Live Music Is Better.
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I think I'm gonna use Wednesday for live music tracks. I like live music as a theme because just like our **Sunday Under The Covers**, I am not limited to genre, time, or place.
>>>All of which may just be justification for reposting this track,... "I don't know, I don't really care, let there be songs to fill the air"
The story goes that the great **Allen Toussaint** had been sent some tapes of **The Bands** music and had been asked to come up with some horn charts for an upcoming New Years eve show. Long story short, the charts were lost, Mr Toussaint tried to reconstruct them from memory, and the horn players got to see them 24 hours before the show. Now these were not just ??any?? hornsmen. **Howard Johnson, Snooky Young**, and others tore into that show and raised the Music of The Band to soaring, majesticly funky rocknroll heights.
They nailed **The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down** that night, they scorched the earth with **Don't You Do It (Don't you break my heart**. And on the track I posted **Howard Johnson** gets down with that tuba! I mean, he is in flat out boogieing! Check it out.
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Comments (5)
FAT SOUND! I dig that wall of horns, tuba( and don't he push some air through that thing?) and all!
Tuba is a super-funky instrument. And doesn't get enough credit in my opinion.
Great story. Didn't know this but will be sure to share...
Thanks DM.
The first 12 seconds of that live "Rag Mama Rag" from Rock of Ages rival the first 22 seconds of the Beach Boys' "California Girls" and the opening of the Who's "Baba O'Riley" as the most exciting, glorious instrumental intro in the history of rock music. I'm just sayin'...
...And I agree, Mike.
Mike, "glorious" is precisely the word.....