Leonard Smalls

I thought that I'd get the - max amount of options this side of buying a dedicated mixing desk, so I bought a Wounded Paw V4 blender... It's got 3 fully buffered loops, 2 with different high pass filters, plus phase, level and 3 different options for which way loops 3 and 4 go, plus it's got a clean blend which can also be used as a 4th loop. It's the Dog's!

Wouldn't know... I'd be foolish to tear out the Wal electronics and place something inferior in there! 😁 However, I'm getting excellent results with a rackmount BBE pre-amp...

John Patitucci?

Since when would anyone on the internet look for context in a quote before mouthing off?

A peak implies "the best". As it's entirely subjective, and he's basically saying that The 1971 Who album was that peak, all we can infer from his comments is that he misplaced his rose tinted specs up his own backside.

Roger's just looking for publicity for his new album... And he's probably right that his rock music peaked in 1971. Just means he's stuck in his own past and hasn't noticed the world moving on.

Just discovered this band...

Indeed... But if you can't play jazz, I'd say don't even attempt it! However, I'm a fine one to talk; in one of our songs we have a longish improvised section where all 3 of us do a bar each which is supposed to build on and echo the previous bar. If we haven't got decent on-stage sound this can turn into a nightmare best forgotten...

Isn't the whole point of jazz to riff off each other? Not to play everything exactly by rote, the same every time, but to see where a tune can go? Otherwise it becomes like some classical concerts, where the front row is populated by people following the score and tutting if there's even the slightest hint of "Interpretation" rather than just enjoying the music...

Bit of a weird one... It was the gig with almost no promotion, where our band name was billed wrongly, where we foolishly accepted the fact we weren't getting paid due to the possibility of "good future gigs" (I know, I know!). Anyway, 'twas in a small Shropshire village, even smaller pub frequented by an odd mix of walkers, tourists and local heavy drinkers. PA was set up by the band who were actually getting paid - we had a 1 minute sound check which was pretty good when the landlord's wife came out of the kitchen next door saying could we turn down as they couldn't hear orders in there... So we turned down a touch, closed the connecting door which made it extraordinarily hot, and started playing; of course I'd turned down much more than the guitarist so had to keep fiddling. But we played well; at one point about 30 women, all dressed to the nines, came past the stage into the 3 cubicle Ladies toilet by the stage - it was like the initial walk-on in TV's "Take Me Out"; we were playing our one and only blues-ish song, which has a verse inspired by Killing Joke's "Change" and a funky slap chorus if you can imagine that. It also has some quite long pauses where the singer sings his line, then we come back in. One of the women came up to guitar/singer and asked if we did "Summer of 69" (we don't do any covers!), so rather than going back into the song, our Tim quickly sang the 1st verse of the Bryan Adams classic (!), stopped, and we all somehow continued the interrupted song - which showed we could busk it a bit! Of course, the young women -who turned out to be young farmers along with a similar amount of young men- weren't interested in us (if we'd been the Wurzels it would have been different!), but there were quite a few rockin' locals who enjoyed us - and at least 1 older hikey type who'll no doubt leave an appalling TripAdvisor review for the pub. She ran into the Ladies toilet clutching her head as if the demons of Hades were clawing at it - which in a way we were! Still, last unpaid gig. Not sure if the pub will ask us back anyway as we were a touch too "rock" as opposed to "pub rock" for them!

I like "Capitalist Disharmony", because I get not 1, but 3 bass solos in it... And "Fight The System" is always in there, wot with it being melodic, then punky, and having a sweary chorus.

I'm in 2 bands,I use compression (lots!) but don't have a compressor on my pedal board...There's one on my rackmount BBE pre, plus another 2 channels on a rackmount dbx which I use into and out of my fx loop.

Further update: pub contacted me to apologise for the band name pink torpedo-up - they've changed it on their website. But we've heard nowt from the promoter at all, despite having emailed him on Monday... His website banner is still wrong.

Our drummer has a decent e-kit which he does all his practice on... He's not keen on using it live for rock reasons as well! I'd be well happy if he did, then we could ditch my amp as well and tell Mr Guitar he just needs a decent amp sim/fx unit, go in-ears and he can sell his Marshall stack to provide some hookers'n'coke money

Indeed... I'm loathe to cancel, simply because we stupidly said we'd do it. If Shrop Rocks hadn't been so excellent with their help we might have cancelled well before any other alleged publicity was a twinkle in the promoter's eye... You haven't heard us Seems the going rate round here is £200 for 2 x45min-1hour sets. Unfortunately we've only written 10 songs so far, which means we double up with some mates and split the money. Luckily this gig is only 4 miles away, easy load in and out, the Mrs is driving and they brew their own beer which I hope/expect to get a few of for £0.

Aye... We've been paid for all our other gigs except the Musicians Against Homelessness benefit, which is quite unusual for a new originals band (not the New Originals, obviously!), especially here in the official middle of nowhere... It's only the promotion done by the fanzine that makes us want to do it! They've been great and helped us get some very good future gigs.

Not even a sign written in brown crayon in the bar...

Aye - that's what we're minded to do... We just know to steer clear of this promoter!

Wadduwedo? We agreed to play a gig in a local pub a few months ago; it was supposed to be a "music festival" - we were told we weren't getting paid because they'd run out of money, but that there were plenty of bands on - we were told we were on at 3pm on 27th May. We accepted, because the promoter said that he had some slots at a much bigger festival in a nearby town - and besides, as a newly starting out originals-only band we normally get a max of £100 anyway - we thought speculate/accumulate etc. So there was no sign of any publicity - bearing in mind this pub is in a tourist area where many folks stay b&b and might not appreciate suddenly finding out with no warning that there's bands on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. For some, of course it might be heaven - but as I said, absolutely no publicity. So we did a bit of publicity, a local fanzine picked it up and put it in their highlights for the month section, when we discovered that we were the only band not getting paid. Which we weren't happy about - promoter was emailed, took ages to reply, basically said don't worry, there'll be loads of publicity, it'll do you good etc. So we decided to go ahead - if only because of Shrop Rocks Picks-of-the-month thingummy - didn't want to let folks down who might actually come and see us! Still no publicity, not mentioned on pub website with only 2 weeks to go... Then we discover we're on at 730, and this is only because I hassled the landlord of the pub who has nowt to do with putting on music and he hassled Mr No-Publicity-Is-Good-Publicity. Then a flyer finally appears with full line-up. And the %£&*$@ has got our band's name wrong! Not only that but he hasn't replied to any of our messages! We know quite a few people are coming to see us, and it's our only local gig for months. Do we cancel because of the catalogue of incompetence, or play anyway?

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Here's mine again...

Did an afternoon slot at The Grapes in Hereford yesterday for the Royal Bedding Musicians Against Homelessness benefit all-dayer. The audience was mainly the other bands- apparently it filled up in the evening - but they all cheered in a supportive fashion, and not a single one threw a pint glass full of piddle at us. Which was nice! We were, as usual, too fast,but surprisingly tight given the breakneck pace of some of our funkier numbers - this probably went down better wot with many punk and metal bands being on...

I've been trying to get a Spinal Tap tribute band together for years, but can't find a drummer.

Those were my handy-for-London Cat 4 glacier goggles...

Not sure if it's "like a rock-star", but I used to go out like this... The boots are yellow and purple, and the cod-piece is home-made out of a rubber glove...