Leonard Smalls

There's always a flaw in every great plan... If it hadn't been for you pesky kids etc!

Just got back from an afternoon set at Down On The Farm Festival near Hereford... It was the first time out for my Markbass 4x10/2x10 stack - band were impressed with how well it cut through. Not only that but there were only a couple of minor booboos, and a bass player from another band came up afterwards and complimented my playing (doesn't happen often!), saying as well that we sounded like Rage Against The Machine blended with Jamiroquai! Eek!

Bow down, puny Earthlings!

Bought a Markbass 104 cab off Paul yesterday; meet went as planned, kit was good as was his communication. Good bloke. Cheers!

Well my wife's gone to Java. Jakarta? No, she went on the bleedin' plane!

I've tried to like Tool over the years but their complete failure to say "All the girls go 'Owww, all the guys go 'woof!'" at any point, or to break it down to just handclaps with the whole band shouting "Ain't nuthin' but a party, babba!" just makes them a no-no for me.

Bit of Cory, featuring some serious bass playing by Sonny T (Warwick Infinity?) Not sure if this has been up already, but it's so nice you can play it at least twice...

This thread needs lots more Bootsy and PFunk…

Ain't nuthin' but a party!

Album with this on... Though this features an exciting array of stringed instruments! (Kubicki bass? Steinberger cricket bat?)

There's always "You picked a fine time to leaf me Lucille"...

I always take a decent sized bowl onstage as I find that sort of thing adds to the spectacle... Fills in those boring guitarist tuning up moments. It worked for GG Allin!

Indeed, but like that all-too-believable chariot race in Ben Hur there's a minor detail that makes it not quite right. In Ben Hur's case it was the alleged sports car in the background - though this turned out to be a myth. And the obvious not-myth thing in the pic is: Lemmy isn't normally pictured with a fan-fret 5 string slung above the waist! This is obviously Not-Lemmy - his evil mole-less jazz-funk twin...

I'm enjoying this arty lot at the moment...

You're on at Down on the Farm too? We're playing there Sunday 11th - 1st on main stage...

Our singer's going! She'll definitely be watching Terminal Rage at 1645 on Friday...

I use an enormous Yamaha folded horn with a Precision Devices 1x15, with a Markbass 2x10 Traveller on the top. Both are similar sensitivity, though the Markbass sounds louder because of the horn (!). However, they work very well together - very large and clean sound from 1500W of bridged Crown. I've also tried them with one plugged into each channel of the amp - the 1x15 set to everything below 200Hz and the Markbass all above 100Hz, then turned the 15 channel up higher than the 2x10. Overall this is quieter, but there's still immense headroom so in some ways this is the best option for most serious low end.

Mobile phone footage of our gig last week at Funk In The Forest... You can actually hear the bass!!!

All 10 were actually engaged - just 5 of them were jumping about... One of them was extremely enthusiastic saying we were awesome and how he wanted to have my babies and everything. Let's hope there's more folks at our next gig - though Down On The Farm is a much bigger festival; Coghlan's Quo are headlining Sunday eve and we're on in the afternoon.

Played a new festival yesterday - Funk in the Forest near Welshpool. Unfortunately they'd only been given a licence for 500 people due to complaints from the village (on the other side of a hill and 1.5 miles away!), and we were playing at 1530, which meant we only played to 10 people! However, PA was good, sound person was good,I was provided with an Ashdown rig that sounded very punchy indeed which meant all those unnecessary notes i play could be heard. And despite the drummer being unhappy as he had a bad chest and had to carry some stuff a couple of hundred metres, we all played well; couple of minor fluffs but nobody noticed, 5 of the audience danced about quite a lot (perhaps they'd started very early on the "Festival Spirit? Or maybe we were actually groovy? Who knows...) and we got interviewed by some fanziney podcast thing who I gave yet another false name (*) to. You've got to keep them guessing! The picture shows me doing my impression of the Incredible Melting Man... * I went for Leonardo di Piccolo. They said I sounded very English for an Italian!

Me just before playing at Funk in the Forest today... First outing for the Snakeskin Cowboy!

Big fan of Big Tony Fisher as well - always funky...