Leonard Smalls

Especially for Doug I've done some weirdybeardyjazzyoddness... It's a celebration of the cheap Action Man substitute (Little Big Man) I got as a kid. It came with a parachute - song is in 3 parts as that's how many bit LBM broke into when I tested his 'chute! https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/little-big-man (edited to add, strangely, it won't embed so link instead...)

Dennis Chambers.... Funky, musical and expressive!

Tis a bit out of sync and weirdly coloured, but...

I didn't buy a Wal for its wonderful tone or playability- in the topsy turvy world of rock and roll, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is quite often useful...

My timing is definitely better, wot with playing to EZ Drummer for nearly a year; Real Drummer would invariably have speeded up by at least 10bpm per song, as well ad throwing in various bars of 5, 6 and even 7/4 due to many over enthusiastic under executed fill-ins. We called him The Dentist.

Bought an EBS bass Wah... Turned up fast with full tracking info,and exactly as described. Recommended!

I'm working on a mash up of this and Gary Numan's Cars,featuring funk bass, screaming guitar and punky vox!

you sure you want everyone to know your address and email? 😎😁

Loving this! However, contains language many might find offensive... But you can't argue with the sentiment!

I'm not a believer in sacrificing owt... After all, one man's "barely competent" is another man's "wow that's amazing",and yet another man's "s'not bad considering he/she's tone deaf and can't play a note". Even if it sounds really bad to you it's possible to smother it in reverb and call it jazz. Somebody will no doubt agree - after all I always get at least 1 (and sometimes as many as 3!) vote in the monthly Composition Challenge no matter how terrible experimental it might be.

Read "Attack Surface" by Corey Doctorow to find out how easily They (oh yes) can steal your precious, precious songs!

Not necessarily I keep all my good stuff on a 256 bit encrypted drive that's only every connected to computer via a packet level firewall USB filter, and then only if the computer is offline, brand new and with newly installed one-use software on it. Obviously no mobiles are allowed in the room, which is off-grid and lined with copper mesh. Wouldn't want Doug nicking it

Was wondering where my 3rd vote had gone 😁 Either way, make sure you're well enough for the next one as I'm looking for an excuse to ditch any semblance of melody...

We haven't had any Zapp for a while!

Craig Charles just reminded me of this enormous pile of funk!

Likes a bit of Electric Masada!

Me too! Funnily enough was listening to this only this morning - very jazzy but you can hear the roots!

Some stuff from when I were nowt but a nipper *! (* not yet old enough to vote)

No excuse for that! Not the slap bit,but Alright Now! If you have to,at least do it differently...

😁 Don't worry, it was quite shouty and also a bit faster - perhaps frantic slap-disco-punk-funk-wtf!

I used to do a slap disco version of this! 😅

Indeed... Even though it was music produced, written and performed by me I'm sure PRS would still want a cut of it! It gets an admin or collection fee for every royalty varying from 10.5% for stuff played on BBC iPlayer up to about 23% for "other recorded" music playback and concerts. I can understand why there would be a collection fee for the PRS to collect royalties on behalf of one of its members, but what I don't understand is why would somewhere that is playing original music produced by a non-PRS member (with their consent) would have to pay a fee to the PRS? Even the BBC don't charge you a licence fee if you have a TV that isn't capable of receiving broadcasts!

This does seem a bit weird...Why should a venue have to pay a %age of box office to the PRS in order that the PRS then pay royalties to a band for playing in a venue that has already paid them a fee? After all, if a band are getting paid to play their material why should the PRS get a cut? Sounds like tax! And perhaps I should just play music by non-PRS members in my shop? Or perhaps my own music (though that would no doubt result in fewer customers, and those we did get would be generally odd)? No doubt I'd still be required to pay under some obscure loophole...