Leonard Smalls

I use a trigger thumb splint... All pain gone from fret hand!

Your Attention Please - Scars ( remember getting this a freebie gold flexi from some magazine in the early 80s!)

Disco Inferno - the Trammps

Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones

Road Hog(manay) - John D Loudermilk

I've tended to do my home mixing with mainly AKG K240 headphones and Adam A8 monitors. But recently felt the need for some closed back phones to record vox and the like. So I did a bit of research and came up with RØDE NTH-100. I bought some, and now I may have to relegate the AKGs to secondary, and the Adams just for checking a mix. They're awesome - for £109 they do everything a 'phone should, they're nearly as good as AKG K872s at a tenth of the price!

In-Seine in the Brain - Prince Fatty

Wye Does it Hurt When I pee? - Frank Zappa

Ouse Zoomin' Who - Arethra Franklin

KrapTwerk

Weeds have a very rare outing, but it's not till autumn - we have a headline in Chester in October! Full band haven't played together for about 7 years, despite releasing our first ever e.p in March. Rehearsals and song writing will be remote (we're far-flung, from Ireland to South of France!) with one actual physical rehearsal day before the gig...

This is currently playing...

Quite fancy this though at £299!

Me neither! Not since I asked the bloke who runs our local jazz club if there were going to be any electric or fusion jazz gigs. He said "If you'd care to come along and give us the benefit of your no-doubt extensive knowledge then you can see what we're about"... I replied that with that sort of patronising response to a perfectly reasonable question, that I wouldn't feel at all welcome. And his bookings have been exclusively acoustic straight-ahead jazz in always the same vein. I found a similar attitude among classical concert goers - not the majority of them, just those who sat at the front with the score on their lap desperately hoping for the performer to make a "mistake" they could tut about!

Weirdly, this was playing on our shop playlist just as I clicked this post! Spooky...

Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic

Alice in Chairs

Pimp Bizkit Moundgarden

I don't give a Fork - Suicidal Tendencies

Cut the Cake - Average White Band

I've now rolled it in 3 coats of glitter and 2 coats of oak-stain varnish, so here's some ambient grooves in both 6:8 and 4:4 time. Possibly. Bass is a Sandberg, synths by AAS Iris and BassStation, drums sequenced from Ableton and EZ Drummer sounds. Guitar = Strat. Delays and reverbs by Raum, Objeq and Dubstation. Plenty Neutron 3 and Ozone 9 and MixRoom and BassRoom eqs, comps, limits etc.

Good'n'rockin'n'groovy, sort of like B52s play XTC!

still smokin - trouble funk

We had a 0929 Saturday rehearsal too - 2nd one with our new guitarist. We told him not to worry about playing what our old guitarman did, to make it his own, and it's definitely got punkier, though in a good way! His rhythm playing is excellent, he improvises little bits of twiddle here'n'there where before there was nowt, and now there's a bit more sparkle. He's young (well, 30s!) too! Not only that but I've got him to duplicate some of my linking bass runs that were previously lost under a power chord - it'll add to tightness and interest. Though when I asked him how well he knew his modes as we had a tendency to slot in (more than) the occasional Phryge (😁) he said " I thought I was joining a punk band!" to which we all chanted in Gregorian "punk is in the eye of the be-ho-ol-der!".

Androids of Pu Ass Grass Eddie and the Hot Sods The Ball Mega Tity Four New Modal Army The Nuts (and Nuts D.C) Spizz Oik Stiff Little Mingers Swell Paps Nice Squad Wreckless Pric