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Wavelength (March 1987)
Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans
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I'M.wt"umpurcnJed ~Nnptttlft depitt A New Orleans seafood tradition. mcnt 58(H)169 h•~.:tt:n -..-u ...hMlll.:" nl The Perfect Place DIAL DIRECT . to Meet, Eat & Tap Your Feet 504 •895 •1342 only ~12 CANAL PLACE per year Open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday ·10:00 am-6:00pm Thursday 10:00 am-8:00pm Sunday 1:00pm-6:00pm'" Unless otherwise noted. *Free parking in the Canal Place Garage with any purchase. Please have ticket validated at information booth. MARCH • Wtnrele-.lh 3 ~ /' s Jau Expcnence. It was in the NOTHING ROnEN TEACH THE schools up there and they had a AT CAC's FESTIVAL study gurde. jaa flash cards. ~emi OF NEW MUSIC CHILDREN nars. and a couple of weeks· worth Program brings jazz of Jail education for the kids. It ~e CAC has ~treamlined its to city schools was very successful and I thought I musrc program in recent years, away from a ~trict jan for At a time when a lot of things 'that really should be here in New moving mat to focus upon composers and people take for granted in New Orleans.' So the next thing I did Orleans arc on the budget chopping was write some grants. I wrote performers from the Gulf Coast re gion. Most of the CAC's recent U'y\t\4. block. a jau history prcscntatiQn in grant proposals to the Jazz & Heri music offerings go under the head our schools could be the link the tage Foundation. to the Arts Coun fe~ • ing of New Music Under that ban next generation needs to a heritage cil of New Orleans. to the ncr we find Electronic, Tape and LIVE this city has always taken for Louisiana Division of the Arts ENTERTAINMENT granted. Last month "Dr. Ja!Z & through the Am1stad Research Cen Computer works along with Cham ber pieces. Jau gets it~ due as Sister Second Line" was performed tre and to Links. Inc .. a women's by ALEX CoNZALn well. with last year's Dewey Red in 22 publrc schools in Orleans Par art group and was able to raise the FRidAy & SAruRdAy NiGim man concert hcing one of the stand ish to show the children of the money." Also owrthin the school 6:W, 9:W out music events of 191\6. Eightrcs how thcrr music evolved system. Shrrley Trust Corey in her Thrs year·.., festi\· 4 Wavele111111a • MARCH UGLY DAY Mamou young people start new tradition cades on Mardi Gras Day masked weekend is the time to be down men on horseback have ridden the here as far as Cajun culture. countryside around Mamou, stopp "Not only that, but Mardi Gras "A new generation, pre-Mardi ing at houses and arms along the with the horses, the riders, they're Gras celebration,'' is how Steve route to collect chickens, rice or out there chasin' chickens. That's JAZZ FEST Lafleur, singer and bassist for the whatever people will give them. Mardi Gras you know. It's not just Cajun rock band Mamou, describes The climax of the Mamou Mardi built up on a day; it's built up on UPDATE Ugly Day. Gras is when the riders return to the culture of it." More rumors and news about Ugly Day takes place annually on ride through Mamou. The bounty of "I hate to miss Mardi Gras in the New Orleans Jazz and Heri the Saturday before Mardi Gras their ride is collected and used to Mamou," LaFleur adds. "You tage Festival, which will be held near the town of Mamou, the make a communal gumbo. won't get bored, I guarantee you. April 24 to May 3: this year for Evangeline Parish prairie hamlet af The whole weekend's outrageous. " the first time there'll be music ter which Lafleur's band is named. Aguillard and Lafleur added that all day at the Fairgrounds April A few hearty, impatient souls anyone who would like to attend 24 and Friday May I. Six days camp out at the Ugly Day site on Ugly Day or any band that would at the Fairgrounds this year! the Friday night before Ugly Day, like to play is welcome. But finding New information: Wynton but things really get started on Sat it may be a problem. The exact site Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, and urday morning. of the Ugly Day celebration is Stanley Jordan reportedly will be ·'A bunch of townspeople get somewhat nebulous. And Aguillard the stars of the nighttime con together to have a pre-Mardi Gras and LaFleur's explanation doesn't certs. The Thunderbirds will be celebration," says LaFleur in his help much either: " It's out in the on the Riverboat President with cool Cajun accent. " We just try to woods between Mamou and Cha the Roomful of Blues horns May get as many bands -Cajun bands, taignier," says LaFleur. I. Lazy Lester and Katie Webs rock bands, whatever kind of bands "It changes places," Aguillard ter will share the bill. May 2 -as we can get to play. Nobody's "Once they get into town they adds. "This year it's going to be Roomful of Blues will be at the making any money. We just jam have the traditional Mardi Gras held in the same place as last year. Fairgrounds with Earl King. The that (Friday) night and all the next dance," says LaFleur. "A bunch of It'd be hard to find." He added that Dixi-Kups and the Nevilles will day. " · men and women get together and anyone interested in playing or grace the last day of the Festival. According to Lafleur, Ugly Day pick up all the goods and bring attending Ugly Day can call him at King Sunny Ade and the Nevil began I I years ago when a restless them to the Legion Hall about a (318) 457-4748 or LaFleur at (318) les will be a concert item, while group of young people in Mamou block from the Mardi Gras dance. 468-2226. a little birdy tells us that Pharoah known as the Hadashack Gang de They start cookin' and have the "It's kinda like a private party Sanders and Leon Thomas (with cided to have a party to start off the gumbo ready for the riders after but friends invite friends. It's pri Wynton Marsalis sitting in) may Mardi Gras weekend, which in they finished their dancing and vate but everybody's welcome," be heard free of charge at Span Mamou is the social event of the partying." Aguillard says in the spirit of the ish Plaza between boat rides year. "Mamou at that time of the year famous Cajun hospitality. whilst you wait to board. " What they were doing was get is happen in'," declares Wayne "They've been holdin' back on As reported earlier, this year's ting ready for Mardi Gras," Le Aguillard, guitarist for the band publicity," Lafleur notes. "The festival lineup includes Fats Fieur explains. "They bought a pig Mamou. The band Mamou formed T.V. station wanted to go over Domino, Carl Perkins, John and they called it Ugly. They raised on Ugly Day two years ago as the there and they didn' t let it happen. Mayall, Junior Walker, Spyro it and fattened it and for Ugly Day result of a one-off performance. They've been turning 'em down. Gyra and Percy Sledge. A non they killed it and called (the day) "The Monday night before Mardi Last year w~s the first time it broke Festival Fest-time attraction will Ugly Day after the pig." Gras," Aguillard continues, "you loose again and hopefully this year be Los Lobos at Tipitina's April The town of Mamou itself cele have all the French bands in all the is going to be pretty heavy duty. '' 25 for two shows. brates Mardi Gras in a way that is bars, the streets are full of people. "Ugly Day is exciting because This month, a festival steeped in Cajun tradition and is You can hit the streets that Monday you're kicking it off," says Aguil brochure with a complete sche quite unlike the celebrations in New night and you can walk bar to bar lard. "That Friday night you're dule of events and ticket mail Orleans and elsewhere. While there and it don't cost nothin'. You got kicking it off and everybody's ex order form will become avail is a parade, plenty of music and Cajun bands in each bar." cited and fresh. They've been wait able. The brochure can be had beer, Mardi Gras in Mamou is cen " It's not just Ugly Day," says ing all year for it. Then again, it's for a self-addressed stamped en tered around the Coureur de' Bois, Aguillard. "Ugly Day is kicking off just a loose party too." velope sent to P.O. Box 2530, the runners of the woods. For de- the whole scene. The whole - Doug Newcomb NOLA 70176. ------THETOP3------include an outdoor show in the my son and my dog, nothing. On DIX.I-KUPiel' California desert for an audience of the road, the fans love you now as "For three weeks in June of 45.000, on the same bill with the they loved you then. The red carpet 1964, -the Beatles-led English inva Righteous Brothers, Martha Reeves, is always out for you. It's all sion of our national pop charts was the Marvelettes and 27 other "old together different from home." temporarily stymied by three young ies" acts; and "all-girl " recital in Our main reason for dialing the girls from the Calliope Housing Kansas City with the Crystals and Dixi-Kups' number was to ask for Project. Sisters Barbara and Rosa the Chiffons; and two shows in Chi the ladies' All-Time Top Three Hawkins, accompanied by Joan cago (I degree Fahrenheit outside) New Orleans Records, an inquiry Johnson and collectively known as with Little Anthony, Ben E. King which prompted both Hawkins sist the Dixie Cups, were responsible and Del Shannon. On the last Sun ers to unhesitatingly and un for America's Number One record, day of the Jazz Festival (in a some abashedly select their own " Iko "Chapel of Love," the choice of what more subtropical environ lko" for the top slot. Both likewise paramours from coast to coast, be tained American troop~ for a month ment), the Dixi-Kups will share the picked the Nevilles (and yet another ach blanket to backseat to hon during the height of combat. stage with the Neville Brothers and Indian-rooted song) for the place eymoon suite. Joan Johnson exited the trio early Bobby Cure. position: Twenty-three years later, the on and was replaced by Beverly Often treated like royalty when I. "lko Iko" by the Dixie Cups Hawkins girls, now known as the Brown, who continued working they're on the road, the Dixi-Kups 2. " Hey Pockey Way" by the Dixi-Kups, continue captivating with the Hawkios sisters until her have to wait in line at K&B like Neville Brothers - lovers at concerts across the land death in 1985. Today, either Jo everybody else when they're back 3. (Barbara) "Holy Cow" by Lee and around the globe. They've been Ann Kennedy or Rosetta Ramsey home in the Seventh Ward. What Dorsey to all fifty states, Europe, the Baha joins the Dixi-Kups as they tour the exactly does Barbara miss when she (Rosa) "Barefootin"' by Robert mas, the. Virgin Islands, Bermuda planet. leaves New Orleans? By telephone, Parker and Vietnam, where they enter- The Dixi-Kups' most recent gigs she confessed: " Besides my mom, - Bunny Matthews MARCH • Wavelength 5 WAVELENGTH INTERVIEW YOKOONO s anyone knows who is old motivated if they wish to be so nega Because we have to share things. add those songs for the other side. I enough to have experienced the tive, but in this world fraught with so Now, the Lennon fans and myself are think that those Walls & Bridges A Beatles, the ballad of John and much hatred, I will continue to believe like one big family, and I would feel tracks would never have gone on a Ono played to an incredibly hostile, that Yoko and John are messengers of guilty if I just kept it to myself. And record if he were alive because we unaccepting audience. Even among peace. by sharing it like this and somehow by always make a song so that it can be Beatles fans, the professed love for presenting John's work in different played on AM/FM radio. It has to be Lennon and the Beatles was ironically fields, I feel like John's still around. done in such a way so it's all EQ'd and blinded by an intense need to find a Through his work he's still living. It's squashed and all that. But this is very scapegoat for the group's breakup. no was present at the opening a nice feeling. natural, as it happened, so it's almost One can only admire the grace with exhibit here in New Orleans at What made you decide to include daring, or taking a risk to put it out as a which Yoko Ono has shouldered