Leonard Smalls

Raspberry Beret - Prince

It's funny, I've only ever played with two drummers who did this... All the rock drummers have said "I've got to hit it hard or I don't play as well!" with very little idea that light and shade can be a good thing. The two towelists (one is in my current funkyblues band) were/are both funk and/or jazz drummers and are/were far more capable than any of the noisy beggars!

Pushit - Stool

Currently working on the moves for a Weeds dance routine... https://fb.watch/z-V2O2C-nN/

Pictures of an Exhibitionist - Modeste Mussorgsky (and ELP!)

Is Audacity available for Android?

Wanna buy a 1974 Raceco tuned 850T, now 1000cc? 😁

No More Excuses - Conflict (RIP Colin!)

I was buying lunch in the BBC canteen a number of years ago when a big bloke came and tapped me on the shoulder and said "I see you're into Guzzis!" (the t shirt and belt buckle gave it away). Turned out it was Josh Homme and we ended up having lunch together and talking Mandello Stuff! Another time (beeb canteen again) I bumped into a guy who was in the Weeds with me back in the early days - Chris Haskett. He said "Come and sit with us"... So I did - "us" turned out to be Henry Rollins and Melvin Gibbs. We discussed Sonny Sharrock and Defunkt. None of 'em were at all grumpy, though I was a bit in awe of Melvin!

Aeros - M&M

I nearly spent three grand!

Whether it's major (Ionian mode) or minor (Aeolian) it's a semitone above the root. There's a couple of modes where the second note is a semitone above root - the Phrygian (altered version sounds very gypsy or even flamenco) and Locrian (more rarely used, though it is in Bjork's "Army of Me") - and I found adding those notes (and those from altered versions of those modes) can help with texture and interest, same as the Hellborg book. I never found the other modes to be quite as exciting though ymmv! I found this helpful: https://themusicambition.com/phrygian-mode/

Difficult to say without hearing what's on offer... But I find runs and widdles involving diminished second and diminished fifth work well in many situations ( see Phrygian and Locrian modes). And octaves work in everything from disco to punk, perhaps with fifth to make a chord. Talking of which, a chord higher up with root, major third and diminished seventh works well in many situations as a sort of jagged punctuation... Also recommend the Jonas Hellborg chord book - I found I couldn't reach half of them but the notes contained in 'em inspired lots of bass lines.

Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow

John Wayne is Big Leggy - Haysi Fantayzee

Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello

Stuck in the Piddle With You - Steelers Wheel

Urine my Heart - Rod Stewart

Piss Factory! - Patti Smith

Leakin' - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Take me Back, Sack and Crack - Bonnie Tyler

Fever - the Cramps

Taking it a bit more left field.... Slaughterhouse 3 - Slaughterhouse 3; Gary Willis on top form complete with wah wah distorted sax. Of Human Feeling - Ornette Coleman; Jamaaladeen Tacuma ripping it up with Ornette's Prime Time Bass lines - Bill Laswell; weird and wonderful but funky Laswell. See also Third Power by Material

Say What? - Trouble Funk

Yakkity Yak - Chas and Dave