Leonard Smalls

Is Audacity available for Android?

Wanna buy a 1974 Raceco tuned 850T, now 1000cc? 😁

No More Excuses - Conflict (RIP Colin!)

I was buying lunch in the BBC canteen a number of years ago when a big bloke came and tapped me on the shoulder and said "I see you're into Guzzis!" (the t shirt and belt buckle gave it away). Turned out it was Josh Homme and we ended up having lunch together and talking Mandello Stuff! Another time (beeb canteen again) I bumped into a guy who was in the Weeds with me back in the early days - Chris Haskett. He said "Come and sit with us"... So I did - "us" turned out to be Henry Rollins and Melvin Gibbs. We discussed Sonny Sharrock and Defunkt. None of 'em were at all grumpy, though I was a bit in awe of Melvin!

Aeros - M&M

I nearly spent three grand!

Whether it's major (Ionian mode) or minor (Aeolian) it's a semitone above the root. There's a couple of modes where the second note is a semitone above root - the Phrygian (altered version sounds very gypsy or even flamenco) and Locrian (more rarely used, though it is in Bjork's "Army of Me") - and I found adding those notes (and those from altered versions of those modes) can help with texture and interest, same as the Hellborg book. I never found the other modes to be quite as exciting though ymmv! I found this helpful: https://themusicambition.com/phrygian-mode/

Difficult to say without hearing what's on offer... But I find runs and widdles involving diminished second and diminished fifth work well in many situations ( see Phrygian and Locrian modes). And octaves work in everything from disco to punk, perhaps with fifth to make a chord. Talking of which, a chord higher up with root, major third and diminished seventh works well in many situations as a sort of jagged punctuation... Also recommend the Jonas Hellborg chord book - I found I couldn't reach half of them but the notes contained in 'em inspired lots of bass lines.

Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow

John Wayne is Big Leggy - Haysi Fantayzee

Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello

Stuck in the Piddle With You - Steelers Wheel

Urine my Heart - Rod Stewart

Piss Factory! - Patti Smith

Leakin' - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Take me Back, Sack and Crack - Bonnie Tyler

Fever - the Cramps

Taking it a bit more left field.... Slaughterhouse 3 - Slaughterhouse 3; Gary Willis on top form complete with wah wah distorted sax. Of Human Feeling - Ornette Coleman; Jamaaladeen Tacuma ripping it up with Ornette's Prime Time Bass lines - Bill Laswell; weird and wonderful but funky Laswell. See also Third Power by Material

Say What? - Trouble Funk

Yakkity Yak - Chas and Dave

You'd think so! But I went to see him once in a promising but bizarre mix with funk keys wizard of Woo, Bernie Worrell and bass-master-of-Mahavishnu, Jonas Hellborg at the Jazz Cafe... And he appeared to be wholly out of his depth - whenever he tried his "incredible jazz chops" they sort of fell flat, they just didn't work and he just looked out of place in such exalted company. So he started getting petulant and spent ages tuning his snare between each song, as if it was to blame. So in my experience, he's revered for being merely OK. Perhaps he was better back in the day, but bear in mind Clapton is also revered despite being nowhere near as good as yer actual blues-meisters like the Alberts!

He would be high on the list of top over-rated drummers... With Ginger Baker and Keith Moon

Arguably... Though I suspect the list of top 5 best known (not best!) drummers would be: 1. Animal (Muppets) 2. John Bonham 3. Phil Collins 4. Ginger Baker 5. Keith Moon that goes without saying

Sister Morphine - Marianne Faithful

He's a decent drummer, to be sure... But the ones I mentioned are probably at least as good as Mr. C, probably a lot better in some cases, and completely unknown outside of serious muso circles. So they're the ones who are the most under-rated in the history of history!