SONGS for our next show....

Here's a link to slatts' blog on Live-Journal, where he talks about the songs for the Walter Mittys' next show:

http://slatts.livejournal.com/737860.html

McFadden's Gig set list

Here's the songs we'll be playing at our gig next Saturday night (March 26):

One After 909 Beatles
Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
Angel From Montgomery Prine/Raitt
Ten Little Indiscreets original
Evangeline Band
All The Way To Jericho Guords
Cry To Me Prof.Longhair
Big Trouble original
Sea of Heartbreak Johnny Cash
Big Weekend Tom Petty
You Do A Good Blue original
Jockey Full of Bourbon Tom Wait
Honey Don't Perkins/Beatles
Reconsider Me Etta James
Free Table original
Train Train Blackfoot
Riptide original
Jack Daniels original

Spider Web Joan Osborne
Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
Fisherman's Blues Water Boys
I've Been Good To You Baby CJ Chenier
Don't Think Twice Dylan
Train to Cry Dylan
Wild Nights Van Morrison
Unforgiven Bap kennedy
Struck Los Lobos
Rock Me Slim Harpo
Would Be Blue original
Flip Flop & Fly Big Joe Turner
Matchbox Carl Perkins/Beatles

Incognito original
Fool Who Knows Little Village
Drink That Whiskey Quickly original
In My Time Of Dying Traditional
That's How Strong My Love Is Otis Redding
Dirty Old Town Pogues
Jolie Jolie Rickie Lee Jones
Bad Moon Rising CCR
You Ain't Going Nowhere Dylan
Give It Up Bonnie Raitt
Tear My Stillhouse Down Gillian Welch
Breeze JJCale
Ti Na Ni Na Nu Slim Harpo
I Got Loaded Los Lobos

Set list is set...

Here's the set list for our gig at Snowzee's on Friday January 14th....

Honey Don’t Slatts on lead vocals and bass. Sonia on sax. Jim on guitar. Paul on drums with back-up harmony.
Dead Flowers Jim on lead vocals and guitar. Sonia on sax and harmonies. Slatts on bass, Paul on drums—both with back-up vocals.
Ti Na Ni Na Nu ** Paul on lead vocals, here, and drums. Sonia on sax. Jim on guitar. Slatts on bass.
Angel From Montgomery Sonia on lead vocals and guitar. Jim on lead guitar. Paul on drums and harmony. Slatts. on bass.
10 Little Indiscreets Slatts on lead vocals and bass (also, the author of this song). Sonia on guitar. Jim on lead guitar. Paul on drums and harmony.
Cry To Me Jim on lead vocals and accordion. Sonia on guitar, Paul on drums—both with back-up vocals. Slatts on bass.
Big Trouble Sonia sings lead vocals and plays guitar on her original song. Paul plays drums and sings harmony vocals. Jim on accordion. Slatts on bass.
Unforgiven Paul has lead vocals, here, and plays drums. Sonia on guitar and harmony vocals. Jim on lead guitar. Slatts on bass.
Jockey Full of Bourbon Jim on guitar and lead vocals. Sonia on sax. Paul on drums and harmony vocals. Slatts on bass.
Reconsider Me Paul on drums and lead vocals. Sonia on harmony vocals and sax. Jim on guitar. Slatts on bass.
Free Table * Sonia sings lead vocals and plays guitar on her second original song of this set. Paul on drums, Jim on lead guitar, Slatts on bass—all with back-up vocals.
Train Train Sonia on lead vocals and guitar. Paul on drums and harmony vocals. Jim on lead guitar. Slatts on bass.
Jack Daniels Slatts sings lead vocals and plays bass on his second original to close the first set. Jim on piano. Sonia on guitar, Paul on drums—both with back-up vocals.


Spider Web Sonia opens the second set on lead vocals, percussion and sax. Paul plays drums and sings back-up vocals. Jim on guitar. Slatts on bass.
Get Rhythm * Jim sings lead vocals and plays guitar. Paul on drums with harmony vocals. Sonia on sax and harmony vocals. Slatts on bass.
Give It Up Or let Me Go ** Sonia on lead vocals and guitar. Jim on accordion. Paul on drums, Slatts on bass—both with back-up vocals.
Fisherman’s Blues Sonia on lead vocals and guitar. Jim on accordion. Paul on drums, Slatts on bass—both with back-up vocals.
Don’t Think Twice, It's Alright * Paul on lead vocals and drums. Sonia on sax and harmony vocals. Jim on guitar. Slatts on bass.
...It Takes A Train To Cry Slatts on lead vocals, bass and harmonica. Paul on drums, Sonia on sax—both with harmony vocals. Jim on guitar.
Wild Nights Sonia on lead vocals and guitar. Paul on drums, Jim on guitar, Slatts on bass—all with back-up vocals.
Struck Jim on lead vocals and piano. Sonia on sax and back-up vocals. Paul on drums. Slatts on bass.
Rock Me Paul on lead vocals and drums. Sonia on sax, Jim on piano—both with back-up vocals. Slatts on bass.
Would Be Blue ** Slatts on lead vocals and bass with his third original song for the evening. Sonia on sax, Jim on guitar—both with harmony vocals. Paul on drums.
I Got Loaded Jim on lead vocals and guitar. Sonia on sax, Paul on drums, Slatts on bass—all with back-up vocals.
Flip Flop Fly * Paul on drums and lead vocals. Sonia on sax, Jim on guitar, Slatts on bass—all with back-up vocals.
Matchbox Slatts on lead vocals and bass. Paul on drums and harmony vocals. Sonia on sax. Jim on guitar.



