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Wandora is a general purpose data extraction, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. Wandora has a graphical user interface, layered presentation of knowledge, several data storage options, rich data extraction, import and export capabilities, and an embedded HTTP server that enables dynamic publication of Topic Maps. Wandora is well suited for rapid ontology construction and knowledge mashups.
SHOGUN is a machine learning toolbox whose focus is on large scale kernel methods and especially on Support Vector Machines (SVM). It provides a generic SVM object interfacing to several different SVM implementations, all making use of the same underlying, efficient kernel implementations. Apart from SVMs and regression, SHOGUN also features a number of linear methods like Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Linear Programming Machine (LPM), (Kernel) Perceptrons, and algorithms to train hidden Markov models. SHOGUN can be used from within C++, Matlab, R, Octave, and Python.
MyMediaLite is a lightweight, multi-purpose library of recommender system algorithms. It addresses the two most common scenarios in collaborative filtering: rating prediction (e.g. on a scale of 1 to 5 stars), and item prediction from implicit feedback (e.g. from clicks or purchase actions). It contains dozens of recommender engines, including state-of-the-art matrix factorization methods. It also supports real-time updates to the recommender engines, storing engines to disk and reloading them again, and several evaluation measures to compare the accuracy of different recommender system methods. Three command-line programs that offer most of the functionality contained in the library are included.
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Aw, BENNY BOY. You really know how to appeal to your fan base, don't you?! In what seems like, and probably is, a harmless interview with Details Magazine, Ben Affleck spoke about his ineptitude as a father figure to his three impossibly-adorable children with Jennifer Garner.
Before I skewer him, however, it should be noted that the interview was related to WORK–specifically his latest awesome-looking film, Argo–and so the poor bastard was probably just lamenting about how work distracts him from where he'd prefer to be. BUT! DUDE! HIRE A PUBLICIST!
Because when a journalist asks you about how well you balance work with the rest of your life, there's a better way to answer than this:
"I am not very present in the rest of my life. My wife's very patient. She does everything. If I have time, I try to spend time with the kids, even if just to be a physical presence, the bath, whatever. But my mind's always going, 'How are we going to light that shot tomorrow? What's the master shot for that scene? Is there even going to be a master?' Just ruminating endlessly."
OOF, dude. OOF. There's something so dismissive and off-putting about how he brushes off his mental and emotional absenteeism. I'm not the only one feeling that, right?
He followed this up with the type of joke many of us parents make, but also don't print in magazines where it is HARD TO DISCERN LEVELS OF HUMOR:
'Anytime you think, "I'm wasting my time here," the first thought you have is, "I could go home and be with my kids." But he joked it is not long before the pace of looking after his brood makes him change his mind. He said: 'Now, you may go home and be with your kids and very quickly start thinking, "I wonder what's on the work front?" Because running around after three kids is very tiring.'
Hell yeah, it is, Benjamin! WHICH IS WHY YOU LET THE WIFE DEAL WITH IT, AMIRITE?! UP TOP! LOLLER!
Besides, MAKIN' the babies is the fun part, YANNO?!
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Its score has decreased 1.6 points from last year, primarily because of worsening government spending, monetary freedom, and fiscal freedom. Bhutan is ranked 25th out of 41 countries in the Asia–Pacific region, and its overall score is below the global and regional averages.Over the past decade, Bhutan has taken steps to modernize its economic structure and reduce poverty. The foundations of economic freedom are relatively strong, with corruption present but under control, and institutional efforts have been made to ensure greater security for property rights. Recently, a higher priority has been placed on measures to diversify the economy. The public sector, especially hydropower, has long been the main source of economic growth, but the government now recognizes that broad-based private-sector development is crucial.Nonetheless, Bhutan has made little progress in expanding economic freedom. Lingering constraints on private-sector development include an inefficient regulatory framework, high tariffs and pervasive non-tariff barriers, and a rudimentary investment code. The financial sector remains small and without adequate regulation or supervision. The lack of access to financing is a serious constraint for potential entrepreneurs. Read more about Bhutan Economy. Close Background Bhutan, a small Himalayan constitutional monarchy that made the transition from absolute monarchy to parliamentary democracy in March 2008, has one of the world's smallest and least-developed economies. Until a few decades ago, the country was still largely agrarian, with few roads, little electricity, and no modern hospitals. Rugged terrain makes the development of infrastructure difficult. Recent interregional economic cooperation, particularly involving trade with Bangladesh and India, is helping to encourage economic growth. 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This scene has contained two pieces by Sophie Ryder (tinyurl.com/lwsb2f ) for some time now. I am really glad I finally managed to drag myself out of bed early enough to beat the tourists and take this shot.
It looks real nice in Google Earth.
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The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (August 07, 2009, 05:28AM )
I love your use of the phrase 'ground-zero' in this context - it is very apt. I am going to investigate printing. I'll get it done nicely and take it around some shops to see if there is any interest. You get 5% of any sales.
David Engle (August 06, 2009, 03:43PM )
This is ground-zero for those of us that love to visit Bath. The Abbey, Roman Baths ad the Pump Room all within a stone's throw of each other and for others, there is an extraordinary chocolate store too :) I wish you could make a millon pounds off of this as selling it as a poster. I would be the first in line.
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (August 06, 2009, 06:53AM )
I'm glad you like it - I thought you might :-) The light is reminiscent of that in my 'Lesbian Vampire Killers' (tinyurl.com/pplhto ). Not entirely surprising since they are both taken in Bath at the same time of day. These are probably my favourite two gigapans (qua photos, not qua gigapans).
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The 50MW Salkhit wind farm is located 70km south east of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar and is part of a renewable energy programme intended to reduce the country's dependence on coal. The project is expected to become operational in 2012.
Once operational, the project is expected to supply almost 5 per cent. of Mongolia's electricity, where energy demand is currently increasing by 8-10 per cent. per year. The project is also in the process of receiving Clean Development Mechanism accreditation and Norton Rose Group advised the lenders on securing the carbon revenues generated by the project.
