NOLA Crawfish Fest 2019 at Central City BBQ during New Orleans Jazz Festival


Soul Brass Band:
Derrick “Smoker” Freeman
– drums, vocals
Khris Royal – keyboards, saxophone
James R. Martin – tenor saxophone, vocals
Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown – trumpet, vocals
Ricio Fruge – trumpet, vocals
Miles Lyon – trombone, vocals
Ari Teitel – guitar, vocals
Aron Lambert – bass drum, percussion
Doyle Cooper – sousaphone


NCF Theory of Funk:
Ari Teitel
– guitar, vocals
Jermal Watson – drums
Big Sam Williams – trombone, vocals
Drew Baham – trumpet
Joey Porter – organ, keyboards & talk box
Kevin Scott – bass
Nick Cassarino – guitar, vocals

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NOLA Crawfish Festival Allstars 2019, George Porter Jr, Dave Malone, Billy Iuso by Marc MillmanPhoto by Marc Millman.

NOLA Crawfish Fest Allstars (George Porter Jr., Dave Malone, Billy Iuso & Terence Higgins) Part 1 of 2: Sitting On Top Of The World [Mississippi Sheiks / Grateful Dead], Well… All Right [Buddy Holly / Blind Faith] > Morning Dew [Bonnie Dobson / Grateful Dead], Turn On Your Lovelight [Bobby “Blue” Bland / Grateful Dead] > Hey Bo Diddley [Bo Diddley]

NOLA Crawfish Fest Allstars (George Porter Jr., Dave Malone, Billy Iuso & Terence Higgins) Part 2 of 2: Papaya [The Radiators] > All Along The Watchtower [Jimi Hendrix]

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Mike Dillon Band – Part 1 of 4:

Mike Dillon Band – Part 2 of 4:

Mike Dillon Band – Part 3 of 4:

Mike Dillon Band – Part 4 of 4:

I’ve also posted videos of Eric Krasno & Friends HERE.

Unearthed live AUDIO of The Meters & The Metrics from 1980 and 1983

Zigaboo Modeliste by Henry Heikkinen

Happy 50th Jazz Fest everyone! Here are some very rare audio recordings of The Meters that I have cleaned up and corrected the speed on. Years ago I traded for 2 CDRs marked as “The Meters 11/28/80”, and it turned out to be 2 different recordings that seem to be incomplete. Also, both recordings were running fast, probably from a bad cassette transfer. I’ve slowed them down and cleaned them up as best I can. Enjoy this rare funk as you get your mind right for the 50th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this year!

Download the recordings here and here.

The Metrics
1983 or 1984
New Orleans, LA @ ???

SBD > ??? > cassette > ??? > CDR > EAC > FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (pitch slowed down 0.9 semitones) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC

01. People Say 7:27
02. Cissy Strut > 3:57
03. Love The One You’re With > 2:57
04. Hey Pocky A-Way 7:18
05. They All Ask’d For You 7:00
06. Big Chief 5:48
07. Standing In Your Stuff // 6:00

George Porter, Jr. – bass, vocals
Zigaboo Modeliste – drums, vocals
David Torkanowsky – keyboards, ?vocals?
Scott Goudeau – guitar, ?vocals?
Tony Dagradi and/or Fred Kemp – saxophone

We know that this group played at Jazz Fest in 1983 and 1984. There is an audience recording that exists of their 1984 Jazz Fest performance. I have not heard it, but I have seen the info file and it’s a totally different setlist with no Meters tunes really except Gossip. So this recording could be from Jazz Fest 1983 or at some other time from 1982 to 1984. I presume and assume this was recorded in New Orleans.

