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.

Eric Krasno & Friends at Jazz Fest 2019 (George Porter Jr., Ivan Neville, Terence Higgins, Marcus King, Danny Mayer & Johnny Vidacovich)

Eric Krasno & Friends
April 30, 2019
New Orleans, LA @ Central City BBQ – NOLA Crawfish Festival

Eric Krasno – guitar, vocals
George Porter Jr. – bass, vocals
Ivan Neville – keyboards, vocals
Terence Higgins – drums

Eric Krasno & Friends
April 30, 2019 – New Orleans, LA @ NOLA Crawfish Festival @ Central City BBQ
Part 1 of 3: Boogie On Reggae Woman [Stevie Wonder]

Eric Krasno & Friends
April 30, 2019 – New Orleans, LA @ NOLA Crawfish Festival @ Central City BBQ
Part 2 of 3: Get Back [The Beatles], That’s What Love Will Make You Do [Little Walter], How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) [Marvin Gaye], These Arms Of Mine [Otis Redding], Curse Lifter (with Danny Mayer), Jezebel (with Danny Mayer)

Eric Krasno & Friends
April 30, 2019 – New Orleans, LA @ NOLA Crawfish Festival @ Central City BBQ
Part 3 of 3: Sweet Little Angel (with Marcus King), Sugaree [The Grateful Dead] (with Marcus King), Unconditional Love (with Marcus King & Danny Mayer)

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Johnny Vidacovich, George Porter Jr. & Eric Krasno
April 25, 2019 – New Orleans, LA @ Maple Leaf
Set 1: Watch The Mountains Grow (Johnny & Eric) > Improv > Improv, Improv, Whole Lotta Fun > I Don’t Know > Funkify Your Life [The Meters] > Third Stone From The Sun [Jimmy Hendrix] > Them Changes [Buddy Miles] > Stoop Down Baby [Chick Willis], Careful Who You Idolize

Johnny Vidacovich, George Porter Jr. & Eric Krasno
April 25, 2019 – New Orleans, LA @ Maple Leaf
Set 2: Improv, I’ll Take You There [Al Bell / The Staples Singers] (with Donnie Sundal), If You Want Me To Stay [Sly & The Family Stone] (with Donnie Sundal & Tony Hall), Aint’ No Use (To Cut You Loose) [The Meters] > Come Together [The Beatles] > Sugaree [The Grateful Dead]

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

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