Leonard Smalls

An Alembic Stanley Clarke to complement my Wal and ACG. Bootsy's pedal board plus Helix to go into an enormous at least 2kw/ch Crown power amp and 6 Markbass 4x10s - 3 per side in stereo...

We're on the bill for the Punk 4 the Homeless benefit for Compass Children's Charity this Saturday (15th) - we have only got 1Mb upload so have to do it as a recording (doing that today!). We're on at 1545-1615: http://www.facebook.com/events/3021817487944315/ We may also being doing P4TH's Girls Are Loud Hope Orphanage Benefit on 5th September if we can record another set by then!

First one's this Saturday - we're on at 1545: https://www.facebook.com/events/3021817487944315/ We're going to re-record it s'afternoon, and it's possible the rest of the band may want to do my new song; I've done a backing track, worked out guitar lines and written lyrics (which will probably be heavily tweaked). So is it cheating to use that recording for this month's compo compo?

I'd had a vague thought but may get nowt together - got 2 "live streaming" gigs one of which we've recorded live but I'm currently editing and mixing, so may have no time wot with one more to "live stream" (!)... If not the vague thought may become one of our songs, it's 150bpm, in D, A and E phrygian (mostly) with break in 6:8 (as all punkfunk songs should).

This used to go down well at my Leeds Funk'n'Goth nights in the 80s!

Funnily enough, our 2nd ever "cover" is Love in a Void by Siouxsie and the Banshees with the bassline played in the style of Plug In Baby.

I'm not far from Knighton, local boozers are there or Clun... I'm originally from about 70 m north of here so they see me as "from off"!

I dropped the bourgeois and sheeplike notion of keys long ago as they stifle true creativity and are divisive and discriminatory against the frequencies not in them. All frequencies are equal! And I've discovered that this approach is perfect for our times, as any gigs undertaken would be absolutely socially-distanced.

Our 2nd time playing together since beginning of Feb, and as The Drummer is shielding we're using my phone instead 😁 And guitar is sounding mean through a Marshall Jubilee bass amp and Markbass 2x10! Hopefully we'll be OK for live streaming for 30 mins on 15th August!

This... Though I've been trying for 30+ years to get the same feel and sound as Bootsy!

We may be doing a punk for the homeless benefit on 15th August, assuming we can work out how to stream it, and we'll be using my programmed drums and sequenced backing as our drummer is still sheilding...

Aye! And it's rare to see anyone getting the amount of joy out of playing that she does...

Not rock or prog, but one of the best keyboardists out there - here with microtonal Dave Fiucyznski on guitar, Hiromi Uehara:

Here's a beautiful bit of 80s... Skipetty skip!

I'm amazed that there's no love for 3 of the most distinctive female voices! And of course Bjork, with honourable mention to Skin!

I have Spotify on all day at work - got a 1200 song playlist with everything on there from Hiromi to Scientist, from Vivaldi to Flock of Seagulls, Coltrane to Kraftwerk... And at home I usually have the radio on with 6 Music; actually putting on an album is rarer now even though I've got 1000+ - I occasionally ask the smartradiothingy to play one while I'm cooking.

She's lives a couple of hundred metres from me - not my type of singing but she's lovely!

Shame - saw them many times... I knew Bic who was one of their guitar players.

Sounds like you've got auto-warp long samples on... Look in preferences (in options drop down), record warp launch and switch it off, though it can be handy if you're importing clips to use at a different speed...

That's jazz, baby! Though not your square non-hep living-in-the-past melodic bourgeois nonsense - this will be ART; and great ART is about suffering - both for the performer and for the audience. Especially for the audience! And any keeping to a rigidly enforced-by-the-man time is either a) purely coincidental or b) to show how free the ART is when not adhering to Society's Norms. And the problem with drummers, not being musicians, is that they just see the black and white of strict (arguably!) time and not the great array of possibility that is Great ART!!! 😁😜🤪

I'm quite looking forward to gigs where drum set=up consists of plugging in the laptop, booting up EZ Drummer, connecting to Focusrite interface/PA and pressing play. More room for us all on stage, no more drummer only soundchecks, no more sulking cos he's forgotten the most important Turkish Ride though he already has 4 others and hi-hat, no more speeding up (it's never slowing down), no more overcomplicated fills that last 3 beats too long, no more splash cymbal making everyone deaf... 😁😎

I think I'm a touch better off not gigging... I no longer have to fill the car with diesel, drive 2 hours to play for 45 minutes to 20 people (it used to be 10 max!) then repack the motor and drive home all to put £50 (max!) In the band's coffers (unless it was a benefit, which they often were). Since The (1st) End of the World we've had quite a lot of radio airplay without having moved from home, and we've started rehearsal without drummer (shielding) using EZ drummer and sequencers. As a result we're in time, there's no interminable fills every 4 bars or cymbals drowning everything out, and will only need 1 car for future gigs!

I made a reasonable one out of some stiff wire and a pair of my Mrs' old tights...