Leonard Smalls

We played third out of 4 bands at The Herdsman in Hereford last night... First band up were ANoise, who do a sort of dance-punk craziness with lots of bizarre costume changes... Lots of fun, though unfortunately only about 6 people had come in by then. Then it was MC16, who do an excellent agit-punk thing - highly recommended (but no pix, though we're playing with them again next week near Telford). Then it was us - luckily I'd brought my Big Amp (1500W!) so I could be heard, which is always nice cos it's all about me 😁. We had the biggest crowd, either because somehow we have fans or, more likely, we had the best time slot. And actually, rather than muttering about how rubbish we were or shouting "Oi, flash w4nkr!" if we dared to play above the 5th fret, someone came up and said I played like Les Claypool! I suspect he must have been very, very drunk. And we are also now officially a covers band, as our other bass player suddenly started playing RATM's "Bullet to the Head" and then our encore was our Cameo/Penetration mash-up of "Don't Dictate"... Headline band were Last Tree Squad who do a ReggaeRapPunk thing and are proper groovy, though I only saw one of their songs due to having to get my ancient self to bed ready for work at sparrow's in the morning... ChokedBulletToTheHead.mp4

Shoot your shot - Divine

I'd like to be able to produce something a bit like this... Party piece: Plus the tone and pure groove of this - BTW, the SI unit of cool is the Bootsy, with a theoretical max of 1 Bootsy as epitomised by the man himself. Most folks get into the milliBbotsy range!

Hello? - Lionel Ritchie

I saw 'em in the early 80s... They were great, but he was very, very drunk. which isn't surprising as his rider asked for a case of wine and two bottles of vodka! (I know this as my girlfriend was on the Ents catering team at Leeds Uni).

Bullet in the head - Rage Against The Machine

Arf!

Are we not voting this month as it's obvious that Lurks has won? 😁

Strictly speaking, mine isn't a Flybass anyway, it's the cheaper PB51. Same shape though but mine only cos me £500 new (no doubt some will say "U wuz robbd! U shoulda bought a 1961 Fender wot only makes one noise for £6k instead!" 😁)

Funnily enough, I'm loving mine! It looks far more interesting than yer Fenders, and I find it doesn't dig in at all, though I strap it on good and high... Great sound too from the EMGs.

Love and Pride - King

So macho - Sinitta

And love Ernest Ranglin's playing too!

And while we're talking about Primus, some more of my fave musos - Buckethead and The Wizard of Woo, Mr. Bernie Worrell! Brain's not bad either...

Two of my favourites together here - Hiromi Uehara and Dave Fiucyznski... And on the sax, James Carter!

Umbrella - Rhianna

Pray for rain - Massive Attack

Nice legs, shame about the face - The Monks

It's on our shop playlist! This is currently playing:

Talk Talk... Not the band, but the dreadful telecommunications company. We were without phone and internet while with them for 6 weeks. I phoned them virtually daily, having hiked to the top of our hill where there was mobile signal and heard nowt but excuses for why it wasn't fixed. Then they cancelled the fault ticket, twice, so I had to start all over again. And the fault turned out to be exactly what I'd told them it was - whoever had laid the cable had done it very shallowly over the corner of a field, and that had been ploughed. The same as it had the year before when our phone line had gone down the first time. But their general incompetence was unbelievable - we're talking worse than British Gas! Though SSE, who I'm trying to deal with at the moment are approaching those levels of rubbishness too!

More Chokery-Pokery, in Hereford this time with an excellent line up - there's crazed South-Walesians ANoise, Agit-punkers MC16, us and Hereford's finest dub-rap-punx, Last Tree Squad.

Can too!

Indeed! However, folks seem to be barely buying cds anymore - we've sold about 100 from our run of 250, but had shedloads more plays on streaming platforms (which has netted us about £8, though quite a bit more from Bandcamp downloads). I spose the argument might be - will you sell more vinyl meaning that in the long run you'll make more? As for test pressings, I have a vinyl system that is serious enough to evaluate them and where even end-of-side tracks sound excellent. Though whether any buyers will listen to it themselves is a different matter!

Never! 😁 No thread where the word "record" is used will be complete without Big Red saying it's an inferior format!! 😆 That Roy Castle didn't like 'em either.