Leonard Smalls

Bowie - Paul Weller

An ambient groove is taking shape...

Mine's on the left fretting hand too, and has no impact at all on playing (might if you like to hook your thumb over to fret stuff!). And it looks sort of rock'n'roll, wot with the blackness and straps!

Wake me up before you Glasgow - Wham

KY Tunstall...

I recently had a case of trigger thumb and seem to have sorted it out with one of THESE They allegedly work for arthritis too - the physio I saw said it was probably the best option (not necessarily that one, there's loads of similar ones!)

Raid - Boo Yaa Tribe

Bedtime - Weeds

Looks like it works!!!

Drop The Bomb - Trouble Funk

Shine-o-Mite - Bootsy's Rubber Band

The dummies did... They also got roundly trashed, piñata style, towards the end of the gig 😆

Be careful what you wish for! 😁

Our last gig with Weeds was put into serious doubt when our singer was too skint to fly from his home in Ireland to do the gig. As we use a backing sequence anyway (why have a keyboard player just to press "go" on a sequencer?) we quickly recorded the rest of us and sent him an MP3 (this is how we record anyway!). So he sent us his vox. Then at the last minute second guitar dropped out too. But as we had them both on multi track we went ahead anyway and stuck a couple of dummies on stage in their place. And we went down very well indeed!

Exciting image sent! 😁

I remember going to see Kraftwerk at the Liverpool Empire back in 1981ish... Just before "Robots" started the lights went down, gradually came back up with band beeping and tapping away happily. Towards the end of the song the band walked on and the Robots were carried off. Nobody noticed! And despite this, and the almost complete lack of movement on stage it was one of the best gigs I ever went to!

In my day etc! Kids don't know what music is nowadays etc... 😁 Basically, if the audience enjoys it, that's what counts. Even more so if the band (or even solo performer!) enjoys it too. It's largely irrelevant how the music is produced to most audience members - the only ones who really care are a few chin-stroking oldie musos at the back who are barely getting involved anyway, apart from to say "he's dropped a note" or " they could have done that better" or "bass player should be playing just root and fifth there, all that slapping sounds like someone falling down the stairs!"

Kanye Pest

Orinoco Phloem - Enya

And what about: Trouble F*ck F*ck Brothers Grand F*ck Railroad And: The Fatsack Band

Weeds' singer's old band: New Fart Automatic Daffodils RIM The Crapberries Modest House Teenage Fatclub The Poo Radleys And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Mead

Weeds use a backing track live which gives a slightly ambient but rhythmic sequence made up of 5 or 6 different sounds. That gives the speed and length of the songs (they all start with sequence) but the meat is still bass, electric drums, vox and 2 guitars. But the sequence is an integral part of the sound, and we don't want 6 people on stage! Luckily, we don't play often - though we're currently hoping to play in Chester later in the year...

Privet Dancer - Tina Turner

And again if anybody missed it earlier: wait for it...... Adam and the Anus

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