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Despite all of this it's still Effing Obito
I see actually a lot of people questioning why so many fans of Naruto hate the idea of it being Obito. Well, here's pretty much every reason why it shouldn't/can't be him (Not mine, found it in a forum where I read Naruto. Personally I find reasons 2-4 and 7-10 the best.)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think he's the real OBITO. There is no way Obito could turn into an alpha dog shinobi who mastered S/T phasing and teleportation within a 1-2 year time frame. At 15 years old? No way... There is also no way Obito would know how to extract the Kyuubi, hypnotize it, control it like a puppet, and then summon it wherever the hell he wants to. And all of this is supposed to have happened 1-2 years after Obito supposedly died? Thats just not feasible. Plothole Number 2: Personality U-turn (chapter 241. page 19). "Of course those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called trash... but those who dont care about their companions are even worse than trash." Will of Fire talk from Obito. It makes no sense for him to suddenly manifest this unwavering vendetta against Konoha unless Tobi is just using Obitos body as a vessel, in which case, Tobi isnt really Obito anyway because his soul and spirit have nothing to do with it. Plothole Number 3: Kushina Quote (chapter 501. page 7). "Do you have ANY idea how long Ive waited for this moment?" Its a complete contradiction for Obito to say something like that when hypothetically, he wouldnt have been alive long enough to make that type of comment because Obito would have been roughly 15-17 years old if he fought Minato. Tobi has probably had to wait DECADES for the opportunity to extract the Kyuubi from its host. Plothole Number 4: Kyuubi recognized Tobi. (chapter 501 page 8 ). The Kyuubi actually recognizes Tobi and possibly knows who he is. If THAT doesnt convince you, nothing will. The Kyuubi made a direct transfer from being sealed into Mito to being sealed into Kushina, so there is a fundamental contradiction for the Kyuubi to recognize anyone in the outside world when it was sealed for all that time. If the Kyuubi actually recognized Tobi, it means Tobi has to be someone who was alive during Hashirama/Madaras generation. Plothole Number 5: Tobi is too tall (chapter 503. page 9). Tobi was shown to be adult sized when he fought Minato, chapter 503 page 5. But on page 9, Kakashi, Gai, Asuma and Kurenai are all shown to be much shorter as they are going through adolescence. Obito would have been around that size and is therefore too short to be Tobi. Plothole Number 6: Minato wouldve figured it out. (chapter 500-504). If Tobi was really Obito, then Minato would have figured it out when they were fighting each other. Obito was Minatos own student and would have recognized him, but he didnt. Plothole Number 7: This is HIS doing (chapter 560. page 2). "This is HIS doing." That means Madara knows exactly who Tobi is, but there is no way Madara. could have worked with Obito because Madara had died already. We know this because by the time Nagato gets Madara's Rinnegan from Tobi, Madara is officially dead - "I awakened these eyes. shortly before my death." (chapter 560 page 15). This is important because Nagato is older than Minato, and Minato is older than Obito. Plothole Number 8: Hashirama Comparison (chapter. 462 page 14). Tobi says to Naruto "I can see the first Hokage in you." To make that type of comparison Tobi must have known what Hashirama was like as a person. Problem is, Hashirama was dead before Obito was born. Plothole Number 9: During Our Battle (chapter 512. page 9). "This is something I grew from living tissue I stole from him during our battle." Kabuto already revealed the Madara coffin so there was no reason for Tobi to keep lying. So if Tobi actually had a fight with Hashirama there is no way he could be Obito. Plothole Number 10: Too Much Knowledge. It is impossible for Obito to know so much about the bloody history between the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan before Konoha was even established as a shinobi village. Tobi has to be someone from that generation. It is also impossible for Obito to know so much about Rikudou Sennin, his sons, the Bijuu, and the Juubi. AND IN MY OPINION, THE BIGGEST PLOTHOLE OF THEM ALL. Plothole Number 11: Nagato is much older than Obito. Why is this important? Because Tobi GAVE Nagato the Rinnegan. In other words, it is impossible for Obito to have given kid Nagato the Rinnegan because Obito is much younger than Nagato. (allanime note: You know what character meets and greets all this? Tobimara Senju Last edited by allanime01 : 09-05-2012 at 05:10 AM. Reason: Title change because Kishimoto is a horrible writer |
Another reason why it could be Tobirama Senju. Tobirama and the 2nd Raikage formed an alliance, however, Kinkaku and Ginkaku attempted a coup d'etat and left him near dead. Kinkaku and Ginkaku were sent to capture the Nine Tails but were eaten and gained some of his powers instead. Later on Tobirama was seen surrounded by twenty Cloud elite ninja known as the Kinkaku Force. Tobirama volunteered himself to be a decoy while the rest of his squadron escaped.
Is it not possible that during the coup d'etat Tobirama actually plotted with Kinkaku and Ginkaku? Sometime after that, the Kinkaku Force, lead by Kinkaku possibly, "defeated" Tobirama. Is it not possible this was the plot planned with Kinkaku and Ginkaku before? He created Edo Tensei which he could revive the Uchiha for his purposes. Now this is because he plotted the Uchiha massacre from the beginning. With them dead, he could revive them for his own methods. With Tobirama considered dead, no one would suspect him. Also, Tobirama before his real death, could have plotted with Orochimaru, teaching him Edo Tensei. Then, he could have plotted for/known Orochimaru to revive him. Since he is the original creator, he must have known how to severe the control over his soul. There are also many other parts of the theory that can be deciphered later on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It could also be a member of the Sarutobi Clan, more specifically Sasuke Sarutobi. The Sarutobi clan is known for high-level techniques, according to Naruto Wikia, but this is justified through Hiruzen's Jutsu, Konohamaru using Rasengan young, and Asuma to some extent. Sasuke Sarutobi was renowned as a great ninja, so great Sasuke Uchiha was named after him. Now, theory time. Though the Sarutobi aren't exactly the founders of the Leaf, they are a great contributor to it. If I recall correctly, the Leaf had a certain hatred toward the Uchiha, going as far to keep them under watch. Now we know the 3rd was against this hatred. When he fought Orochimaru, I don't remember if this was disproved already, but it might be possible that the 3rd coffin was in fact Hiruzen's father Sasuke. Forgive me for this "similar name theory", rather this "congruent name theory", but Sasuke UCHIHA might share a name with Sasuke SARUTOBI for a reason other than desired greatness. This would be the ultimate plot if you think about it. Antagonizing the Uchiha clan when the real enemy is a Sarutobi clansman. Now how has Sasuke Sarutobi lived so long? Is it impossible that he used methods of revival similar to Orochimaru? Edo Tensei has 3 users so far. Kabuto, Orochimaru, and its creator, Tobirama Senju, otherwise known