WHERE THE HOKEY POKEY "IS" WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

The Meters - Cissy Strut

Posted about 1 year ago
Drummer Zig Modeliste swaggers through this with every part of his kit singing, as soon as bassist George Porter, Jr. starts the strut after the band members make a swelling shout together. There's nothing muffled about what he's doing. His snare has that New Orleans street parade sound.Guitarist Leo Nocentelli and organist Art Neville answer the bass and sometimes Zig with perfectly-timed simple ideas that feel so good. It seems like it all should be too simple to work, but this adds up to create a track that's a funk juggernaut.

Comments (8)

  1. Old School C says This one is not playing for some reason. It keep telling me to sign up for this rapsody thing.
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008
  2. ivylander says A classic.
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008
  3. RSchaut says Georger Porter, Jr. has become somewhat known among the jam bands circuit doing gigs with the String Cheese Incident and Gov't Mule. Hopefully, that will open whole new musical vistas to jam band fans. On another note, I think you could do a really great post, or series of posts, on the whole Mardi Gras Indians phenomenon in general, and, in particular, the connections between the Wild Tchoupitulas, the Meters and the Nevile Brothers. There's a lot of fascinating stuff there in terms of how the music all connects together through various influences.
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008
  4. Bartleby says It's a real treat to have you and RShaut discussing like this on-line.
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008
  5. DLuebbert says Great find, Rick! I had no idea that there were so many active tribes. Thanks!
    Permalink posted 01/28/2008
  6. Ohm51 says It's great to see some content here on MOG about The Meters ... but strangely Nothing comes up in the search box category when plugging in The Meters. I've had a jones on for some Meters music the past few days ... used to have this stuff on cassette tape ... and loaned it to someone and never got it back. Nice to hear it again ... Thanks.
    Permalink posted 02/29/2008

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