What happened is we got Lucky. Better than that, we got Lucky Early. Early enough to stay at it for a while. In this case, long enough to put out a sixth CD. The lucky part was obvious enough. We’d play Biker Bars on Irving Park Road like the Iron Rail and Slates and some …
“So, why an EP?” you ask… For one thing, we wanted to cut down on the time between Studio Releases. We were averaging about 4 years between projects and we wanted to cut that down. The goal here was to get the new songs out on CD before they had been played for 3 years …
The New Orleans Trip was just that! A real Point A-to-Point B type of thing. Less of a vacation or a Show and more of an Experience to be remembered and drawn from in later days. We were fortunate to have a lot of help putting this thing together. We were also very lucky to …
Continue reading “As we head to New Orleans-Part 4. Conclusion”
Around this time of years it’s right and good to take stock of what we are thankful for.In Mr. Blotto, we are grateful for our Bandmates and the Fans who allow us to do whatever it is that we do. We are also thankful for the people of a technical sort who have helped us …
As Musicians, our general mode of travel is the Bus, and we love ours. “Blue” is a 40 foot long Eagle 15. She’s almost a member of the Band, and if she could speak we’d likely be buying her silence on the regular. That said, any way you can get yourself to New Orleans this …
For a lot of us here in the Fly Over, Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisconsin, was the best place to see the Dead. The Venue was great. It was just close enough to be convenient, but far away enough for the trip to be Epic, and you could camp out on the Golf Course …
Truth be Told, I was was shocked… It was 1986 and a bunch of my hippy friends weren’t going to be able to hang out that weekend. It turned out that the Grateful Dead was going to be at Alpine Valley and they were all going. I should say at this point that I had …
There are probably and literally a Hundred things I want to Do, See, Eat and Hear every time I go to NOLA. There is one musician that I’ve always wanted to catch Live but haven’t been able to. That’s never been an issue, as the town is freaking full of badasses and I’ve never been …
As you may have heard, we are headed to New Orleans in November to play a weekend of Shows. Playing NOLA (NewOrleansLousianA/NOLA) has been a dream for us for a long time. Since we now have this Blog thing at our disposal we thought we’d take a little time and talk about why that is. …
This is the inaugural Post of what we hope will be a semi-regular blast of news and views from Mr. Blotto. We aren’t going to over-define anything at this point; we’d prefer to just see what happens. Here goes… -Chief
