Leonard Smalls

A decent bass wah that works at a number of switchable frequencies, with a range of sweeps etc comparable to the best envelope followers including auto and manual at the same time. And with no annoying mechanical/electrical crackles that develop over time!

2000 or so for me supporting Carter USM... Our drummer has done 90k or so - having supported U2 on the Zoo TV tour, including Wembley Stadium and Celtic Park!

Not strictly disco, but groovy all the same! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9gcViXzmTQ[/MEDIA]

I use EZ Drummer... There's thousands of pre-programmed beats with a choice of kits, plus mixer and full midi editing so you can add extra snare, or take away the hi-hat or whatever...

I can't count up to 8!

Having had a slight heads-up on this I made a start yesterday afternoon on a rather random improvisation with a scary feel, taking the Blue Poles as time signature! It may not be very popular...

Monochrome Set, The Clash, The Ruts, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, and after "California Uber Alles" was released, Dead Kennedys...

I much prefer Les's other supergroup, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDB4xJsXVo[/MEDIA]

Live? Maybe 5 or 6 times, usually a G. Most of those times were with a raucous punk-funk band... In rehearsal or just practising - many, many times, all strings, all gauges, mainly slap and pop/finger and thumb style. Though not so much in the last 10 years - either I've mellowed, my technique's got better, or less rock-climbing means weaker fingers?

I'll usually do something whizzy and chromatic involving far too many notes. Or just put the palm of my hand over my eye and make farty noises, which is much more impressive...

Ta! And the lyrics are like Wily The Shake himself wrote 'em!

Bit of a departure for me... This month it's a collaboration with Weeds guitarist John "Boy" Sullivan, and it's not only rockin', but largely incomprehensible! https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/throb

Gig at the Green Meadows festival yesterday could have been very poor after almost no sleep the night before (thanks to a Bunch of Bu%%£rs from Bicester yakking loudly till 5am in the tent next to mine). However, our 2nd rehearsal of the year before hand went well, sound was excellent, PETA didn't throw blood on our singer for wearing his nan's 70 year old mink coat, and a number of punters came up afterwards and said we were the best band of the festival (UJahm hadn't played yet!), and it's possible our next gig (we don't do many, got to keep the fan wanting more) is going to be Glastonbury next year...

Absolute killer bass line! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsG1qIwevRQ[/MEDIA]

Cheers! Cheque's in the post... And it's a 6 way tie!

We don't care where it comes from, so long as it's crazed... Here's the Weeds complete with Sister Bez - 2nd guitarist has a Bishop's dog collar: The cardinal and Pope outfits were left over from a Utah Saints gig from when our drummer was with them - came from a theatrical outfitters. It used to be worse... This is a band I was in from about 1989: Wedding dress was about £3 from Oxfam - went beautifully with a black 2" stripe from hairline to chin!

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1469522395' post='3098910'] Not that I want to deliberately elbow ahead of the 9-page discussion on "Let's define cover band" [i] ([/i][i]tip: it's a band that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs - there you go, job done [/i]) [[/quote] Perhaps we need a "Basschat Covers Competition" with real cash prizes...

Sounds like lots of compression and some flange and/or phaser, with plenty of eq-ing...

Here's a gently spiky noodle - Wal into dbx compressor into 3 leaf envelope filter into Ableton 9 via Focusrite 2i2. https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/vermicelli

Aye! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozyL8KWGAI[/MEDIA]

Excellent!

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1469055615' post='3095499'] It isn't even a style I'd usually play, it's just what came out when I started to record the eub. [/quote] I'm liking the Tom Waits/Marc Ribot feel to it all... And what's an eub?

Not only that, but we didn't have a record-cutting lathe...

Talking of clunky multi-track set-ups, when I was in Sound Transfer I was once given a 2" 24 track tape and a roll of 16mm film. The tape contained 8 different mixes (i.e. final, music and FX, dialogue etc), and the customer wanted 18x16mm magnetic film copies of mixes, plus 4 DAT and 5 1/4" tape copies of the final, plus 2 D3, a Beta SP and 10 VHS copies copies of the film and final mix... It took us 1/2 a day to set up and plug, but we ran it all in one with everything slaved to one of the Nagra T 1/4" recorders (due to their excellent time code generator and syncing properties). So when I pressed play/record on the Nagra, 4 other Nagras, plus 2x Sony and 2x Fostex DATs, an Otari 2", 19 Albrecht 16/35mm film recorders, 2 x Panasonic D3s and a Sony Beta Sp chugged into action automatically. The VHSs we had to start by hand! We were so pleased we permitted ourselves a number of pints of Fullers ESB that evening... (as we did most evenings!)

Nope... But these chaps are one of the craziest bands I ever saw, with an extremely wide range of sounds, and Gabby uses lots of FX on his vocals! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE8tg3hONzQ[/MEDIA]