as the Second Hokage. Before we continue with the rest of the theory, let's explain Tobirama a little further. Tobirama created many functions of the village. These include the Ninja Academy, Chunin Exams, and more importantly, the ANBU and Leaf Police Force. Why are these two important? The 4th Raikage stated that Danzo and Akatsuki might have plotted 3rd's assassination. This might be a stretch considering Danzo has control of ANBU Root rather than Anbu. But it is something to consider. As for the LPF, it was suggested by Tobi himself that it was a method to distance the Leaf from the Uchiha rather than a gift of good will. He also was the leader of the 3rd and the his two advisor's squad. Anyway, back to the theory. Sasuke Sarutobi was a great shinobi, the father of the Third Hokage, and equally important: alive during the reign of the 2nd Hokage. Now it can be gathered from the Sarutobi clan members that they are devotees of the Will of Fire and believe strongly in the teachings of the Senju, specifically the 1st Hokage. It's possible that Sasuke Sarutobi believed in his teachings so much that he despised the Uchiha to a greater extent. Now, it is valid to say that Sasuke Sarutobi has great influence in the village, enough to have Tobirama use Edo Tensei on his dead body and then severe his control from it. Sasuke Sarutobi, with his "immortality" could have learned Edo Tensei. He would then portray an Uchiha, specifically Madara, and release the Nine Tails to attack the Leaf, putting blame on the Uchiha further. Now with that done, he would later on, with help from someone else, maybe Danzo, spark the plan to assassinate the Uchiha. Posing as Madara still, he would assist Itachi. With these dead bodies, he could revive them for their powers and also to frame the Uchiha further, something along these lines. Somewhere in the mix he would want to control the world or something and thus have it so Itachi didn't have to kill Sasuke. With Itachi and Sasuke alive, there could always be blame on the Uchiha as long as they lived, that's why he assisted Sasuke so much. tl;dr: Sasuke Sarutobi could be Tobi. |
don't get me wrong, im not saying it makes the most sense ever, I'm with you. him going from worst uchiha ever to being able to not instantly get roflpwned by ANBU and minato and being able to summon and control kurama out there. but its far from "not feasible". Quote:
hopefully he is possessed or brainwashed or something. but if kishimoto has proven one thing, its that he doesnt deserve our benefit of the doubt. Quote:
while i do agree, there is still a problem with that, in that wordings like that are...subjective. sure it could be that he's been waiting 10 20 30+ years...but when you want something really bad, every second can be excruciating. if he had been wanting to do this for even a couple of years. sitting, waiting. hoping for his chance to come...i could still see him saying that. Quote:
doesnt mean there arent potential holes. the holes arent big, but hey, kishimoto, again, is terrible so i feel like i should say them anyway. for starters, minato trained obito. kushina is married to minato. chances are, obito met kushina. meaning that, in a weird way, kurama has met obito. or knew of him, i should say. also IIRC tobi didnt take his mask off or anything so unless, assuming he is really old, he was always going around in that mask...kurama was just assuming things. and since the only known people to have controlled him are the sage, hashirama, and madara, and considering of those 3 only 1 has sharingan, he may have simply came to the conclusion it was madara. also, assuming this is someone possessing obito's body, unless he prefers rotting corpses, I'd assume this guy got to obito's body relatively soon after his death (or "death" i should say) in kakashi gaiden. meaning he would have been in obito's body at the time. meaning kurama recognized obito's body if anything. Quote:
also, people get effected by puberty differently. its not impossible obito had a massive growth spurt. I'd be much more inclined to be with you on this one had kishimoto not taken a massive dump on character ages recently. Quote:
pretty weak this time. minato isnt psychic nor has he been shown to be able to sense chakra or anything like that. how was he supposed to recognize him when his face fighting style and personality are completely different and he isnt capable of sensing chakra. Quote:
indeed it makes no sense for madara to know obito and now it being obito will require madara to have been talking about someone else (not impossible but shifty as heck) or for kishimoto to pull off the worst writing ever and somehow make obito know madara Quote:
-at the time tobi was still going by madara. that technically could have just been him saying things -perhaps it didnt translate well and what he was basically doing was comparing naruto to hashiramas ideals and the like. basically comparing him to textbook type stuff. a long shot but not as long as the previous one Quote:
I didn't even connect the 12 cloud elite > Kinkaku + Ginkaku combat squad > Tobimara was a double agent.
on the possibility of teaching Orochi the technique, He ALSO must know the seal (The one that kept Madara around even though Edo Tensei is gone.) So after he died, when Third was versing the First and Second, he did the proper seal to stay around despite the technique being over and sometime in the battle slipped through the 4 sound ninjas barrier leaving a substitute behind. From there, he continued planning. Probably setting the wheels for the "Moons Eye Plan" into motion via Akatsuki. Also, good theory on Sasuke Sarutobi. That whole thing never crossed my mind. Everyone assumes that the third coffin was the 4th hokage, but Orochi couldn't summon the 4th. The 4th was reaper death sealed into Naruto and the Fox after all. It very easily could have been Sasuke Sarutobi (Oh man, even the nickname "Tobi" comes from there) In short it's going to come to this: If Kishi tries to spin some story making Obito Tobi, bad writer. If it's all over Rin, then he is no better than Stephanie Meyer If he makes it anyone else (even not one of the totally plausible 2 explained above) and they simply somehow stole/possessed Obito's body, better. How good depends on what happens (That Sasuke theory above is brilliant as hell) |
the question now is...why obito. cuz im still really not feeling the because he was super weak he needed a super weak body excuse.
*gasp* edo tensei. tobirama could be controlling obito from afar in secret but why obito >_>. as kabuto proved with this war, there were dozens of better options. wait wait wait tobirama is sealed up by the god of death after that orochimaru vs hiruzen incident. |
Sorry allanime, but I can find holes in your plot holes. Some of them are legit, but others are stretching and others are just unlikely.
If it is to be Sasuke Sarutobi, he would have needed to collaborate with Tobirama Senju like I stated before. Tobi is in both names so it is easy to see where it is from. Also, I believe Tobi means "jump". How this affects the identity of the character I do not know other than maybe the ability to "jump" time/bodies.
As I stated before, having it be Sasuke Sarutobi would be the ultimate ending to the series, or at least this arc. It would be a complete 360. |
then please do, because the legit ones seem...pretty legit.
Well go on? All it takes is a single piece of evidence to disprove something.
