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The Meters were an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their music from the late 1960s until 1977. While the band never enjoyed huge popular success, they are considered one of the progenitors of funk. Art Neville, the group's frontman, launched a solo career around the New Orleans area in the mid-1950s, while still in high school. The Meters formed in 1965, with a line-up that included keyboardist and vocalist Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentel...Read More >
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The song, titled "They All Ask'd For You," was recorded by the original Meters during the '70s and was based on an ancient New Orleans nursery rhyme, as interpreted by drummer "Zigaboo" Modeliste. It can currently be found on Funkify Your Life: the Meters Anthology (Rhino), one of OffBeat's "100 Essential Louisiana CDs.This track I took from my copy of " The Very Best of the Meters", and was written by Arthur "Red" Neville and George Porter, Jr.... MORE
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I know that the Meters are hardly unknown on MOG , but there's never a "wrong" time to play them. According to bassist George Porter, they got the riff for this tune from a burnt piston in the engine of the band's van. After a while, Zig started drumming on the inside of the roof, then Art started singing "bom she bom bom". The rest is history... MORE
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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 simp... MORE
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I was going to do a post on Dylanesque jazz, because I've been listening to the new Jewels and Binoculars album pretty much all day.
But I realized that it's Friday, and much as I like J and B, funky they are not. And it seemed to me that in light of recent events, a little handclapping might be appropriate.
So I present The Bar-Kays, performing "Son of Shaft."
And some audio applause courtesy of Zigaboo Modeliste and the mighty Meters.... MORE
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Happy Birthday George!
Every time I see you play live, you inspire me to want to go out and save the planet. For me, your bass grooves define "in the pocket".
You have truly funkified my life and I thank you.
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Well, guess it's time to take this here new Mog for a spin - on Funky Friday ta boot! I love the sound of New Orleans funk, and I learn more and more about the classics from the bayou all the time over at: http://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/ Proprieter Mr Dan Phillips has a massive amount of classic funk at his fingertips and is always sharing an ever-changing line-up of N.O. artists with great detailed write ups. They may be hrting and rebuilding right now, b... MORE
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Here's a nice Dime snag for ya.....The Meters recorded 1975 at Sea Saint Studios NOLA .
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Lagniappe is a Louisiana French word, derived from American Spanish la napa, (with a tllde above the "n"), or the gift; a variant with Indo-European roots+ napa (variant of yapa, gift, from Quechua, from yapay, to give more).
Just because it's in the forties tonight, under cold drizzle in New York City on my first Funky Friday, and still in the mid-seventies in the heart of some of the best weather during the year down New Orleans way right now, here's another rar... MORE
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By the time New Orleans funk progenitors the Meters released Fire on the Bayou on Reprise in 1975, the secret was pretty much out: the seminal Crescent City band that had charted a string of infectious and highly-original instrumentals on the Josie label in the late Sixties and served as the de-facto house band for Allen Toussaint and Marshall Seahorn's Sea-Saint studios was catching a taste of the Big-Time.
With Rejuvenation in 1974, the Meters had gone beyond ea... MORE
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Time to get down to some instrumental 70s fizzunk from the band from New Orleans. The Meters are definitely one of my favorites from the funk genre. So many cool sounding tracks.
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No post really needed, but this is a very funky little Meters track for your Monday.
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I am moving to New Orleans in a few weeks. I think I saw, on CodyB's page, a best of New Orleans 101. Anyone have a few incisive recommendations for me knowing what little you do about my tastes based on recent Mogging. I feel uncomfortably ignorant.... MORE
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Well, I couldn't make it to the big ol' MOG party, but I bet it sounded something like this. Here's some irresistible New Orleans-style funk, in the form of "Cissy Strut" from The Meters, with Art Neville doin' his thing on the Hammond B-3 (his nephew Ivan "Scrape" Neville held down the organ chair at the MOGfest - he's no slouch), along with George Porter on bass, Leo Nocentelli on guitar and Zigaboo Modeliste on drums. Gotta love how they're posing with a metronome in the... MORE
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