this 0 the Dyansen GaiJery which, the unfinished Walls & Bridges tracks record. But I thought it was good ... I burden over the years. Of course, the under the direction of the very ami- on the Menlove Ave. album? hope you enjoyed it. world has somewhat tempered its able Kim Roger, has done an The reason is that EMI/Capitol, the What are your feelings on all the attack, and maybe even changed its enthusiastic and tasteful presentation record company, was going to put all bootleg Lennon material that is avail feelings toward her since Lennon was of the various pieces, distinguishing rock songs. You would have had six able? killed, but throughout the best and the itself by being the first on this tour to songs on the album and each song Well, it's sad in a way because the II'Orst, Ono has never given up her display the controversial erotic litho would have been like seven to nine bootleg material buyers are very lim message of peace, nor has she ever graphs from the Bag One series. Ono minutes long, because (John) was ited, so that it doesn't circulate to all refused contact with Beatles fans, stayed in town long enough to receive rehearsing and he'll stop a little and he the people. It has to be presented in whom she considers part of her the key to the city, to hear the mayor might just say something ... and it such a way so that it would go on the family. proclaim February 6 as ''John Lennon would have been very lax. charts and be reviewed and the gener Since /980, Ono has continued to Day" in New Orleans and, in general, The record company really wanted al public would know it's available. share Lennon's artistic output with us to make a very favorable impression three songs on one side and three So, one. it's sad somebody's putting it through records, a book of his prose on all those with whom she came in songs on the other side, and all long. out like that. The other point of view and poetry (Skywriting By Word of contact. The following interview took But artistically it would have been is the fact that most of them are bad Mouth), and most recently, gallery place at the Dyansen Gallery. wrong. The album had just one side uality and not artistically satisfactory showings of Lennon's artwork, in You seem to be giving a lot of gifts [worth of material]. I didn't want that as John would have wanted them to cluding. the famous Bag One litho to Beatles fans right now with the re kind of presentation for John even if it be. graphs. in major cities around the lease of the Menlove Ave. album, was posthumous; I didn't think it With all these John Lennon-related country including New Orleans. Skywriting and the tour of John's should be done like that. projects that you· re doing. and also Skeptics may consider these projects artwork. What was behind your deci So I edited down !until the rock being a mother, do you lun·e any time to be solely financially or egotistically sion to do this? songs] fit one side, and I could then for your Oll'n art? THE NEW ORLEANS GAVE JAZZ TO THE WORLD I NOW ••• PETER'S PIZZA GUMBO SHOP BRINGS NEW YORK STYLE PIZZA TO NEW ORLEANS COOKS SEAFOOD OKRA GUMBO JAMBALAYA CHICKEN ANDOUILLE GUMBO BLACKENED REDFISH CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE and much more 630 ST. PETER • VIEUX CARRE • 525-1486 LUNCH AND DINNER DAILY Just 5 minutes away from the Uptown Clubs Open seven days until 1:00AM weekdays; 2:00AM Fri. & Sat . . . . and don't forget our lasagna, calzones. salads, our wide selection of imported beers. our fantastic jukebox . . . and of course, the best pizza in New Orleans. 899-9994 FREE DELIVERY 6104 Magazine St. ------~======~----~~ -r------ Well, more and more I'm finding it way you're not limited to one father, me all sorts of flak. This time around, d1fficult to get time for my own rr e 71ti but ... this sounds crazy. : . he can because I'm alone, it's a bit harder. artwork ... at th1s point. But I think ~u-' team from more different men about With John it was easier to cope with. that's a good sign; it means that John what it is to be a guy. But 1t's a bit harder ... but I'm used to is really active. I think that I can al '-- ~ ~ 'i(Q r.· Had vou and John considered at it. ways do my thing in a couple of years ~ ' .... l(J . one time educating Sean yourselves? Do you read any of the accounts in or whatever, so I'm not so worried No. John and I were saying if he books ofyour years with John such as about my thing. doesn't want to go to school he The Love You Make? How did your years with John doesn't have to go to school. .. he '11 No, no, no. It's too painful for me change your approach to art, or do have a tutor or something. If he wants to read those books, so l don't read you feel that it did? to go to school, only if he asks, then them. But because l read newspapers, I think it did definitely. The rock we'll send him to school. The funny most of it I get. It's like ... "Oh, 'n' roll beat gave me a real energy. If I ~ thing is, he did ask, so l put him in they're writing something like that." didn't go into that way of thin!...ing, school. Of course, school is limiting, You know. I think it's unfair in a way. probably I would have ended up being ._ ~~.-ll ..k ..r, _,_, ,_ .. r_ •. ______J limiting our brains or our psyches, or but also I think that everything is a very artsy. You know ... do a concert whatever it limits. But, l suppose that blessing in disguise. It's hard to think in Carnegie Hall or somewhere, one that you have done, like the bed-in, the idea of mixing with other children, that, but it's better to just see the posi of those very artsy concerts of .avant the War Is Over campaign, sending even just from that point of view, it's a tive side of everything, and use that garde music ... or in the Green Room, acorns to world leaders . .. ? good experience. positive side. Some might think having tea with a few I think it did have an effect. Some From where do you draw the ... what is the positive side of all this people ... something like that. I think body was asking me about Band-Aid strength to deal with the negative flak? I don't know yet. But we 'II see. he changed me into something more and all that ... "We Are The criticism that you've had over the I'm attempting to [look on the posi live and now. World" ... saying would John have years? tive side] because it's a very practical When I say live and now, I mean, I joined them if he was around. I think Well, first of all, if I were so con solution, because everything that we wasn't doing something that was old those things happened only because cerned about negative criticism then I have in this world is probably not per fashioned. I was doing avant garde, we did those things twenty years ago, wouldn't have been with John be fect, so if you concentrate on the im which is not now, it's futuristic. So it you know. It's inspiring each other. It cause ... since I was with John I got so perfections, then there's no end to it. wasn't like bringing me out of some may have happened without us, much flak that it would have been Just think that we've got all these old-fashionedness ... but J just think regardless. But still I think that the better to just say goodbye. But, of things and let's use the good bits. in terms of communicating with the fact that it was done in the rock 'n' roll course, it's wrong to say that I didn't You have to use your own strength. mass public, I probably wouldn't world twenty years ago, it's all in peo care ... I mean ... we both cared a lot, I think in the Sixties we did find great have done that. It would have been ple's subconsciences, and it may have you know. We're human, so we get power outside of us, which is a like, in the Village, a few people un inspired them. very hurt each time. At the same time, healthy thing to do. But in the Eighties derstand it and enjoy it, but it would As a single parent, what are your it was not my priority to not be hated, we're learning that all of that is within be very precious. I think he brought views on raising children? because the priority was that we were us anyway. So we're starting to learn me out of that trip. Well, a single parent raising a child in love and we loved to be together. to trust in ourselves and use what we How do you feel now about the is always a problem, I suppose. But For that, we didn't care as much what have within us. That's what I'm trying effectiveness ofthe dramatic gestures also, I'm trying to tell Sean that this was said. Still even now people give todo. e M.t\~1)1 (3~!§ M!Mij(),: # ._~ ~~~~~~Ti";;;~ :~:"::?:::~:~~tessr1 j~~%:~~ :, " Mardi Gras Mambo ...... The Meters .. "" .. • I , Second line ...... Stop, Inc. • "'"·"- They All Asked For You ...... The Meters Every Day, Every Night ...... Professor Longhair ALII3U~S & CASs.:-.-.-~~:s Gumbo ...... Dr. John TheBrightestSmileinTown ...... Dr. John ' • ~ • Bobby Charles ...... Bobby Charles " , p • Greatest Hits ...... Fat Domino Battle Royal ...... Pete Fountain/ AI Hirt ~ ~ The Cajun Way ...... Doug Kershaw ~~~ Best of Earl King/Trick Bag ...... Earl King 1 -~ Best of II Hear You Knocking ...... Smiley Lewis ,.. • • Fiyo on the Bayou ...... Neville Brothers , ' Treacherous ...... Neville Brothers ' - :. ~ Zooma Zooma ...... Louis Prima • r~~ Rock 'N' Roll Gumbo ...... Professor Longhair ~J-l~ Breakaway ...... Irma Thomas ~-~ History of N.O. Rhythm & Blues ...... Various Artists _. , ~} Lost Dreams ...... N,O. Vocal Groups • • Mardi Gras in N.O...... Various Artists , f " ' ' Best of N.O. Jazz ...... Dejan's Olympia Brass Band ., '•• 3129 Gentilly Blvd. 3627 S. Carrollton Ave. 282-3322 482-6431 ..! MARCH • WtrVelength 7 My Parlor Or Yours1 Men are just dying to marry Theresa Russell in the new film Black Widow~ DORRE STREET lack Widow is a lush, stylized, a workaholic in need of a man, or at rich thriller about two women very least a night on the town. In and two obsessions. Catharine Hawaii. she begins to realize both the Bconsiders it her job to marry and then mission that borught her there and her kill wealthy older men for their for personal life. She gets a haircut, tunes, and Alexandra Barnes is a appreciates the changes in herself af federal investigator whose obsession ter a love affair, and in accordance Catherine (Theresa Russell) with the man she loves in Black Widow. is the killer herself. with her cause, befriends the friend Catharine (Theresa Russell) is less woman Catharine. They embark the voluptuous Theresa Russell, .. A Twentieth Century Fox release. a Laurence smart and relentlessly bad, a danger on a relationship far more dense and sometimes reminiscent in looks of Mark1Harold Schneider production of a Bob ous combination as we watch her complicated than anticipated, with a Kathleen Turner, but with much deep Rafelson film. D1rected by Bob Rafelson; execu tive producer, Laurence Mark; produced by change her image, appearance and in feeling even borderline erotic be er beauty and sex appeal. Followers of Harold Schneider; screenplay by Ron Bass; di terests with studious care to capture tween the women, creating tensions director Nicholas Roeg remember rector of photography, Conrad Hall; music by the wealthy men who become her vic pregnant with possibilities. We get a Russell from his films Bad Timing, Michael Small; edited by John Bloom; starring tims. When married to a well-known glimpse into the human side of Eureka, and lrzsigrzificance, and she Theresa Russell, Debra Winger. Sami Frey, Nicol Williamson, Dennis Hopper, Lois Smith, New York publisher, she is a sophisti Catharine, now called Rennie, and the was also seen in The Last Tycoon and Diane Ladd, D. W. Moffett, James Hong, David cated blonde in a mink. She then devious side of Alex, now called Jes Straight Time, but she is not a house Mamet, Terry O'Quinn . •'c.'(.'