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Leonard Smalls

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  1. Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves... Then all the PFunk bands had mostly the same participants (Funkadelic, Parliament, Brides of Funkenstein, Bootsy's Rubber Band, P Funk Allstars)
  2. Both of us back on top 😎😁 It don't happen very often for me! Anyway, pic sent - though not sure how appropriate it is!
  3. I'm now nearer to 60 than 55, and it appears we'll be playing more to punk crowds (though crowds might be an exaggeration!) even though we're not really a punk band... So that could mean they're of any age - there's young punkers being born every day!
  4. I think this thread could easily be renamed "I don't like Funk" and we'd probably get exactly the same for and against as we have for slap! Me, I like The Funk. And I'm not enormously keen on 60s and 70s rock, therefore, I like slap! However, I don't like slap for the sake of it - in my book slap without an element of The Funk is like chips without salt and vinegar...
  5. Somewhere between jazz, rock, funk and punk...
  6. Cheers! Funnily enough it is a Wal through my pedalboard using a chunk of Future Impact mainly coming in on the lower frequencies, then there's a tiny bit of Bass Whammy octave all blended with clean with Wounded Paw blender, then through my BBE preamp (with a touch of compression) and into Ableton where there's a touch more compression and a waft of dub delay...
  7. Song idea I've been working on, though may not be fast enough for the punk/funk one!
  8. Somehow our singer convinced me that Beki B was her nan... I'm not normally Captain Gullible but it took me a year to work our this would be difficult - as despite the physical resemblance there's only about 14 years between 'em!
  9. Nick Cave or Bryan Ferry?
  10. I find that after the initial minute or so of sweary jazz, this is a guaranteed licence loser! (warning, very sweary!)
  11. We've got a punk all day benefit booked for 26th September at the Dolls House in Abertillary (have a canary!)...
  12. So music you don't like doesn't count as creative music making? Next it'll be "there's been no decent music since 19whenIwereateenager" or "kids nowadays don't know what good music is" or "it's just a racket now". Just the sort of thing old folks have said to their younglings since time immemorial! You can imagine old Granny Bach saying to Johann Sebastian "you don't want to bother with all that polyphony and harmony rubbish, what you want is some proper music like Gregorian Chants!"
  13. There ain't nobody funkier than Mr Collins! In fact, the S.I units of both Cool and Funk are measured as fractions of a Bootsy...
  14. The plan was to keep going in one of the middle carriages until we were arrested; we lasted a good half hour of banging away on acoustics, with lots of jumping around and gymnastics on the various poles and bars, before we were warned by a Transport policeman that this wasn;'t allowed... So like good boys we rather gratefully sneaked off with no arrests, and barely even the threat of it. But we could have been if it hadn't been for those pesky kids etc!
  15. My band at the time were pretty busy - we even lived together! This is our gig list for 90-91:
  16. The fact that the wheels have fallen off struck me as an exhortation to take to 2 wheels. Which for me means riding about on sweeping sunny roads on a 1000cc classic Italian Vtwin, so we have a lazy, not rushed beat, with a faint air of mild threat (as the film classification board would say) caused by the racket, the leather and the armadillo in the trousers. Now the final layer of varnish has dried, here it is - enjoy, or not! For those who are interested, the bass is a single track, and as usual, a single 1st take (can yer tell😁) - it's my Wal with a blend of clean and Future Impact dialled mainly into the bottom frequencies. Most of the other noises are (apart from the piano and EZ Drums featuring Jabo Sparks) bass with either ridiculous Future Impact noises and my new Dub Delay VST, or bass and octaver through Bias FX. Sequence sounds are from Isotope Iris 2, and all has been lightly polished with Ozone 9.
  17. Obviously, you'll need enormous space reverb and plenty of compression. I'd also be tempted to turn the vox and guitars right down, and the bass right up. Hope that helps! 😎
  18. Hurrah! You'll be pleased to hear I've made no attempts at "singing". Though we do have a phat bass groove dribbling with Future Impact and lots of much weirder bass synth noises all rolled in my new Dub Delay vst...
  19. I don't think that jigging around makes you an interesting bass player, and standing still doesn't make you boring. What does make a boring bass player is tedious note and rhythm choices, and perhaps more importantly, not Looking Like You Mean It. Any fool can bounce about uncoolly dad-dancing, but not every fool can stand stock still and absolutely kill it, like say Ron Mael or Kraftwerk! And any fool can move all over the stage wearing exactly the same clothes as they wear every other day (i.e. tshirt and jeans), but not every fool actually Looks The Part, like Bootsy!
  20. Sort of new wave, but always liked what Mike Watt does...
  21. I wanted more than 1 FX loop, so I bought a Wounded Paw V4 Blender. It costs more than double the LS2, and is shipped from Canada, and is quite large... However, it's got 4 separate loops with high pass, phase reverse, choice of how bypass switching and individual volumes, plus blending with a clean signal with bass and treble controls. So not I've got 4 loops consisting of Future Impact, Bass Whammy, 3 leaf envelope follower, and FwonkBeta/Darkglass tube distortion. It's like a mixer stompbox!
  22. Can't go wrong with a bit of Suicidals, or their Infectious offshoot...
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