As for "why obito's body"
its possible he/they (maybe tobirama AND sasuke?) simply needed an uchiha for...whatever reason, maybe MJM's idea of wanting the uchiha to be hated or whatever. whether he's being possessed or whether this is edo tensei or why him? even if they needed an uchiha, they took obito's body during a war. i doubt obito was the only uchiha that died, if he was then...wow. perhaps, if possession and not edo tensei, they needed him to be alive and the other uchiha died too quickly so they couldn't get to them? hmm it being obito's body just seems weird. i guess its possible this is a collaborated effort and obito is, like, the 3rd tobi. whether or not the others are still around remains to be seen, assuming more than one. but they could have found him and manipulated him or brainwashed him or something to make him hate the leaf. though this requires tem to basically be making a club for people named or who's name can potentially form "tobi" which is dumb as heck. the only reason i even entertain that thought is because it seems both plausible and stupid, and i still don't have much faith in kishimoto. thats really the question I have. why obito. at the very least this is clearly obito's body or form. if not possession and its, i dunno, some form of transformation, why? to throw off kakashi? why do that JUST for kakashi. no, transformation seems unlikely since theres little reason to take obito's form. its definitely his body. but WHY??? |
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Tyra Banks grew up in Inglewood, California. While a student at Immaculate Heart High School, Tyra was often made fun of because of her height and weight, a story shared by many incredibly tall, thin people. Sigh. Tyra began her modeling career in Europe and evolved into a world-renowned supermodel who has become a pioneer in the industry. She was the first African-American woman to grace the covers of GQ, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and the Victoria's Secret catalog. You might be thinking, "Really, that's it? No Felicity appearances?" Hang on. We're getting there.
Tyra began her television career as an actress with recurring roles in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Felicity. Happy now? While most people would think, "I've peaked," Tyra continued on to film. She starred in the Disney made-for-television movie, Life-Size, and had leading roles in John Singleton's Higher Learning and Jerry Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly. While most people would think "I've peaked," she also spearheaded two hit television shows, The Tyra Banks Show, and America's Next Top Model. Before retiring from modeling in 2005, she had the following restrictions: No frontal nudity, no birds, no cats, no fish, no cigarettes, and no alcohol. It's a good thing she said something, because situations involving all of those things come up very frequently.
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― adam (adam), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:44 (7 years ago) Permalink
I'm also getting married in N.O. sometime within the next year!
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:46 (7 years ago) Permalink
― adam (adam), Saturday, 17 December 2005 23:06 (7 years ago) Permalink
The Nation magazine has several articles on serious New Orleans stuff:
Here's an excerpt from Ari Kelman's "In the Shadow of Disaster":
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060102/kelman"Craig Colten, a Louisiana State University geographer, agrees. He insists low-lying parts of the city shouldn't be rebuilt. His proposal is extremely controversial, with displaced residents understandably invoking their "right of return" and with most members of the reconstruction committees reluctant to reintegrate wetlands into the city after Mayor Nagin got burned for suggesting that the Ninth Ward might not be rebuilt. But Colten still believes that part of the backswamp should ooze into selected low-lying areas. An equitable method, he believes, would be to "take land from many neighborhoods--Lakefront, Ninth Ward, Gentilly--and relocate rich, poor, middle class to denser settlement on higher ground." Colten's "new New Orleans," then, would resemble the old New Orleans--from an era before wetlands vanished. It would also touch off battles over whose neighborhoods should be abandoned."
― Curmudgeon Steve (Steve K), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:33 (7 years ago) Permalink
OffBeat Magazine [email@example.com]
"L. J. Goldstein, New Orleans attorney, photographer and founder of the infamous Krewe de Jieux, has organized a Honakkah Second Line on Thursday December 22 beginning at 6 p.m. at Spanish Plaza (Riverwalk) proceeding to Jackson Square. The Reunion Klezmer Band will perform, the first time the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars and former clarinetist Ben Schenk have played together since Schenk left the band."
― Curmudgeon Steve, Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:20 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:23 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:26 (7 years ago) Permalink
GONE...BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Hurricane Katrina has taken more from us than our homes, neighborhoods and businesses. We're profoundly sorry to report that these wonderful members of our music community have passed on within the last week.
Brian O'Neill1955-2005Composer, arranger, vocalist, pianist and Bonerama trombonist, Brian O'Neill passed away suddenly after suffering an apparent heart attack while on a solo gig in New Orleans O'Neill was noted for his work with Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders in the '70s as well as being a mainstay of the popular New Orleans R&B vocalist Luther Kent's band "Trick Bag" for the past 25 years. As a freelance trombonist O'Neill was one of the most frequently-called trombonists in New Orleans. O'Neill penned the most recent "Bone Up" from the Bonerama's Live From New York. O'Neill appeared in countless sit-ins with the Bonerama horns including appearances with Gov't Mule and the Radiators. Fellow Bonerama trombonist Mark Mullins recalls, "I met Brian on a gig at a Mardi Gras parade 21 years ago and after the first song I realized that is what I wanted to sound like. To have him in the Bonerama band was just a constant inspiration on both a personal and musical level. There was so much he had not had a chance to say yet."
Stevenson Palfi1952-2005The director of Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together, a documentary that presented New Orleans legends Allen Toussaint, Tuts Washington and Professor Longhair playing together in the studio, was found dead of a gunshot wound in in New Orleans. Palfi had lost much in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; his Mid-City home was severely flooded, and reportedly was very depressed over the loss of his home and life's work. Palfi was staying with his ex- wife at the time. Reportedly he left a suicide note. Palfi is survived by his daughter, Nell."His seminal work was non-pareil as a rare, timely and brilliant piece of documentary film-making. Henry Roeland Byrd, a.k.a. Professor Longhair, died during the filming of this work. Stevenson had the foresight to capture the entire second line celebration of Fess' life and death." said Justin Zitler, attorney for SongByrd Inc., the Professor Longhair estate. Informed of Palfi's death, Allen Toussaint said, "My friend Stevenson Palfi's life's work was immortalizing others and in so doing, he has immortalized himself. His work will outlast all of us."
Stevenson Palfi will be honored with a tribute this year at OffBeat's Best of The Beat Awards on January 21 at the House of Blues.
