Leonard Smalls

Funky keymeister: Ol;d Skool funky rap

Goldie Looking Chain would disagree! Most certainly not safe for work, btw...

I'd have said "Funky in A minor, eh?" And then I'd have fired up the 2 envelope followers, bass synth and tube distortion pedals and got going with "Aah the name is Bootsy, baby".

A talented drummer to be sure... But I'd much prefer to listen to (or even play with!) Dennis Chambers!

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RIP! Electro! Mama Funk!

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Aye - by folks trying to sell traps and treatment products! DSP sellers would no doubt have a different take... I suspect the bestway is to get best position and isolation then traps and dsp... Luckily my Dittons were one of the speakers often used in the 70s as main monitors - being about 1.2m high means small mix rooms are out!

If you put my Ditton 66 series 2s. With 12" rear passive radiator this close to a wall there'd be either a) so much bass you'd have to fill the room with treatment products to "tame" it. Or b) a perfect hole for a kitchen extractor fan...

The first track from the Masters Of Frunk ep has finally surfaced:

I've done one... (sorry!)

I'm afraid that for £200 that's all you'll get! But Juno are doing these little fellas (Equator D5, less than 10" high) for £399 - not an enormous amount of bass but they have DSP and excellent stereo imaging:

Possibly not - or at least one of the top-notch ones. But there were a few advertised at the Doll's House in Abertillary when we played there recently; in price was £5-10. The reason I can't see the appeal of paying that, or owt for that matter, to see a tribute is that they'd have to pay me to come see 'em!

I can't cope with opera singers, specifically high pitched female ones. Like nails on a blackboard amplified to 140dB. And while we're at it, strummed acoustic guitar. In that round-the-camp-fire leavin'-on-a-jet-plane kumby-ah sort of way. Wetter than Le Pétomane after a Bangalore Phall!

Why not just get a really good pair of headphones?

Here's mine without the pedals.

Seems a bit odd to me that punters are very willing to pay £100 or so to see Metallica along with 5-10000 others, or even to pay £6 to see ABCD tribute band, but won't come and see an originals band playing for free. Fair enough, you know Metallica will be slick as will the covers band (hopefully!). But that doesn't mean the free originals band won't be as well! Perhaps there's less appetite for new live music, maybe they don't want to just take a punt? Or perhaps it was always so...

You won't say that when you've heard it! It started off as a solo bass musing having looked at the pic... Now my mate has put some semi random acoustic guitar chords over the top and I'm currently improvising some drums over the top. It's definitely a bit free-form, a bit funghi and a touch freaky. You might think Stinkhorn a better name

I've actually made a start... Working title is Free-Form Funghi Freakz.

While we're talking favourite jazz albums, let's stick in a few more in addition to the James Carter one that I mentioned earlier: Bill Laswell - Panthalassa (Bill's remixes of beaches Brew with bits of Agharta by Miles Davis) Jacques Loussier - Play Bach (all of them) Ron Carter - Blues Farm Ivan Boogaloo Jones - Black Whip Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Dreamscape Hiromi's Sonic Bloom - Time Difference Headless Torsos - Amandala

Seminal bass albums? All the Bootsy's Rubber Band albums. And the one that this is off

2nd ever 16 CS gig, at the Doll's House, Abertillary... Discovered one band had pulled out due to it being past their bed-time or something similar. So we were on first; there were about 30 people in there, 25 of whom left 1/2 hour before we came on due to lots of parties in town. So we played - got a reasonably good reaction from the assembled throng (!), no major pink torpedo-ups, tight and no excessive speeding up. Which was nice! And the "headline" band made a right racket! But a long way to go (1hr50) for 5 punters, £20 travel money and 3 beers each. That's the joy of being a new originals band (not The New Originals, obvs:) ) with no demo. Still, it'll be mixed by the New Year when we should soon be headlining major venues like The Vaults at Bishop's Castle!

And not forgetting Bootsy's new album, World Wide Funk!

I've been enjoying my mate Trevor's "Chivo Funge" album, with Dudley Phillips on bass... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blind-Energy-Chivo-Funge-Extensions/dp/B01KBNFKGO

Our first gig was such a success that we have to play many miles from home in order to escape the angry mobs... So we're doing a short-notice support with Tight Muff (!) at that rockin' venue - The Doll's House in Abertillery, Blaneau Gwent. Might even be free to get in, but don't quote me! http://www.facebook.com/pg/thedollshousewales