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  1. Leonard Smalls
    It's just a sneaky way of introducing the kids to harmolodic jazz from an early age... Here's what Jamaaladeen normally does!
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  3. Leonard Smalls
    Our first song starts with 24 bars of solo bass, which means I can freak the rest of the band out by varying the tempo up until the very last 2 notes... So far audiences have politely indulged us for starting with a bass solo - perhaps because (unusually for us!) it's almost got a hummable melody. Almost!
  4. Leonard Smalls
    What this thread shows is: a) some good bands never make it big b) some very poor bands never make it big c) some good bands make it big d) some very poor bands make it big And that one man's good band is another's pile of steaming dog doo... Talking of which, I never understood why this band never made it:
  5. Leonard Smalls
    I saw an ad for bassplayer wanted to join guitar and drums to form a funk-rock band - and they were both in my little "town" (1500 people...) So we did a few gigs,then the guitarist left due to too many arguments with the drummer. We then found a singer who'd been with a number of hardcore bands in the 90s, and a guitarist who liked Hendrix. Now we're a funk-punk band... We've just recorded our first 5 track EP and I'm editing a video which should hopefully get us some decent support slots in the new year.
  6. Leonard Smalls
    Becoming?
  7. Leonard Smalls
    It doesn't get much better than "Christmas is 4 Ever" by Bootsy!
  8. Leonard Smalls
    My 2 current bands:
  9. Leonard Smalls
    Here's some publicity photos!
  10. Leonard Smalls
    I've never played any of the songs mentioned, and have only ever covered a song if we can put an interesting spin on it... Currently our only cover is "Don't Dictate" by Penetration, which we've done as a sort of mash-up with "Word Up" by Cameo. And I'm currently working on a version of "Nice and Sleazy" which (mostly) keeps the iconic riff, but it's faster and has a slap-punk-funk chromatic verse at double speed. Which might be nice!
  11. Leonard Smalls
    I bought a Gear4Music one that didn't work, but strangely, it did work for a set of Alessis e-drums!
  12. Leonard Smalls
    It just cut through better using the supplied Ampeg 8x10 cab. It's also quite a bit lighter, is the full 2 octaves, and is possibly even easier to play. Mids aren't quite as lush but I was after more of a modern slap sound for the recording... And I will use the Wal again - shan't be leaving it to the woodworm! and the ACG is: Pickups: ACG FB Hardware: ACG/Hipshot bridge, Gotoh GB720 tuners, Dunlop Straplocks, Low Battery Indicator Pre-amp: ACG DFM 5K/AP
  13. Leonard Smalls
    From the Panda support page: Future Impact patch editor - MIDI interfaces we tested Panda-Audio midiBeam - works perfectly Steinberg UR22 - works perfectly Roland UM-ONE MK2 - works perfectly RME Fireface UC - works perfectly M-Audio Fasttrack-Pro - works perfectly M-Audio Midisport 4x4 - works perfectly M-Audio Firewire 1814 - works perfectly Behringer UMC404HD - works perfectly Presonus Firepod - works perfectly Bespeco BM USB100 - works perfectly Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 - works perfectly Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 - works perfectly Audiobox USB - works perfectly RME UFX - works perfectly ESI M4U XL - works perfectly Edirol UM-1S - works in 90%, sometimes errors experienced, but useable Alesis USB MIDI cable - does not work any unbranded USB MIDI cable - does not work Akai EIE, EIE-PRO - does not work Miditech Midilink-mini - no sysex implementation at all, not useable It may well be the cable!!! I use a 2nd hand Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 (£50ish) with bog standard midi-midi cables and that works fine.
  14. Leonard Smalls
    Chris was in my 1st band, Dredd and the Badass Weeds but then went and sold out with the Rollins Band 😆 And Melvin was one of my bass heroes - saw him with Arto Lindsey, Defunkt, Sonny Sharrock and Marc Ribot. Met him once while he was having lunch in the BBC canteen, of all places, with Chris and our 'Enry!
  15. Leonard Smalls
    2 bass-related purchases this year: a Panda Future Impact pedal - it's now almost permanently on and freaking out my band-mates an ACG Recurve bought from BigWan- it's my main bass now, the Wal is just sitting on its stand sulking!
  16. Leonard Smalls
    To ex-Badass Weed and Rollins' guitarist: https://chrishaskett.bandcamp.com/album/comprovisations-in-linear-b
  17. Leonard Smalls
    Can't be doing with trite, statin'-the-bleedin'-obvious lyrics, or with endless "ooh baby" nonsense... But a clever lyric is a thing of joy; by clever I mean interesting word-play, or a previously unthought-of analogy, or a new and interesting point of view. But, no matter how clever, they need the music more than the music needs the lyric. If it's all about the lyric it's just poetry (good or bad!) with a musical accompaniment. Though good poetry with good music is most excellent! 😎
  18. Leonard Smalls
    Bit of jazzprogrock from Germany...
  19. Leonard Smalls
    Panda Future Impact pedal will give you double bass and 80s synth sounds, but not arpeggiator (yet!).
  20. Leonard Smalls
    I tried a cheapie Gear4Music midiUSB cable and it didn't work... But found a Focusrite 6i8 for £50ish on ebay which also was an upgrade on my 2i2...
  21. Leonard Smalls
    Funnily enough I was in a studio last weekend where they're running pro-tools on a 10 year old Mac with OSX 10.8 and they have no intention of trying anything later than this! Works beautifully...
  22. Leonard Smalls
    You don't necessarily need pork-based products wrapped round your nether regions to look like an eejit - I find there's slightly less smelly ways 😁 (BTW, I bought this outfit in 1990 in Portobello Road, and it a) still fits and b) hasn't disintegrated due to toxic sweat overload... And apologies for sticking up yet more daft pics of yours-misanthropically)
  23. Leonard Smalls
    While he always played like a demon, I feel that what he did for other people (eg with Weather Report) far outshone anything (or at least most of the stuff) he did on his own, where I think he leaned rather too much toward the cheesey elevator end of things.... However, as far as cheesey elevator stuff goes it was quality cheesey elevator stuff 😎
  24. Leonard Smalls
    I've found that most UK pub bands are similar - jeans and rock t shirts all round if particularly rockin', or jeans and ironed (tis the Devil's work!!!) check shirt for more straight-ahead covers. While the Lady Gagas of this world may produce some amazingly dreary music, at least she dresses like a complete eejit - which is to be applauded!
  25. Leonard Smalls
    To be fair, he only moved kick and snare where it was off the beat, and any rolls and fills were stretched or pushed together. As a result some of the middle bits were much better because it was syncopated in a new and better way! And after we'd re-recorded bass/guitar it sounded tight-as against the pulled-in drums compared to any of the live stuff, as with kick/snare being rocksolid meant we were too, and fills sounded very organic. So I feel the work was necessary due to the original speed wobbles - just wondering if the amount of editing was more than is usual? (i.e. 1500+ edits in 1 song!)
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