Leonard Smalls

If you're the type who suffers from severe stage fright, or just gets nervous, make sure your band are playing in an extremely niche musical style, like Japanese Jazzcore. That way you won't have any audience to worry about. Works for me! 😁

Don't go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant before a gig. And make sure you look cool. Nowt worse than a band in jeans and standard rock tshirt - I like to arrive at the venue and the owner says "you're the band then" as opposed to thinking you're just some punter. We're in the entertainment business after all!

Particularly like this Bjork one... Proper Big Groove!

Aye! £35k for a 7 year old one, £600 road tax and 24.4mpg... and just a touch slower to 60 than my Tesla 😁

I managed to get 2 basses, a guitar, guitar fx and very large bass fx boards, plus guitar and bass heads, 2 stands and a guitarist in mine. And my Mrs reckons there's not enough room in it!

Having a bit of a trip down rockabilly lane:

I used to have problems with the band not being able to hear me. Then I bought a 1500w amp... 😁

Finally got my 'puter to behave, and spent 2 or 3 hours noodling and doodling... Started with lots of percussion, got a keys riff going, added some big guitars, then a pumpinslappy bass thing. After that, a final roll in glitter and 3 coats of varnish. It's not jazz, but it probably is an oddity! And for those interested, recorded in Ableton. Keyboard sounds from Iris and Ableton's own. Drums are a mix of programmed and sampled clips from Designer Drums, Digicussion and EZ Drummer. Guitar is a strat, bass is a Wal and both are going through various Amplitube 4 amps, with some added Phasis and Raum on both. Polish added by Neutron 3 and Ozone 9.

Yup! A Sabre fretless is the one I've got... Does every mwah tone you could want, as well as rockabilly thwacking using the piezo plus optical pickups. I bought it on spec from BassDirect when it was about a grand... Even did a punk gig with it!

Funnily enough, I saw Kraftwerk, Bauhaus and Cabaret Voltaire there... Though not on the same bill.

I like this... With the added advantage of no magnetic pickups! (btw, I've got one of these and it's excellent)

Always a bit dubious about all in one for some reason. Too tidy for me! I'm looking at a PC Specialist build in Be Quiet! case, i9 11900kf processor, 1x500 + 1x1000Gb M2 SSDs + 2TB Seagate HDD, 32Gb of Corsair Vengeance 2.6MHz RAM at £1298... Though it will need a monitor. And also looking at a Xeon powered Dell workstation with otherwise similar spec, refurb at £800...

I'm going to have this soon too as my laptop is currently in 20 mins boot-up and 5 minutes to think about anything mode... Files are easy as they're on an external drive, but will have to remember vst passwords are download again. Then there's choosing a new 'puter... Do I go old workstation with 64gB RAM and multithread processor(s) or new 32gB with not quite as good processor?

Had a decent gig last night at the most excellent Percy's in Whitchurch, Shropshire... Well received, folks were dancing and there was a visitation by our very own @lurksalot, his brother and m8 Dave. Only one proper pink torpedo up, when the drummer started off what was meant to be our most complex song bass-wise as a double speed punkthing. Eventually muddles through, but don't think I've ever played so fast in my life! Anyway, here's one we didn't balls up too much, our opening number... TwoCanPlay Percys 12-2-22.mp4

Cheers! And Raph'n'Sam say hi! Let us know when you're gigging with your new band - they're willing to travel to support you!

RIP!

My mum was a decent recorder player - this is the sort of thing she'd play, with her mate on the joanna:

Excellent! Only found out today... Previous support band had cancelled. I think we're the middle band.

Bit of slap electro featuring Tyrone's double thumb!

Just got a last minute gig at the excellent Percy's in Whitchurch. Last time we played there we had a ready-made audience courtesy of our own @lurksalot! Now featuring rhythm bass (Raph, ex of Hereford punx Terminal Rage) and lead bass (me on full-time widdle-duty), with our relatively new Drummer Gaz, and of course Jonny on Hendrix noises and Sam on Righteous Vox. https://www.facebook.com/events/690644258971962?ref=newsfeed

You can like both, or neither... You can also like new, or old exclusively; in other words you can like whatever you like. Similarly, you can also express an opinion on what you like or don't, and you can also say why you do or don't like it! You can also say you disagree with someone else's opinion and even politely say why!

Sadly, I was a late comer and didn't discover them till Peel played "Hollywood" in about September '85... Though I immediately ordered RHCP and Freakey Styley on import from our local independent record shop! And early fans are less likely to go to see stadium Chillis as they'd probably see the MoR Sweet Pimento Peppers - as for me, I wouldn't go to any gig where you need a large video screen just to see the band. Max Chillis gig size I enjoyed was around 2000 at the late-lamented Astoria.

These creative fellas get a bit confused sometimes 😁

S'funny - both sound to me (apart from Antwan The Swan's attempted singing) like an average, 70's Americana influenced US rock band. Groove and attitude toned right down in favour of MoR type radio play-friendliness! So I'd contend that if you don't like this, you don't like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. What you actually like is the Sweet Pimento Peppers!