Leonard Smalls

It would have all been a lot better if Australia had been represented by King Gizzard, Germany by Rammstein, UK by Fat White Family, Ireland by Girlband etc. That would have freaked out all those people who actually like the exceptionally square wail-fest that it is!

Luckily with us melodies are few and far between... So I nail together a number of riffs in funky prog-punk style, guitarist puts some feedback over the top, drummer does an over-complicated pattern that speeds up by at least 10bpm over the song, then the singer shouts some lefty-stuff. Tom's yer uncle!

The works of Brother Smalls are to be venerated! I suggested this as a cover for our band but was shouted down by those with a lack of vision...

He should have used an actual cello!

Me like! Here's a surprisingly restrained and groovy slap solo from him, even though it contains some machine gun stuff and a short bit of tooth playing - starts at 2'30ish

I would most respectfully disagree!

Shame! It would have been most excellent to output midi fx bass plus fx loop and clean signal into a DAW, or use it as an offboard midi effect...

Does anyone know if the FI will output midi from a bass guitar input?

Very wise! (warning, Wal content...)

We played there many times in the early 90s... Wouldn't be surprised if some of the fluorescent paint we splashed about liberally is still there!

I don't really understand how anybody could actually support a team - especially a premier league one. After all, they don't represent a town or city - I mean it's not just local lads from the pub playing on a Sunday morning. It's really only about money - supporting Manchester United is like having a favourite corporate entity; imagine the trouble if the Goldman Sachs Crew ran into the Rio Tinto Zinc Mob!

It's always amazed me, the obsession with football... If you put on a gig round here with 4 bands - all of them of decent quality - and charge £3 folks will say "it's too expensive" and you'll be lucky to get 50 people. However, if someone arranges a coach to see Hereford Town playing Forest Green Rovers at £20 for the coach each plus entrance fee it will fill up in seconds. Watching 22 blokes running round a field chasing a ball is obviously much more exciting than rock'n'roll - though as anybody should know from their schooldays, the cool guys were never the jocks...

I bought a lovely Sandberg there a few years ago. They're very helpful and always have interesting stock. We've got an excellent local music shop, though much better for guitarists. There's an enormous room full of handmade acoustics, ancient Fenders and Gibsons at £000s plus handbuilt crazy stuff. They survive by selling online as there's not enough musos in Powys! https://www.knightonmusiccentre.com/

Possibly! However, our roadie had a large dog with a very fluffy tail he held up like a flag at all times... While the Super was remonstrating with our guitarist, Merlin the dog ran through the policeman's legs, his tail brushing the chap's truncheon very gently and furrily. The copper looked around, saw no-one who could possibly have caressed him so tenderly, and left very quickly. His sergeant sniggered and told us to keep it down a bit, then they all drove off.

I've got 5 cds that live in my car cd player, almost to the exclusion of all else... Jacques Loussier - Play Bach Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal For Life Parliament - Mothership Connection Praxis - Transmutation Transmutandis Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Dreamscape (Though Dutch progboy's Sky Architect latest cd - "Nomad" has been sneaking in recently)

When we lived in a housing co-operative in a very swish square in Pimlico in the early 90s we had a party featuring our band... First we heard about any complaints (we were loud, to be fair, though the square was also very large, having a cricket pitch in the middle!) was an entire van-full of police who insisted we ceased and desisted with the racket there and then... And the cop in charge was a super, not just a lowly sarge. So it depends on who's being nuisanced!

Here's our one and only cover, recorded on a mobile phone at our 3rd gig... Next gig is in Hereford, June 6th, at Speakeasy,then at Funk In The Forest near Welshpool July 26th.

It's been doing the rounds on Facebook so I'm afraid it's a Top 40 Party Banger!

It's a she! But she doesn't really like anything that sounds at all classic rock, even if it's not like the KingsX and similar. As for Rasputin, they'd all stick my head on a pole I'm afraid... I am going to suggest Bad Brains' "Rise" though - it's possibly possible!

Not sure if any of the suggestions would work - especially as our singer has the punk attitude that if it's well known it must be rubbish! However, playing to punkier audiences means we could get away with funkin' up punk songs. Singer has suggested Misfits' "Where Eagles Dare", but it annoys me no end , with its poor music and inspirational-to-Green-Day chorus; I'd thought of GBH's "Living My Life", but would have to think hard about how to PFunk it with synth-wah bass. Ministry hasn't been ruled out yet, nor has this:

The biography of Derek Bailey is a very entertaining read as well as being a history and discography of free improv jazz...

Breckers already been rejected! Singer likes Hotrods though, and I have suggested it - she's thinking on't. I've got a slap bassline for it! Singer wouldn't be keen on the lyrics - we're a bit issues-based, other songs are about religion, parental abuse, fox hunting etc so she wouldn't be happy with that! We're likely to be playing to lots of punk crowds so funk-punk mashups would work quite well Trying not to give our drummer an excuse to break out the double drum pedal of doom!

I've got the Dames Games and Guitar Thangs album... And most excellent it is too - especially his cover of California Dreamin'! I've suggested that to 'em - bit faster with slightly heavier guitar and they might go for it. But I'm not holding my breath.

Both been rejected... "Don't like Bjork" and "don't like Rollins or the cheesey (!!!!)spoken bit". Trying for the Cramps "The way I walk" and Tubeway Army's "It must have been years" next...

Our singer and drummer wouldn't go for that, even if we metalled it up! I'm having a lot of trouble getting a chorus of Give Up The Funk in the middle of one of our songs, even though it stomps like a good 'un!