Leonard Smalls

And I've made a start on the bassoon, bouzouki and balafon, with beatboxing, bongos and banjo to add later.

Think I've got the bones of it sorted after a couple of hours today.... Laid down bass and bagpipes already!

I felt it was a bit plodding too...

Back in the early 90s our wacky PunkFunk band used this as intro music, which we'd drown out with an everyone playing everything at once complete noise, which we'd abruptly stop and jump into our first song...

Tis!

In 1990 or so I went into Allbang and Strummit in Covent Garden with £500 cash in my pocket... I tried a Jaydee at £450, a Wal mk 1 at £500 and an Alembic (the Stanley Clarke type) for £550... Loved them all, couldn't afford the extra £50 so bought the Wal, which I still have. It's a bit battered after 100s of gigs, there's still some fluorescent paint in-between the pickup and body from a band where we got painted as we played (!), but don't think I'd ever sell it...

Here's me with extra fat skis...

None more slappy!

Blues featuring Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Jerome Bigfoot Brailey and ex Ornette Coleman guitarist James Blood...

Derek Bailey and the history of free improvisation is a most excellent read... It is as well!

I think it's only guaranteed to embed if you do it with a laptop or PC... I can't embed with my (android) mobile.

Me neither! Added to our work playlist - now up to 1200 songs!

Bit of early Spizz... He was staying at our B&B at Rebellion this year - nice guy!

I thought I'd celebrate Albert Hoffman's Bicycle Day a bit early this year 😁😎☠️ In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed, I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. For a change we've got proper singing, a touch of rap and a relatively straightforward groove featuring the Wal as both guitar and bass, plus a Strat and a few found samples. Drums programmed with EZ with some Loopcloud drums as well. Keys are AAS, Iris and Clavinet and everything has been first daubed with 196 types of reverb and delay, then liberally rolled in Ozone 9.

Bit in the futt, but looking forward to this one... With Hereford skapunk legends, Last Tree Squad, punky riff monsters MC16 and the crazed electropunkdance of ANoise...

You missed exactly this in this month's Basschat December Covers Challenge... I did Sylvester's "Do you Wanna Funk" but with a P... Unfortunately, my band don't think the lyrical content is serious enough for us to all play it. Praps if I sing it too?

Not straight ahead metal, but not easy! Otherwise their alter-egos, Infectious Grooves with "Violent and Funky" - live version here...

Discovered these Oz rockers at Rebellion this year...

Most sadly missed. I remember booking them once and they turned up, sniffling and obviously not at all well but they still put on a brilliant show. Lovely blokes as well!

Not necessarily! It's just a question of arrangement. One can do the bass-ics, the other can do rhythm guitar, or play counterpoint to the vox or guitar, or do little widdley bits left right and centre. That's what we do!

If she's only a beginner all she has to do is play the simple root stuff, allowing you to solo wildly over the top. Like we do in our 2 bass band!

ER... For the cover challenge I thought I'd do a completely original song wot is all my own work. Any similarity to the Sylvester disco classic with a very similar name is purely co-incidental! This also features my wife on backing vox! Featuring Wal bass as both disco bass and punk guitars (via Bias FX), vox by me and my wife, sequencers are Massive and USynth, drums through EZ. All rolled in Neutron 3 and Ozone 9, with some Nectar Elements on the vox.

K, on the right is particularly funpartysilliness boy, though I wear my cowboy hat out occasionally, goes perfectly with my backless leather chaps. But the Weeds are deeply serious, and have many faces...

Here's a Weeds photo... We're not by any means Country or Western, but 2 cowboy hats, a trilby and a fez!