I'd say the van is packed...

...only, the van is gone. The CRV and RAV4 will have to do.

And they did.

Good thing there's a house PA.

So, now the COUNTDOWN is purely logistical. That and any personal preparation the members of the Walter Mittys must conduct before our debut this Friday at Snowzee's.

See you there!

The COUNTDOWN to SHOWTIME begins!

Well, this is it.

Our debut at Snowzee's is this Friday.

Tonight, very well could be our "dress rehearsal." We have Wednesday penciled-in but I'm not figuring we'll need it. Listening to the play backs of the recorded rehearsals sounds good. The band is ready for a live performance.

Our last show was the benefit gig in January with the Bum Steers. Our next show is a gallery opening in August.

But here comes our very next show!




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Set list is set...

More or less. And this is what it's looking like:

Jolie, Jolie (Rickie Lee Jones)
Cry To Me (Professor Longhair)
Jericho [as recorded by the Gourds]
In My Time Of Dying (traditional)
You Do a Good Blue (Sonia Barrera)
Jockey Full of Bourbon (Tom Waits)
Reconsider Me [as recorded by Etta James]
One After 909 (Lennon - McCartney)
Big Weekend (Tom Petty)
Big Trouble (Sonia Barrera)
Dirty Old Town [as recorded by the Pogues]
Dead Flowers (Jagger - Richards)
Honey Don’t (Carl Perkins)
Angel From Montgomery (John Prine)
Don’t Think Twice It's Alright (Bob Dylan)
Riptide (Sonia Barrera)
Jack Daniels (Kevin Slattery)
Tom Thumb’s Blues (Bob Dylan)
Evangeline [as recorded by the Band]
Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
Fisherman’s Blues [as recorded by the Water Boys]
Train Train [as recorded by Dolly Parton]
Matchbox (Carl Perkins)
Struck [as recorded by Los Lobos]
Rock Me (Slim Harpo)
Spider Web (Joan Osborne)
Unforgiven (Bap Kennedy)
I Got Loaded [as recorded by Los Lobos]
Sea of Heartbreak (Johnny Cash)
They Call Me The Breeze (J.J.Cale)
...It Takes A Train to Cry (Bob Dylan)

P.S. We have a new website (though it just may lead you back to here—you'll see what I mean—visit us!)

http://www.theWalterMittys.com

"I'm So Tired..." "Another Cup of Coffee..."

Those and similar songs will be my soundtrack today.

Late night at "Band Camp" going through our initial dress rehearsal of material for our show at Snowzee's at the end of the month. I suppose everything went as suspected—those few songs that we haven't played in some time and their rough edges that will need to be smoothed out and those other songs that just roll out like everyday conversation—I suppose.

As everything went so late last night, I didn't wait around for the recording to finish downloading to my iPod for my listening review on my ride home.

Yes, that review of what happened "last night at Band Camp" will have to wait. For the moment, it's time for "another cup of coffee before I go into the valley below..."

LISTEN to this....

You may have heard about our "demo" CD? The show it came from? The art and the changes it went though? Well, now on our MySpace page you can hear 10 of the twelve song samples.

Check it out!

http://www.myspace.com/thewaltermittys

Call it "Spring Cleaning"...

Last night at Band Camp, we ran through the eight-song Fire Drill Sonia created from our master list of songs we have performed. As we attempt to ready ourselves for a more active pursuit of live performances, this seemed like a good way to keep our backlog well-rehearsed. And it proved to be just that—some songs have not "been played in awhile!" Most humbling.

Then we tried to divide and assign a process for "those other songs." The songs that are in-progress in one stage or another. The "almost there" songs. And the "still-early-in-the-process" songs.

Maybe a little too much "business" in proportion to music for a night in the rehearsal space but I think we have the pieces in place. And to borrow a song title to sum it all up: We Can Work It Out!

"Time it moves so fast..."

Maybe later for that song (an old original titled "Remember What To Say").

It was like Spring Cleaning at Band Camp, last night. Time to take stock of all the songs we started and didn't quite finish before we moved on to the next.

Sonia recorded them into our mast set list while I scrawled them onto our swipe-board.

Two takes each. We moved from "Evangeline" to "All Over Now." And because Jim had the accordion on, it made sense to hit our bayou-version of "Last Hard Bible."

And we closed the night with "Tom Thumb's Blues" (and very nice piano part on that).

That was just a small dent in our effort to "finish up them songs." I can see some busy—but productive—rehearsal nights ahead.

~slatts

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