( .'c transforms herself into a redheaded sica. hold name, yet. It is the script's southern belle in slinky dresses for her When warned about the danger she strength that we are not exposed to Radio Days Dallas toy tycoon target (Dennis Hop may encounter searching for a sus any psychoanalysis of Catharine, or Radio Davs is a fond remembrance per), a serious intellectual brunette in pected killer, Alex points out to her attempts to find out why she became a of a period: 1938-44, when life in tweed and sweaters to seduce a Seattle boss that Catharine "is not about ruthless killer, and it is Russell's Brooklyn was tough and dreary and anthropologist (Nicol Williamson), g uns." This is one of the most strength that we like her in spite of it the glamorous world of radio pro: and ultimately, the natural, free spi refreshing aspects of the film- that a all. One keeps expecting a moment vided a great escape. Not heavy on rited beauty who climbs mountains in thriller about murder does not rely on when she will crack under the pres plot, Radio Days' strength lies in Hawaii with a French hotel owner guns to be threatening. The black sure of keeping her secret, but she Woody Allen's obvious affection for (Sami Frey). With each man and each widow is much more subtle in her doesn' t. Besides a few brief, self the time, the characters and per killing, we learn a little more about style, yet no less deadly. The one deprecating cries of despair, Cathar sonalities that accompanied him her nearly traceless methods of both scene where Catharine does use a gun ine gets right back on the horse every through his youth. premeditated seduction and murder. to threaten, takes something away time she encounters a setback, relen The red headed child (Seth Green). The script is well strucrured in this from the whole, although she still tlessly cunning and industrious. It is brought up among squabbling Jewish way, and our curiosity is both satis doesn't shoot. scary to see how one person can, with parents and relatives, is no new sce fied and stimulated further as we learn The script, written by Ron Bass, is out being realized, direct the behavior nario for an Allen movie. It is as if he the tricks of this woman's trade. brilliant from start to finish, the best of those around her. made a whole film from the brief After rich husband number two of its genre since Body Heat. It Winger has never been one of my scenes in Annie Hall where he visits kicks off from the very rare Ondine's doesn't falter in its ending as did The favorites. I find her at best annoying his childhood home of Coney Island. curse that took care of husband num Morning After, it is not even slightly with her boyish looks and that voice But what is original and fresh is the ber one, Alex (Debra Winger), who is uneven like the unsatisfying Bedroom that sounds like she has a perennial detail. the lush look of the film that doing a routine investigation of the Window. The cinematography is ex throat infection. But she is less annoy underscores how Allen knows pre deaths, grows suspicious of the vic quisite, from the office with the green ing in Black Widow than in any of her cisely what he wants and just how to tim's younger wives who quickly li windows to the lush landscape of previous films, which is great praise get it. quidated their fortunes and skipped Hawaii which reminds us mainlanders coming from this non-fan. The viewer At his home in Rockaway Beach, out of sight. She makes the case her of the foreign and mystical feel of the has a good impression of the complete Allen narrates as we watch his alter pet project, and becomes so obsessed non-tourist oriented part of our coun Alex Barnes, investigator and lonely ego Joe growing up with parents Julie she sells her possessions and quits her try's islands. The whole look of the woman, and there arc more sparks Kavnor and Michael Tucker and an job in order to stalk the lady killer in film is varied and a treat for the eyes between Winger and Russell than be assortment of loud and idiosyncratic Hawaii. Alex in Washington, as seen throughout its changing scenarios. tween Winger and any of her previous relatives. The most interesting is the through the eyes of her co-workers, is One of the greatest visual treats is male film counterparts. mother's single sister. played with Saturday: Oldies Night Disc Jockey RESTAURANT Tuesday: Specializing in Italian Cuisi11e 25¢ Draft SEAFOOD • HOMEMADE PASTA 8pm-11pm Thursday: A very quaint restaurant Ladies Drink Free catering to those who enjoy Friday: fine food. Open Mon-Fri Lunch Com pi i mentary Mon-Sat Dinner Hors d'oeuvres Spm-8pm 488-8452 3240 5. Carrollton Ave. CREDIT CARDS · 8 Wavelenglla • MARCH sentiment and longing by Dianne Wi movie was filmed in Miami, and also through the eyes of the people who est, who perennially searches for a stars Ned Beatty and Hal Holbrook. made civil rights history in our city. husband but attracts only unavailable ~ "Heritage: The Jews of New Narrated by James Earl Jone!>, the or unsuitable suitor-.. These scenes of Orleans," a program on the history program includes extensive in Brooldyn humdrum arc intercut with and accomplishments of Jewish peo terviews with civil rights leaders and the lives of the beautiful people in ple in the city. will be produced by everyday citizens of New Orleans, Manhattan. Mia Farrow plays Sally Eddie Kurtz and WLAE-TV. A grant recalling tbe times before, during and White from the world of radio of $10,000 has been awarded toward after the transition from a segregated celebrities and nightclubs that the production costs by the Louisiana society to an integrated one. "A crowded Brooklyn household only Endowment for the Humanities. House Divided'' is a co-production of dreams about. Met in her struggling Kurtz Productions is also develop WVUE and Xavier University's cigarette girl days. Farrow tackles a ing Great River, a dramatic television Drexel Center for Extended Learning. horrid New York accent that doesn't series documenting the exploration of Associate producer Rhonda Fabian work in the same way it did for Ellen America by the Sieur de LaSalle in the reports that copies of the one-hour Greene in Lillie Shop (~f Horrors. But 17th Century, and the discovery and show have been distributed to local for the sal-.c of one clever voice gag settlement of the great American schools and libraries, and LPB of ncar the end of the movie, it is bear Julie Kavner. Seth Green, and heartland, the South and Midwest. Baton Rouge will be airing the show able. The u-.ual entourage of Allen's Michael Tucker in Radio Days. The thirteen one-hour programs will in the near future. Watch for it if you familiar faces are seen in bit parts be produced by Eddie Kurtz and An missed the first telecast. This fine Jeff Daniel-.. Tony Roberts, Wallace nick Smith, written by Newton Ren documentary should not be over Shawn a-. the Masked Avenger, and LOCAL fro, and directed by Glen Pitre. looked. Diane Keaton as a singer who looks PRODUCTION NOTES ~ Shelley Duvall has signed to ~ The Contemporary Arts Center and sounds like she stepped out of star in and co-produce (with Jean will offer several screenings in another Woody Allen picture, not the ~ As of this writing, Tri-Star Pic Doumainian, former producer of Sat March, most notably Slwah, French 1940s. tures will release Angel Heart urday Night Live), a feature written by filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's epic Radio Days is a series of precious, nationally on March 6, with a pro New Orleanian Andy Horton and documentary on the holocaust. This often romantic moments that add up to vocative X-rating. Angel Heart is Will Manus. Under the working title ten-year effort for Lanzmann recalls a pleasant, nostalgic journey which British director Alan Parker's latest Vendetta, the film will be shot in the tragedy of the holocaust by focus even those of us not born of the era can feature, shot in New York and New Greece, with a tentative start date of ing entirely on oral histories from wit appreciate. Orleans last spring, and stars Mickey August '87. Australian Fred Schepisi nesses and survivors. Shoah will be Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet (Chant ofJimmie Blacksmith, Plenty) screened in two parts on consecutive and Charlotte Rampling. will direct. nights at the Henson Auditorium at ~ Team Effort Productions of ~ "A House Divided," a docu Newman School, 5335 Danneel . . An Onon Pictures release. A Jack Rollins and Miami shot exterior scenes for their mentary about New Orleans de Street. Tickets to the two-part screen Charles H. Joffe production. 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' benefit of our readers in Iceland and The waitress even warned us that the BUNNY NlA"'THE'WS Oman, 1s located in the downtown show would commence in five mi Hyatt shopping mall. in the shadow of nutes and it was our last chance to he Tom Collins, composed of The place to drink a Collins. appro the Louisiana Superdomc. Among order free drinks lemon juice, powdered sugar, priate to its colonial genesis, is out in others. Gcorg1e Porgie's clientele " It's s·H 0 W T IME! " So an dry gin. carbonated water, ice, the glare of sunlight, preferably next counts among 11-. members plenty of nounced a rich-voiced gentleman in aT cherry or two and slices of lemon to a swimming pool full of Third conventiOneers and traveling sales beige formal attire. introducing him and orange, was named in honor of Runners-Up in the Miss Wakulla Be men. indulging in the final blow-out self as "Baron Yon Dyke. formerly of the bartender who created it. The ach contest. Perhaps that's why the before the sombre trek home to the the Drifters " Or maybe it was story of Mr. Collins, the barman, has best Collins in New Orleans is the one wife and kids in Mmnesota. "Byron Von Dyke. formerly of the not survived as well as his famed concocted by bartender Louis Forstall During the past few months. the Coasters." I dunno - I was on my cocktail but one can speculate, with in the downstairs, poolsidc bar at the club has begun a policy of booking third free stiff drink. How many form reasonable certainty, that the inventor Vista Shores Country Club. Louis has "oldies" acts. It's an Intimate joint er Drifters and Coasters arc there? I created his drink at some remote out a "secret ingredient" he puts in his sort of like the Rosy's of yore except would reckon nearly as many alumni post of the British Empire; that the Collinses and the "secret" apparently the Warhols have been replaced by as those formerly aligned with the Ray clix1 r was meant to revive the daunt never leaves the room since the Col pannemu dh·oratifs loosely based on Charles Orchestra: let's say less than less spirits of Etonians determined to linses to be found in the club's up Alphonse Mucha. The seats are close 400.000. teach grass-skirted savages the pleas stairs dining room never match their enough to hear anything you need to Mr. Von Dyke is a very capable ures of cricket and civilisation. downstairs cousins. know concerning strangers' medical emcee and he speaks a sort of poetic Variations on the Tom Collins in The key. methinks, is the right pro predicaments or romantic encounters language, a dialect compounded with clude the John Collins (in which Hol portion of club soda and sweetness. A in elevators. The stage is within spitt gloriousness. Introducing a table of land gin- whatever that is- is sub lot of Collinscs taste like spiked ing distance of virtually every table. folks from Performance, a trade stituted for the dry gin), the Brandy Hawaiian Punch. or worse: I recently As for the Important Stuff: the Col publication for concert promoters, Collins. the Mint Collins. the Orange sampled one at the Sheraton that ex linscs arc pretty good: big, but a bit Yon Dyke called the journal "the Gin Collins. the Sloe Gin Collins. the uded vodka and Sprite! too sweet. in the realm of the in most-read magazine m America and Rum Collins. the Tequila Collins, the Since my bndc and I arc ever famous Hurricane. After the first one, Europe." He then begged the au Whiskey Collins and the Vodka Col vigilant for the perfect Collins. an in I switched to Compari and soda dience's applause for the proprietress lins. The general idea of the entire vitation to witness the Marvellettes · (wh1ch. no matter where it's ordered, of "the city's finest Chinese restau Collins family is to taste like pink opcnmg last n1ght at Georgie Porgie's tastes like mouthwash. which is what rant" and for the house band. Deja lemonade and get you drunk. and consume free drinks aroused our I like about it). The hors d' oeu\·res Vu. which IS. mdeed, a swell ensem- * Mardi Gras * Viewing stands, bleachers, stages, any size, any level, up to 500 capacity. We'll build them safe and to your order. a chine Call the Home·T earn. Dro.Jil 111 e you'Ve ~ -u"'6 soundS 1ik d before. ~ nev-er hear DX7 IIFD Two DX7's Plus in a neat llttle package. Tone Generator sound module with programability. : AM£RICAH"I Check Out the llME5-PtCAYUNE Classifieds for our weekly specials. I EXPRESS . Mon·Fri 10AM-6PM. Sat 11Am·SPM Warranfy • Sales-Service • Ben Charge < ASSOCIATES, ~. 