Leonard Smalls

I quite like him, with his funny northern ways...

Lawks! As I was a skint yoof I used to sew zips into my tesco jeans that I'd dyed black and purple and made into drainpipes. My needlework wasn't very good, but it was meant to be DIY punk! I even made my own bumflap out of a particularly vile green acrylic tartan material then scrawled "Slits" on it in fluorescent orange paint. By contrast, mine and Swamp's mate (the only other school punk) had a rich dad who bought him a pair of real bondage trousers from XClothes, and real leather jacket with Ruts painted on it... We always sent him to the bar.

I remember when I was a young punker in school (there were 3 of us!) all the other lads (cos girls weren't into music, obvs! 😁) had pristine denim jackets their mums had sewed assorted heavy rock band patches onto... And they'd confidently assert that Cozy Powell was the best drummer in the world, bar none. Needless to say, they'd never heard of Billy Cobham...

Some very exiting bass playing featuring Brett Bass, who I knew nowt about, and the incomparable Wizard of Woo, Bernie Worrell.

I bought an allegedly 160kg capacity folding sackbarrow... Not sure what it will actually carry, but I can now bring Markbass 4x10, 4u flightcase with amps, psu and compressor plus flightcased Helix all at once (though you need to bungy 'em!)...

Four Engines Burning (Over the USA) - Screaming Blue Messiahs

Turn To The Left - Weeds https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kuwqBTtksXE&list=OLAK5uy_ndYGasfVeThrrJk_kGaM6kSd4Ex5auxSw

No Fkn Problem - Suicidal Tendencies

Oh yeah?? - Yello

Jam Fan - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Two rehearsals with two bands recently... First one: we'd recruited two new guitarists. One came to one rehearsal where we had to use recorded drums as drummer couldn't make it. We got a message then saying he couldn't think of anything to play and didn't want to continue. Other one hadn't turned up to previous rehearsal, finally confirmed he'd be coming to this one then never turned up. So two basses, drums and vox! Leaves lots of room for me to go widdleywoo, but we felt we did need a spot of rhythm guitar. So now singer is going to dust off axe hero skills and bring guitar to next shindig. Fingers crossed! Second one: after 8 weeks of cancellations by drummer due to excessive workload we got it together. And it was pretty good... We finally sorted out our rather aimless cover of "Do You Wanna Funk" - it's now a rockin'disco beast with a middle 8 stolen from RockCandyFunkParty and SonicYouth!

Up for The Down Stroke - Parliament

Pedal Pushin' Papa - The Dominoes

Down Down - Status Quo

Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw

physical - Olivia Newton John

Seven Alsatian Army - White Stripes

Let's Lynch The Landlord! - Dead Kennedys

Have you been on Basschat for long? 😁 I'm doing an early 80s classic. In a furrin' language, just to make it exciting. And I'm taking it all very seriously indeed. Oh yes.

Paint it Backgammon - The Modettes

One Way Snore Another - Blondie

Ouse Lovin' You - Jackson 5

Severn Nation Army - White Stripes

You misunderstand... M is the sum of the 2 stereo tracks, call them tracks 1&2, or A&B, or X&Y, and S is the difference between the 2. When I worked in BBC sound we didn't have a plug-in to do the coding or decoding for us, we'd do it via a jackfield with parallel blocks and a phase reverse lead... If you've recorded in M&S, then one of the tracks is the mid signal, and the other is side.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron