...before there was the Neville Brothers, there was "the Meters":http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:9908b5x4tsq4~T1 ...anybody who think that all these cats were about was world-beatish Louisiana stomps have never heard the funkily syncopated "Cissy Strut":http://www.rhino.com/store/digital/detail.lasso?upc=603497083060&si=rhino that the Meters cut back in the day...also, here's a "Met...
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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 simp...
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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*":http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0ifpxqe5ldte, 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)...
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