Leonard Smalls

Funnily enough, that's how Franz Liszt became (arguably!) the first rock star! And what about Ravel's left handed piano concerto? Folks have always liked spectacle, which is what Mr Berthoud is providing. And as for his music, I find that far more entertaining than the usual average stuff (me included!) I see at most gigs! Though I rarely sided with those who thought Mozart's music had "too many notes"...

If I Biarritz man - Topol (Fiddler on the Roof)

I remember seeing Mudhoney supported by Hole in 1991... Hole were just appallingly dreadful, it was like they just couldn't play or perhaps had never played together and thought that folks might think they were deep'n'meaningful noiseniks like Sonic Youth. I also found Ms. Love to be annoying and rather too MeMeME!!! but they most certainly fooled this Melody Maker reviewer! Mudhoney were quite a lot better...

Insane in the Brain - Prince Fatty

Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys

Maxwell Murder - Rancid

Pack Jam - Jonzun Crew

This is the sort of bass I was listening to in 1992 - Animal Behaviour (the following track) also pretty awesome - Bootsy Baby! More Bootsy: And more jazzy And some kids...

Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas

Crazy jazz featuring Nate Wood on bass and drums AT THE SAME TIME!

Let's Start The Dance - Hamilton Bohannon

Shine - 0 - Mite - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Shiny shiny - Haysi Fantayzi

Shaved Women - Crass

Running from Paradise - Hall and Oates (featuring slap bass!)

Back in the day we learnt that if the grass was strong enough you didn't care if it rained or not. This is perhaps why we stopped imbibing before gigs!

Who needs a bass guitar when you can do serious sequenced stuff - this used to get us out on the dancefloor back in '82. Even saw him "live" at the Warehouse in Leeds in '83 - very funny guy as well (RIP)

Gammon Everybody - Sid Vichysoise

We're originals too, so anywhere between 25 minutes and an hour depending on where we are on the bill and how many bands are playing.

Maggie - The Exploited (NB lots of swearing and anti Thatcher stuff 😁)

Nope... This chap was called John, and worked as a TK operator at Auntie Beeb - at least he did 25 years ago when I last saw him!

No idea! All I know is it's a big one and he keeps it at some railway museum re-enactment playground sort of thing. I do remember working with him once and he rang his mum to ask her to record Eastenders on his 2". Which I found rather impressive as a) it was seriously enormous and b) required a complex line-up procedure to get going. You can see how worrying a bit of kit it was, but he'd got his mum running it happily!

Jilted John - Jilted John

But what about the romance of steam? I do, however, know someone who owns a Deltic! This same person also owns an Ampex 2" video machine...