4417 Bienville Ave. N.O., LA 70119 1770 TCHOUPITOULAS ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 (504) 522- TEAM 10 Waveleii!Jih • MARCH K L Of\(' LIBRARY •• ( '"'1 C' /\1\1~ projects, sang. They both wore very tight black dresses and black nylons. One of the ELS girls had a run in her nylons. She said she wanted Brenda's pink satin jacket after the show. It was very hard to concentrate, as you might imagine, on the fantastic • singing and music because I kept wondering if all these different women were going to get together af ter the show and exchange jackets and dresses and hair-styling tips and the phone numbers of former Drifters and Coasters they know. Mf\RVELETTESI The finale of the show was ''Don't 1t-\t Mess With Bill." Brenoa grabbed a 5i(ETCHED FROM L~fE. traveling salesman from ringside and hauled him onstage. The three Mar velettes whipped his jacket off and his ble. Led by guitarist Steve Hughes, est one and it was announced that she ing salesman from the hinterlands re keys and credit cards and phone veteran of many Allen Toussaint had just become a grandmother. All of quire? numbers written on the backs of orchestras, the six-piece combo dab the Marvclettes had bright red lip "Does anyone out there remember scraps of little pieces of paper went bles in jazzy cocktail isms and Christ stick. our number?" the Marvelettes asked flying everywhere. The Marvs contin opher Cross. The saxophonist/ the audience, all of whom had swal ued singing. They rubbed their bodies vocalist and the hefty trumpeter, in Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclope lowed a half-dozen free drinks. Yep, next to his. They kissed him all over particular, are excellent players. dia. published in 1969. states the ori the audience knew that number: "Be his white shirt, leaving marks that After three songs, Mr. Von Dyke ginal "beautifully-bitchy" Mar echwood 4-5789!" would be very hard to explain to his introduced, in a manner worthy of velettes were named Wanda, Katherin And they knew "Playboy." Bren wife. Brenda slowly sucked on his Keats or Shelley, the Marvellettes. and Gladys. My guess is that Wanda, da sat on one of the traveling sales paisley tie, until she had the entire They were great-looking, wearing Katherin and Gladys, being naturally men's laps and sang it to him. His life thing in her mouth. The salesman was those broad-shouldered pink satin crazy fun-loving types. decided - was enriched. in heaven. He deserved a hand. jackets and white pants with crotches purely on a whim - to change their The Marvelettes asked if anybody "What's your name, honey?" that began ncar the knees (bought, as names to Lonnie, Deborah and Bren in the audience could sing. A drunk Brenda asked, fooling with the button the Marvs would note repeatedly dur da. I doubt that they did it for religious lady tried. Then a lady in a very tight on her pink jacket, by now extremely ing the evening, from Climax reaosns, although don't rule that out. orange dress sang. Not b~d. Brenda wrinkled by the frenetic dancing and Fashions on Canal Street). Their Regardless, the Marvelettes in resi said she wanted the lady's dress after body-rubbing. names were Lonni~ Deborah and dence at Georgie Porgie's could belt the show. Then two of the girls from The salesman grinned: "I'm Brenda. 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When the procession was over, all the lthough Mardi Gras is often Forty days of fasting can become a spectators were wearing green neck Mhtstory by its beginning. there are two drag. By providing a few sanctioned laces, tinkling green doubloons, and other celebrations· that assure us of outlets, the holy fathers can at least also if they were lucky, and very good times. Fixed permanently in the keep deviance m the tamtly. many were, juggling one or more cab mid-month ca1endar are the feast days If the branch of the family in ques bages. Glasses were then raised, of Samts Patrick and Joseph. These tion is native to New Orleans. then songs were sung, and friends put their figures are the cultural heroes. the expect their respects to be paid in that arms around each other in gestures of ceding his feastday. It is an Uptown spiritual guides, of the Irish and the style. Witness, for example, a scene mutual support, as everyone wan affair, originating in the Irish Chan Italians. Each nationality swarmed to from a bygone St. Patrick's Day Pa dered off into the neighboring after nel. The second comes twenty-four New Orleans during the heydays of rade. noon. hours later (March 15) in Marvelous immigration and continue to thrive A Saints linebacker stepped into a All this was done for the greater Metry. here to this day. Although both papier-mache pocket and launched his honor and glory of St. Patrick, the It seems unnecessary to be Irish to group~. being intensely Catholic, tend pass. A gaggle of receivers yelped man who drove the snakes from Ire ride in these parades. They have the to give themselves up to the rigors of wildly and waved excited, inebriated land. It will be done this year and air of neighborhood get togethers, Lenten sacrifice, they still honor their arms. They were wide-open on a every year, wherever the Irish may with much mixed blood. If you had to personal patrons. This may seem like second-story balcony. In his excite dwell. The feast itselfison March 17. guess, you might say the true Irish a loophole to some, but to others it is ment at choosing a target, our special Celebrations will erupt on this day in were wearing the most green and sing divine common sense. The Catholic guest hurler let forth with much too Boston, Dublin, New York, and ing the loudest. No traditional foil( church wants its followers to honor mighty a heave. The dense vegetable more. I doubt, however, that any of songs are heard, as in other cities. their saints. Curbing spirits on a feast gleamed green under the Magazine their parades feature the massive ex Versions of "When Irish Eyes Are day might dampen the fervor or di Street sun as it sailed up over arms change of cabbage, the gift that keeps Smiling" get repeated over and ove minish their respect. Patron saints dangled with beads and hands holding on giving. again. But soon the bands lapse back need respect or they can't do their go-cups. Higher it flew. 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"Perms and coloring not offered after 7 pm Mon.-Fri. and 3 pm on Sat. 12 We~Yele•1• • MARCil granted Grateful, she has maintained During the few days ieadmg up to an altar ever since. Last year alone she March 19, the Times-Picayune runs a prepared the following: stuffed column in the cllissifieds under the artichokes, crabs, bell peppers, and special heading "St. Joseph Altar." tomatoes; made salads with shrimp, Last year's entries numbered over crawfish, crab, and lobster; boiled twenty, each a separate altar bearing crabs and shrimp; baked redfish, fried the same invitation, "Public In trout, made shrimp creole, shrimp vited." stew, crawfish etouffe and bisque, Mrs. Pope thinks she will take this and two different seafood gumbos, year off. She certainly deserves it. A one red, one brown. She steamed wedding in the family and some hos broccoli and other vegetables. She pital visits were expensive endeavors. pickled vegetables: giardiniera, capo Last year she spent upwards of a nata. She had breads baked in the thousand dollars, even with some shapes of a cross, an artichoke, a donations and wholesale prices heart, a fish, and a beard. She also offered by suppliers. It also takes baked cakes in fourteen different heroic amounts of labor to prepare shapes. For this, she had ten separate that much food. Who can fault her for ovens going at once in various apart sitting this one out? She has already They will barely be sober before the they should remind us how fortunate ments of a complex where she work been made an honorary Italian, and Italians take to their heels. March 19 we are to live in the land of supermar ed. She also made several kinds of her mother is still a strong walker. is the feast day of St. Joseph, husband kets and Hefty bags. cookies and a few more things I have We, the public, must check the papers of Mary and guardian of Jesus. He is The Irish and Italians have much in forgotten. There was no meat, to locate some other taste of a miracle. the special patron of Sicily, origin of common. Both were people pre however; this was, after all, during By the way, St. Joseph is also the most Italians who settled in New dominantly farmers, uprooted by Lent. Anyway, the Sicilian farmers patron saint of the Mardi Gras In Orleans. He is also protector of the famine or replaced by machines. would have needed their animals for dians. The only two times they take to family, the single most important unit When crops failed, they would starve. eggs and milk. They could not afford the streets are Mardi Gras and St. of Italian culture. To a people proud Food became their most precious to eat them. Joseph's Day. Their current practice of their heritage and mindful of their possession. The Irish lived off cab All this food was given away free to is to assembly along Bayou St. John history, the symbol of St. Joseph is a bage and potatoes; the Italians sur whomever walked through the door. on the Sunday following the feast. crucial one. They rally under his ban vived on Fava beans. When a severe Over five hundred people were fed, They head up Orleans A venue be ner and revel in simply being Italian. famine lifted from Sicily, the people and there was still some left over. ginning about noon. I imagine St. On Saturday evening, March 21, they gave the credit to St. Joseph. Thus, Before a plate was empty, it would be Joseph enjoys that tribute also and will take to the streets of the French his feast day has become like replenished. The public represents would not mind seeing you in that Quarter, haven to manyoftheir immi Thanksgiving. "the poor," and no one goes away number. e grant ancestors. Throughout the community, people hungry. The parade is mostly on foot. A few construct altars in his honor. Some vehicles carry young maids in white may be in churches or halls, but many dresses, officers and elders, or hon are in the living rooms of private ored celebrities. This year's honorary homes. Each is a platform that steps grand marshall - hold your hearts, up four or five tiers, completely ex-teenagers - will be none other coverd from end to end with an amaz than Fabian. The rest of his krewe, ing assortment of foods in great formally dressed in tuxedo and sash, quantities and many styles. Mixed come with their walking shoes among them are candles, statues, and attached. As they stroll, they trade holy pictures. The other furnishings paper carnations for kisses and hand and walls are also given over to elabo out lucky Fava beans by the rate iconography and even more can thousands. dles. This creates an overwhelming Unlike the cabbage, these beans are impression of being inside a great not meant to be eaten. They may still shrine. It is done to beg St. Joseph for be found in Central Grocery but are help or thank him for favors already more common today in feedstores, granted. where they are sold for cattle and Diane Pope was a woman with a goats. The ones handed out for luck very serious favor to ask, and she was have first been soaked in water and not even Italian. She prayed that her then baked rock solid. They can be mother