Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
Got My Mojo Workin - Muddy Waters
Evil - Howlin' Wolf
Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson
Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley
Hoodoo Man - Buddy Guy and Junior Welles
Seventh Son - Willy Mabon
Season of The Witch - Donovan
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Set List - Set 2
You Upset Me - BB King
Killing Floor - Howlin Wolf
Hidden Charms - Howlin Wolf
Baby Lee - John Lee Hooker
I Just Want To Make Love To You - Muddy Waters
Checkin On My Baby - Buddy Guy and Junior Welles
She Caught The Katy - Taj Mahal
Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James
29 Ways - Willie Dixon
Highway 49 - Howlin Wolf
Killing Floor - Howlin Wolf
Hidden Charms - Howlin Wolf
Baby Lee - John Lee Hooker
I Just Want To Make Love To You - Muddy Waters
Checkin On My Baby - Buddy Guy and Junior Welles
She Caught The Katy - Taj Mahal
Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James
29 Ways - Willie Dixon
Highway 49 - Howlin Wolf
NMIT
Out in the rain and the cold. 9:00 AM start! I mean - REALLY - we're BLUESMEN! :))
Thought I was running late - but made it exactly on time.
Nice studio - students producing and engineering. Byron had a ball tweaking the kit set up. he did a lot of the work. Ty (spelling) was great - the course supervisor. Did us proud.
We set the amp up in the main room to get some live presence... my request.
After a couple of hours setting up the drums - and five minutes setting up the amp, Byron and I jammed out on Pony Blues. It was okay... a cool warm up.
We took a break and a young woman sat at the keyboards and started playing some killer blues piano. I asked her if she wanted to sit in and do a track.
We did a C blues I'm calling Sassy - which I overdubbed some guitar on - and a G blues I'm thinking of calling Any Time's Cool.
It was SO MUCH FUN! I played bass on the original takes. And then dubbed guitar onto Sassy. The rust is slowly working it's way out of my fingers! Too long away from the guitars!
Sarah was great! A really talented pianist. Fun to work with. I hope we can get together again sometime soon. mebbe try some B3 type things on the keyboard at Byron's.
The takes are a little rough.Mainly due to my stumbling to refind jazz voicings and phrasings - but there's a basis for a couple of tracks there... and a nice direction to complement the Jump and Chicago Style stuff.
Thought I was running late - but made it exactly on time.
Nice studio - students producing and engineering. Byron had a ball tweaking the kit set up. he did a lot of the work. Ty (spelling) was great - the course supervisor. Did us proud.
We set the amp up in the main room to get some live presence... my request.
After a couple of hours setting up the drums - and five minutes setting up the amp, Byron and I jammed out on Pony Blues. It was okay... a cool warm up.
We took a break and a young woman sat at the keyboards and started playing some killer blues piano. I asked her if she wanted to sit in and do a track.
We did a C blues I'm calling Sassy - which I overdubbed some guitar on - and a G blues I'm thinking of calling Any Time's Cool.
It was SO MUCH FUN! I played bass on the original takes. And then dubbed guitar onto Sassy. The rust is slowly working it's way out of my fingers! Too long away from the guitars!
Sarah was great! A really talented pianist. Fun to work with. I hope we can get together again sometime soon. mebbe try some B3 type things on the keyboard at Byron's.
The takes are a little rough.Mainly due to my stumbling to refind jazz voicings and phrasings - but there's a basis for a couple of tracks there... and a nice direction to complement the Jump and Chicago Style stuff.
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Day 2
Byron picked me up - we loaded the car with my cast-off equipment. I've armed him up with a killer mic - mic pre amp - and compressor. He should have some fun with them!
What is it about Tuesdays? Monday nights? Sleepless again, so... exhausted through the practice, and hitting that edge of manic over-enthusiasm I'm so notorious for.
We took my Tech 21 amp down too, as well as the whitr Epiphone. I haven't used the amp for YEARS!
