Leonard Smalls

In a break with tradition, and possibly inspired by rediscovering my DOD Envelope Filter, I've ditched atonality and racket for ethereal vocals, a rousing PFunk chorus and a Phat bassline complete with solo... Not many lyrics, but they're about the joys of working together. Wal is not only going through DOD filter and Darkglass overdrive, but also triggering 5 synths....

I'm a member too...

London Calling - The Clash

Yakety Yak (Don't Talk Back) - Chas and Dave

Just in case anyone's anywhere near Hereford Saturday 23rd... There's 8 bands ranging from excellent punk-ska headliners, Culture Shock (2200), through old school punk (The Samples 2055, Borrowed Time 1820, Ambition Demolition 1635), Us (Choked, punkfunkprog with 2 basses - we're on at 1955), PoetryDanceRapPunk (Dead Sheeran 1730) , nu-school youngpunx (The Human Error 1545, Sak! 1440) and excitingly, Rat Boy's Magic Show, as seen at Rebellion every year (1910).

Bitter and Twisted -Roger Daltrey

Do What I Tell Ya! - Infectious Grooves

Walkin' On Sunshine - Rocker's Revenge

Pickin' Up The Pieces - Average White Band

Waiting for your Taxi - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

After rediscovering my Dod Envelope Filter, mine's nearly finished....

Workin' In A Coalmine - Devo

A Glass of Champagne - Sailor

Two Pints of lager and a packet of crisps please - Splodgenessabounds

Runcorn To The Hills - Iron Maiden

Shame! I bought 4 packs of NYXL when they were on at £9.95...

Favourite Things - John Coltrane

Money - Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Something's Rotten in the Back of Iceland - Half Man Half Biscuit

? Wossat got to do with it? Sounds to me like looking for offence 😄 See the bits in bold... They do come over as a bit "I know everything, me, and if you disagree, how dare you? There's lots of ways of playing and learning music; I for one have no interest in playing in a musical theatre pit or in doing jazz standards - they bore me stupid. Though if I did want to, I'd learn to sight read as I'd probably be stuffed without it! But as it is, I have no use for reading music as I either compose it, jam it out with the band or make it up as I go along.

Chocolate City - Parliament

I did a Gary Willis course a while ago and he emphasises learning chord shapes by repetition so you know instinctively what shape to use in any key. He reckons one of the most important things is muscle memory, and while all the different bits of theory are useful it's the chord shape practice that really matters... And I don't read music either; it's not that I can't, though I'm very rusty (got up to grade 7 piano before taking up bass 40odd years ago!) - it's just that I have no need to in what I play. I also played in a jazz band for a while in the 9Ts - though we had no need of notation either as it was improvised around the drummer and I playing grooves and calling out chord changes as and when. And with theory, there's so much to learn! My mum did an LRAM back in the late 70s and has no concept of modes...

In the Flat Field - Bauhaus

Love Lies Limp - Alternative TV