I found this as filler on the 11/28/80 Meters CDRs I traded for years ago. Upon closer inspection of my CDR’s, it was actually about 45 minutes of 11/28/80 and then this Metrics recording on the other side of the cassette.
The tape was also running too fast. This is my first attempt at shifting/fixing the pitch, so it may not be correct, but it sounds closer to reality than it did. It’s also an incomplete recording. I don’t know how much is missing from the end. 2019-01-19 – Funk It Blog

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The Meters (with Sam Henry subbing for Art Neville)
November 28th, 1980
New Orleans, LA @ Tipitinas

FM/SBD (WTUL) > 3rd Gen (presumably a cassette) > DAT > ??? > FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (amplified) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > WAV > FLAC

01. WTUL radio intro
02. Rigor Mortis
03. Fire on the Bayou >
04. Jungle Man
05. talk & tuning
06. Africa
07. Cissy Strut
08. Just Kissed My Baby
09. People Say >
10. “Try To Get Over” >
11. They All Ask’d For You

Sam Henry – organ & vocals (subbing for Art Neville)
George Porter, Jr. – bass & vocals
Leo Nocentelli – guitar
Zigaboo Modeliste – drums & vocals

They are announced as “The Funky Disgusting Meters”! It sounds like George Porter’s group, Joyride, was the opening act because Zig calls them out during the jam into Jungle Man.

Here’s a little more info on the history between Sam Henry and The Meters (courtesy of the Home Of The Groove blog):
https://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/2006/08/gospel-bird-vs-soul-machine-updated.html

VIDEO & AUDIO: Tony Hall & Friends 6/7/17 New Orleans, LA @ The Maple Leaf

Tony Hall & Friends 6/7/17 Maple Leaf New Orleans

Tony Hall & Friends 6/7/17 New Orleans, LA @ The Maple Leaf
Part 1 of 3:
Come In My House [James Booker cover], “Let’s Jam”, I Get Lifted [George McCrae cover]

Tony Hall & Friends 6/7/17 New Orleans, LA @ The Maple Leaf
Part 2 of 3:
Night People [Allen Toussaint / Lee Dorsey cover], Strange Relationship [Prince cover], Shakey Ground [The Temptations / Eddie Hazel cover] (with Jeff McCarty on vox)

Tony Hall & Friends 6/7/17 New Orleans, LA @ The Maple Leaf
Part 3 of 3:
“A World Where No One Cares” [new Tony Hall tune], Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine [James Brown cover], ??? (instrumental), Down By The River [Neil Young cover]

Tony Hall & Friends
June 7, 2017
New Orleans, LA @ The Maple Leaf

VIDEO 1: Yi 4K Action Cam (clamped to pole onstage)
VIDEO 2: Canon XA20 (handheld)
AUDIO: SBD > ??? > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (balanced channels by creating a fake stereo mix of each channel and mixing them + bass bump and normalization) > FLAC

AUDIO DOWNLOAD: FLAC TORRENT OR LIVE MUSIC ARCHIVE

01. ??? (instrumental)
02. Down By The River [Neil Young cover]
03. Come In My House [James Booker cover]
04. “Let’s Jam” [?cover or new Tony Hall tune?]
05. I Get Lifted [George McCrae cover]
06. Night People [Allen Toussaint / Lee Dorsey cover]
07. Strange Relationship [Prince cover]
08. Shakey Ground [The Temptations / Eddie Hazel cover] (with Jeff McCarty on vox)
09. “A World Where No One Cares” [new Tony Hall tune]
10. Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine [James Brown cover]
11. If You Want Me To Stay [Sly & The Family Stone cover]

Tony Hall – bass, vocals, guitar
Alvin Ford Jr. – drums, vocals
Andrew Block – guitar, vocals, bass
Danny Abel – guitar
Tillis Verdin – keyboards, vocals
Khris Royal – saxophone, vocals, keyboards

Guests:
Jeff McCarty – vocals (on Shakey Ground)

Notes: This is the first show of Tony’s Wednesday night residency. I don’t think they were rehearsed at all. That’s how high caliber NOLA musicians roll though.

Halfway through Sex Machine Tony & Andrew switch bass & guitar.

Khris plays keyboards on If You Want Me To Stay.

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