The Mild Revolution

I recently spoke with Morgan Little, bandleader with the Mild Revolution, a folk/ rock band made up of students at Keene State

Tom MacLennan: How did your band start?

Morgan Little: The Mild Revolution is a band I started 6 years ago. It was originally for all the music I was writing while I was playing in multiple other bands, It has gone through many changes since then, I have had many musicians play with me over the years which has led me to living and performing in Keene.

TM: How did you meet the current players in the group?

ML: When I first moved to town the only person I had that I knew I was going to play with was a drummer named George Robinson, he was my orientation leader and I sent him a link to some of my music that he then told me he would love to start something with me. The day I moved to Keene I met a guy that was standing outside of Carle hall helping kids move in. He then introduced himself as George Barber.

TM: How did George have an impact on your sound?

ML: I didn't know then but he would soon become the man that would influence me more then any other musician ever has. Because of George, I met Chris Clark, a kid who was eager to play with anyone. He told me he was a drummer but I found out quickly that he played bass as well.
One day I was playing music with my RA Colin Daly in our kitchen and a kid came into the room with a really impressive looking guitar, his name was Matt Caputo but all I got for a name was “Puto”. After playing for a while I asked him if he was playing with anyone else. He said no and I could tell that he didn’t think that playing guitar for a folk singer was anything he had had in mind. It only took him a few minutes to decide. We played a few shows as our four piece and we played a Night Owl Café open mic with George Barber as a special guest.

It took us only a few shows that we were missing something. We tried out a few different people and ideas but we settled on a piano player named Dan O’Rourke. We played many shows in this combination but with George and Dan being accomplished musicians on their own schedules became hard so I started playing with the musicians that I have grown to love in Keene. George Barber and I play in a group called the Elm City Orchestra with three other musicians Marc Perreault, Adam Hogue, and Cory Stein. These musicians have been playing with me all year and just recently in The Mild Revolution. The band has become an artist collective over this year. I love the revolving ideas and musicians in The Mild Revolution. It provides a different style every time we play. A few days ago we played a show in Keene at The Starving Artist that was just Marc, Cory, Puto, and me and I can only describe our set that night as Jungle Folk. Every time I play I hope it is going to be nothing the crowd has ever heard before in Keene. That’s our aim every show, to try and be the best we can every time.

To contact the Mild Revolution, check out their Facebook and Myspace and Youtube pages