― DC Steve (DC Steve), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:35 (7 years ago) Permalink
The New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund is proud to sponsor the Social Aid & Pleasure Club All- Star Second Line on Sunday January 15, 2006. For the first time ever, a coalition of 27 Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs will march together through the streets of New Orleans to call attention to their needs and role in renewing the city. The Second Line begins at the Backstreet Cultural Museum at 1116 St. Claude Avenue in Treme at 11:30 a.m. and ends uptown at Washington Avenue and South Saratoga at about 4 p.m.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:46 (7 years ago) Permalink
My band will be going down around Mardi Gras, and just before that playing a concert for NOLA relocatees in Chicago.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
By GARY RIVLINPublished: January 11, 2006NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10 - The commission devising a blueprint to reconstruct the city will propose on Wednesday . . . the creation of a new jazz district downtown. . . . The jazz district would be in the old Storyville section, north of the French Quarter, an idea championed by the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, a member of the commission and the co-chairman of its culture committee."
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:34 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:13 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:39 (7 years ago) Permalink
The New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity covers Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard parishes, and is in the "embryonic" stages of adding Plaquemines Parish. Pate said it hopes to build 250 to 500 houses in the four parishes, and possibly as many as 200 in the musicians' village."
Is this the "musician's village"?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:41 (7 years ago) Permalink
Here's an excerpt from the L.A. Times re Wynton's project:
"To accelerate the process, Nagin's commission is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to release updated floodplain maps which effectively could make the decision for many homeowners by raising home insurance rates and setting other new financial barriers to redevelopment.
A subcommittee is proposing a new jazz district near the French Quarter at the former location of Storyville, a fabled district of musicians and houses of ill-repute at the turn of the last century.
It later fell into disrepair and was demolished. The idea to re-create a cleaned-up version of Storyville, which gave rise to musical legends including Jelly Roll Morton, is being championed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis."
Cleaned up and recreated early 20th century bordellos in WyntonMarsalis-land! Ugh. Putting Wynton on the committee may help kill New Orleans music rather then help it.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:12 (7 years ago) Permalink
Btw, I'm going to be down for four days during the last weekend of Mardi Gras, for a gig at Donna's and just to check things out.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:22 (7 years ago) Permalink
"On Saturday, January 21, 2006, OffBeat presents "The Best of the Beat Awards," its annual celebration of the best of New Orleans' music at the House of Blues, 225 Decatur Street. The Best of The Beat starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 2 a.m.
This year, OffBeat recognizes R&B legends Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas with Lifetime Achievement in Music awards. Toussaint is the influential songwriter and producer of some of the city's signature records, as well as a performer in his own right. Thomas is the voice of such classics as "Wish Someone Would Care," "It's Raining" and "Breakaway." Also honored are Wanda Rouzan for Lifetime Achievement in Music Education, "Uncle" Lionel Battiste of the Treme Brass Band, who receives this year's Heartbeat Award, and George and Nina Buck (GHB Records and the Palm Court Jazz Café), for the Lifetime Achievement Award in Business.
The Best of The Beat will also include a tribute to the late music documentarian, Stevenson Palfi.
7:00: John Autin
7:45: Morning 40 Federation
8:30: Awards with Stevenson Palfi Tribute
9:15: Papa Grows Funk with Anders Osborne and Tim Green
10:00: Davis Rogan
10:30: Fred LeBlanc and Paul Sanchez of Cowboy Mouth
11:15: Theresa Andersson with members of World Leader Pretend
12:00: James Andrews with Shannon Powell
12:45: Walter "Wolfman" Washington
1:30: New Orleans Live Animals
7:15: Coco Robicheaux
8:00: New Orleans Jazz Vipers
9:30: Quintron with C.C. Adcock
10:15: Ingrid Lucia
11:00: Michael Hurtt & His Haunted Hearts
11:45: White Bitch
12:30: Shannon McNally
1:15: Ghost"
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:57 (7 years ago) Permalink
I'm heading down too, in time for the night of Feb. 23.
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:47 (7 years ago) Permalink
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:02 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:05 (7 years ago) Permalink
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:09 (7 years ago) Permalink
After Katrina, the Jazzman Plays On
By Anne HullWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, January 30, 2006; A02
NEW ORLEANS -- Peter Badie is in the kitchen, rummaging around in a drawer for a spoon. This isn't his kitchen. His kitchen was filled with 10 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina and likely awaits the wrecking ball. The 80-year-old jazz musician is homeless and temporarily living in a spare bedroom of a Creole cottage here in the Faubourg Marigny section of town. This is Sue Hall's kitchen.
"Sue Hall, where is that big pan?" Badie calls out.
"Peter, it's where you left it," says the voice from the other room.
Horns and clarinets drift from speakers above. Badie catches sight of his black sunglasses on the counter. He snatches them up and slips them into his shirt pocket, mindful of being a neat houseguest. "Sue Hall, I've got some fish cakes out here."
The hurricane has forced all sorts of unexpected arrangements, and Badie and Hall are just one unlikely Odd Couple living in the aftermath. Badie is an accomplished acoustic bass player who has toured with Lionel Hampton. Hall booked bands at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe. When she heard that Badie lost his home in the Lower Ninth Ward, she offered him a place to stay.
Hall has red hair and pearly skin. She was born in Kankakee, Ill. Chili pepper lights hang in her kitchen; Southern folk art and pink flamingos abound. In the middle of this bright whimsy is Badie, an austere modern jazzman, as cool as midnight itself, dealing with his homelessness, anger and unsure future.
This is life in New Orleans now: tenuous, with strange forgings and new beginnings. No one is saying how long the arrangement will last.
Badie -- known as "Chuck" -- has a salt-and-pepper soul patch. He is a widower and devout Catholic. His routine is simple. He rises mid-morning, says his prayers and then emerges from his borrowed room and makes a pot of grits. He is immensely proud, almost to the point of defiance. He recently returned a $4,000 check that the musicians union sent him by mistake.
At Hall's kitchen table, he reads the New Orleans Times-Picayune from cover to cover. "They say New Orleans will be back," Badie says. "Not for me it won't. I'm 80 years old."
Badie was born in 1925 in the Black Pearl section of Uptown in New Orleans. His father was a jazz saxophonist with the Eureka and Olympia brass bands. Badie didn't pick up music until he got out of the Navy in 1945 and used the GI Bill to enroll at the Grunewald School of Music in New Orleans, a beacon of progressivism in a city cleaved by race. "Whites were on the first floor and blacks were on the second floor; to me, that's integrated," Badie says.
Zoot Sims, Dizzy Gillespie -- Badie played with the best of them. Along with other black musicians, he helped found the A.F.O. (All For One) record label in 1961. But musicians were paid so little that Badie worked as a lunch waiter at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter for 15 years, making $500 a week, five times what he earned playing music.
