Leonard Smalls

I'm not much of a metal or prog head, but I do like these... About 4 years ago I walked into my local boozer, and they were playing in the bar!

Just rediscovered a song from my old band, 1991 perhaps? I thought this had been lost, but was hidden on an old DAT after another song...

I've just been in a studio with Kali IN8s plus sub. And they are pretty good, especially at that price! However, I agree with the Sound On Sound review that mentions a slight prominence of upper bass.

I bought a Line 6 Helix... It arrived on the Wednesday afternoon late. I quickly learned how to programme it, hooked it up to my PC to upgrade to the latest firmware, downloaded some possible patches, edited those patches to give 6 immediately useable ones including bass wah and pitch shift, then first thing Thursday morning bunged it in the car to use at Morecambe Nice'n'Sleazy fest that night. And it all worked!

It's a virtual melodica! There's about 5 more keys in there too - 2 different pianos, a pipe organ and 2 housey sequencers...

Here's my latest, about to appear in this month's Basschat Composition Compo! https://www.soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/babylon-is-everywhere

Slipped on some wet grass! And no, I wasn't smoking it...

That's bangin', man!!!

Normally I'm a bit (a lot!) slap-dash, with one take of everything. This time it was 3 days solid, with lots of fun had playing with delay times, ping pong feedback, phase and variable stereo imaging. Even the bass lines were practiced!!!

Being laid up with a broken leg has some advantages (arguably!) - I had time to produce a fine example (arguably again!) of "Doh" music (*). I suggest either headphone, or a big hifi to listen as it's dribbling with big 'ol stereo stuff. * Who knows what that means? Ask Doug! There's 4 Basslines, a basket full of keyboard and drum VSTs and more echo/delay/phase/reverb plug-ins than you can shake a stick at. Found the vocal sample at Loopmasters, plus various other places for some sound FX. Most keys by me, bass by me, most drums programmed by me (had particular fun with cymbals!). Don't think my old laptop could have coped with all the fx, plus 2 or more instances of Neutron/Ozone/ShadowHills on every track. Got up to 50% of the 48Gb of RAM!

So long as it's funky, I don't care what bass it was played on!

And Doldrums... Dong, dachshund and dreier also begin with a "d" but they're probably not musical styles. So it could be disco or drum'n'bass, dubstep or dunk, dock or da druben... Or possibly just Dub.

My deathcore idea has kind of become some other completely different musical style... Still begins with a "d" though.

Either a legend or a leg end! 😁

A friend found this on someone else's FB page (who I don't know) with the heading "Coolest bass player ever!" She's not wrong... Move over Jean Jacques! (Though you can't see the reason I'm seated - a broken leg) It's at last week's Nice'n'sleazy punknska fest in Morecambe:

Or put 50p in the meter!

I've got the same, on pc and on phone.

I just dug out an old DAT my band at the time recorded live in our living room. On inputting to my DAW I discovered that once I'd lined a track up with beat gridlines almost all the tracks (apart from the 2 that had tempo changes) were still in time to within a few milliseconds. Great drummer, Matt was (and still is!). He's now working as the reference for the atomic clock.

I sometimes practice through my Helix and Adam monitors - I've got the predecessors of these and they sound excellent - £400/pair. If you go for teh 7" woofer version you can get a pair for £359 including cables and stands from Inta... https://www.andertons.co.uk/adam-t-series-t8v-nearfield-monitor-2-way-8-woofer-each-t8v?msclkid=9e340124d7b6187f10ce6384574375f8&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=IMP || Main Catalogue || PLA 2 [Brand]&utm_term=4575755087676380&utm_content=adam

That's Anarchy for you! 😎😁

Perhaps... But what it did do was encourage kids to get up and start playing in bands in a DoWhatTheFeckYouWant sort of way, where creativity, or at least Being Out There, was valued over absolute musical ability. Which, as a 14-15 year old at the time, I loved! Though of course nowadays, while Punk's Not Dead, it is often Formulaic Nostalgia...

I'm a great lover of the works of the Grimshaws, especially Todd and Eileen. And the pic looks like it needs some sort of screaming deathcore. So I've made a start...

For me, it's when music has cojones - whether it's on record, disc, live or with me playing. And by cojones I mean something about it, which may be a pumpin' beat, the sort of out there playing that gives you the Stank Face * , being funky as hell, being completely crazed or just joyously beautiful. Which could be anything from Derek Bailey's "Mirakle" to Suicidal's "Su Casa", from Parliament's "Down Stroke" to a Schubert Impromtu. *