* New song—never performed before.

** "New song" to Snowzee's.

Countdown to Showtime!

Last Night at Band Camp...
With the holidays and other down time, it's been like three weeks since the Mittys made music together. Thus, rehearsal last night had some rough spots. Some real. Some perceived. All in all, the playback sounded good.

One more rehearsal til showtime next Friday night at Snowzee's in Sunderland.

Quite a few "new" songs. Some actual new—never heard by any audience before. Others "new" that haven't been on set lists for more than a year.

My fingers are sore. And my voice gave out on the last two songs. But that's "rust" from lack of rehearsal. We're gonna be in great shape next Friday.

I, for one, am looking forward to it. I hope you can be in the audience.

~slatts

A lesson in Time and Distance

It must have been quite a productive evening, Last Night at Band Camp, as I was unable to hear the whole playback of the recorded session. My trip home from rehearsal space to my driveway is just under an hour. Lately, the recordings have been long over by the time I turn off my ignition. Granted, we are known to play takes without the tape rolling. And last night's recording included three takes of DRINK THAT WHISKEY QUICKLY.

But...

Last night was also the first night of the 2010-11 Winter Crappy Weather season, so there were a number of parts in my journey home that were slow going—it was more than an hour's ride home.

Must have been a productive evening...


~slatts

Last Night at Band Camp...

We got a little bit of a late start seeing as we seemed to have an important birthday to celebrate (who is this "bossman?").

We all picked songs we sang for our warm-up. And as we are preparing for the 2011 schedule with gigs ranging from an hour to four, we've begun to make our choices from some songs we haven't played in quite some time.

We started with Would Be Blue an original I wrote back in the Sweet Militia days—one that the Mittys have revisited with a funk-flavor. We did this one last week but I wanted to nail it as I'd like to use it in January at our gig at Snowzee's.

Next up was Sonia with Tear My Stillhouse Down. For a song we haven't visited in some time, this came out well.

Jericho was next with Paul on lead vocals. This is a song we kept on most if not all of our set lists for 2010—so, it came naturally.

Last was Sea of Heartbreak, another song in constant rotation during 2010—it was flawless. Jim on lead vocals, here.

Then we began the "new song" section of the rehearsal starting with our new take on Dylan's Don't Think Twice It's Alright via Mike Ness' (of Social Distortion) version. I can now officially say, we have moved from that version as an influence to one that is 100% Walter Mittys.

Then we did a take of Get Rhythm. We had prepared this for our October show at Snowzee's but ran out of time so didn't perform it. We're working on a new ending—which you may or may not get to hear next year.

We wrapped up the evening with a brand new song for Paul in the Big Joe Turner classic Flip, Flop and Fly—this song is going to be a "blues-rocker" if this early take is any indication—looking forward to fleshing this one out!

Well, that's it for Last Night at Band Camp...

What was THAT???

Some weeks ago, we moved our recording mic to the other side of our rehearsal space—opposite side of my amp. And though the bass fills the room quite well "live," the recorded versions of late have thrown my guitar very low in the playback mix. As I use these recordings to "rehearse"—reviewing my part and how plays with the rhythm section—during the week, I've had to resort to maxing out my car radio with the bass setting at 6 (yeah, no 11 on this amp) and even this hardly works.

So, I was driving home last night reviewing the night's work. We had another recording snafu that put the output levels of the first half of the session at a very low overall volume. The warm-up songs of our versions of WILD NIGHTS and GET RHYTHM along with the two originals, FREE TABLE and 10 LITTLE INDISCREETS needed to be cranked to even be heard. This problem seemed to be fixed when we got to the first run throughs of our "new" songs DON'T THINK TWICE and Sonia's original DRINK THAT WHISKEY QUICKLY.

Still, the bass was in that "buried" spot on the playback.

But suddenly, my iPod moved to the next track and BLASTING out my CRV's speakers was the heaviest of low E to G - A riffs imaginable! The BOOM nearly shook my little car off the interstate!

What was THAT!?!

Turns out a "somewhat old" recording was downloaded in the mix of recent rehearsal takes. The Mittys were working their heavy-blues-groove stuff on a rearrangement of the classic Berry Gordy tune, MONEY. It was wild! One take had Jim playing tremolo drenched guitar til the second solo when he switched to keys (the first solo in the rough arrangement was a sax solo "played" by drummer Paul in a "wah, wah, wah" scat on the mic). I mean, these two takes were out-of-the-vault as one had former Mitty, Laura Jacques singing back-up (she quit the band over two years ago).

So, that was THAT.


~slatts