Before the hurricane, he had a standing gig at the Palm Court, and he rolled up in style: punctual, a pressed shirt and a 1979 black Cadillac roomy enough to carry his bass in the back seat. He lived alone at his house on North Johnson Street. Other musicians die in rental apartments, but Badie had his house.
Now he sits in Hall's kitchen, holding a letter from his homeowner's insurance company, typed with the words "No Compensation."
"Not one quarter," he says, smoldering.
Five months after the storm, Badie still drives to his house every day and stares at it. The mysteries of his losses plague him. "I had six suits," he says. "I'm talking about suits. Not that mix-'n'-match jive. Six suits. Now, where did they go?"
He was wise enough to store his two basses on the second floor of the Palm Court before the storm, saving them from ruin. He momentarily forgets his troubles when describing his 1946 Epiphone. "It's got a sound, baby, you can hear around the corner," he says. "People said, 'Chuck, don't ever sell it.' Cats would snap it up in a second. I did a lot of records with that." "The Man I Love," "A Change Is Gonna Come." One of the basses is stretched out across Hall's living room. Who knows where it will finally rest. Badie has been looking into the Habitat for Humanity "musicians' village" that singer Harry Connick Jr. and saxophone player Branford Marsalis are trying to create for Louisiana musicians left homeless by the storm.
For now, this pink cottage is home. Badie shows his appreciation by cooking: breaded pork chops, cabbage, neck bones, turnips and carrots, and oyster dressing. "Oyster dressing?" Badie says. "Oh, that will kick you. See, I re-boil them crawfish heads and get that stock ."
The phone rings again, and Hall comes into the kitchen. She's been trying to find a trombonist for a gig. The hurricane scattered New Orleans jazz musicians across the country; two-thirds have still not returned. "I must have called 10 trombone players," Hall says.
Badie frets over what to wear to the gig. His suits are gone. He goes into his bedroom to make a call about finding a new white shirt.
Hall drops her voice and whispers, "He's old school, the last of a generation. A man of integrity."
When Badie takes his place on stage at the Palm Court the next night, he reveals nothing of his troubles. The club owner introduces the musicians. "Mr. Chuck Badie has lost his home," she tells the crowd. Badie's eyes are hidden behind his dark shades. Someone counts off a beat, and the band sets off, with Badie plucking fiercely to the end.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:51 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:31 (7 years ago) Permalink
Oh, here's an article from Billboard--
Sad reality sinks in for New Orleans music scene
By Todd Martens Sun Feb 5, 5:44 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Like nearly every house in New Orleans, Bethany Bultman's home has holes in its roof. Buckets to catch rainwater surround her desk, and she is hesitant to go out at night. Much of her neighborhood is still completely without power.
She is one of the lucky ones. Leaky roof aside, her house suffered little damage, and she has a second one in Massachusetts, a world away from the devastation Hurricane Katrina inflicted last August. Bultman admits to missing her Cape Cod getaway, but she cannot bring herself to abandon New Orleans. There would be the guilt of leaving behind the city and those who are suffering, but more important, there are checks to write.
Bultman inscribes upwards of 70 per week, each for $100, each given to a New Orleans musician. To date, her efforts have been funded largely by donations from Pearl Jam and nonprofit organization Jazz Aspen Snowmass; she recently was promised $250,000 from MusiCares, the Recording Academy's charitable arm.
The checks Bultman writes are allocated only to those who work, which these days in New Orleans can mean performing at a club in front of a handful of FEMA workers.
On many nights, money from the door is minimal or nonexistent. Bultman hopes her $100 subsidy is enough to dissuade someone from taking a gig in another city. If instruments and artifacts from the city's musical heritage were washed away, then New Orleans' soul -- the musicians who define it -- must stay.
"As the time wore on," Bultman says, "more and more musicians who were dumped all over the country wanted to come back. We soon realized that this is really about giving people instruments and giving people hope, and that's when we started paying the gig fees."
Two months ago, Bultman, a writer/historian and the co-founder of the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic, was urging displaced musicians to return to the city. She started the clinic with her husband in 1998 with the assistance of Dr. Jack B. McConnell, the developer of Tylenol tablets whose son, Page, played keyboards for the band Phish. With a mix of pride and a dedication to preserving a music culture that she says "percolates out of the ground," Bultman hoped all New Orleans' evacuees would soon be returning.
Reality, however, soon sunk in, and now she is not so sure. "The goal was to get everyone we could get back to New Orleans," she says. "Now that we're back, we've moved away from that. We've moved away from the fantasy that everything would go back to the way it was. New Orleans is just not a healthy place for everyone to come to."
Eight of the city's ZIP codes are still without full power, according to the January 24 status report from the mayor's office. The area affected most by Katrina -- the Ninth Ward -- remains under curfew, and 911 emergency availability is scattered. Few hospitals are open, and the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic, which had free use of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, has lost such privileges, as much of the facility needs extensive repairs.
And for many, life was not all that great before Katrina. One in four of the city's residents lived below the poverty line, and a great number of its working musicians relied on a steady influx of tourists.
Bultman stays in touch with the national organizations providing relief to New Orleans musicians, including MusiCares, which announced its pledge in support of her efforts January 25.
She is heartened by the outpouring of generosity of her top donors and has nothing but praise for MusiCares. But five months after Katrina, Bultman feels that little has been accomplished. Nearly all of the 200 musicians she helps lack a place to live. She worries the situation will only get worse with a dearth of health care and tries to communicate to the national associations that the effort to restore the music community in New Orleans is one that will take years -- and one that will happen one saxophone at a time.
Pianist Joe Krown was playing 12 gigs per week prior to Katrina. His wife, who worked at Tulane University Hospital, was laid off after the hurricane. He filled out the paperwork for nearly every charity dedicated to helping musicians.
"I have a mortgage and a rent and no income, and before I said anything more to a couple of them, there was a check in the mail," Krown says. "That happened with MusiCares and the Musicians' Clinic and the Jazz Foundation."
He also benefited from the New Orleans Musicians' Relief Fund, which was started by one-time dB's member Jeff Beninato and his wife, Karen. Along with Chicago rock group Wilco, the couple brought Krown and such musicians as Leroy Jones, George French, Craig Klein and Cranston Clements to Chicago for a benefit show that raised more than $100,000.
