Leonard Smalls

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

Bumpity Bump!

Heard this on the Craig Charles show yesterday, and surprisingly, considering it's modern R'n'B, I like it. as Mr Charles says, it's got a wiggle!

That's what we discovered!

We did one of those recently and it turned out to be a contest of how many Instagram votes you could muster. Sadly, our Facebook followers tend not to bother with it being a touch older... We'd been told there were three judges, which is why we did it!

Raph's just bought one to replace his unfixable Trace... Shall know how it is tomorrow!

When I were a youth, mind, I was able to wander about and "sing"! Here's proof on the singing part, though I fear that shouting would be a better description - at the Marquee, early 90s...

Tis a thing of beauty - cheers! 😃 Though we're not in an exclusive relationship - I sometimes gig the Parker... And record with the Wal and Lightwave.

Here's my main big gig rig... I split the bass signal in the Helix, left being an octaved guitar effect and right is an overdrive bass sound. Both go into separate channels in the dbx compressor then into the stereo Crown amp with L signal going into the 2x10 and R into 4x10. I'll send the separate split signals to the PA as well. If it's a smaller gig I'll bridge the Crown and feed it from the BBE pre amp with Helix inputs being centred. Works quite well! I'm tending to gig with the ACG Recurve...