be able to walk, and she built kept for years in pockets or purses and an altar to emphasize her sincerity. rubbed to a bri II iant sheen. Ideally, Unbelievably, her request was LET US SELL YOUR THE JAZZ SHOW with USED GUITAR OR AMP David Sanborn. Tune in each Sunday morning WE•BUY from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. for the best in contemporary jazz. The latest •RENT releases, artist interviews, and all the Jazz! ~TRADE • CONSIGN USED EQUIPMENT JDX MARCH • Wavelengtl1 13 KS moving personal portrall of two New geles. California 90016. An ex tra Rh~hm and Bluesiology Orleans musical families. the Last1es album ~~ $5 more.] and the Nevilles. and hopefully will The chapter~ on the Marui Gras In be rdea-.ed on videotape to coincide dians (along with Willie Tee and the Three New Orleans writers collaborate with the book's -.ucccs-. . Ne" ille Br~)thers) arc a fascmatmg on a history of postwar For the most part the book i., suc tapestry of research and oral history cessful in the attempt to chronicle emphasizmg the environmental fac· New Orleans music. modern Ja71 and Marth Gras Indian tors in the creation or the Indians and music. The chapters on these forms their relationship with the younger RICK COLENlAN arc welcome additions to the body of rhythm & bl ues perfo rmers. Each work on New Orleans music. The first chapter has a minor flaw , h owever. chapter on jau. along with the com The first theon;es a lot without show Up From tlze Cradle of ]au plementing chapter on the Lastie ing an acceptable connection between Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose. and Tad Jones fami ly. arc moving vi-.IOnll of the true Indians and the1r Afro-Amencan The University of Georgia Press struggle of New Orleanll mu-.icians to counterparts The secontl tlwells on $ 15.95 papcr'$35. cloth stay true to their muse de-.pite -.tagger Willie Tee w1thout much information ing advcr.,itie-.. and -.how the kindretl on Bo Doll is. chief of the Wi lt! Mag spirit strongly shared among the play nolias. even thoul!h he i., mentioned d Jones telb me that this book is ..... to extend the historical terrain ers. Unfortunately. the two chapters throughout. The thirtl f~1ib to take the already in its third printing a of rhythm-and-blues by charting para include little hard information on a narrati\e up to the Neville Brothers' fcv.. · months after publication. llel courses of modern J'"' and the key member of the Lastie family and 19X4 album Sl'l'illl'-i:ation. which, to soT anything I might say about it will Mardi Gras Indians: and to portray the AFO combo Melvin Lastie. my mint!. i-. the only record that has not affect its success. Cradle has had withm this narrati\C the rise of post who died in 1972. Moreover. the de sh good reading with music in the background complete make over by RAY BISHOP NtW ORLEANS MUSIC MAGAZ INE R E~ S L 0 730 DUBliN~ STREET. NEW ORLEANS. LA 70118 (504) 866t-5822 PRESENT THIS AD FOR A FREE MAKE-UP OR SKIN CARE CONSULTATION 14 Wavelength • MARCH For the most part, however, the centrale of the Seventies, including chapters on the rhythm & blues era two pages on Fess' funeral. (roughly 1947 to 1967) arc somewhat Tragically, the authors seem to weak. deem their own words more important Chapter six is based on an interest than their subjects' far too often. Tad ing premise: early rhythm & blues Jones once printed an It-page in performers are remembered by Ver terview with Professor Longhair in non "Dr. Daddy-0" Winslow. Wins Living Blues. In eight pages here there low's reminiscences are delightful, are only five miniscule quotes from but the intervening narrative is very Longhair. The book is filled with tiny much mundane bio material, rehash snippets from dozens of extremely ing the artists' greatest hits and down rare interviews, including one liners falls with some superficial musical from many- Longhair, Chris Ken analysis. Apparently due to a lack of ner. Leonard Lee, Lee Diamond, Tuts space, the bulk of the R&B biograph Washington, Big Chief Jolley, Walter ies follow this same pattern. Moreov Lastie, Dave Williams, etc. - who er, from reading them one would are now deceased. A book simply of think that New Orleans R&B was pro the authors' interviews would have duced in a vacuum, as there is very been fascinating and very insightful as little mention of the music's vital well. relationship with the larger world of I will not go into the pretensions of popular music. Even the "dominant the prologue and epilogue and the research theme" of "the urban cul general slickness of the prose. Suffice ture as musical seedbed" is lost. Ex it to say the authors have a strong cept for some anemic theorizing about is simply a grab bag of piano players British Invasion chapter, as is Clar academic background and were musical osmosis from everyday who didn't fit into the other chapters, ence Henry, whose biggest hits were apparently attempting to impress the sounds, the authors concentrate on the including Tommy Ridgley, whose produced in 1961 by Allen Toussaint. academic/arts community. In fact, the structures, musical families, clubs, most popular records were between There also seems to be a degree of book very much resembles a text etc. - that facilitated the rise and 1949 and 1962 and who is better subjectivity in the work in which the book. expansion of the music rather than known as a vocalist/bandleader, and authors lean toward the artists and With the scope that the authors seriously analyzing the actual sources session and jazz pianist Edward music in the 1970s with which they chose and the amount of research they of the music. Frank, who is the subject of two are most familiar. This slant is appar had available, Up from the Cradle of There is also a problem in the woefully misplaced paragraphs. Earl ent in the chapter on Professor Long Jazz could have been, and certainly organization of the material, King, who by rights should be the hair. In eight pages of text on Long should have been, two books- one emphasizing the lack of direction in crucial link in the chapter on Huey hair, IIJ2 pages are devoted to his life on the R&B era and one on more re the narrative. The chapter on piano Smith and Guitar Slim and whose last and recordings from 1918 to 1970. cent music. As it is, it is still essential, players, chronologically in the 1970s, chart hit was in 1962, is in the post- Five of the remaining pages con- but only half done. e sgpJ!,,f[_A,,.., album or cass. ftiOVIe •entaiS OPEN SUNDAYS mUSIC· mOVIES .__N_o_o_N_-_1_o_p_._m_. _, ·Chef Menteur, 2 bl. east of louisa 945-5110 ·Veterans, 1 bl. east of Causeway •t!! in Metairie · Veterans at O.ld ·Veterans at David in Metairie 885-4200 834-6550 In lllfblrle 115,.200 ·Magazine St. at Octavia 891-4026 Sale March 31st Quantities MARCH • Wavelength 15 ~INDIES Hometown Hits ' ... There's insanity around/ ~~All Stereo That's what you get when you bury above ground.' .IANlES LIEN Equipment his winter has truly been a pro the song "Old Bridge," where Davis sings ductive one for independent "Somewhere in the city there's insanity around/ That's what you get when you bury above records, particularly in the New ground." OrleansT area. In recent months several Although they often seem to draw upon liter local bands of importance have all re ary themes for song material, Davis is cautious leased records on independent labels, to downplay the role of literature in the band's Sounds songwriting. Although he admits to having read and doubtlessly more will follow. It a lot of Southern writers, he is quick to stress seems that, in spite of the economy, that it's not as 1f Dash Rip Rock is drawing the change in the drinking age, and the specifically upon the literature as much as peo lack of a WTUL marathon to foster ple sometimes seem to imagine. The influence upon local talent, now is still a good time to Dash Rip Rock lies more in the things that are elements of the culture rather than the details Alike'' put out a record on an independent of the literature itself. After all, 10 Louisiana label. One knowledgeable source on people really do dig for lost Confederate gold. the practical and financial aspects of The idea IS to give people who are not from here independent record release informs us a picture of the spookiness and myst1que that is Louisiana . Dash Rip Rock has successfully cap that he has not heard of an in tured the richness (not economic, of course) has to be one of the dependent record in the last year that, and color of their heritage with a startling clarity. biggest falsehoods given even only modest efforts to pro While steeped in the mythology and legacy of mote it, did not at least return the their origins, they avo1d wallowing in the cliched Southern imagery of many of their contemporar anyone could have created. money invested by the artist, if not ies. Their vision is extraordinarily literate, hon indeed turn a profit. est, and authentically personal. They live in a Surprise! Certain components So if there is a lesson to be learned land that remembers its past, its ancestors, from this month's column, it's that where cemeteries are above ground, and where people still dig for buried treasure . do sound different from others there's not as much stopping all the bands out there from making records 30x90 and it's up to you to decide as they might think; You Too can have "Expressions"!''That's Something " 7" 45 Carryon Records , 1517 Cambronne, New which is best in your system. a record, You Too can be a rock star. Orleans, LA 70118 Thirty By Ninety, another local New Orleans t>ash Rip Rock band, has recently released a 7" single on their If you enjoy listening to music, Dash Rip 'Rock own Carryon Label located 1n New Orleans. Ele 688 Records, P.O. Box 54343, Atlanta, Georgia gantly self-produced and recorded last year in but hate hearing your hifi, we 30308) their home studio, the music on th1s double Dash Rip Rock (actually some would argue A-sided (side A and s1de one) shows in 1ts two carry the finest brands available 1t's Da$h Rip Rock) have finally arrived . On this, songs the diverseness of the group Side one, thw debut album on 688 Records , the "That's Something," grooves and sweats like a to let you hear what you're missing. Louisiana-based but nationally-known band off Defunkt or Sly and Robbie song, a heavy excur ers a rich serving of "songs from the Sports Sion into whiteboy funk, in the vein of Shrelk man's Paradise." More than just a slogan from backorTalkmg Heads. Side A, however, is more Ask about WILSON AUDIO'S an early !