Beninato says he started the charity two days after Katrina hit New Orleans, and a few days after that he heard from MusiCares. He began working with the national organization, providing names of musicians he knew were still in New Orleans.
Beninato is re-outfitting the New Wave Brass Band, hoping to get the big band in marching form for Mardi Gras. Providing instruments for working New Orleans musicians has become a group effort, and MusiCares is at the forefront. Wick says the charity has helped more than 600 musicians get new instruments, and he says MusiCares receives between 30 and 80 applications per day.
MusiCares has partnered with Gibson and the Guitar Center chain and launched its Music Rising replacement initiative in New Orleans with U2's the Edge. While an unknown number of musicians still need a place to live, they need the instruments to make a living.
Krown, for one, says he was able to replace some equipment thanks to MusiCares, and the program has made it easier for him to be self-sufficient. "It was starting to feel like I was begging, and I have too much pride for that," Krown says.
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:27 (7 years ago) Permalink
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
― adam (adam), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:15 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:16 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:17 (7 years ago) Permalink
Actually, I'm happy just to see the names of all those locals returning to the Fest, but yeah, the headliners: could Quint be any more lame than re-booking Dave Matthews and Jimmy Buffett?
And Mama Digdown's at Donna's warms my heart. God, I love that place.
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:28 (7 years ago) Permalink
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:32 (7 years ago) Permalink
But at least the crowds won't be so overwhelming this year.
― p.j. (Henry), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:37 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:42 (7 years ago) Permalink
Way back when they also used to bring in some out-of-town jazz, and have more local jazz. I wonder if the Essence Fest is going to come back to New Orleans? It was never that imaginatively booked--smooth jazz, big name old-school funk, soul and rap for buppies; but I always thought that Quint should at least try to reach a little of that audience as well (but with cleverly chosen acts that would appeal to that demographic).
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:52 (7 years ago) Permalink
Quint doesn't care about the obscurities who play Ponderosa Stomp; Guitar Gable on the roster isn't gonna bring in very many additional people, while Buffett still attracts HORDES of Parrotheads. Phil Phillips singing "Sea of Love" last year brought tears to my eyes, partly because I couldn't believe it was the first time he's been asked to perform there. Authentic stuff like that is a blip on the JF schedule, and I feel like every time a soul legend like Johnnie Taylor passes away without playing Jazzfest, while Little Feat does AGAIN, it's just another thing Quint's gonna have to answer for at the pearly gates.
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:44 (7 years ago) Permalink
― adam (adam), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:02 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:27 (7 years ago) Permalink
The local musicians who are involved are stuck with playing up to Quint--since he's the only game in town. It's frightening that until a corporate sponsor stepped in, there was nearly gonna be no brass bands --check out this quote from Keith Spera'a article:
"Jazzfest also announced a partnership with American Express. The company will promote various local acts and sponsor the Jazz & Heritage Stage, which debuted at the 2005 festival with a lineup of brass bands and Mardi Gras Indians. Budget constraints would have forced the festival to drop the stage had AmEx not stepped in, Davis said."
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:37 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:40 (7 years ago) Permalink
Anyone who's down the week before should check out the French Quarter Festival which is in many ways what JF should be. Free, all-local on a couple stages spread throughout the French Quarter. The food from the many stands (run by local restaurants etc) maxes out at $4. When I worked at the Aquarium lunch was the greatest thing in the world during the FQF: walk outside, get some food and a beer and watch the Nightcrawlers or Rebirth for an hour.
― adam (adam), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:05 (7 years ago) Permalink
Ha ha. Funny how "shit" transposed to "hits."
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:56 (7 years ago) Permalink
Tanio and Fat Man have been in Germany for the past few weeks. Glen David got in some mess here and had to leave town -- something about a woman, I was told.
Last night's line-up was a kit drummer (who did a pretty good job by the way), Kenny Terry, Corey Henry, Kerwin and a trombonist I didn't recognize. And the McNeil NewsHour had a crew there -- they shot footage all night long. The reporter told me he was working on a documentary about Reggie Houston, who was living in Portland pre-Katrina and will be returning to NOLA for the first time during JazzFest.
Also, there are strong, believable rumors that a New Orleans bar/social club will be opening near downtown here. A famous NOLA musician is involved, but I can't say who right now. I should be going public with it in a week or two.
Meanwhile, the tension between the exiles and the locals is growing. New Orleanians are now the boogie man here -- they're getting blamed for everything scary about Houston. It would be funny if it weren't so sad -- after all, we've been Murder Capital USA for several years running in the not too distant past, but people here are acting like "those people" have come in here and despoiled Eden.
Things reached fever pitch a couple of weeks ago when a teenaged girl claimed she was snatched off the street in broad daylight and gangraped for 12 hours by three guys who she said had New Orleans accents. Houston's Third Ward was aboil for about 72 hours, until the girl finally confessed she made the whole thing up. In fact, she had run off and had consensual sex with a guy she met on myspace.
― novamax (novamax), Thursday, 16 February 2006 22:23 (7 years ago) Permalink
― adam (adam), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:15 (7 years ago) Permalink
Fifth Annual Ponderosa StompMay 8th, 9th and 10th, 2006, at the Gibson Factory, Memphis Tennessee THREE-DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL WILL BENEFIT NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS VICTIMIZED BY HURRICANE KATRINA
From 5 P.M. till 2 A.M Nightly, Admission $40 per Night Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Blues, Soul, Rockabilly, Swamp Pop and New Orleans R&B
ArtistsArch Hall, JR, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Joe Clay, Jay Chevalier, Rebirth Brass Band, Willie Tee, Eddie Bo, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Rockie Charles, Tammy Lynn, Alvis Wayne, Warren Storm, Lazy Lester, The Bad Roads, Barbara Lynn, Roy Head, Lil Buck Sinegal, Archie Bell, Scotty Moore, DJ Fontana, Sonny Burgess, Hayden Thompson, Ace Cannon, Hi Rhythm Section, Travis Wammack, Willie Cobbs, Kenny Brown, The Bo Keys, The Nightcaps, Kenny & the Kasuals, ? & the Mysterians, Lady Bo, Billy Boy Arnold, Jody Williams, Deke Dickerson & the Eccofonics, Johnny Jones, Chick Willis, Little Freddie King, James Blood Ulmer, Betty Harris, Dale Hawkins, Dennis Coffey, William Bell, Fillmore Slim, The Tennessee Three featuting W.S. Holland and Bob Wootten, Wiley and the Checkmates, Syl Johnson, Herb Remington, The Fabulous Wailers, Bobby Patterson, The Climates, Carl Mann, Rayburn Anthony, Big George Brock, Henry Gray, Matt Lucas, The Rockabilly Country Band, Sleepy Labeef and Jumpin Gene Simmons.more to come . . . .
