Leonard Smalls

Rehearsal in the local church (amazing they let us, none of us attend!) with funky blues band last night... After our chat with guitarman two weeks ago about not playing ceaselessly and without end, and perhaps putting some space in, and perhaps listening to the rest of us (it's only bass and drums ffs!), and maybe playing stuff that actually fitted with what we were doing it appears that the penny may have dropped a bit! He's actually listened to the Meters and Slave and Mother's Finest and Sly Stone stuff I sent him and throttled it right back with the aimless pentatonic noodling. Now we're sounding far more coherent as a band, and may have recruited a sax player (we can't find a vocalist!)...

Space Cowboy - Jonzun Crew

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! 😁