-shirt design, this statement is actually melodic, a clearly crafted pop song with more a good indication of what to expect from the emphasis on the guitars and sentimentality. exclusive 6-month trade band's debut album. Their songs don't always Sounding like a cross between college radio seem to refer to specifics. but rather suggest staples like Wmter Hours, and the progressive in policy on places , stories, and the ambience of the South. FM slickness of The Police, " Expressions" is a all new equipment! It's a world of gamblmg , of duels under oak mellow if somewhat overly romantic ballad that alleys, nightmares, and stumpwater hallucina frames the singers· well-developed if slightly tions . Recorded last summer at Axis studios in overly melancholic vocals 10 shimmering gUitars Atlanta , formerly an old gospel studio (and and crisp pro'ductlon. Obv1ously, recording at whose recent clients 1nclude Drivm· and Cryin'. home has allowed the band to mvest the time 86 , and none other than the Georgia Sattelites) and effort necessary to make a record as careful by producer George Pappas, at times the very a1r ly crafted as this one, and the extra work has of the recordings seems infused with this mysti clearly paid off lor them que Most of the album closely resembles the band's feroc1ous and feverish barroom set on a SheU.Shock good night. featuring their strong rockabilly and Whiles of Their Eyes country influence (they cover " I Saw The Splatter Records , P 0. Box 6005, Metairie, LA 8001 Maple Light"), combming with the1r own 1deas to cre 70009 ate their particular brand of rock 'n' roll that has After over live years and several 7" releases, New Orleans gathered them quite a following in the South and Shell Shock have finally come up with a full East. length bonafide album. Whites of Their Eyes 866-3457 Featuring revised and reworked versions of g1ves the listener a pretty good idea of what Shell older Dash material such as "Specialty" and Shock sound like live, or lor that matter, practic "Shake That Girl" (originally the B-side of the1r ing at their parents' garage in Metairie. Re first single), and the haunting "Endeavor," the corded mostly early last year, this album reflects album presents the strengths of their d1verse more the early Black Flag style hardcore of the repertoire as accentuated by Pappas' tasteful earlier Shell Shock as opposed to the ominous production . Silent and somber bassist Hoaky speedmetalleamngs they have taken to in recent Hickel makes his compositional debut. sunglas months. Needless to say, they'll never really be a ses and all, on "Hell's Scared," featunng his speedmetal band , at least with the pants they're om1nous. lurking basshnes. Drummer and sin wearing now. The only real flaw w1th this record Stop by today & mention this ger Fred LeBlanc turns m his strongest Riprock lies in its production and press10g quality; the riffs yet with the excellent "Just Like Your card-board box drums and bathroom vocals are ad for a Special Discount Mama" (with strong potential to be an AOR a problem m spite of the band's insistence that smgle) and "Operator" (as found on the earlier the album was " digital Mastered ." I sure 688 Records Sampler of last year). The remam wouldn 't want to buy this one on compact disc. der of the songs, penned by guitarist and vocal Anyway, they're tight, they're last, they're Open 11-7 Monday thru Friday ist Bill Davis, range from rockabllly-inspired good , and they do " Born to Be Wild" in over rave-ups to sincere, insightful ballads often drive (but not "Wild Thing ") To the engineer's 10-6 Saturday based upon the curious phenomena of Davis' credit, it does sound a lot better when you turn it native Louisiana. An example of th1s occurs in up LOUD - 16 Wavelengtl1 • MARCH Brubeck LaVerne Trio Mai!Pie See How It Feels If It Ain't Love Black Hawk BKH 51401 Philo 1112 WAVELENGTH I still feel a twmge when I realize I'm review1ng a recording by the children of Dave Brubeck; yet, John McCutcheon 1987 CATALOG 1f they've gotten over that generation gap (and Step by Step they have) so can I. This is music of a far more Rounder 0216 ...... Sam leandro's New conventional mode than that expressed by the1r While the Rounder label is known to New father in the Fifties; it's contemporary, relevant, Drleanians for 1ts superb New Orleans Modern Orleans & louisiana 1987 and runs a gamut of moods . . Masters Series, it has a much longer history as a Calendar - $8.95 each. My favonte tracks are the first two . " Central" preserver and distributor of folk talent. Two re 350 birthdays and over 125 is rather mainstream w1th a line recalling "All cent releases illuminate some supenor musi God's Children Got Rhythm,·· but shanng that Cians of this genre . photos of both legendary it's a relentless rhythm of today. " Aqua " shows Magpie's If It Ain 't Love features Terry Leoni and contemporary Chris Brubeck's trombone work to good advan na on harmonica. mandolin and dulcimer, Greg Louisiana musicians, plus hit tage in a mellow palette of colors. It's as close to Artzner on guitar and both on vocals. They a ballad as this album gets. LaVerne composed harmonize smoothly through anthems about records, music history, and all of the titles. and this one bears orchestration Chile. multinational corporate greed and Sacco scenes from the New for a larger group though that's not to fault the & Vanzetti , wh1le lightenmg the mood with Fats Orleans Jazz & Heritage fulsome sound generated by these three. "Alpha Waller and Boswell Sisters materiaL That's a Festival. Blue" IS only a half-step lower in the intensity of nice mixture; 1t's important to hear emphatically colors derived from this empathetic ensemble . political music once in a while, and Fats Waller is "Upward Mob1hty, " "Tempest" and 'See always welcome...... "I Hear You Knockin'" How It Feels" are danling displays of Dan's The McCutcheon disc is an assortment of - $13.95. Jeff Hannusch's drum work,and I'm not speaking pure in the traditional tunes arranged for hammer dulcimer alliterative. This young man is a most able per duet, trio and quartet and played by a variety of celebrated book is the story told by those who formulated the tradi cussionist who's not msensit1ve to coloring the musicians, including Trapezoid , one of the best tions of New Orleans music. It is an enthusiastic insight into the sounds beat string groups ever. I've had little enough expo of rhythm and blues from the home of the blues. {Second edition, In the liner notes Chris refers to the pro sure to the hammer dulcimer to still be be ceedmgs as " audio-vision." It's a tellmg and Witched by its tone - a cross between harp and includes index) accurate descnpllon of what goes on here - mandolin. This is conservative music , though similar, m some ways, to the old "tone-poem" there are surprises, like the chromaticism of ...... Special Edition Wavelength Postcards-50~ each, min. order form in classical literature Th1s trio plays so you "Snowflake Breakdown ." All in all, a charming of 1 0. Liven up your correspondence with help from Prof. Longhair, can envision and listen w1th your eyes. album Fats Domino, James Booker, Tom my Ridgely, Robert Parker, the - Rhodes J. Spedale, Jr. - Tom McDermott Neville Bros., Irma Thomas, Ernie K-Doe, Little Richard, Preservation Hall Band, George Porter of the Meters, Prof. Longhair {with B.B. 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IIIC IDDIBWT New Orleans' old French-Spanish quarter is the cllngmg to them like barnacles. Of course - that point of sorts. It signifies being part of the Real onlv decent inhabited district that 1 discovered in must be why New Orleans has more bars per square World, of having affect and effect, of bemg Serious An;erica. From the architecture to the manners of foot than any city in North America. (And with the (like somebody who could be on tv news and not just the people, their clothes, customs and cookery, all merchant marine all washed up, the sailors arc al- by accident). was lfl>iightjltl. It was like being back in Europe 1\'ays in port. ) In New Orleans we were all aware of th1s, our again with the added charm. of a certain wildness Port cnies mean riff-raff. human flotsam and jet little teenage brains buzzing with such hormonally and romance; it was a cil•i/i::ation sui generis, wah sam, the shadowy mystique of Humphrey Bogart, colored perceptions. If eighteen then you were legal its own peculiar adornment in the way of historv. It Peter Lorre, Anna Mae Wong. When it comes to port ly and officially Of Age - but if you were under enabled me to reali::e the spirit ofthe Middle Ages as city mystique, New Orleans is right up there in the eighteen and could still manage to get served at a bar. el'en the most remote and time-honored towns of big leagues with places like Shanghai, Marseilles, then you were ahead of the game. This was evidence Europe rarely do. I took a room cotn·eniently close Casablanca and Havana in the old days that you were already taken seriously (or el'>c that to the Old Absinthe House, where one could get real Such exotic visions are handy enough, but in you had a friend or relative behind the bar. which absinthe prepared in fountains whose marble was reality the matter goes even deeper. For bars have wasn't so bad either). worn by ninety years' colllinual dripping. been an integral part of life here for as long as there This was of particular significance here because On the outskirts ofthe Spanish quarter was a large have been people in this city. Bars arc institutions we all grew up knowing that bars were very impor and picturesque red light section; one of the most that function as centers for this city's highly ritualis tant local institutions. We knew that because local interesting places ofits kind that /have ever seen. In tic way of life: for personal rituals, social rituals, history al~ays seemed to be associated with them fact, if we except Cairo, it would have been hard to community and civic rituals; for rituals of sports, the this was a tradition going back at least to Napoleon, beat. arts and politics among others. For those who grew who we all knew was the founder of the state's legal - Aleister Crowley, 1915 up here bars and drinking were central to rites of code and had his own bar in the Quarter, at the comer (from The Confessions of Aleister p~ssage into adulthood; other bars figured into other of Chartres and St. Louis. Or something like that; as Crowley) rituals even into maturity and old age. Geopolitical kids-we were still hazy about the details. rituals - coups, plots and mad schemes of empire, Being a kid in the early Sixties - the vestigial have routinely been hatched in local barrooms, and extension of the late Fifties- was probably some ost local folk have had to explain this city's few cities, states or nations were completely safe what stifling anywhere in <\ ~cica. Here at least we reputation at some point - a reputation for from such visions of destiny concocted over a Dixie had the French Quarter to escape to (after hitting the Mboozy excess and decadent behavior. Rela long neck or Ramos gin fizz. five cent pinball machines at the penny arcade on tives back in Little Rock or Augusta usually want to But, while the world is historically not immune to Canal Street). know if what they've heard is true, and why. On the the influence of New Orleans bars, it has been said The early Sixties was also the belle epoch of the first point- yes, whatever they have heard is usual that here in the Crescent City our local history is Beat Generation. Poets and folk singers like Bob ly true. But the second- why- is usually more actually made in bars- is in fact a product of bars. Dylan were beginning to make a name for them difficult. A few uhs and urns followed by some (Actually bars and whorehouses but as the latter has selves, and drifted across the country, hanging out in mumbled words about the humidity and the French, been in political decline for the last quarter century, trashy dives in odd neighborhoods like the French and then finally the punch line: "well, it is a port we will here concern ourselves with the former.) Quarter. Now as kids we all knew that there were all city ..... sorts of dives that we could have a great time getting Of course ... a port city! Port cities mean sailors into aU sorts of trouble in scattered around the Quar and everybody knows that seamen are able-bodied in Napoleon, Bob Dylan &Growing Up Local ter - but we were underage. The really cool, name only, that when in port they are found in bars, Being of drinking age is certainly of symbolic notorious bars like La Casa De Los Marinos red-faced invertebrate inebriates, glasses and bottles importance to most teenagers. It marks a turning wouldn't let us in most of the time (kids were always 18 Wavelength • MARCH Johnny Spericio's Bar. Johnny is fourth from the left, behind the bar. He is Alma Laine Gascheck's godfather. Jack Laine, famous New Orleans jazz musician, is at the far right with CCRC shirt. 