Leonard Smalls

No Fkn Problem - Suicidal Tendencies

Oh yeah?? - Yello

Jam Fan - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Two rehearsals with two bands recently... First one: we'd recruited two new guitarists. One came to one rehearsal where we had to use recorded drums as drummer couldn't make it. We got a message then saying he couldn't think of anything to play and didn't want to continue. Other one hadn't turned up to previous rehearsal, finally confirmed he'd be coming to this one then never turned up. So two basses, drums and vox! Leaves lots of room for me to go widdleywoo, but we felt we did need a spot of rhythm guitar. So now singer is going to dust off axe hero skills and bring guitar to next shindig. Fingers crossed! Second one: after 8 weeks of cancellations by drummer due to excessive workload we got it together. And it was pretty good... We finally sorted out our rather aimless cover of "Do You Wanna Funk" - it's now a rockin'disco beast with a middle 8 stolen from RockCandyFunkParty and SonicYouth!

Up for The Down Stroke - Parliament

Pedal Pushin' Papa - The Dominoes

Down Down - Status Quo

Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw

physical - Olivia Newton John

Seven Alsatian Army - White Stripes

Let's Lynch The Landlord! - Dead Kennedys

Have you been on Basschat for long? 😁 I'm doing an early 80s classic. In a furrin' language, just to make it exciting. And I'm taking it all very seriously indeed. Oh yes.

Paint it Backgammon - The Modettes

One Way Snore Another - Blondie

Ouse Lovin' You - Jackson 5

Severn Nation Army - White Stripes

You misunderstand... M is the sum of the 2 stereo tracks, call them tracks 1&2, or A&B, or X&Y, and S is the difference between the 2. When I worked in BBC sound we didn't have a plug-in to do the coding or decoding for us, we'd do it via a jackfield with parallel blocks and a phase reverse lead... If you've recorded in M&S, then one of the tracks is the mid signal, and the other is side.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron

Twentieth Century Foxtrot - The Doors

You can spend a lot of time looking up all the bass players mentioned on here! I, for instance have no clue about many 70s US or even British rock bassists, and I haven't really got much interest because I tend not to like most of the music wot they have Dunn.. I spose you could call that wilful ignorance! However, there's a whole genre of music (and by extension, bass players) that is just completely dismissed on BC - jazz! So there's amazing players that the majority on BC would have no clue about (too many notes, sounds like a typewriter falling down the stairs, it's unmusical etc) such as Shahzad Ismaily, or Fima Ephron, or Kim Baker, or Erik Sanko, or Paul "Tubbs" Williams...

We had one on Sunday, and our other bass player remarked afterwards that he'd had a health check at work and they'd noticed a deterioration in his hearing, and wondered if he had any ideas why that might be the case... He pointed out to me that he had earplugs, and duly showed them to me. You could see by the perfect winding of the string joining 'em they'd never been out of the box!

One of my favourites... But this is him in the mid-90s, probably last time he used the Steinberger (at least that I've seen!): And when I first discovered him - I was looking for funk records in Leeds as I was DJing. There was no means of finding The Funk via radio, or TV or music press, so guess work was usually the way forward. And this import (twas about £8, in 1984!) ticked all the boxes! Though I found when listening that it was deeply unsuitable for a funk disco, and it took me about 3 years to actually be able to listen to it!

Star Trekkin' - The Firm

If the Kids are United - Sham 69

Nun of the Above - Duran Duran