Leonard Smalls

I've got one of these, had it since I bought it new in about 1990! Excellent piece of kit, and I never had any volume problems...

I'm being eclectic....

5 minutes ago, odysseus said:

Cracking mullet

I suspect they may have been either:

a) being ironic

or b) from the interior of Oz 

😀

I'm loving it!

Much better tracking, more instantly useable sounds... I have a feeling our band no longer needs either a keyboard or rhythm guitar!

By V4 we'll be able to get rid of lead guitar and drummer too...

8 hours ago, steantval said:

this show just gets worse

Not quite sure how the Amyls got on, they're just a bit rubbish and not very tight, but at least they had some energy and were moderately entertaining, unlike that Gallagher bloke who got an enormous interview too.

Best band I felt were with the rapper bloke, though they were rather bland...

I find that listening and playing along to music that's different from what I normally play helps... Frinstance, our band's latest song was inspired by me listening to Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and attempting to play along with Jamaaladeen.

I also got lots of inspiration from trying to do some of the chords in Jonas Hellborg's chord book - there were all sorts of inversions and strange chords that I'd never even dreamt of!

When I've got my yellow and purple platform boots on I'm just over 5'10"...

On 22/10/2019 at 18:06, visog said:

I don't think it was cheesy.

Animal Logic's songs were cheesey, the bits inbetween the singing not so much! I was also at the Town & Country gig, which was much more of a disappointment thatn the time I saw the Stanley Clarke Band, or the time at the Festival Hall with Stan, Herbie, Wayne Shorter and Omar Hakim!

Now Golden Palominos were largely awful - I think they did about 1 good song (whose name I don't remember) with Jamaaladeen on bass...

2 hours ago, SH73 said:

.any tips on keeping lemon plant alive t

Keep them somewhere sunny - ours thrive on a windowsill that gets full sun for 1/2 day and good light for the rest.

We water about once a week from the bottom (i.e in large saucer) but don't let it stand in water for days. Feed with citrus feed or seaweed about once a month, and lookout for scale insects on the leaves. They're very susceptible indoors - as a result we put ours outside from about late May to end Sept for birds to eat... Prune and dead leaves...

Currently enjoying these crazy Brighton types:

37 minutes ago, SH73 said:

Is that a lemon plant in the big white pot?

It is!

We run a garden centre and most of the plants in what I call music room and my wife calls the garden room are undergoing TLC so they'll be good enough to sell...

The sound of a punkfunk band rehearsing in there doesn't seem to do them any harm!

Nowt from me, Doug'll be pleased to hear... 😁

Too busy arranging and rehearsing for recording at Foel Studios next week.

And in about a year I will have worked out exactly what the (essentially) 9 knobs do!

Just bought an ACG Recurve Custom from @Bigwan of this parish.

And it's the absolute business! I can see why there's so much raving about them... It does just about everything my Wal does, but is lighter and possibly even easier to play. So do I sell the Sandberg Bassic or Parker PB51?

I was fortunate enough to buy an ACG Recurve from Ian.

Despite UPS's attempts to throw a spanner in the works it arrived, communication was flawless, bass in perfect nick (as described) and very well packed.

Highly recommended as a seller, and I'm rapidly becoming an ACG fanboy!

2 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

I love The Monochrome Set

I saw them in Bristol a few years ago at some pub. You'd think with their level of general brilliance they'd have several roadies, groupies, hangers-on etc..

Poor fellas were humping their own gear out just like I have to! They coulda been a contender. Or at least shoulda, considering some of the less worthy who did make it!

I remember back in the late 80s my band sent a tape to Rough Trade. They sent back a standard rejection letter which had tick boxes next to 4 options:

• Excellent stuff, but not what we're looking for at the moment, but do keep going! (they'd ticked this one)
•  Has potential, but you probably need to do some work
•  Terrible, give up now, you're not cut out for music
•  Deacon Blue standard 

😀

5 minutes ago, Monkey Steve said:

You're not wrong - Dirk Wears White Sox is by far the best thing he/they ever did

Aye - though Xerox and Whip aren't on it IIRC 😎

However, he was briefly in another of my favourite bands whose bass players (Jeremy Harrington and a bit later, Andy Warren out of off of the Antz) convinced me Bass was The Place:

Animal Logic!

You'd think Stanley (despite some of his dodgier solo offerings) and Stewart Copeland could produce something better than 80s cheese!

13 hours ago, edwn said:

Jacob Collier

I don't know why, but he's becoming increasingly annoying to me... Sure, he plays well - but he's by no means the best; it's just that he has to play everything in such a "look-at-me" way. It seems to be less about the music about more about him.

And I've got no problem with musician-as-entertainer - I'm a huge Bootsy fan! Just that he doesn't have the coolness to pass it off as something more than looking like he's gagging for a piddle!

Each to there own - I'm sure some find him most endearing...

9 minutes ago, Marc S said:

Great video, and what a great guy & character too - gotta love Bootsy

I remember seeing him on Rockschool - this clip IIRC - which made me think bass was much cooler than keyboards!

At work, and managed to squeeze Steve Coleman and the 5 Elements onto the playlist with "The Tao of Mad Phat"...

And nobody has whinged about the excess of widdley jazz!

1 hour ago, skankdelvar said:

late Sir John Betjeman

More like the not-at-all-late Dr John Cooper Clarke, who penned my favourite Haiku (in fact only Haiku I know or can be bothered with):

To freeze A Moment

In seventeen syllables

Is very difi