Fired up the kit... listened to Last Fair Deal a few times... then laid down a take - it sounds GREAT! A few little glitches and fumbles - but it's down! And a very easy one to record so - I'll just keep plugging away til I get it in one! The MP3's of Deal and Future Blues will be available as soon as I can work out how to give people web access to them.
Byron's a real joy to work with! I've been screwed over by engineers and producers so many times... but he's such a no nonsense cat!
Anyhooo... we got seven of the eight projected pieces down. I faded completely so left Come On In My Kitchen until next time.
We got:
Killing Floor
Baby Lee
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Future Blues
Same Old Blues
Killing Floor
Dust My Broom
A great start!
Okay - from here...
Off to Byron's tomorrow to run up a couple of the originals... then into a studio on friday (free time) to record them. just the two of us.
Getting the General on the horn shortly to start laying vocals down. Probably Monday I think.
What is it about Tuesdays? Monday nights? Sleepless again, so... exhausted through the practice, and hitting that edge of manic over-enthusiasm I'm so notorious for.
We took my Tech 21 amp down too, as well as the whitr Epiphone. I haven't used the amp for YEARS!
Fired up the kit... listened to Last Fair Deal a few times... then laid down a take - it sounds GREAT! A few little glitches and fumbles - but it's down! And a very easy one to record so - I'll just keep plugging away til I get it in one! The MP3's of Deal and Future Blues will be available as soon as I can work out how to give people web access to them.
Byron's a real joy to work with! I've been screwed over by engineers and producers so many times... but he's such a no nonsense cat!
Anyhooo... we got seven of the eight projected pieces down. I faded completely so left Come On In My Kitchen until next time.
We got:
Killing Floor
Baby Lee
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Future Blues
Same Old Blues
Killing Floor
Dust My Broom
A great start!
Okay - from here...
Off to Byron's tomorrow to run up a couple of the originals... then into a studio on friday (free time) to record them. just the two of us.
Getting the General on the horn shortly to start laying vocals down. Probably Monday I think.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
SET LIST - Set 1
Dust My Broom - Elmore James
Shake Your Money Maker - " "
The Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Robert Johnson
Come On In My Kitchen - " "
Future Blues - Willie Brown
I Got The Same Old Blues - Freddie King (JJCale)
I'm Ready - Muddy Waters
This Is Hip - John Lee hooker
I Ain't Got You - Jimmy Reed
Messin' With The Kid - Buddy Guy & Junior Welles
Shake Your Money Maker - " "
The Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Robert Johnson
Come On In My Kitchen - " "
Future Blues - Willie Brown
I Got The Same Old Blues - Freddie King (JJCale)
I'm Ready - Muddy Waters
This Is Hip - John Lee hooker
I Ain't Got You - Jimmy Reed
Messin' With The Kid - Buddy Guy & Junior Welles
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Great googly woogly!
Tackling the learning curve is a killer!
So is doing everything on th e cheap - well FREE!
Spent the night working through Geocities sites... downloading all the stuff I need to work with them and build the start of Soma and the Cats site.
The link should be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
THE CATS SITE:
will get you there too
So is doing everything on th e cheap - well FREE!
Spent the night working through Geocities sites... downloading all the stuff I need to work with them and build the start of Soma and the Cats site.
The link should be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
THE CATS SITE:
will get you there too
Friday, June 18, 2004
And Day 1 Departs
Had an excellent afternoon and evening over at Byron Beh's. For a "first" run through things went really well. He's gonna keep me on my toes, that's for sure!
We ran about eight tunes - the covers - and made progress with all of them. Byron had the same idea for one of them as I did. No drums or bass - just Graham and I sitting and playing through "The Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (Robert Johnson). I suggested Byron put a solo in in the middle though - a guitar solo. That'll give folks a chance to see just how talented the bloke is. I'm thinking about doing the same thing with Red House (Hendrix) in the second set, with Byron playing the main guitar and me just comping along and mebbe putting in a slide solo or something. We'll probably keep the bass in on this one though. Should break the set up nicely in both cases.
