Leonard Smalls

Calf Trouble (parts 1 & 2) - Adam and the Ants

But Pastorius obviously never got good enough to graduate to a 5 string! 😁 And on the drums thing, I've played with too many drummers who have more than 3 toms, plus another 4 cymbals. It takes 'em ages to set up and it takes up most of the stage (unless you're in a proper sized venue). I could forgive said drummers if didn't then bash every one of those drums as hard as they could without listening to how they fit in with the band, and especially by tw@tting the ride cymbal constantly giving just an unpleasant wash of high frequency that obscures just about everything else... If they could just do the groove thing with the snare, hi-hat and bass drum we'd all be much happier. And funkier!

Can't be doing with big drum kits, unless said drummer is of a serious Cobham/Chambers etc standard. Should learn to use snare, hi-hat and bass drum properly first!

Our guitar player in the blueseyfunky band still doesn't do this... He sets what he thinks is the right amp level and woebetide if it isn't. If you say he's too quiet (it happens with this guy!) he changes his level by fiddling with pedal settings, which completely beggars up his sound!

I'm a little Airplane - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

Big Spliff - Black Uhuru

Mr Blue Thigh - ELO

Norwegian Woodlouse - The Beatles

Insecty Boy - Air

Or a bit more obscure, Prince Charles and the City Beat Band.

Or Jethro Tull...

Good enough for my old mate Jaco!

Human Fly - The Cramps

Countracula - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Having just looked up Papa Shango I see they're completely different... Punky ones don't have face paint. And if you're careful you may see me in the crowd here 😁

Was it The Papashangos? Singer strips down to bodystocking and suspenders - stocky baldy fella? Merch included branded Buttplugs? If so they're relatively straightahead punk - they were on at Rebellion right before us, they were tight as and lots of fun though some may think them a touch frivolous. I liked 'em!

I invariably just get a little dribble of disappointment... Unless they're doing something interesting like The Cramps "The Way I Walk" or Magazine's "Song From Under The Floorboards" or Morglbl's "Tea Time for Punks".

Computer's done a pretty good job here!

To be fair, I haven't played (or wanted to play) a violin bass since 😆

Aye, that is what age does to you! 😁 But to be fair, people's favourite musical moments are often based on how they were feeling at the time they first heard it. So all Mr D is saying is that he prefers "Smoke on't Watter". Doesn't mean it's better or worse than owt else, just that it's more to his taste and it obviously moves something in him. And why not! For me, I love the bit in Rollins Band's "Liar" after Melvin Gibbs' wonderful phased bass intro when it comes in, completely in your face. Or when the crazed guitar comes in in You've Got Foetus On Your Breath's "Wash It All Off". (though the original single version is far better than the album) Or in Jamaaladeen Tacuma's "Let's Have a Good Time" off the Dreamscape album where, after a bass solo and long repetitive Harmolodic section it becomes unexpectedly and impossibly funky...

Say What? - Trouble Funk

Statue, Mo-dean? - B-52s

We had to sack a guitarist because of a combination of serious substance-abuse problems (*), poorly cared-for gear (we never knew if it would work!) and erratic playing where sometimes he'd completely forget what he was meant to be playing, or launch into a loud and unrelated solo in the middle of a verse. After quite a while of tolerating this and attempting to get him to change his ways we saw nothing was changing and had to boot him out. He still doesn't understand what the problem was, despite having been told numerous times! * once we were playing in Manchester... About 30 minutes before we were due to go on there was no sign of him. I rushed out, and knowing what he was like, searched the nether-regions of Piccadilly station where I found him sniffing white powder with some ne'er do wells. He didn't play well either!

Don't you rock me, Daddy-o! - Lonnie Donnegan

No! Never been. Fell over 100' near Holyhead once though...