Leonard Smalls

White Punks On Dope - The Tubes

Atomic Dog - George Clinton

I done one too three! Not sure what it's got to do with the pic, but this is what came out! Bass is my Sandberg Basic. Guitars, by Strat. Various keys from Iris instruments and Funky Clav. Drums played using Ableton on board samples. Vox sample found on Loopmasters. Lots of Raum, ObjeqDelay and Dubstation 2, with neutron 3 instruments comp and eq presets, plus mastering using Ozone 9 at -16LUFS...

My old mate Trev... We used to play in a band together back in the mid 90s called Elephant - remember supporting Glen Matlock at The Cricketers, Kennington. Also remember a 4 hour gallery opening we did as a duo - lots of strange improv noodling to go with the strange noodley art! https://disassembler1.bandcamp.com/album/what-is

Dreamscape - Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Shoot The Pump - J Walter Negro & the Loose Jointz

Played at The Pheasant as part of Worcester Music Festival last night... We were told to bring minimum stuff as it's a long narrow venue, so I brought the ACG and Helix to go into the supplied Ashdown 600 and 2 Laney cabs. And I couldn't get any sort of clean sound! Whatever I did it was distorted, and not in a familiar Ashdown growl sort of way; with my usual BBE/Crown set up, or my Marshall Jubilee, I get an almost creamy but meaty slap sound until I hit the Helix drive button when it's growl-time. So after quite a while of fiddling with eq I discovered it sounded less-bad with Helix growl also engaged. And it sort of worked for a bit - 1st couple of songs, OK, then an old mate who'd come up from London especially to see us signalled I should be louder. I turned up a bit and it was too loud, and not only that but there was a horrible crackling every time I moved and was too loud - had to play extra-light-touch so as not to drown everyone out. So unplugged both ends while our singer did some bants, and all was absolutely fine. All sounded great - our drummer said afterwards how good the bass sound was. However, there was a decent crowd (100ish, which was pretty full - twas difficult getting our our bass player's cab out!), and I don't think any of them noticed my bass-centric woes as they stood there stroking their chins. Though my London mate jigged wildly, and there were some young folks (they exist!) also having a wiggle, which was nice. Not only that, but we were all collared individually on the way out and told never to come to Worcester again or there'd be trouble. And that they were looking forward to seeing us on 2nd November... No pix yet, but as most of the band are doing holiday stuff till then we do have our gardening leave photo.

Yum Yum (Gimme Some) - Fatback Band

mouldy old dough - lieutenant pigeon

Iggy Pop's Jacket - Those Naughty Lumps

I posted Mr Neon's beautiful Trump Takedown twice a couple of hours ago, once in "Wot's oo lissnin too" and once in "Funny ol memes of That Internet" 😁 But that level of quick and creative work bears listening too many times!

Lovely work by Mr. Neon

Stone Cold Bush - RHCP

Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M

The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff

Vernon Reid, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Grant Calvin Weston...

Chucky's in Love - Rickie Lee Jones

Piss Factory - Patti Smith

From last Saturday in Pwllheli

Shades of Truth - Bad Religion

Papa's got a brand new Pigbag - Pigbag

Rocks, Pebbles and Sand - Stanley Clarke

Quite a weird one for us last night! We trekked all the way to a campsite near Pwllheli to play at a North Wales car and machine club annual shindig, which raises money for Blood Bikes Wales. After we'd set up our tents and had a fine pint of Trooper Ale we got the gear on the (rather spacious) trailer/stage, did a quick soundcheck and we went on just after seven - billed before the raffle! and sound was excellent, everything could be heard, there was a bit of kick in the PA plus Vox (and a tiny touch of guitar) but bass was just down to our own rigs - Raph with his tiny Elf driven by Sansamp into a no-name 4x10 and Squier bass, and me with the ACG into Helix, my ancient Marshall Jubilee and Markbass 4x10. I'd managed to get a really fat but slappy sound sound with various amp sims and tube compression which cut through beautifully at all frequencies with no boom. No mistakes, plus a bonus moshpit of about 10 6-8 year old kids and maybe 300 others, including a couple of patch clubs. No adult dancing, but it was early! Comments after were largely appreciative, one Manchester bloke told us he was "madferit", and another larger chap stormed over - we were a bit worried - but he said "it's great to see bands who are actively anti-fascist!", which was nice. There was a display of cars and bikes - highlights were a De Lorean, a Lancia Stratos, a David Brown DB1 (first vehicle I ever drove, aged 10 or so!) plus a brace of Buell M2 Cyclones. And the Raffle showed why it was called that, our Raph won two prizes. Afterwards, a most excellent covers band played two sets of AllTheRockin'Hits. Highlight though was a crazed contraption made from a car turbo mounted on a beer keg filled with some sort of fuel - this made a rudimentary jet engine which was used to start the firepit, and sparked up periodically to freak folks out...

Big Bottom _ Spinal Tap