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In my ongoing series of Songs From The Shows, here's my version of Rogers and Hammerstein's classic from South Pacific, "Happy Talk", as done by Captain Sensible. The lightning dictated the use of a vocoder and hence, the slight title change... Fun was had with vocoder plug-ins and getting funky bits out of a battered Strat. Bass is the trusty Wal, keys are through Iris, drums programmed from Digicussion sounds. All has been liberally smeared with Ozone 9...
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What are you listening to right now?
Leonard Smalls replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
Crazy disco banger by exMagma dudes... Features a one note bassline (until 3'40 when it briefly changes). Get yer dancin' shoes on! -
Not sure about the comfy white slacks and Genesis circa 1984 look! 😁
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Luckily the only cover we do is a punkclassic (Penetration's "Don't Dictate") which I've made sure I like playing by sticking some of Cameo's "Word Up" and a splodge of the Crass ""Walls (fun in the oven)" in. I wouldn't play a song I didn't like because I'm on stage purely to fuel my ego, not to keep various drunk folks who don't like actual music and moreover, don't understand my genius, happy!
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Instagram and other social media stuff
Leonard Smalls replied to uk_lefty's topic in General Discussion
We discovered recently that the kids use Instagram and/or TikTok, not Facebook. We did a battle of the bands, which we were told had judges to decide who'd won. Turned out it was voting on Instagram, which we've barely had a presence on. One of the bands on was truly terrible, but still only lost after a last minute flurry of support for the eventual winners. Since then we've started Instagram posts as well, as it's not just oldfarts who go to gigs! -
With the Jon East pre-amp you can get it sound exactly like you want it to - once you've worked out what all the different pull-up/down/twisty-left-right'n'everywhere knobs do! However, I could probably use almost any bass at the moment and it would sound the same as I'm mainly using a very distorted split guitar/bass octave thing on my Helix...
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ACG Recurve
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Here's a photoshop one of me pretending to know what goes on in the nether regions...
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Good'n'rockingly funky album with Bootsy, Stevie Salas and Buddy Miles!
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We were playing at the Dark Horse in Moseley, Birmingham last night with 3 other bands... And we were very grateful for the cloudbursts and lightning because it meant that the organisers of the Mostly Funk and Soul Festival just up the road closed down early due to being scared of imminent deaths. So as the Dark Horse was the nearest pub, and the venue upstairs was free entry (donations gratefully received!) it was packed. First band on were doing Joy Division-ey post punk and were OK until they had a melt down (with tears!) over the lack of vocal monitoring (welcome to rock'n'roll in pub (and other!) venues...). Next band were pretty decent, with groovy bass and excellent drummer and slightly crazed ranting and guitar FX from dishevelled singer. I liked 'em! (Pulsar). We came on to a pretty full house, with folks actually moving about (I hear it's called "dancing"), lots of cheering and even folks seeking us out to give compliments, rather than the usual pitchforks and flaming torches. We even got paid (a bit!) and sold some tshirts and cds which was nice. And even better, my Super Mario Cart managed to smash the Google maps expected return travel time of 1 hour 45 by 25 minutes! Snippet (not sure why uploaded mp4 video comes out audio only?): KissThisDH8-7-23.avi
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Too rock'n'roll for that... Choked on someone else's vomit!
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Tonight, in Moseley, Birmingham!!! Relatively early start, 6pm doors. We're on at 8.30pm.
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Back up generator!
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But it's mains powered?
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Didn't know there were modes! I just press the tuner button and up it pops, with note letter in the middle and arrows either side...
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Helix tuner has a huge display and is excellent. And it comes free with the helix board, so a relative bargain. 😁
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What would You call "Your doping" for bass playing?
Leonard Smalls replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
I think that if you're playing rock'n'roll you have to make sure you're both rocking and rolling... So I have two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. -
A question for bassist who smoke cigarettes and cigars!
Leonard Smalls replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
I occasionally smoked and played... But felt much cooler smoking and climbing 😜 This was 30odd years ago. -
Funnily enough I've never found a P bass I enjoy playing. And I only ever found an enjoyable jazz bass once, that was a serious custom shop jobby for about a grand more than a new ACG. As a result, I have no Fenders. To me they're like a Vauxhall Vectra, everyone's got one, even though they're just a bit rubbish and just trading on the Viva name
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A bit exhilarating, but has a number of naughty words... A must-listen while driving
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What are you listening to right now?
Leonard Smalls replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
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What makes a successful gig for you?
Leonard Smalls replied to Mickeyboro's topic in General Discussion
Personally I'm happiest if we've played well enough to a reasonable sized audience, none of whom ignored us, none of whom threw anything at us and at least one of whom came up and said "wow, fantastic bass playing, I'd like to offer you a deal where you get 50% of total take" and after all that, still get home for a nice wee dram by 2200. -
One man's stinking pile of sloppy doggy do in the Middle Of The Road is another's piece of purest gold. And while I don't think Elton and The Bernster's muzak is a stinky old dog poo, I do find it just a touch bland and not to my taste. Though I quite like Pinball Wizard (but wasn't that Pete Townshend?)... Anyway, Chacun à son goût!
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Unfortunately, I suspect others will still churn it out... 😁
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What are you listening to right now?
Leonard Smalls replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
Party on, bubba! And spot the serious playas!