Leonard Smalls

Hello? - Lionel Ritchie

I saw 'em in the early 80s... They were great, but he was very, very drunk. which isn't surprising as his rider asked for a case of wine and two bottles of vodka! (I know this as my girlfriend was on the Ents catering team at Leeds Uni).

Bullet in the head - Rage Against The Machine

Arf!

Are we not voting this month as it's obvious that Lurks has won? 😁

Strictly speaking, mine isn't a Flybass anyway, it's the cheaper PB51. Same shape though but mine only cos me £500 new (no doubt some will say "U wuz robbd! U shoulda bought a 1961 Fender wot only makes one noise for £6k instead!" 😁)

Funnily enough, I'm loving mine! It looks far more interesting than yer Fenders, and I find it doesn't dig in at all, though I strap it on good and high... Great sound too from the EMGs.

Love and Pride - King

So macho - Sinitta

And love Ernest Ranglin's playing too!

And while we're talking about Primus, some more of my fave musos - Buckethead and The Wizard of Woo, Mr. Bernie Worrell! Brain's not bad either...

Two of my favourites together here - Hiromi Uehara and Dave Fiucyznski... And on the sax, James Carter!

Umbrella - Rhianna

Pray for rain - Massive Attack

Nice legs, shame about the face - The Monks

It's on our shop playlist! This is currently playing:

Talk Talk... Not the band, but the dreadful telecommunications company. We were without phone and internet while with them for 6 weeks. I phoned them virtually daily, having hiked to the top of our hill where there was mobile signal and heard nowt but excuses for why it wasn't fixed. Then they cancelled the fault ticket, twice, so I had to start all over again. And the fault turned out to be exactly what I'd told them it was - whoever had laid the cable had done it very shallowly over the corner of a field, and that had been ploughed. The same as it had the year before when our phone line had gone down the first time. But their general incompetence was unbelievable - we're talking worse than British Gas! Though SSE, who I'm trying to deal with at the moment are approaching those levels of rubbishness too!

More Chokery-Pokery, in Hereford this time with an excellent line up - there's crazed South-Walesians ANoise, Agit-punkers MC16, us and Hereford's finest dub-rap-punx, Last Tree Squad.

Can too!

Indeed! However, folks seem to be barely buying cds anymore - we've sold about 100 from our run of 250, but had shedloads more plays on streaming platforms (which has netted us about £8, though quite a bit more from Bandcamp downloads). I spose the argument might be - will you sell more vinyl meaning that in the long run you'll make more? As for test pressings, I have a vinyl system that is serious enough to evaluate them and where even end-of-side tracks sound excellent. Though whether any buyers will listen to it themselves is a different matter!

Never! 😁 No thread where the word "record" is used will be complete without Big Red saying it's an inferior format!! 😆 That Roy Castle didn't like 'em either.

We had a pretty good one in Malvern last night supporting old skool punx The Samples. Decent sized crowd (room was almost full for us) and sound was pretty good - as the PA was vocals only and I had the biggest amp I could actually hear myself. I'd also put in simple tube compressor/noisegate combo in my Helix for a clean (for me!) bass sound. Gear was Parker bass through Helix into BBE pre and DBX rack compressor, Crown pwer amp and Markbass 4x10. Icing on the cake was that everybody hated us and nobody gave any compliments about anything we did until we left the stage and there was a collective shout of "Thank fck for that!" Anyway, here's a bit... (edited to add cleaned up audio and colours vid)

That ain't a thing - Dredd and the Badass Weeds

Lingerie - Lizzo