Leonard Smalls

Over 60 now! I've discovered, that since wearing a strap-on () I can quite easily fret with just fingers - i.e. palm and thumb not gripping the neck for dear life... Saying that, my fingers aren't particularly stiff'n'arthritic - just had a case of trigger thumb...

100 weight of Collie Weed - Prince Fatty and Earl 16

needs to be black leather and studded...

That's what I thought! But it just splints past the thumb joint, with strap across palm and round wrist. It doesn't hinder finger movement, just means I keep my thumb straight and it feel perfectly natural... And it looks like a cool rock'n'roll black strappy thing!

I use a trigger thumb splint... All pain gone from fret hand!

Your Attention Please - Scars ( remember getting this a freebie gold flexi from some magazine in the early 80s!)

Disco Inferno - the Trammps

Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones

Road Hog(manay) - John D Loudermilk

I've tended to do my home mixing with mainly AKG K240 headphones and Adam A8 monitors. But recently felt the need for some closed back phones to record vox and the like. So I did a bit of research and came up with RØDE NTH-100. I bought some, and now I may have to relegate the AKGs to secondary, and the Adams just for checking a mix. They're awesome - for £109 they do everything a 'phone should, they're nearly as good as AKG K872s at a tenth of the price!

In-Seine in the Brain - Prince Fatty

Wye Does it Hurt When I pee? - Frank Zappa

Ouse Zoomin' Who - Arethra Franklin

KrapTwerk

Weeds have a very rare outing, but it's not till autumn - we have a headline in Chester in October! Full band haven't played together for about 7 years, despite releasing our first ever e.p in March. Rehearsals and song writing will be remote (we're far-flung, from Ireland to South of France!) with one actual physical rehearsal day before the gig...

This is currently playing...

Quite fancy this though at £299!

Me neither! Not since I asked the bloke who runs our local jazz club if there were going to be any electric or fusion jazz gigs. He said "If you'd care to come along and give us the benefit of your no-doubt extensive knowledge then you can see what we're about"... I replied that with that sort of patronising response to a perfectly reasonable question, that I wouldn't feel at all welcome. And his bookings have been exclusively acoustic straight-ahead jazz in always the same vein. I found a similar attitude among classical concert goers - not the majority of them, just those who sat at the front with the score on their lap desperately hoping for the performer to make a "mistake" they could tut about!

Weirdly, this was playing on our shop playlist just as I clicked this post! Spooky...

Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic

Alice in Chairs

Pimp Bizkit Moundgarden

I don't give a Fork - Suicidal Tendencies

Cut the Cake - Average White Band

I've now rolled it in 3 coats of glitter and 2 coats of oak-stain varnish, so here's some ambient grooves in both 6:8 and 4:4 time. Possibly. Bass is a Sandberg, synths by AAS Iris and BassStation, drums sequenced from Ableton and EZ Drummer sounds. Guitar = Strat. Delays and reverbs by Raum, Objeq and Dubstation. Plenty Neutron 3 and Ozone 9 and MixRoom and BassRoom eqs, comps, limits etc.