We also started work on a few originals: Mr H - which will be a tribute to Jimi (Byron and Phill), Slow Pony (Phill)- an old jazzy twelve in the style of "Nobody Knows You"; Siren's Call (Hethers) - a bit of Bo Diddley with some excellent twists; Small World (Hethers) - a Stonesy song with some great changes; Turn To Rain (Hethers) - a bluesy ballad featuring Gm tuned slide; and Mungo Blues (Pops) - a twisting blues with excellent changes.
Pops has also foisted a country tune on us which I really like but can't remember the title of. I figure it'll work if I can lay up some Lowell George slide under it. It'll be a bit of comic relief in the middle of the set too - possibly opening the way for a short diversion into rockabilly - something like Come On Every Body by Eddie Cochrane - or the medley we used to do with Markout - Nervous Breakdown - Come On Every Body - Summertime Blues. Sheesh - I'm gonna have to rework the Stones Medley too - just for fun - Brown Sugar - Jumping Jack and Gimme Shelter... though I might swap Shelter into Hony Tonk. We are going to have bloody tunes an possibilities coming out of our ears.
Walked out of Byron's feeling fantastic... totally over the systems crash detailed in Soma's Blog. Cruised home with the tunes running through my head -
All in all an excellent day... and I look forward to many more of them.
We are back at work Tuesday... laying down the BED tracks for a demo.
We ran about eight tunes - the covers - and made progress with all of them. Byron had the same idea for one of them as I did. No drums or bass - just Graham and I sitting and playing through "The Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (Robert Johnson). I suggested Byron put a solo in in the middle though - a guitar solo. That'll give folks a chance to see just how talented the bloke is. I'm thinking about doing the same thing with Red House (Hendrix) in the second set, with Byron playing the main guitar and me just comping along and mebbe putting in a slide solo or something. We'll probably keep the bass in on this one though. Should break the set up nicely in both cases.
We also started work on a few originals: Mr H - which will be a tribute to Jimi (Byron and Phill), Slow Pony (Phill)- an old jazzy twelve in the style of "Nobody Knows You"; Siren's Call (Hethers) - a bit of Bo Diddley with some excellent twists; Small World (Hethers) - a Stonesy song with some great changes; Turn To Rain (Hethers) - a bluesy ballad featuring Gm tuned slide; and Mungo Blues (Pops) - a twisting blues with excellent changes.
Pops has also foisted a country tune on us which I really like but can't remember the title of. I figure it'll work if I can lay up some Lowell George slide under it. It'll be a bit of comic relief in the middle of the set too - possibly opening the way for a short diversion into rockabilly - something like Come On Every Body by Eddie Cochrane - or the medley we used to do with Markout - Nervous Breakdown - Come On Every Body - Summertime Blues. Sheesh - I'm gonna have to rework the Stones Medley too - just for fun - Brown Sugar - Jumping Jack and Gimme Shelter... though I might swap Shelter into Hony Tonk. We are going to have bloody tunes an possibilities coming out of our ears.
Walked out of Byron's feeling fantastic... totally over the systems crash detailed in Soma's Blog. Cruised home with the tunes running through my head -
All in all an excellent day... and I look forward to many more of them.
We are back at work Tuesday... laying down the BED tracks for a demo.
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Day 1 approaches
Byron and I go into the woodshed tomorrow - well - later today. Working up guitar and drums for a few tracks before we get Mr M down to sing.
I'm really looking forward to it.
I think this bunch of guys could be good enough - and professional enough - to push me to realise my potential. My "hand" is so "off". Gonna take a bit to get it back. But that's cool.
5:15 AM - 7 hours to go....
I'm really looking forward to it.
I think this bunch of guys could be good enough - and professional enough - to push me to realise my potential. My "hand" is so "off". Gonna take a bit to get it back. But that's cool.
5:15 AM - 7 hours to go....
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