Leonard Smalls

Ain't nuthin' but a party!

Album with this on... Though this features an exciting array of stringed instruments! (Kubicki bass? Steinberger cricket bat?)

There's always "You picked a fine time to leaf me Lucille"...

I always take a decent sized bowl onstage as I find that sort of thing adds to the spectacle... Fills in those boring guitarist tuning up moments. It worked for GG Allin!

Indeed, but like that all-too-believable chariot race in Ben Hur there's a minor detail that makes it not quite right. In Ben Hur's case it was the alleged sports car in the background - though this turned out to be a myth. And the obvious not-myth thing in the pic is: Lemmy isn't normally pictured with a fan-fret 5 string slung above the waist! This is obviously Not-Lemmy - his evil mole-less jazz-funk twin...

I'm enjoying this arty lot at the moment...

You're on at Down on the Farm too? We're playing there Sunday 11th - 1st on main stage...

Our singer's going! She'll definitely be watching Terminal Rage at 1645 on Friday...

I use an enormous Yamaha folded horn with a Precision Devices 1x15, with a Markbass 2x10 Traveller on the top. Both are similar sensitivity, though the Markbass sounds louder because of the horn (!). However, they work very well together - very large and clean sound from 1500W of bridged Crown. I've also tried them with one plugged into each channel of the amp - the 1x15 set to everything below 200Hz and the Markbass all above 100Hz, then turned the 15 channel up higher than the 2x10. Overall this is quieter, but there's still immense headroom so in some ways this is the best option for most serious low end.

Mobile phone footage of our gig last week at Funk In The Forest... You can actually hear the bass!!!

All 10 were actually engaged - just 5 of them were jumping about... One of them was extremely enthusiastic saying we were awesome and how he wanted to have my babies and everything. Let's hope there's more folks at our next gig - though Down On The Farm is a much bigger festival; Coghlan's Quo are headlining Sunday eve and we're on in the afternoon.

Played a new festival yesterday - Funk in the Forest near Welshpool. Unfortunately they'd only been given a licence for 500 people due to complaints from the village (on the other side of a hill and 1.5 miles away!), and we were playing at 1530, which meant we only played to 10 people! However, PA was good, sound person was good,I was provided with an Ashdown rig that sounded very punchy indeed which meant all those unnecessary notes i play could be heard. And despite the drummer being unhappy as he had a bad chest and had to carry some stuff a couple of hundred metres, we all played well; couple of minor fluffs but nobody noticed, 5 of the audience danced about quite a lot (perhaps they'd started very early on the "Festival Spirit? Or maybe we were actually groovy? Who knows...) and we got interviewed by some fanziney podcast thing who I gave yet another false name (*) to. You've got to keep them guessing! The picture shows me doing my impression of the Incredible Melting Man... * I went for Leonardo di Piccolo. They said I sounded very English for an Italian!

Me just before playing at Funk in the Forest today... First outing for the Snakeskin Cowboy!

Big fan of Big Tony Fisher as well - always funky...

Aye! Still gigging too...

When we moved into our new house a couple of years ago I got chatting to one of our neighbours about dogs... She's got a couple of wolfhounds. I mentioned I was in a band (as you do!), so we chatted about this for a while then she said she was a keyboard player and used to be in a band. I asked if it was anyone I'd heard of and she said "Jethro Tull". She's full of excellent stories of 70s rock'n'flute excess!

What abour the tv series? Or this?

Now I love beetroot, whether pickled, roasted, finely grated; however I don't like Yes. But I'm not a fan of eels, either the band or the slimy water dwellers that multiplied after the Battle Of Jutland. I'm a fan of hot food, and also like early Chilli Peppers (at least while they were still spicy). Conversely, I've never been a fan of The Jam, but love a bit of the old confiture, especially damson. And while I'm not a fan of offal (apart from liver), I definitely like The Bad Brains...

Love a bit of Jonas: And Les is also a master, both are highly recognisable without sounding like standard music shop slap artists...

I've got no problem with capes either... I love Parliament! And I've also got no problem with prog - at least in theory. I'm a big fan of Magma, King Crimson and even like ELP's "Pictures at an Exhibition". I can even cope with Gentle Giant despite their medieval bent! As for more modern prog, I'm very happy to listen to Porcupine Tree, Physics House Band, Sky Architect, Liquid Tension Experiment, Mars Volta etc. But I don't like Yes (or Genesis for that matter, but that's a different story); it could be the annoying folky chord progressions, the complete and utter lack of The Funk in any shape or form, the constant stopping and starting in order to fit in yet another fanfare, the fantasy album covers, the screeching vocals or the terrible lyrics. Either way, they're musical hell for me, or perhaps one of the outer circles; the centre is occupied by boy/girl bands and "I sawe a prettye Maide" type folk...

Eek! It's full of pomp and portent, and is about very little at all unless you're a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons, in which case it's deeeep, maan! 😜😀 And that's just the music. The singing, as I said earlier is like the mythical screaming baby-monster with bagpipes and metal gauntlet scraping down a 1000' blackboard for 21+ minutes! (*) Still beauty is in the ear of the beholder; but while they can most certainly play I'd prefer them to play somewhere in the vicinity of the star Icarus. * by way of balance, I quite like a bit of free jazz improv, so pinch of salt etc...

While he may be able to hit a note, I'd prefer the sound of a screaming baby with an airhorn scraping a metal gauntlet down a 100 foot blackboard to that Yes geezer!

Not unless they got a decent singer!