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

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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.

Bear Creek 2011 Secret Tree House After Party Jam Session with “Walter Roberts & Deitch”

On the last day of the Bear Creek Music Festival, I was fortunate to get wind of the secret after party jam session that was supposedly for staff only. I was told it would be in the tree house behind the Purple Hat stage. Luckily I was able to borrow a 4 gig memory card from a friend (thanks Bob!) which enabled me to record about an hour of the jam session before I was flat-out out of memory.

When I arrived around 11:30pm, I saw WRD (Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts and Adam Deitch) set up and ready to play. I had previously thought it strange that this new group didn’t get a Bear Creek set, considering all three players were at the festival. So this was quite a treat to close out the weekend with. I didn’t record the first tune, but I did get the next six, approximately 54 minutes, which you can watch in excellent HD quality right here….

For me, the highlights are Topaz‘s saxophone blowing on the first video, Eric Krasno‘s jazz guitar chops on the second video, Louis Cato‘s bass solo at the end of the fifth video, and Ivan Neville jumping on drums to join Jamie McLean for a cover of Delbert McClinton‘s “Standing On Shaky Ground” on the sixth and last video. For those that weren’t able to attend or who didn’t find out about the jam session, sit back and enjoy it here in Funk It vision…

Bear Creek Secret Tree House After Party Jam Session (1 of 6) 11/12/11 Bear Creek Music Festival (Robert Walter on keys, Eddie Roberts on guitar, Adam Deitch on drums, Topaz on sax, Jonathan Lloyd on trombone, Louis Cato on percussion) – Almendra:

Bear Creek Secret Tree House After Party Jam Session (2 of 6) 11/12/11 Bear Creek Music Festival (Robert Walter on keys, Eddie Roberts on guitar, Adam Deitch on drums, Louis Cato on bass, Eric Krasno on guitar, Topaz on sax, Jonathan Lloyd on trombone) – Flood In Franklin Park (Grant Green cover):

Bear Creek Secret Tree House After Party Jam Session (3 of 6) 11/12/11 Bear Creek Music Festival (Robert Walter on keys, Eddie Roberts on guitar, Adam Deitch on drums) – Pack of Lies (The Counts cover):

Bear Creek Secret Tree House After Party Jam Session (4 of 6) 11/12/11 Bear Creek Music Festival (Robert Walter on keys, Eddie Roberts on guitar, Derrick Freeman on drums, Jamie McLean on guitar) – Louisiana Slim (Leon Spencer cover):

Bear Creek Secret Tree House After Party Jam Session (5 of 6) 11/12/11 Bear Creek Music Festival (Robert Walter on keys, Eddie Roberts on guitar, Adam Deitch on drums, Jamie McLean on guitar, Louis Cato on bass, Topaz on sax, Jonathan Lloyd on trombone) – unknown jam:

Bear Creek Secret Tree House After Party Jam Session (6 of 6) 11/12/11 Bear Creek Music Festival (Robert Walter on keys, Eddie Roberts on guitar, Jamie McLean on guitar, Louis Cato on bass, Sean Sullivan on drums and then Ivan Neville takes over on drums) – Standing On Shakey Ground (Delbert McClinton cover):