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"And on the eighth day God created Stourbridge" From the gospel of The Wonderstuff

I gotta feeling that when we watched Aquaman, Aquaman's dad (played by Boba Fett actor) had a bass guitar in his lighthouse... I said to the kids "I bet that's there cos the bloke playing Aquaman is one of us" And of course not all superheroes wear capes, some play bass 😎...and can breathe underwater 😆

Here's us murdering one of our covers...JJ Cale's Bringing It Back YouCut_20231015_170522070.mp4 But wait!...Chris saves the day with a little solo near the end...the dep drummer forgot the ending so that was a bit ad-hoc 😀

Thanks for the encouragement @Franticsmurf and @dmccombe7 I have taken it upon myself to rise to the challenge and have a back up plan once we get a drummer in place. We have a small fanbase in the area that should almost fill a small pub if they all get together at the same time at the right pub 😆.

Thanks Dave. We live in a small city that has so so much going on for bands. There are two venues that have bands playing original music and the Salisbury Live thing has grown from a fringe event at Salisbury Arts Festival to events going on all year round with both covers bands and originals side by side. In a previous originals band we found it easy to get gigs anywhere but Salisbury was very difficult. A mate's band put us bottom of the bill at one of their gigs at the old ale house, then we got noticed and things really picked up. This band will have to go down the same route I guess, we'll have to force our way into a gig and promote the hell out of it. We already have a fairly active social media so some Salisbury peeps and bands probably know our music already 😁 Still looking for a permanent drummer too...we have 3 deps until that day

We haven't even been asked to play let alone haven't been asked back! That's a bit of a fib, we've had one gig in Andover but we can't seem to get any action in our home town. We've tried the promoters but there's no interest in us playing our original material. We'll keep plugging away, someone will have us play...maybe if we played our songs in a ska style 🤔 When we finally get that gig I'll let you know if we get asked back 😁

I've been in this band since April '22 after their original bassist left. It's originals in the style of the rock music of our youth! AC/DC are a big influence as YouCut_20230929_130308735.mp4 well Sabbath and the Foo Fighters. This is from my 2nd gig with them a coupla weeks back...gigs and drummers have been hard to come by hence the lack of gigging. Loving it though 😁 Here's a snippet of Summer Jiving from Felis' Life By Misadventure album (Spotify, YouTube, etc)

https://spotify.link/WSvtm45qrDb Adam Buxton is a bit of a fan, here's a link to his podcast talking to T.D.

Aliens Ate My Buick is one of my all time favourite albums Slick, funky and a good dollop of humour (I also love Was (Not Was)) 8-) Thomas Dobly so very underrated

I was 14 in '85 and listened to everything my mates were into and the top 40. I remember loving the Style Council so much that I bought Our Favourite Shop and I hardly ever bought albums so that was special. '85 was also the year that Level 42 released Something About You and that was the first time they hit me as a band I'd end up being a fan of. Living It Up and Hot Water did the groundwork but SAY was the moment I got it...the video helped...as Vic Reeves once said "that feeling you get listening to Level 42 on a summer's day" (I'm not sure he said that but it sounds good). Prince and Grace Jones's Slave To The Rhythm would've been on heavy rotation too.

Nowt wrong with the Wurzels, they be on EMI back in the day 😆

The long search is over! We think we have our new drummer and during the search, picked up another three who are willing to dep... I guess the band's notorious rock n roll lifestyle isn't for everyone 🤷🏻‍♂️ so depping is a bit of a cop out (which is funny as one of the deps is an ex copper 🤔😁). Thanks for reading this far, Al

Love it! You got any more?

Dare say so many have paid homage to him that he need never get a round in ever again (our guitarist confessed that one of ours is a bit Sabbath)

Hi Steve, I've just posted my new band's latest offering and then listened to all three tracks here...wish I hadn't, I feel quite inadequate now 😆 this is some major riffage, love it! More please! Al

I joined an established rock band called Felis Leo, the core of the band started at school in the mid 80s. They got back together in about 2018 after many years apart. Butterflies is the lead track off our latest EP and seems to be pretty popular. https://youtu.be/vpcklC2jsoo

Love that album, it came out around the time I was falling in love with the bass. I had this and Schooldays plus Heavy Weather and Black Market to add a little Jaco with the Stanley. You wouldn't think I used to listen to such wonderful jazz fusion now that I'm 'staying on the root note' in a metal band 😆

They warned the public not to pick up anything lying around that isn't yours after that... Salisbury is a right ol' tip these days 😆

There's a few jam/open mic nights in and around Salisbury and I think they all fall on various Thursday nights. I've not been as our lead guitarist works Thursday nights. Robb (you forgot the extra b @TheRev 😁) is a damn good promoter who put my old band on 15yrs ago when we couldn't get arrested in Salisbury...trouble is he seems to be shunning my new band at the moment 😬 so if you do go to the Winnie Gate please mention Felis Leo and how wonderful we are to the management (a little white lie goes a long way 😆). As a trade, if you need to borrow a 4 or 5 string while you're down here just message me 👍

I joined a band who renamed themselves Felis Leo back in 2018 because their old name since the mid 80s, Escapade, was already taken. I don't think I would've joined them if they kept the old name 😂 Quite chuffed with the artwork for the latest EP, tis done by a tattoo artist.

Hi Basschatters, Felis Leo are looking for another drummer!!! We play original old skool metal so there's no money in it and you won't be gigging every week (or every month! 😆). But we love what we do and hope to find a drummer who is both fantastic enough to play the tunes and likes a laff and a beer too! Please get in touch if this is you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🤘🦁 Check out the latest EP as a sample of what we do

Just bumping this up, I'm out with the family all day and will read through this later. The rock/metal originals band I joined last year can't get a gig in Salisbury at the moment (I know, a metal band in Salisbury that can't get a gig...we must be bad 😆). Our latest EP was released yesterday on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, etc and it'd be nice to play these tunes live...be nice to have a permanent drummer too but that's another story. Looking forward to reading this later 😃

Southampton band Toupé were 2 bassists and a drummer. Mighty fine band that my band had the pleasure of supporting a couple of times in the late noughties. There was a Zappa/Primus vibe about their music. Grant Sharkey (50% of the bass section) is currently halfway through a solo project of recording 40 albums in 20 years.

I hadn't heard Doctor Doctor in my entire 50 years until April! I was blackmailed into joining a metal band who play their own tunes but for a wedding gig had to fill out their set with covers. I think they've been playing DD since the late 80s and, with the help of an entirely new rhythm section managed to get an ending right that they've been trying all that time! I'm listening to a lot more HM these days so I'll check out UFO.

I think the 1st time I played with musicians (but I don't think there was a drummer) was at Cricklade College, Andover in a music room. All the guitarists I knew at that point loved Jimi Hendrix so I think Hey Joe would've been shown to me. I think I knew the root notes for Whiskey in a jar and House of the rising sun but Jimi didn't play those toons! The 1st band I joined taught me Green Onions and Careful with that axe Eugene...you would've thought being in Andover the kids would play Wild Thing! 😆