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Saturday, 18 February 2006 20:46 (7 years ago) Permalink
― adam (adam), Saturday, 18 February 2006 21:18 (7 years ago) Permalink
Oh, here's what they posted back in December on their message board--
Posted by: senor chubba This is a temporary move strictly for this one gig. We are producing other shows in New Orleans now for 05 and 06. Keep in mind final plans for the stomp happen in August and September -and the hotel and travel situation in New Orleans is not so good. Residents who were flooded cannot find rooms to stay while they repair their homes. The stomp happens during jazzfest week- what little rooms are beginning to be available will probably be gobbled up. Flights are scarce. Most of the stomps audience comes in from out of town- we have to have rooms available. This year's stomp is a benefit for New Orleans musicians - we feel we can have the greatest impact in terms of helping by producing the show elsewhere for this year. This was not an easy decision. Please check our show schedule as we will be adding shows for New Orleans in early 2005. We live and work in New Orleans - and we are committed to doing everything we can- however, the stomp is first and foremost about the helping musicians."
They're doing a one night thing at the South by Southwest Fest in Austin shortly as well I see--"Ponderosa Stomp Gulf Coast Revue at SXSWFriday, March 17, 2006Continental Club in Austin, Texas
The luck of the irish will be needed as Mystic Knights of the Mau Mau invade SXSW. the Knights will be bringing a special Ponderosa Stomp Gulf Coast Revue to the Continental Club in Austin, Texas. Featured performers will include, Eddie Bo, Al Carnival Time Johnson, Tommmy McClain, Roy Head, Barbara Lynn, Warren Storm, Classie Ballou, Archie Bell, Lil Buck Sinegal, Lil Band O'Gold, The Bad Roads and Zakary Thaks will appear. Lastly, special guest will be Shreveport native DJ Fontana."
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February 27, 2006Critic's NotebookIn the Music of New Orleans, Katrina Leaves Angry Edge By JON PARELES, N.Y. TimesNEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26 — The beat was crisp New Orleans funk, thumping to keep the crowd dancing at the uptown club Tipitina's. The band onstage, Dumpstaphunk, was led by Ivan Neville, the son of Aaron Neville and a member of New Orleans's first family of rhythm and blues.
Like many top New Orleans musicians, he was back in town for a club date on the weekend before Mardi Gras, when so many local musicians returned to the city's clubs that it almost seemed they had never gone away.
In this city that holds so many roots of American song, music is more than entertainment. It's a ritual and a lifeline.
On the surface of the music scene here, much was familiar. More than 80 nightclubs offered live music, perhaps two-thirds the number before Hurricane Katrina. The clubs in the French Quarter and uptown, in neighborhoods spared major flood damage, were booked with New Orleans all-stars: funk bands like the Radiators and Galactic, brass bands like the Rebirth Brass Band and the Soul Rebels, jazz musicians like Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty.
They're still playing New Orleans standards as the drinks flow. But there's a changed spirit: the tenacity of holding together bands whose members have been scattered and the determination to maintain the New Orleans style. And in new songs, an open anger coexists with the old good-time New Orleans tone. Over a funk beat, Mr. Neville had something to say.
"Talkin' to the powers that be!" he declaimed like a preacher. "A lot of people got disenfranchised, displaced, and now we got a lot of distrust." He moved into a song built on the local greeting "Where y'at?" But one verse listed whereabouts of displaced New Orleanians: "Where y'at? Texas! Mississippi!" Another asked the federal government: "Where y'at, when we really needed you?"
In the 21st century, the most commercial New Orleans music has been hip-hop. Juvenile, a New Orleans rapper, has spent most of his career doing gangta boasts. But he has just released the single "Get Ya Hustle On," with a video clip shot in the ruins of the Ninth Ward.
It shows children in masks of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the city's mayor, C. Ray Nagin, wandering through the wreckage as Juvenile raps lyrics like "We starving, we living like Haiti with no government" and "I'm trying to live, I lost it all in Katrina." A house he had just built was destroyed in the hurricane.
There has always been more to New Orleans music than its nonchalant facade. The city has repeatedly catalyzed American music, as sounds that started in the streets of New Orleans reached the world as jazz, put the roll into rock 'n' roll and taught new syncopations to rhythm and blues. Within the songs is the tension and fascination between classes and cultures: African, European, French, Spanish, Caribbean, Native American, rich and poor.
"They don't all get along," said Nick Spitzer, the host of the Public Radio International program "American Routes" and one of the authors of "Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul" (Penn Press). "But they've created an amazing shared culture." New Orleans musicians have long been able deliver troubled thoughts with a smile, as Louis Armstrong did in "Black and Blue" and Fats Domino did in "Ain't That a Shame."
When New Orleans musicians play the old songs, what once came across as easygoing now carries a streak of bravado.
Like other New Orleanians, many musicians have lost their homes, possessions and sometimes family members, and they are traveling long distances to play in their old local haunts.
A song like "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" now echoes with the knowledge that some natives of the city will never return. And there are new, bleaker resonances when a Mardi Gras Indian group like the Wild Magnolias sings the traditional song "Shallow Water Oh Mama," or when a brass band picks up the bouncy "It Ain't My Fault."
Vaughan's, a club in the Upper Ninth Ward, is too small for a stage. Mr. Ruffins, a trumpeter, has returned to his regular Thursday gig there after a long hiatus imposed by the storm, and he and his band were nearly backed against the club's wall by the dancing crowd. He was playing and singing old New Orleans songs like "Mardi Gras Mambo," with a jovial Louis Armstrong growl.
Yet no one, onstage or off, has forgotten that the Lower Ninth Ward, still in ruins, is only a few blocks away.
Mr. Ruffins finished one set with a pop standard once sung by Bing Crosby, "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams." Halfway through, in casual New Orleans style, he handed the microphone to an audience member, who belted the song — with a line about castles tumbling — and then held on to the microphone long enough to add, "That's for all the people that lost their houses."
Later, Mr. Ruffins agreed. "Those tunes take a whole different meaning now," he said. "At one time in the club, we would just be singing them. Now, I listen to the words."
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