Leonard Smalls

Aye... My heart bleeds for the fella!

(Heavy Metal Music) Loud and Proud (Mysterious Goblins, Dressed in Shrouds) - Dredd and the Badass Weeds (fortunately, no recording exists of this classic)

Shows they're only interested in getting money out of their fans - c.f Black Sabbath gig where proceeds went to charity! Never liked the arrogant and whiny Beatles impersonators...

Choked are doing more! good thing I didn't mention my jazzyfunkblues band too - The LD7...

Don't forget Weeds and Choked! Both original, though I have been known to nick basslines from everything from Ornette Coleman to Parliament to Magazine...

No f#ckin problem - Suicidal Tendencies

I'm in two "main" bands... Weeds, formerly Dredd and the Badass Weeds were formed in Leeds in 1985 with members going off in 1986 to do stuff like Utah Saints, Cassandra Complex, New Fast Automatic Daffodils etc, mainly doing funk and reggae extended jams for parties. But we got back together for occasional giggage and recording and finally - last year - produced our masterwork (actually, it's our only work). This got seized on by a Chester radio station who've convinced us to do an actual gig. So we're rapidly writing 5 more songs from our various corners of Europe (West Ireland, Shropshire, Manchester, Sheffield, South of France) ready for our one and only rehearsal just before the gig in October. Other band is funkpunk with female singer and 2 basses, we're called Choked and have been going for around 5 years. We get together far more than Weeds! In fact we've got 4 gigs coming up including Rebellion Festival. We've got an album and a single with our old drummer...

I'm a Stool For Love - Prince Charles and the City Beat Band

Not tempted to stick with 'em?

Me too! And Rhythm Killers as well. Then this album as well, featuring a galaxy of groovy geezers, with Bill Laswell production...

Grate Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Louis

Toast! - Paul Young (or whatever alias it was!)

Urn-ie (the fastest milkman in the west) - Benny Hill

Come See Tomorrow-Al McDowell

World Destruction - John Lydon/Afrika Bambaata

Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford

I find that constantly shouting out "How ya doin' Glaston-berry!" Always works.

The Ripper! - Judas Priest

Original Funky Drummer!

Aye! But if it's a 160bpm punk thing we don't really want 110bpm funky drummer!

Aye! Bass players are their own worst enemy - we see it on BC frequently where amazing bassists are dismissed as wannabe lead guitarists, or "playing too many notes and not knowing their place". We have the biggest instruments (unless it's a Steinberger!) and so should wield them, rather than letting the look-at-me guitarists get all the adulation! We need a protest group - Musicians Against Guitarists' Attention-seeking.

We had a full band rehearsal yesterday to get ready for Worcester gig on Friday 11th... The part-band rehearsals really helped - everyone is now more receptive to what the others are playing, and as a result we're tighter and a bit heavier. Guitarman, however, hadn't learnt some of the intricate widdly bass bits I do which would have sound awesome if we both did 'em, so we decided he'd just emphasise the beginning of the phrase in one of the songs leaving me to have a number of mini solos... and in the other one where my busy line does a sort of double time syncopation with the vocals he does just muted scratchy stuff which further emphasises the rhythm. So a bit of a win! Just hoping drum-man doesn't start every song far too slow!

Big Spliff - Black Uhuru

That video is private!

Is Vicar There - Vic Goddard and Subway Sect