of thing.
There is a bit of a trade-off, you know, with the, as you bass players will all know, that
you know the heavier strings you use, the more groin you can put into something, a bit
more sort of bottom end.
But _ [Dm] _ you trade that off, you know, for the fact that you can bend stuff.
And I do, you know, I do a lot of string bending.
And it's a useful thing.
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it's just an expression of thing, [F] you know.
It's what I missed when I went to Headless Basses.
It was the thing that [Em] I missed, _ was just being able to do that, if you [F] want to.
You know, you don't often use that.
But anything that gives you a bit more expression on the instrument has got to be good [Em] from
the instrumentalist's point of view.
So it was wonderful working with Rob, and you know, I sort of explained that that was
a problem for me when you had like the zero nut and then, _ you know, where the strings went into.
So we just came up with the idea of shifting it back so you can do that thing that you
can do with a headed bass.
_ Like I said, Rob's great.
The last sort of version of this bass, which was the King Bass 2, _ was [A] more like this sort
of alembic size.
[Am] _ [B] And it's because I put a couple of stone on, and I thought if I had a bigger bass it would
make me look thinner.
[G] So, _ _ _ _ _ and there we are.
And I lost a bit of [Dm] weight, so I said, oh, come on, the bass looks huge.
[G] So there we go. _
_ [Dm] And now, [G] working with the _ guys at TC Electronic is a real privilege, actually.
And tonight I'm using [Cm] an amp that hasn't even been unveiled yet, [G] really.
This is the new _ [A] RH750.
[Gm] So _ it's got some serious horsepower, and it's a lovely amp.
And I don't know if you can see, [G] but what the lights tell you is that it's just flat.
So I'm not even putting any EQ through [C] it.
Because I like the sound of my basses, and I just really want it to be _ [Dm] beautifully [G] amplified. _
Nice and clean.
And if I need to accommodate the hall _ characteristics, then I can tweak something on the amp.
But I really don't need to, because it's just a really good, clean, loud sound.
For me, a lot of the songwriting process is really just stringing together some of my
[E] favourite riffs [Gm] _ [Dm] _ that have been around for years, like [B] that.
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_ [Dm] Thank you.
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