Leonard Smalls

But there's a whole page on The Science!!! Though I note that most of the studies cited are by a Mr Geatan Chevalier and Mr J Oschmann. And that no further peer reviews seem to be available... Most excitingly, I see that while these grounding sleep mats are connected to The Ground via a mains cable, there's a 100000ohm resistor in line for "safety" which is likely to seriously inhibit the flow of all those lovely negative earth electrons (as opposed to yer common and garden ordinary electron) in to your body. And in a further rebuttal of their own "Science": A common misconception about Earthing technology is that when you ground yourself indoors by connecting to a mains plug socket, “dirty electricity” comes through the cord to the Earthing sheet, and through your body. However, this would be impossible as there can be no current on Earthing products connected to a plug socket because they are connected to one Earth point only, and not part of a closed circuit necessary for a current to flow. No “dirty electricity” can flow through the Earthing sheet, and then through the body because you are not part of a closed DC circuit. For a more detailed explanation, here is a useful resource from the Official Earthing Institute: http://www.earthinginstitute.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/beware-of-earthing-misinformation-2018.pdf As it says, no "dirty electricity" (snigger!) can flow through the chord. Though it's not very clear on how their lovely clean earthelectrons can flow, unless they've made use of a DirtyElectricityNoPass Filter... And if they can't flow from the ground, where are they coming from? I suspect punters with Machina Dynamica (look 'em up!) levels of gullibility are needed.

Once I hadn't been able to finish checking the final mix of a drama I'd been Post Production Manager on. It was needed the following day so I took it home and played the 1/4" on my Revox through my stereo. I discovered that throughout the post production process nobody had noticed that one particular location had a loud but very low frequency rumble - I guess it was a tube train as the location was in central London. The reason that no-one had noticed was because all editing was done on Rogers LS3/5a speakers, which are excellent but have virtually nowt below 75Hz, and track laying and dubbing had been done using Rogers LS5/8 speakers, which looked imposing but produced no bass below 45Hz! The Beeb soon commissioned new speakers for dubbing theatres after that (they bought big Harbeths)...

I remember seeing him doing a half'n'half back in the early 90s, Royal Festival Hall iirc, with an amazing supergroup featuring him, Omar Hakim on drums, Wayne Shorter on sax and Herbie Hancock on keys. Though I still prefer it when he gets those enormous fingers on that tiny Alembic...

Here's some energetic fusion from Mr Godin's band...

I'd buy 'em!

Not necessarily! Listen to some Christophe from the OP in Morglbl. Goes from nice jazz to screaming metal to face melting rock within one song... Similarly, David Fiucynzski of the Screaming Headless Torsos plays everything from crazed microtonal free jazz on a fretless guitar to ultimate shredding.

GoGo! That drummer is the Shizz!

For those who hadn't already spotted it, the video in the OP was a little bit tongue in cheek...

When I was a kid I had a pair of his shoes - they had a compass in the heel!

Of course they did! Joe Strummer was even the inventor, or at least early adopter of, one mode, the Punkian.

Yes! Frinstance, classical music 😁 And even the Clash wrote in the Phrygian mode - London Calling... And the intro to Riders on the Storm is in the Dorian Mode, as is Mad World by Tears for Fears... And even the rarest of all modes is used occasionally - like in the verse of Bjork's Army of Me.

I've been a bit obsessed with Mörglbl today... How come I'd never heard of 'em before? Anyway, here with something enormously complex featuring both slap bass and slap guitar!

Arf!

And what a groove, really gets going from 1'30ish

Some jazz rocky stuff.

I've spent much of the afternoon with an log-splitting maul and sledgehammer making logs for next winter from a Scots Pine that lost a huge branch a few months ago. I shall test 'em with my moisture gauge before burning...

Was it Mr Quigley's doing? He was attempting to sway our budding new-wavism towards 70s cheese!

First sort of gig was at 14 turning the pages for a pianist doing somethingorother at Chester town hall... First actually playing was me on keys with @lurksalot 's little brother on bass doing Dylan and Barclay James Harvest covers at a school anti nuclear do (!) I was praps 18? And first time on bass was in the Tartan Bar at Leeds Uni early 80s, with Dredd and the Badass Weeds.

Wasn't there a hooha about NE14 ABJ recently? But the only one I'd spend £15 on is BE11 END.

Indeed! Did you ever hear any episodes of Round The Horn with Kenneth Williams? Good thing the BBC commissioning editors didn't know Polari!

Are you posting from a phone? When I do, a vid comes up as a link rather than embedded.

There was an original meaning, but Robert Blackwell, the record's producer decided that the lyrics needed to be changed as it was considered somewhat ribald: Tutti Frutti, good booty If it don't fit, don't force it You can grease it, make it easy Tutti Frutti was slang for a gay man...

I'd always go for ebanol. I had a sip of some meths once with a tramp on the Rows in Chester and had to spit it out; if booze tasted like that I'd never have another mouthful! So I always check and make sure it's ebanol in my whisk(e)y before shelling out.

And it looks like we've got the most excellent Dead Sheeran opening for us... Edit! Looks like Dead can't make it, so it's just us and MC16. Should still be a cracking night!

Our next gig is at Babar Cafe in Hereford with MC16. A night of funkypunkyfunkypunk! Here's a VidAd, featuring a snippet of one of our funkier numbers... ChokedBabarvidAd19-5-23.mp4