Leonard Smalls

About once a year for me - for our annual gig! However, I make lots of music home alone...

Very nice though there may be complaints about the length Talking of which, in an effort to reduce the level of fiddling I've slipped in some horn.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1435870387' post='2813286'] Lol.... Whatever works. Your entry is getting one of my votes for that post alone. Fookin pi$$ed myself. [/quote] Why thank you! You may change your mind after having a listen! However, I've been fiddling with it (the "song", that is!) over breakfast and it's growing on me. But it could be similar to how over-exposure to violence on TV desensitises you...

There's a tune! [size=2]of sorts[/size]

To paraphrase Sally Webster in Coronation Street (she was talking to Kevin): I don't know what I've been doing all day but I've come home stupid... Somehow I've managed to do crooning vocals on top of a big beat backing complete with an Indian chant. This one's definitely going to need rolling in glitter, plus 3 coats of varnish and a hand-carved presentation box!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1435830016' post='2812752'] Once again, it's not going to get any better if I mess around with it any more, and so I offer you ... [url="https://soundcloud.com/dad3353/concrete-jungle-solid-air"]Concrete Jungle, Solid Air ...[/url] Enjoy. [/quote] Nice! Yea verily 'tis an Advanced Groove Engine!

Talking of rubbish, I may also be onto something. Perhaps with a bit of a vocal melody!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1435756207' post='2812145'] Freeform jazz..? I need to reflect over a cup of tea and a biscuit or three..."[/i]) [/quote] Freeform is always the answer. And once you've come to that conclusion you deserve cake, not just biscuits! [quote name='fingers211' timestamp='1435758806' post='2812181'] Interesting photo, she obviously has a matching set at home....... [/quote] I was thinking of calling my compo "Washday, got no clothes" after one of Arnie's early lines in The Terminator!

I've already got a working title: "Krapp's Last Tapeworm".

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1435744744' post='2811960'] So you're retired too, huh..? [/quote] Frayed knot! As it's my day off I'm just looking for excuses not to have to weed the Lonicera, plant a clematis, clean dog poo from the lawn (and usually off the raised beds, the little scamps) and rake out the old cement mortar in the back wall ready to replace with lime. It's driving me round the bend!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1435737556' post='2811867'] This, too, is true. [/quote] Perhaps being billed as "Leonard Smalls' No. 2" didn't help... And where's the next photo? I could have written, recorded and produced yet another smash hit by now!

Well done Skol (and all who contributed!); just make sure this month's piccy allows me to channel my inner Nick Drake And strangely, my odd non-entry compo got 60odd listens, and the better one only got 39! Perhaps 21 of those who endured the 1st one thought "I'm not listening to any more of eejit's self indulgent sh&*e!"

Lee Nelson blew Kanye off the stage... Kanye's problem is that he thinks he has the force of personality and the talent to carry off being solo on stage with just a gigawatt of lights to keep him company. However, no amount of gesturing and posturing was going to disguise his poor and tuneless vocals. And by that I don't mean just his attempts at "singing" but his shouts sounded much more petulant than authoritative. If he'd had a band he could at least have played off them a bit. Perhaps if he'd taken more notice of the Parliamentarians last night who absolutely smashed it instead of just being an arrogant £%*@ he'd have appealed to more than just a few fanbois. After all, he's got some good songs...

I hadn't really intended for my no.1 to be entered this month - was meant as an interlude of bizarre-itude! But now it's there it might as well stay. I have high hopes that it will feature in the next Richard Curtis RomCom as the love theme...

Cheers Douglas - great reviews as ever... And I see a slight softening toward freeform funky stylings, or tuneless racket as others might call it!

I occasionally have a spare just in case I break a string...

Here's the drum'n'bass part of the beat combo...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1434300445' post='2798454'] Aaah..! A 'Lenny' track with a key..! Refreshing, unexpected, almost a shock..! Still, has animal content, so tradition is respected. Raunchy stuff; I even tapped my toe. I liked the cowbell. [/quote] Ta! And it's not a cowbell, it's a dugong bell...

I've decided not to subject y'all to my "singing" this month... However, I was fiddling about (as you do) and discovered a whale noise. As the piccy had some large mouths in it I felt it would be rude not to do something to help those noble creatures. After all, there's nowt a whale likes better than a guitar that sounds a bit like one of his mates with a funky backing. I give you "Say 'Aaah'" http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/say-aaah

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOIHAkY8G_A[/MEDIA]

Rare appearance by Dredd and the Badass Weeds, featuring members of Utah Saints, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Cassandra Complex, Snapdragons ad Barf Roco on 25th July at the Frog and Parrot, Sheffield at 6.45pm as part of the Tramlines festival. Expect funk, dub and rock!

11... As I only ever learned to read via the piano (gave up more than 35 years ago!) I couldn't read any clefs other than bass and treble. Haven't read music since, apart from my recent foray into Pictures at an Exhibition!

Don't know if it's just what I produce that causes it, but I keep getting likes from strange folks with no music under their profile, just an address like LovelyLorelei99456.com... Weird music lovers or just dodgy? Needless to say I haven't clicked on the links (honest!)

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1433426937' post='2790985'] Pack 'em in, Len, pack 'em in. The more the merrier. Careful with that 'key' stuff, though, or [b]you'll get taken for a serious musician.[/b] [/quote] Not much danger of that, the serious bit especially...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1433421216' post='2790927'] What..? That's not dissonant enough..? [/quote] Now let me stress that this [I]probably[/I] isn't my entry to this month's compo, but it was inspired by the piccy! https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/its-not-me-its-you I've got another one on the go as well which is actually [I]in a key[/I]! In fact, it's in more than one key and it's got a rockin' interlude...