Mark King Slap Solo

Here is a sweet video of elite bassist Mark King. This guy makes popping look so easy.

Quoted as saying "Hold on a second, I can't hear you over the radiant awesomeness of this shirt"

Here’s a little info on Mark King, via Wikipedia:

Mark King (born 20 October 1958, Cowes, Isle of Wight) is an English musician. He is most famous for being the lead singer and bassist of the band, Level 42. In the early 1980s King popularized the 1970s-era slap and pop style for playing the bass guitar by incorporating it into pop music.

Mark King helped to develop and popularize the slap and pop style of playing the bass guitar in the 1980s. The slapping and popping style was developed in the 1970s by funk bassists such as Larry Graham and further developed by jazz fusion bassists such as Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. King developed a rapid playing speed using this technique, and introduced technical elements that enabled him to produce a mix of percussive effects while still playing a bass line.

One of King’s greatest influences was the musician Tom Taylor who gave King guitar lessons at the age of twelve.

King’s bass playing style is largely based on continuous 16th notes (aka semiquavers), variously described as “machine-gun” style. The “machine-gun” style of playing consists of popping a note, hammering on, then slapping (occasionally with a left hand slap combined) very rapidly.

King and Level 42 are considered highly influential artists of the brit funk movement of the 1970s and 1980s.