Leonard Smalls

Excellently done! And please make sure that the next picture is funky!!!

Hurrah! Another 6 votes and I'll be home and dry...

Eek! My one and only vote has been stolen! It's a fix I tell ya!

There's no-one as funky as Bootsy... And I know cos I was there when he was born! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sh9cezHNec[/MEDIA]

I'd have recommended buying a copy of James Carter's "Layin' in the cut"..Features Jamaaladeen Tacuma seriously funking it up

[quote name='BirchTree' timestamp='1464021870' post='3055827'] perhaps, a few more pieces done by souls tardier than me ? ) [/quote] You rang? http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-night-bus Thought I'd go for a bit of oddness this month!

Despite being a touch wet and cheesey for me, I still enjoyed it - mainly because of the lovely little touches like the groovy 2 second drum roll...

[quote name='RalphDWilson' timestamp='1463782560' post='3054116'] And a confession - there is no bass guitar on the track. Is that grounds for automatic disqualification? [/quote] Not many basses in this month's entries so far! I've finally made a start - been busy with a new band who can't quite decide if it's funk, jazz or experimental noise it wants to produce. It's a mixture so far! Anyway, y'al'll be pleased to hear mine's got bass, and no brooding future-synths, just a sense of oddness and some Tibetan roaring... Hopefully ready by Monday!

Excellent! I've already got on of your songs on my soundcloud playlist...

Good'n'funky!

I've had a fiddle... https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/crispy-fried-noodles-with-meat

I feel that if someone starts dancing instead of stroking their chin or fiddling with their black polo-neck, then we've somehow failed. However, folks do tend to dance to "Turn o he Left", "Insomnia", "Pass the Pig", "Hammer" and "Thang", despite our best efforts at scowling.

Bit funky, annoying piano, Antwan The Swan doing the one tune he can "sing" - typical New Chillis... Much preferred it when they had some [i][i]cojones[/i] - [/i]I remember seeing them at the Clarendon in Hammersmith, 1987ish, then later at the Mean Fiddler (when Hillel had to leave the stage due to "issues" (!) and te other 3 had to continue - awesome bass playing!) and they definitely rocked then. But then my favourite albums were RHCP, Freakey Styley and Mother's Milk...

I've never played with a pick - tend to use thumb and 3 fingers. It's a case of do what you wanna do!

Lawks! You couldn't slide a king-sized Rizla between the front runners! Is it going to be a 4 way tie?

S'all very tight again - excellent stuff from all once more!

Oops! (Sorry Skol, your post in the future is now a bit more confusing, though I'll bet further mentions a few posts on will create a predestination paradox...)

I had tennis elbow in the right arm and golfer's elbow in the left (i.e. inside and outside of elbows respectively). Which is a shame as I hate both games! I had physio, which mainly consisted of kneading the tendons between elbow and wrist, with a recommendation to do 3x15 reps/day of downward facing wrist curls using a dyna-band (i.e. fat elastic strip), as well gently stretching the wrist, mainly by pushing the palms together and holding for 30 secs as often as poss.

I remember many years ago we were auditioning a drummer; we felt we were going places and needed a good drummer with a similar musical outlook to us. So we gave the gig to the first one who came in and rolled a fat one! However, it only took one rehearsal to notice (his long hair, tight denims and Whitesnake tshirt should have given it away) that he wasn't into playing punk-funk. Not only that, but he had a controlling girlfriend who made David St. Hubbins' Janine look like Mother Theresa...

And people will still pay £thousands for a 60s bass!

Cheers Rob! Very kind words, though I'd say I'm sloppy and pull the strings too hard!

More racquet from me... https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/miso

I've finally finished faffing around, have uploaded a cut-to-length vid: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0povnDhVa4&feature=youtu.be[/MEDIA] and a Soundcloud with a slightly different mix [url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/kamikaze-girl"]http://soundcloud.co...d/kamikaze-girl[/url] Inspiration was the vid, song started as an improvisation over a disco beat while watching vid, the 2nd take of that became the song. Lyrics were written after all the music had been finished. Bass is the trusty Wal, drums by me and Mr EZ Drummer, keys by me, vox and lyrics by me, guitars are edited samples.

Rules is for squares, man! Next y'all'll be telling me I can't do just the" press record and stop" while Stanley Clarke does the "play bass" bit in the middle...

ShotCut seems to be very powerful for freeware - as it's open source there is no master/pro version, it's all there for free. It takes some working out, but then they all do. Basically it seems to do much of the same stuff as Avid, in a slightly more convoluted way, but with no cost unless you choose to donate. There's no upgrades, no "in-app" purchases, just freeware!