Leonard Smalls

We always get the drums set up first, with my amp on drummer's left and geetar on his right. Then we all drop 3 tabs of acid each and start on the Buckfast to prepare ourselves...

It is possible! I was once in the house band for a Blues Jam weekend with Dangerous Dave and Jerry Rockstar...

Excellently groovy player... Been a fan since hearing him with Hasidic New Wave and Screaming Headless Torsos.

So you likes it sugar-coated as well? 😝 So I'm guessing Brotzmann's out too?

S'funny how anything different is dismissed as "elitist twaddle" rather than just "don't like it". Do they want vinegar or mayo with those chips? 😀 Saying that, I've got my 1st jam next week in a "rock project" with a drummer who played with Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall etc - perhaps I'll start us off with. Nice blues in E...

Talking of Laura Kuensberg...

Bootsy... solo starts at 5'45"...

The rack's got a dbx 2 channel compressor, a BBE pre and a Marshall Jubilee being used as power amp. The enormously heavy cab is a Yamaha 1x15" currently housing a Precision Devices 600w 15". 10cc? Eek! It's to teach the drummer to dance... It's the only way I can get some funk into the rest of the band!

There's a Sandberg you can just see the edge of on the right, and just out of shot there's a Kawai Sleekline! And a completely decorative banjo...

I saw them on the Pocket Calculator tour at Liverpool Empire, many years ago. One of the best gigs I'd ever been to!

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Some ridiculously good young 'uns from Japan...

Sergeant Pepper's. It's always annoyed me and I've always wondered why anybody ever liked it. Same for Rumours - just sounds safe, middle-of-the-road and cheesey to me. But then I like Derek Bailey and Jamaaladeen Tacuma's "Mirakle"...

I use the Pro17s... Used to use Etymotic £12 ones before that which didn't attenuate as equally over the whole frequency range - I found that with the Etys it cut down less on bass, so I was always too quiet. Now they can hear me! And, of course I can hear them too...

Good gig in Shrewsbury last night; decent crowd and good reception. We even got asked back after trying very hard, and failing, to clear the room! Only very slightly distorted (!), and be warned - there's a rude word hiding in there...

Nobody's voted for my entry in months... Though that could be due to being in my Tacet Musica phase.

We basically do hard rock with funk bass, so if anyone asks "what sort of music do you play?" we say "Frunk".

Here's a live recording of my band, now in their 35th year, with a song written in the morning, played through twice then recorded using a pair of crossed SM58s dangling from the beams of the garage...

One man's breath of entertaining air is another man's foul stench from the Devil's bottom! 😁 S'a funny old thing, taste...

While the performance is all very polished it bores me silly; it goes nowhere musically - it's just those 2 annoying chords with some very minor widdling over the top. And in common with everything I've seen from her it relies on a dance routine. Which is excellent for those that like that sort of thing - but I'm afraid I like the music to do the talking, all the extra froth is just a bit of polish. I'm afraid this music is lacking in cojones - but each to their own!

Awaiting velcro and appropriate length leads...

I thought that I'd get the - max amount of options this side of buying a dedicated mixing desk, so I bought a Wounded Paw V4 blender... It's got 3 fully buffered loops, 2 with different high pass filters, plus phase, level and 3 different options for which way loops 3 and 4 go, plus it's got a clean blend which can also be used as a 4th loop. It's the Dog's!

Wouldn't know... I'd be foolish to tear out the Wal electronics and place something inferior in there! 😁 However, I'm getting excellent results with a rackmount BBE pre-amp...