1901. trying to crash it) so we had to make do with a couple perhaps for that reason, or perhaps simply for rea places like the Seven Seas and La Casa De Los of coffee houses which were so dim and smoky that sons of ordinary boredom, that vodka martinis be Marinos. But everybody else did. The Quarter was nobody could see that you were just a kid or cared if came a popular addition to the student lunch menu. more of a real neighborhood then, rather than a they did. (These were places like Ivan's on Es This came about in .a variety of ways. By the time Babylon of commercialized antiquity, but those two planade, later Rampart, where Lee Harvey Oswald we were seniors some kids had aged so much that places drew people from all over town. hung out before getting into trouble for purportedly nobody thought to check their 10. And then of Other famous French Quarter cases of the period assassinating President Kennedy. Some of my course, since it was common at that time for lesser were the still-popular Cosimos - always a true young aspiring arms dealer friends at Fortier High students to flunk and have to repeat a grade, some neighborhood haunt, the previously mentioned Vic School used to talk shop with him there before he fell kids didn't graduate until they were at least 20. tor's, and such transcendent perennials as the Napo into difficulty.) Vodka was popular because it didn't linger on your leon House, and that busiest bar of the Western Actually we used to go to some of those foreign breath- the scent of gin could get you expelled. World, Pat O'Brien's. On Bourbon Street the hyper sailors' joints on Decatur Stree~ first- places where historic Absinthe House-New Orleans' oldest bar, they would serve a nursery school kid if he had a and the almost perennial Lucky Pierre's held sway. dollar and could reach the counter with it. We could Legends La Casa De Los Marinos was in many ways the buy ouzos at the. Acropolis, while Greek sailors did For whatever reason, Graffagni no's on Laurel and ultimate New Orleans bar of the latter half of the 20th Greek dances with each other and chased enormous Henry Clay did a booming business in vodka around century. From its rise sometime in the 1950s to its fat whores. All this kept the bar help so distracted midday and just after three. (It was called' 'Graff's'' demise in the first part of the 1970s, it managed to that nobody noticed or cared how old anybody was. -the Fortier yearbook even had a Graff's award for epitomize fashionable bohemian wildness in the After getting woozy on ouzos we would saunter certain students whose reputations were closely link French Quarter. It was one of the great underground down to some coffee house where someone who may ed to the place.) Other places popular with high places of all time. or may not have been Ginsberg was reciting poetry, school kids because their bar help was no judge of Originally it was a haunt for latin and Hispanic and someone who may or may not have been Dylan age included Cusimano's, also famous for its pinball sailors, hence its name. Then the artist-intellectuals sang a folk dirge, as ~an actual or potential Lee machines, and Victor's in the Quarter. None of these of the Fifties and Sixties began hanging out there to Oswald sulked silently in a corner. places still survives, unfortunately, except in fond soak up its earthy vitality - it was famous for On towards midnight these bohemian refugees memories. (However, a liquor store on Carrollton extravagant dancing and colorful knife fights. The would drift off to places like the Seven Seas on St. that wouldn't sell booze to anyone under 12 is still latter were short lived - Felix the proprietor, a Philip Street or to La Casa nearby, and we were left around.) High school dance places like the now formidable Cuban, maintained decorum with a base out in the cold (or heat), out of the action, with resurgent F & M also provided some opportunities ball bat. Eventually lhe emergent liberated youth of nothing to do but smoke foreign cigarettes and for the tippler. Of course there was the unforgettable the period took over the back room with its good loud evaporate back up St. Charles Avenue in somebody experience of confronting the eternal mysteries in jukebox. On a Saturday night when it was especially or other's car. the back parking lot at Lenfant's - the tactile in busy, the back room would be jumping with some Fortier High School was something of a pressure tricacies of bra straps made yet more profound by the hard-driving rock, Rolling Stones or equivalent. It cooker then. In the mid-1960s it was all white and view of endless cemetery markers and the neurolog was not possible to dance on those occasions - overcrowded with frats, greasers, nerds, and ical rush of bourbon and coke. Other mysteries took bodies were too densely packed. Instead the whole assorted characters, a public school bastion of Up the form of those amazing layered drinks at Nick's crowd would sort of writhe and pu Isate to the deafen town conservatism in an age when racial and social on Tulane Avenue. ing beat as a dazed guy and/or girl gyrated atop the protest hung in the air like an electric charge. Some By the time we were out of high school and Of cigarette machine, pounding rhythm on a tam times the atmosphere felt like Moscow in 1917. The Age to drink legally, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Dylan and bourine, while in the front room it was frenzied staff seemed to think it was Moscow in 1917. It was Mick Jagger were too famous· to hang out anymore at Spanish dancing and abortive knife fights as usual. MARCH • Wavelength 19 But then there was a middle chamber in between, a central bar that was like a DMZ. There could be found Uptown folk slumming after a Mardi Gras ball, pehaps a doctor or a judge, a couple trying to repair a quarrel, shadowy characters exchanging sums of money, and perhaps a poet passed out in the comer. In its prime, La Casa De Los Marinos was a microcosm of democracy, at least in its New Orleans form. History and Decadence In the early 1970s President Nixon announced that his government would stamp out decadence. Sud denly decadence became enormously popular-the age of glitter rock, Lou Reed, and the emergent androgynous David Bowie had arrived. As raw, earthy vitality became eclipsed by cool, studied decadence, n.ew places like Deja Vu (in its first incarnation) rose to prominence. Pseudo elegant and on two levels, Deja Vu was a high-tone disco where an elaborate stereo system and high D. Eric lloolthordt fashion waitresses replaced 'for the in-crowd the Gnffagailo's: Vodka llll'tiJm wert de riguer at Fortier High. competing juke boxes and bat-wielding bar help of places like La Casa De Los Marinos. Other "de cadent" disco bars of the early Seventies were Pete's ic clubs set the stage for the scene that has held sway on Bourbon Street attracted a social spectrum that Place and the Cavern, both on Bourbon Street and ever since. defied sociology. This was yet another place with a both catering to the most "mixed" crowds seen long past history. either before or since. Lucky's was an institution -the kind of place Other hot spots of the period were Trinity's, sort Decadence and History that made New Orleans seem like an endless Fellini of a lackluster Uptown version of Deja Vu and sett Ultimately the most interesting thing about the last movie. The front parlor looked a lot like a whore ing for a sensational society murder, the Red Lion thirty years may be how little things have actually house, mostly because it, in a sense, was. There was (Uptown's answer to the Seven Seas), and Forty changed. Thirty years ago some of the most popular a piano-bar, lots of baroque furniture and ornate One Forty-One, which always has seemed like some hangouts mentioned by those who came of age in the marble and plaster trappings, all of it dimly lit. On a Metairie developer's idea of what a high-tone Up Fifties were Bruno's, which was and is (and will be, good evening with an entertaining singer-pianist like town place should be like. God willin') on Maple Street near Tulane's campus, Janis Medlock belting out show tunes and exchang With the founding of Tipitina's, Jimmy's, the the deceased Victor's and La Casa, but also Pat ing banter with the frosty blonde hookers (who most Dream PaJace in the mid-Seventies, raw earthy vital O'Brien's, the Napoleon House and the Old Absin ly seemed to have a lot of mileage on them) placed ity came back with a vengeance. New Orleans the House, all still going strong. strategically at the bar or on the ornate overstuffed rhythm and blues (apd to a lesser extent jazz, blues Until recently, for a pre-dawn breakfast after an furniture - the effect could be quite surreal. 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Carrollton Free Buffet 2 tor f 1f·5 p.m Georgie Porgle's NOlA's 866-9455 7·9 p.m 9 p.m.·f am UIIZZli'S 60f Loyola 3137 CalhOun Ladies N~ght by the track Shanahan's 566-0000 Free Tacos 9-f2 p m. NOlA's L.e Bon Temps Roule $2.50 PitChers 6225 S Cla1bome Hot hors d'oeuvres Sf.50 Coronas 50C Draft Free Oysters 5-9 p m. Crayt1sh BOll 4-8 pm Sf 50 TeQUila shOts Que Sera 8-fO 6-9 7 days a week 2·6 pm 8-fO p.m. 3636 St Charles 50e draft Meridlen Hotel 897·2598 Utile Annie's tate 6-8 Chemrlield's n"uu·s 6f4 Canal Ocea• Clu~ 3 for f 2 tor f Sf 50 miXed 501 Napoleon 525·6500 Melville-Dewey Or. 4-7 P m , 4-7. Monday·Fnday Ph111p's $1 beer 897-3943 AppetiZers Metairie 733 Cherokee 1·7 p.m. Red Beans and R1ce 4:30·6:30 p.m. 834-40f0 Shanahan's Charity's 865-1f55 S3 cover Free Buffet 25e drah 2 tor f p1tehers 50¢ drah MetJO's Columns Hotel 5-10 p m 9-f2 all day "Wheel ot Fortune" Inter-Continental Hotel Lounge 2 tor I bar 90¢ Coronas Cooter BniW!I's A different 444 Sf Charles Ave . 4 30·7 p.m 90e Shooters Partvlew Taweno 509 S. Carrollton NOlA's speaal every hour' Free hot and cold hors d'oeuvres Monday-Fnday 9-f2 Sf domestic Sf 50 1mports ladies Free 5·7 pm 4-7, Monday-Fnday 9-111 fQ-12 Le Jm Meridien 7 days a week Cat6 Panache The BOOf Tuesday Hotel Mend1en 2 tor f bar 866-9008 Ladles D1scount Aagon's The Boot 6f4 Canal Maple Leal 4-7 p.m St Coronas "End otlhe Bm" Special Sf Jaegerme~ster Happy Hour 4:30·6·30 83f6 Oak Monday-Saturday McGnoct's S5·f0 bottles of wine Free hors d·oeuvres 866-9359 Free Buffet McG.-t's 500 Canal 4· 7, Monday-Fnday Parlay's Jan P~ano Mus1c 5·9 Sf Schnapps 500 Canal St 430·7 2 for 1 7 days a week Casa Gan:la Men's dnnks 'n pnce free hOt hors d'oeuvres Brothen-ln-Law 5-8, Monday·Fnday Rain f11rest 8Bf4 Veterans Memonal Blvd 50e drah H1lton Hotel Marganta Spec1al The Part 4141 Sf Molson Gold Palace Suite Hotel 2Poydras 3-7 p.m Free hors d'oeuvres ladJOS Free 4· 7, Monday-Fnday ReHectlons 4-7 p m 5-7 p.m . 6-11 (formerly Ramada) S8 - all hOuse brand dnnks, TJ Quills Monday-Fnday 4141 Canal St Wines , drah. hot & cold hors 2 for 1 11le Boot ladies Free $1 beer d'oeuvres you can consume Ernst tate 50e highballs 5-8 Thurs , Fri. S2 dnnks 3·7 pm 600 S Peters Monday-Fnday free hors d'oeuvres HolidaJ Inn 4-7 pm Hofllrau Cosimo's 5-7, Monday-Fnday at Causnar ladles Free 8-fO p m. 21or f Sf 60 house dnnks J.B. Riven M·F Monroe's I RIYerwalk 'n pnce on all 6-8 p m Sf 35 house wme Free Hors d'oeuvres fresh frUit dnnks Mon . & Tues. also 32f8 Magaz1ne Sf fO drah beer 2 for f cocktails Happy Hour Pnces Free hors d'oeuvres & margantas Free hors d'oeuvres Sheraton Airport Lounge Complimentary Early Hot & Cold 5-7. Monday-Fnday 5-8 p m • Monday-Fnday Happy hour With Buffet Free partung alter 5 p.m S2 gourmet bllffet 430·7 p.m. 5·7 p.m Monday·Fnday Monday-Fnday 20 Wavelength • MARCH thing up to full throttle before passing out. Somehow he survived the collision with another train, was banned from Americar. railroads, became an engine driver of banana trains in Honduras (where they were constantly hijacked by revolutionaries), continued in politics there and eventually became commander of the Honduran army. He specialized in crashing armored trains through enemy lines, and changed the configuration of national boundaries in Central America. (Oliver North was a boy scout compared to Lee Christmas.) After years of this he returned to New Orleans but the railroad never would give him his job back. Still, he is a classic example of the global reach of local bars. Closer to home, Huey Long sometimes used the Sazerac bar (at the Roosevelt- now Fairmont Hotel) as his war room for his campaigns for Senate and later the White House in the Thirties. Later his younger brother, Earl, as governor in the Fifties used a certain Bourbon Street cabaret for a similar pur pose. Its leading strip-tease dancer, Blaze Starr, became the state's unofficial first lady for a while when the governor was troubled by domestic discord and refused to go back to his