Leonard Smalls

I saw him at the Bass Clef many years ago - not long after "Bass" and "Kollektiv" came out. He didn't come on until 1am-ish due to "technical difficulties", but he and his band were well worth the wait...

I used the space bar, and got 905.

We're lucky to get 1.4Mb/s!

Elephant. Or Blood.

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1440167270' post='2848802'] I made the switch to Windows 10 last night. It only took 25 mins to upgrade - I was quite impressed. [/quote] 25 minutes? Says something about the speed of rural broadband that it took me 6 hours to download the 300'n'odd Mb!

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1440084477' post='2848168'] You will find lots of tracks with multi-tracked bass lines on recordings by Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten [/quote] Like this one? [MEDIA]http://youtu.be/rdRG-hD5ZKo[/MEDIA]

I got into punk klezmer through Electric Massada... That's a whole new ballgame! Check Hasidic New Wae, Aaron Alexader and anything with Fima Ephron on bass. Especially early Screaming Headless Torsos (Amandla, Choice Cuts), then you've also got the joy of David Fiucynski's guitar and the awesome percussion of Daniel Sadownick. They're not exactly klezmer - they do everything from screaming metal to tuneful jazz via dub and funk with stops at just about everything inbetween.

[quote name='Bassjon' timestamp='1439897964' post='2846537'] I have just started getting into jazz and trying to find a way to mix it with punk rock! Its hard to get right but I love experimenting with it. I will post some stuff up here once Ive recorded it. But in the meantime can anyone recommend any punk jazz (if it exists??!) I've started buying jazz albums and like The Bad Plus, Steve Swallow, Miles' Kind Of Blue and Ahmad Jamal's live album But Not For Me. Where should I go next, please? : ) [/quote] If you want a bit out of order and generally more crazed than jazz usually is then Bilbo's recommendations are a good start... However, all the artists he lists do a wide variety of stuff. Here's an example of John Zorn's non-Japanese-jazzcore side, and very groovy it is too: [MEDIA]http://youtu.be/2ll9U6DNQFw?list=PLAFEA3BEF26654302[/MEDIA] However, he also produces a lot of stuff like this - and this is at the less experimental end of his spectrum: [MEDIA]http://youtu.be/v7fHXGibRk0[/MEDIA] Bill Laswell is similarly varied; he's done everything from producing PiL to crazed noisecore via dub, drum'n'bass and ambient (check Material's "Hallucination Engine" for a prime example of very swinging ambient!) Jammaaladeen Tacuma is probably my joint favourite bass player (with Bootsy!). Nobody sounds like him - he was in Ornette Coleman's Prime Time ("check "Of Human Feeling"), did an excellent album with improvisation guru Derek Bailey ("Mirakle" - it's an easy-ish way into crazed free improv) but his best albums are either "Dreamscape" (if you can find it!) or James Carter's "Layin' in the Cut". As for Sonny Sharrock (RIP!), check out "Dick Dogs", or for the full experience, Last Exit with Brotzmann and Shannon-Jackson. Finally, James Blood Ulmer is worth a look - particularly albums like "Phalanx" with George Adams, "Jazz is the Preacher", "Odyssey" and "Black Rock", though in the last decade or so he's been heavily into blues...

A band I used to play in in the early 90s had an on-stage painter who'd paint a back-drop and our white boiler suits while we played. So I'd give the Wal a wipe if there were any really obvious paint spatters. Other than that it gets an occasional dust when I change strings, and sometimes (every 10 years or so) I clean the ook off the fretboard. Last time I changed the battery I discovered orange fluorescent paint in the battery compartment, and some on the corner of a pick-up. Still glows after 20+ years!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1439546678' post='2843713'] Surely...... Air on a G-String - Bach [/quote] I once played a gig [i]wearing[/i] a G-string and baby doll nightie...

Mine's done... No actual tigers though, just 2 blokes trying not to have a punch up in an Indian restaurant, with my Mrs supplying the calming influence... [size=2][url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/easy-tiger"]http://soundcloud.co...weed/easy-tiger[/url][/size]

Any bass player worth his/her salt should know "Pagan Lovesong" by the Virgin Prunes and of course the great "Der Mussolini" by Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft. How else could you play the 80s?

Scarlett 2i2. Haven't updated the drivers either - it just worked!

I've gone for 10 now... No problems with Ableton - in fact CPU use is down slightly - and Focusrite drivers are OK too.

The only problem is that I can't find out if it works on Windows 10 or not...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1439205366' post='2840751'] A BIAB demo track... [url="https://soundcloud.com/dad3353/biab-casio"]BIAB Casio ...[/url] [/quote] Excellent! I'm quite tempted now... I assume you can isolate and import instruments individually?

A snippet of Dredd and the Badass Weeds live in Sheffield; sound's off a mobile phone so could be better! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WRGw-D08Gc[/MEDIA]

I've heard that there's also reduced latency with W10 but haven't tried it yet...

Be very afraid... There's flute, some sitar, tablas with a housey backbeat and a whole lot of bass. Them tigers are damned funky!

If you hung round in the recording forum, or on the monthly compo compos you'd be used to grass growing through the cracks and the gentle whoosh of tumbleweed blowing past...

As Bilbo says, you can't beat a good bass solo... I prefer one with a groove going on behind it, which goes somewhere and has some sort of reason behind it (even if that reason is only that it sounds excellent!). For me, the best bass solos are by Bootsy as they're always in context, the show builds to it and it sounds like no-one else. Like this - bass solo has a short build up from 4'50" on; there's a good 8 minutes of it with vocal interludes and it's all pretty darned awesome in the true sense of the word! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YuSo7467mA[/MEDIA}

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1438845445' post='2837838'] Anyway, Neon Womb is a classic. [/quote] Aye! I even like The Blue Meaning album as well... Nice to see pay to play is alive and well though!

I've made a start as well... And it's got sitars too!

We used to go to Olivers for late drinks... They were often free!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1438521173' post='2835108'] The worry is that they've taken the earth spike away and his mains are now earthed through the spikes in the other houses. Which sounds to me is exactly what has happened. [/quote] A PME has a maximum earth loop impedance at the house main earth terminal of 0.35ohms. Which is why, from a safety point of view it's the preffered option - RCDs are guaranteed to work quickly (i.e. 15 or so milliseconds on average). If a sparky removes a TT earth (i.e. a spike) and replaces it with a TNCS (i.e. earth connected to supply neutral) they have to clear it with the power distribution company first who'll determine if this system is suitable - i.e. if there's sufficient multiple earths between supply transformer and house to be supplied (the supply neutral is earthed at a number of points, not just through the centre tap of the supply transformer). If they say OK then the sparky will measure the earth loop impedance where it enters the house (this is Ze) and at every outlet within the house (these are called Zs). The certificate he issues will have all these values recorded on them. So if there's no supply earth there's not likely to be a Ze value of less than 0.35...