Leonard Smalls

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1454341342' post='2968721'] Issue 2 is 9.99 future issues are 14.99 I may be wrong, but I'm guessing that these are digitally remastered, so I can't see the point? As somebody already said, cd is probably better quality............ [/quote] It depends entirely how the digital remaster has been done! If it's been remastered at, say 192kHz sample rate and 24 or even 32 bit,there's a much higher dynamic and frequency range available. Even more if it's been done using DSD - though signal processing is more difficult. It also depends on whether any re-balancing, mixing, eq-ing etc have been done as well. It's also arguable that even if done at 44.1kHz and 16 bit, the quality of the DAC at the vinyl cutting lathe is likely to be better than in your cdp at home, so given a suitable playback device, even that would sound better... These are also 180g pressings, which tend to be better quality than your standard (130g?) pressings - there's more info and it's been more accurately cut.

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1454328861' post='2968567'] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]10. Something else!!! - Ornette Coleman[/font][/color] [/quote] Note to self: must put glasses on... There's no Last Exit, though... (Unsurprisingly!)

Lawks! No Ornette...

I've already recorded the chickens before I introduce them to the vibraslap... Just off now for some Mongolian throat singing lessons.

Excellently done, y'all! And congrats to Douglas - just make sure the pic is not a bourgeois tune-inducing one, or encourages oppression of the workers by imposing a rigid temporality... Keep it really free, baby!

Get yer votes for Douglas in now! Only 7 hours to go.... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?&app=forums&module=extras&section=legends#"][color=#225985] [/color][/url]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1454253129' post='2967853'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Don't forget now, folks ...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Vote For Lenny..! You know it makes sense. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] [/quote] And I've got cake! Schwarzwalder kirschtorte... Or perhaps some fine chocolate from the Chocolate Gourmet in Ludlow? And I think somebody must have just dropped this £50 note!

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1454187495' post='2967423'] for some reason, I read the last sentence that you are not inflatable [/quote] With real hair and everthang!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1454071972' post='2966085'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Don't forget now, folks ...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Vote For Lenny..! You know it makes sense. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] [/quote] I suspect foul play... Since Douglas became my campaign manager - which gave me time to write my over-long,teary, and rather gushing award-acceptance speech - I've not had a vote and he's caught up! At this rate I'll have to go back to the funk...

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1454082252' post='2966303'] if I come up with something good on the bass, I'd rather take it to my band and make a song with it. [/quote] I do that anyway... My band do a few of my basschat challenge songs.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1454076943' post='2966198'] The current composition challenge doesn't require any production skills, not as a prerequisite anyway. [/quote] I've been honing my "rolling in glitter and then applying 3 layers of lacquer" skills...

Praps what we need is various sub-categories in the Monthly Compo Compo... So there could be "best solo bass noodle", or "Best instrumental" or "best incoherent racket" or "best production" or "overall best song of the month ever". There could be an entertainingly complex poll attached, and a prize of absolutely nowt apart from the overall winner, who'd get to choose the photo, or (and here's the rub), [i]written theme [/i]for the next challenge.

With our band we wouldn't notice as all of us (including the singer) are soloing wildly all the time. Light and shade is supplied with a strobe and smoke machine...

I'm well up for a play any old sh*te challenge. It's what I do best!

Why thank you, Mr Campaign Manager! You can be the Irma Bunt to my Ernst Stavro Blofeld! Unfortunately I can't view the vid - tis private? However, I'll soon be expecting to hear strange, tuneless ditty-less ditties cluttering up the charts and advertising spaces, as well as corrupting the ears of youthful types who would otherwise be Beliebing...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1453914965' post='2964201'] That's nothing; Lenny has put in an option for a custom 747 in anticipation of his World Tour. [/quote] 747? That's so 1973! I've ordered a custom ratted Virgin Galactic shuttle. ..

Mwahahahaha! My dastardly plan is coming to fruition! Soon we will rename this forum FreeJazzChat, where all talk of bourgeois melody or of shackling our creativity by the imposition of reactionary time signatures will be banned! Now where's my white cat?

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1453745304' post='2962393'] sometimes Lenny limps a bit, but no need yet for a merciful ending. Not yet. Not quite. Nearly, though ...). [/quote] Why I oughta!!!

Cheers Douglas, excellent reviews, as ever! Hope my "song" hasn't given y'all nightmares or, perhaps , diarrhoea!

Bauhaus - In The Flat Field. It affected me deeply as a 17 year old! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnrG904talA[/MEDIA]

Yes I listen to lots of 6Music, as well as searching out recommended stuff of Spotify or Soundcloud, such as this: [MEDIA]http://soundcloud.com/gary-willis/sets/slaughterhouse-3[/MEDIA]

There's always James Chance and his many incarnations... [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwuWGUZK95A[/MEDIA]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1453081573' post='2956250'] I'll say one thing about The Dead.They broke up years ago, Jerry Garcia has passed away years ago, yet people are still traveling all over the world to see them. I don't know what it is, but they must have done something right. Blue [/quote] Popularity isn't necessarily a guarantee of kwalitee! People still flock in their tens of thousands to see the decaying remains of Take That... As for The Dead, I've been played bits by various doobie-wielding mates. But never found them interesting enough, beyond the confines of being very stoned at someone else's house, to explore much further. They're one of those bands who I'll very occasionally enjoy merely in passing. Unlike the Beatles, who, despite having explored lots at the urging of various fanbois, bore me to tears. Each to their own! With the Beefheart, I've also been subjected to Trout Mask and been largely unimpressed, despite a love for the weird and wonderful. However, "Bat Chain Puller" is most excellent. Grit yer teeth and enjoy! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLalCFhRvXo[/MEDIA]

Music for me too. With the bass being first thing I hear!

I've found that mos of my musical blind spots are based on the rejection of an artist, or sometimes an entire genre because of 1 (or occasionally more) bad experience. Frinstance, I rejected all of Bob Dylan because of appalling harmonica playing and terrible singing. However, I've enjoyed many of his songs if done by someone else... Similarly, I've rejected folk music due to being traumatised by poor acoustic guitar playing and lyrics involving prettye maydes. And immho, I've been proved right. Though I have discovered exceptions such as the Unthanks or some Richard Thompson. No doubt there's more to be discovered, but there's so much music and so little time! I'm still working my way through The Funk and avant jazz!