Leonard Smalls

While he always played like a demon, I feel that what he did for other people (eg with Weather Report) far outshone anything (or at least most of the stuff) he did on his own, where I think he leaned rather too much toward the cheesey elevator end of things.... However, as far as cheesey elevator stuff goes it was quality cheesey elevator stuff 😎

I've found that most UK pub bands are similar - jeans and rock t shirts all round if particularly rockin', or jeans and ironed (tis the Devil's work!!!) check shirt for more straight-ahead covers. While the Lady Gagas of this world may produce some amazingly dreary music, at least she dresses like a complete eejit - which is to be applauded!

To be fair, he only moved kick and snare where it was off the beat, and any rolls and fills were stretched or pushed together. As a result some of the middle bits were much better because it was syncopated in a new and better way! And after we'd re-recorded bass/guitar it sounded tight-as against the pulled-in drums compared to any of the live stuff, as with kick/snare being rocksolid meant we were too, and fills sounded very organic. So I feel the work was necessary due to the original speed wobbles - just wondering if the amount of editing was more than is usual? (i.e. 1500+ edits in 1 song!)

Just been in the studio for 2 days... We managed to record 5 songs in about 3 hours with drummer playing to click, but then spent the next 6-7 hours editing drums so they were in time. There were 1500 edits in one song alone... Following day we spent redoing guitar and bass together (about 1.5 hours for 3 takes of 5 mins each), followed by about 2 hours guitar editing - including double tracking etc (5 mins on bass !) And a further couple of hours on vox and backing. So what's normal for editing? I must add this was a quality studio which has recorded artists as varied as Van der Graaf Generator and New Model Army, and the engineer/producer was incredibly good...

I liked Little Simz… Amazing bass sound! But Elbow do nowt for me. However, I'm not surprised that a bunch of mainly middle-aged men with a penchant for the music of 50 years ago don't like those young folks with their terrible racket. As my dad said to me in 1978ish when a punk band came on the telly "That's not music, it's just noise! And why do they dress so badly and jump about like they need to go to the toilet?".

I'm being eclectic....

I suspect they may have been either: a) being ironic or b) from the interior of Oz 😀

I'm loving it! Much better tracking, more instantly useable sounds... I have a feeling our band no longer needs either a keyboard or rhythm guitar! By V4 we'll be able to get rid of lead guitar and drummer too...

Not quite sure how the Amyls got on, they're just a bit rubbish and not very tight, but at least they had some energy and were moderately entertaining, unlike that Gallagher bloke who got an enormous interview too. Best band I felt were with the rapper bloke, though they were rather bland...

I find that listening and playing along to music that's different from what I normally play helps... Frinstance, our band's latest song was inspired by me listening to Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and attempting to play along with Jamaaladeen. I also got lots of inspiration from trying to do some of the chords in Jonas Hellborg's chord book - there were all sorts of inversions and strange chords that I'd never even dreamt of!

When I've got my yellow and purple platform boots on I'm just over 5'10"...

Animal Logic's songs were cheesey, the bits inbetween the singing not so much! I was also at the Town & Country gig, which was much more of a disappointment thatn the time I saw the Stanley Clarke Band, or the time at the Festival Hall with Stan, Herbie, Wayne Shorter and Omar Hakim! Now Golden Palominos were largely awful - I think they did about 1 good song (whose name I don't remember) with Jamaaladeen on bass...

Keep them somewhere sunny - ours thrive on a windowsill that gets full sun for 1/2 day and good light for the rest. We water about once a week from the bottom (i.e in large saucer) but don't let it stand in water for days. Feed with citrus feed or seaweed about once a month, and lookout for scale insects on the leaves. They're very susceptible indoors - as a result we put ours outside from about late May to end Sept for birds to eat... Prune and dead leaves...

Currently enjoying these crazy Brighton types:

It is! We run a garden centre and most of the plants in what I call music room and my wife calls the garden room are undergoing TLC so they'll be good enough to sell... The sound of a punkfunk band rehearsing in there doesn't seem to do them any harm!

Nowt from me, Doug'll be pleased to hear... 😁 Too busy arranging and rehearsing for recording at Foel Studios next week.

And in about a year I will have worked out exactly what the (essentially) 9 knobs do!

Just bought an ACG Recurve Custom from @Bigwan of this parish. And it's the absolute business! I can see why there's so much raving about them... It does just about everything my Wal does, but is lighter and possibly even easier to play. So do I sell the Sandberg Bassic or Parker PB51?

I was fortunate enough to buy an ACG Recurve from Ian. Despite UPS's attempts to throw a spanner in the works it arrived, communication was flawless, bass in perfect nick (as described) and very well packed. Highly recommended as a seller, and I'm rapidly becoming an ACG fanboy!

I saw them in Bristol a few years ago at some pub. You'd think with their level of general brilliance they'd have several roadies, groupies, hangers-on etc.. Poor fellas were humping their own gear out just like I have to! They coulda been a contender. Or at least shoulda, considering some of the less worthy who did make it! I remember back in the late 80s my band sent a tape to Rough Trade. They sent back a standard rejection letter which had tick boxes next to 4 options: Excellent stuff, but not what we're looking for at the moment, but do keep going! (they'd ticked this one) Has potential, but you probably need to do some work Terrible, give up now, you're not cut out for music Deacon Blue standard 😀

Aye - though Xerox and Whip aren't on it IIRC 😎 However, he was briefly in another of my favourite bands whose bass players (Jeremy Harrington and a bit later, Andy Warren out of off of the Antz) convinced me Bass was The Place:

Animal Logic! You'd think Stanley (despite some of his dodgier solo offerings) and Stewart Copeland could produce something better than 80s cheese!