Leonard Smalls

I'm too old to work in 8ths. But I can vacillate randomly between 4/4 and 5/4 to such an extent that the casual listener might think it's just out of time. However, I feel that said casual listener will have turned it off in disgust well before they'd reached any conclusions about the non-linearity of time, maaaan!

[quote name='Old_Ben' timestamp='1422802153' post='2676886'] Thanks all It was a great competition this month with everyone's entries being on top form! Well done to all and beers on me! [/quote] Well done indeed! Mine's a pint of Orkney Skullsplitter...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1422806825' post='2676945'] Trombone [i]and [/i]cowbell..! Mmm..! [/quote] Half right... No trombone this time. Though I've got time to get our local jazzist in to roll my burgeoning composition in glitter!

I've already made a start with a chaotic almost 5:4 chuffchuff beat; lovers of freeform funky freakism might just be able to tolerate it. Others are likely to run screaming if it continues as it's started!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1422213529' post='2669944'] A more than tenuous link with the picture, I'm afraid, and I can't say that the musicality [i]per se[/i] gave it many saving graces. Some may like it, of course; we live in strange times. Disturbing, the piece..? Definitely. [/quote] Cheers Douglas! I didn't expect it to appeal to lovers of nice melodies, or even music! But someone's voted fore it, Gawd 'elp 'em! Anyway, the link with the picture is that the picture is based on a lady in a Burkah protesting, and Bush gave many folks in the Middle East good reason to protest. She's no doubt disturbing the peace to fight the war - to paraphrase the annoyingly tuneful and rather po-faced Joan Baez...

We occasionally finish with Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie", but that's about the only cover we do... However, I'm tempted to give this a go (or perhaps Parliament's "Flashlight") [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hURfS6b3wVo[/MEDIA]

[quote name='Stephen Houghton' timestamp='1421950798' post='2667059'] Only joking post away [/quote] You asked for it... If you want slightly more accessible Derek look for the Mirakle album with Jamaaladeen Tacuma on bass, or his last performance with the Shakin Ray Levis - bot on you tube. [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dz_1meBjY[MEDIA]

I won't post the Derek Bailey/Min Tanaka video then!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1421855770' post='2665839'] ([size=4]I[/size][i]'m alarmed by the 'yet'. Should I be..? [/i] ) [/quote] I likes a nice tune, me...

[quote name='alittlebitrobot' timestamp='1421797784' post='2665279'] In that case, I might just go for the "shortest entry" award. [/quote] Like a truncated version of this? I don't quite dare, yet... [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyGMI0q8o6Y[/MEDIA]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1421674641' post='2663786'] Yes, we know, and you're very good at it. [/quote] You smooth-tongued devil you...

[quote name='alittlebitrobot' timestamp='1421458941' post='2661656'] current status: unlistenably cacophonous. [/quote] I like unlistenably cacophonous...

I've been gigging my Wal since I bought it in 1990... M band at the time had a stage show where an artist would paint a background - and us - while we played. Luckily all that's washed off the Wal, but there's deep wear on the body. It's starting to look like Stanley Clarke's "If only this bass could talk" which is fine by me. It's there for playing. I'm not the sort of person who would buy a new couch and leave the plastic on for the next 5 years!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1420803153' post='2653550'] If I owned a shop and knew this was what you were going to do..without even asking me if I could or would price match, I'd charge you to try out the kit [/quote] aye! If everyone only tried kit out in a shop then went and bought from an online retailer who had nowhere near the same overheads there would soon be no shops left. However, as a shop owner (not a music shop) I realise that to try and minimise this sort of behaviour I have to give the sort of service an online retailer can't, and hope the customer appreciates it enough to buy from us. Unfortunately lots of shops of all types don't seem to understand this might be their only way to survive!

Like!

Managed to finish (sort of!) in time before going on holiday tomorrow... http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/disturbing-the-peace

Thumbs up from me!

I used to DJ in Leeds during the 80s at the Phono, Warehouse and University - mainly funk and general indie oddities... That was in the days when a Citronic Hawaii with Stanton carts was the beezkneez! I remember someone once asking me to play some "Proper dance music {I was playing "Flashlight" at the time} like the Virgin Prunes". Unfortunately for him I had "Pagan Lovesong" which he was obliged to dance to, on his own, in the meddle of the University Refectory in front of 1000 wannabe funksters!

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1419413111' post='2639624'] I know a man who has, as part of his HiFi setup, an Isotek power conditioner. I think that they are about £2,500. [/quote] I know the guy who started the company, though he runs Isol-8 now. And to be fair, there's much more of an argument for using a power conditioner than an uber-mains cable! Some audio kit - usually because it hasn't got a robust enough power supply - is very susceptible to mains-borne noise, dc offsets and voltage fluctuation and reacts by either having humming transformers, or giving out low level white noise etc. Supply filtration or even re-generation in extreme cases can sort that out. However, a re-generator needs a lot of headroom if you're going to play loud and expect loud bass - unless you've got flea-powered amps and enormously efficient speakers. But as far as I'm concerned the power supply should be able to cope with any extreme of power supply that falls within the ESQR regs (electricity safety and quality) - my Bryston power amp specifically says don't bother with any mains foo as you'll restrict what the amp can do!

The standard audiophool response on being told the science - whether it's to do with room tuning RFI suppressors or mains cables or even hi quality "hifi" consumer units and plug sockets - is to say "well science doesn't know everything, and how can you know this doesn't work unless you try it?" The usual answer is "I've never jumped off a cliff either but know it will hurt because science tells me that gravity will smash me very hard into the ground... The point is that you [i]have to believe it works [/i].

I like a fart in a lift, if that's anything to go by!

It's definitely Bootsy, from the best Christmas album "Christmas is 4 Ever"... 2'24 is where it gets real funky. [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G09DdUu8v_0[/MEDIA]

You lot with your music stands'n'bits of paper/ipads/whatever! I once did a gig with a free improv band; the lady trombone leader issued us all with a piece of paper with some different coloured daubs of paint on. She said "we'll improvise around whatever you see in those colours". How we laughed! I ended up playing mainly wah-wahed bass with maximum distortion, which was no doubt lovely for the audience... Still, nobody threw stuff and there was roughly the same amount of folks there at the end as at the beginning, and they clapped (a bit!)

All done... Tis my first ever attempt at playing Latin-ish grooves, which is why it turned into a housey thing at the end! It started off being an instrumental until Lurks inspired me with talk of our old Latin teacher, Sister P... https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/sister-p

Funnily enough I've also got all episodes of Star Trek (classic series) on VHSs I copied from the original transmission D3 tapes, but I haven't got a VHS player - big scary button or not...