Leonard Smalls

If having expenses covered and actually making a profit counts, I've probably only done that about 3 times! That doesn't take account of time spent practicing, or strings, or other gear of course!

My Charon(a) - The Knack

Ferry across the Mersey - Gerry and his Pacemaker

One Nation Under a Groove -Funkadelic

Read it in Books - Echo and the Bunnymen (from when Echo was a drum machine!)

Back in the late 80s we started off playing the Kings Head in Fulham. The deal there was we had to get 15 people in after which we'd get 1/3 of the door take... If we didn't get that many we'd have to cover PA costs of £25. Luckily we managed it every time we played there, sometimes only just! But that was the only place we played that had that sort of deal. Later, we played all the Mean Fiddler venues and the Rock Garden quite a few times and never had to pay, though we didn't make much...

We have music at work from a large (1600+) playlist I've put together on Spotify. It plays through an early 90s Sansui amp I got off ebay for £20 and a pair of JBL control 1 speakers. The sound is excellent, it goes far louder than we need and it's been going for 12.5 years at 8 hours a day, 362 days per year without missing a beat. The JBLs are still made and Richer Sounds are doing 'em for £79...

Rose Garden Funeral of Sores - Bauhaus

While on the subject of musical ageism and being right up to date, here's some indie from when it was called new wave, about 45 years ago!

Nowhere to Run - Arnold MCuller

Quando Quando Quando - Pat Boone

People Are Strange - Shockabilly

Fat Cat = Bootsy's Rubber Band

Severn Nation Army - The White Stripes

White Punks On Dope - The Tubes

Atomic Dog - George Clinton

I done one too three! Not sure what it's got to do with the pic, but this is what came out! Bass is my Sandberg Basic. Guitars, by Strat. Various keys from Iris instruments and Funky Clav. Drums played using Ableton on board samples. Vox sample found on Loopmasters. Lots of Raum, ObjeqDelay and Dubstation 2, with neutron 3 instruments comp and eq presets, plus mastering using Ozone 9 at -16LUFS...

My old mate Trev... We used to play in a band together back in the mid 90s called Elephant - remember supporting Glen Matlock at The Cricketers, Kennington. Also remember a 4 hour gallery opening we did as a duo - lots of strange improv noodling to go with the strange noodley art! https://disassembler1.bandcamp.com/album/what-is

Dreamscape - Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Shoot The Pump - J Walter Negro & the Loose Jointz

Played at The Pheasant as part of Worcester Music Festival last night... We were told to bring minimum stuff as it's a long narrow venue, so I brought the ACG and Helix to go into the supplied Ashdown 600 and 2 Laney cabs. And I couldn't get any sort of clean sound! Whatever I did it was distorted, and not in a familiar Ashdown growl sort of way; with my usual BBE/Crown set up, or my Marshall Jubilee, I get an almost creamy but meaty slap sound until I hit the Helix drive button when it's growl-time. So after quite a while of fiddling with eq I discovered it sounded less-bad with Helix growl also engaged. And it sort of worked for a bit - 1st couple of songs, OK, then an old mate who'd come up from London especially to see us signalled I should be louder. I turned up a bit and it was too loud, and not only that but there was a horrible crackling every time I moved and was too loud - had to play extra-light-touch so as not to drown everyone out. So unplugged both ends while our singer did some bants, and all was absolutely fine. All sounded great - our drummer said afterwards how good the bass sound was. However, there was a decent crowd (100ish, which was pretty full - twas difficult getting our our bass player's cab out!), and I don't think any of them noticed my bass-centric woes as they stood there stroking their chins. Though my London mate jigged wildly, and there were some young folks (they exist!) also having a wiggle, which was nice. Not only that, but we were all collared individually on the way out and told never to come to Worcester again or there'd be trouble. And that they were looking forward to seeing us on 2nd November... No pix yet, but as most of the band are doing holiday stuff till then we do have our gardening leave photo.

Yum Yum (Gimme Some) - Fatback Band

mouldy old dough - lieutenant pigeon