wife at the governor's mansion. (He and Blaze sometimes greeted visiting chiefs of state like France's President Charles De Gaulle.) Obviously then, in our local barrooms the destin ies of individuals, states and nations all become entangled together. The Spanish were probably the first to officially recognize this phenomenon, and in 1770 a tax on taverns provided the city's first municipally-raised revenues. (For the first hundred years there was only one church, St. Louis Cathed ral, but taverns were everywhere.) Later, after having reverted to the French and being sold to America by Napoleon, some New Orleanians were active in a plot to smuggle the former emperor out of exile in Corsica. They pre pared a home for Napoleon here, but sadly, like so many local civic endeavors, the intended beneficiary died before the plan could be enacted. Instead, his death mask was installed at the Cabildo and his would-be home lived on to immortalize his memory grew late: guys who looked like crazed dust-bowl as - what else? - a tavern. Today the ancient ranchers and Argentine political prisoners and some seeming Napoleon House remains a quintessential who weren't even guys at all.) In the rear patio where New Orleans bar. Similarly, another legacy of that they served breakfast - the ostensible reason for period- Lafitte's Blacksmith House- remains as going to Lucky's - could be found anybody and an alcoholic shrine to another hero of local history, everybody at one time or another. There was a resi Jean Lafitte, the pirate. dent vice cop (he seemed to be stationed there) who We could go on and on and still be guilty of always seemed to be either eating, or entertaining the glaring omissions, such are the varieties of local hookers, or both. They in turn introduced him to barrooms. We can Jamentthedemiseofseniors' bars everyone as "our local vice cop." Lucky's, which such at Luthjen's, Munster's, or Myrt & Vies in ceased operations in 1985 after a failed attempt at a Algiers, where crowds of septuagenarian survivors of change in management, was the last of a historic the Gatsby era did genuine jazz dancing with breed. the wall. (Identity is important if there is a shooting. hedonistic abandon. We could applaud political bars Later signed dollar bills were posted behind the bar -Bud Rip's, Parasol's, the Half Moon; we could during World War II so that sailors coming back to cheer sports. bar~- Johnny White's, the Parkway Destiny port would be able to drink even if they were without Tavern among others; question proprieties such as While Storyville has widely been perceived as the funds. It was also considered good luck to assume why the Deutches Haus used to feature spaghetti or catalyst that sparked the flowering of jazz in New you would be coming back.) why the Parkview Tavern used to use live chickens Orleans, the musical entertainment aspects of the tant if there is a shooting. Later signed dollar bills as its principal decor; and we could salute some area were most intense along the streets that sur were posted behind the bar during World War II so emergent classics of the past decade such as the rounded the red light district proper. This music that sailors coming back to port would be able to Columns Hotel bar (of Pretty Baby fame), or cosmic district that expanded Storyville's influence beyond drink even if they were without funds. It was also classics that transcend time like the Saturn on St. Basin Street and on toward Canal Street and the considered good luck to assume you would be com- Claude. Somehow it is like counting grains of sand French Quarter was known as The Tango Belt. With ing back.) on the beach, a process made futile by the continuing its lower rent, Tango Belt places could accommo Other turn of the century taverns were in the thick ebb and flow. date larger and more experimental musical ensem of political and cultural ferment. Caronna's on It has been said that New Orleans is not a theater bles, and, according to musicologists such as the Magazine was associated with both of these, being town, but one suspects that in reality the lives of Oriental Fox Trot Museum's Justin Winston, it was both a catalyst for politics and for the development of ordinary people here have unusually theatrical quali- for that reason that the early jazz bands came into white jazz at the time-the Original Dixieland Jazz ties. Thus, if we paraphrase Shakespeare and con- their own there in the early 1900s. _. Band being the most famous example. elude that all the city's a stage, then our local taverns The turn of the century was one of the grand Also around that time a politically ambitious llli- constitute the sets of participatory theater of an un- periods in the ethos of local bars. It was a period nois Central railroad engineer named Lee Christmas usually spontaneous sort, of prolific dramas as well when they were in the forefront of social, political was campaigning for elective office in the traditional as the most private and public intrigues. While not to and cultural evolution. In addition to Storyville, manner - by spending his free time in the city's be condoned, the absence of professional theater has there were other Great Experiments and crusading taverns. It was in one such place that an emergency seemingly left us no shortage of dramatic or colorful innovations. For instance, that was when the Old message was forwarded to him from his employer characters. And while the cast has never been noted Absinthe House dabbled in gun control advocacy late one evening - he was needed to drive a train- for sobriety, few can deny that some stellar per- they requested that patrons ·check their weapons at load of bananas pronto to Chicago. His drinking pals formances have occurred over the last 21/2 centuries. the door. This however was considered too radical propped him up in the cab of his locomotive where A toast then: To the continuing tradition - by many who instead, posted their business cards on he remained steady of hand long enough to get the Salud! e MARCH • Wavele.... 21 THE 'Meet those fme gals your buddies and your pals. Down in New Orleans on a street they call LaSaUe, Down at the Dew Drop Inn ... -'Dew Drop Inn' R. Penninwl-Esquerita-K. Wmslow Pettoo Music BMI m 1945 to 1970, "" Dew Drop~:. ~m~,~~~ g<>-gettec. He was always expaod;og aod ymous with top flight Black entertainment, moving things around. He had a chance to buy the awing singers, nwsicians, dancers and com- building next door and saw a way to turn it into a ledian like a magnet. 'The Dew Drop was just it," profit. The war was on, so there wre a lot of people in contends Joseph A~ust, better known as the re- transit. A hotel was going to do well because there nowned blues singer, "Mr. Google Eyes," who wasn't a quality place for Blacks to stay then. So he often worked the club as a singer and an emcee. "It built a hotel next door. The Dew Drop is actually two was the foundation for musicians in New Orleans. buildings." Whether you were from out-of-town, or from the Even though Painia's daughter pointed out, " the city, your goal was the Dew Drop. If you couldn't place was really jumping during the war," the Dew get a gig at the Dew Drop, you weren't about noth- Drop hadn't yet begun to feature entertainment. ing." However, another business venture for the elder Even though the club would embrace the lives and Painia surfaced. He began booking touring bands for careers of thousands of people, the Dew Drop is concerts into the BookerT. Washington Auditorium really the story of one man, Frank G. Painia. Born in and the Coliseum Arena. Because New Orleans the lberville Parish town of Plaquemine, on June 4, hardly had a suitable nightclub that was capable of 1911, Painia moved to New Orleans with his wife, handling the nation's top Black entertainers, such as Freddie, and two young children in 1934. A barber Louis Jordan and Jimmy Lunceford, more often than by trade, with a seventh grade education, he left not, Painia's shows were quite profitable. Plaquemine to escape the poverty of depression- Since the entertainers he hired already ate and weary rural Louisiana. Upon arrival, the family slept at his establishment, and he could avoid paying moved in with Painia's sister, and he became a rent and taxes at other halls by utilizing his own partner in a barber shop on LaSalle Street. When the space, presenting shows at the Dew Drop was a shop was razed a couple of years later to make way logical progression. Painia began experimenting for the Magnolia Projects, Painia opened his own with local entertainment in the lounge, featuring At the Dew Drop: shop across the street, on the corner of LaSalle and artists such as singer Blanche Thomas and guitarist Naomi Swan behind the bar, late 1940; founder Sixth. Erving Charles. Painia found a great demand for live Frank Painia; Chuck Carbo, Big Joe Turner, Painia Always one to spot and take advantage of an music. So, as the war in the South Pacific was opportunity, soon after Painia bought out an oriental grinding to an explosive halt, workmen in New and 'Romeo,' late Fifties. businessman who owned a bar and grocery store JUSt Orleans were putting the finishing touches on the two doors away at 2836 LaSalle Street. He renovated latest addition to the Dew Drop, the club destined to the building to accommodate his barber shop and a be New Orleans' best known night spot. the spot as "New Orleans' swankiest nightclub. " restaurant, which was added to the barroom. To help "Ssh, Ssh," whispered a headline in the August Featuring two shows nightly on weekends, and an him operate the business, brothers Paul, an excellent 13, 1945, Louisiana Weekly. "Don't tell anyone, amateur contest on Friday evenings, the Dew Drop cook, and Easton, a bartender, also moved here from but the Dew Drop Inn is really coming up with that featured the kind of entertainment that backed up its Plaquemine. Dubbed the Dew Drop Inn, the es- Northern stuff in the next week or three. Mr. Frank reputation. tablishment opened in April of 1939. Painia, one of the city's better negro business men, A typical show which was advertised in the De Although business was tough from the beginning, will see to it that there will be a decent dancehall for cember 21, 1945 edition of the Louisiana Weekly according to Painia's daughter, Laura Jackson, who his people." featured: Joe Turner- ' 'king of the blues who will eventually served as the club's cashier and book- Nicknamed the "Groove Room," by October of be back with a new sack of new songs for Christmas, keeper. "Daddy just had a mind for business. He 1945, the Louisiana Weekly was already referring to along with a brand new show," Bobby Grant - 22 Wavelength • MARCH to stick with music. In later years I saw younger musicians like Earl King, Huey Smith and even Allen Toussaint get their start the same way." . Painia also had a keen eye for talent, and many artists credit him with the early success. According to Naomi Swan, Painia was instrumental in getting Larry Darnell's career off the ground, among others. "Frank picked Larry out of a revue called the · Brownskin Models around 1949. He gave him a job singing in the front bar. Larry had a boyish look and when he sang he just drove the women wild. He did so well that people were leaving the nightclub to see him in the front bar. Frank had a lot of connections in the business and arranged for Larry to make his frrst record, I'll Get Along Somehow. That made him a star." More Than Just ANightclub Painia saw yet another way to take advantage of the abundance of local talent, and in April 1949 opened the Dew Drop Inn Booking Agency. " Some times we'd have as many as four bands out on the road on one night," says son Gerald Painia, who helped run the booking end of the business. " Who ever came up with a big record in town, dad would book. He had a circuit that stretched from Texas to Alabama, that included everything from colleges to roadhouses. We booked Earl King, Guitar Slim, Shirley & Lee, Smiley Lewis, Chris Kenner - really a lot of people. We had some great musicians in the bands too, Lee Allen, Huey Smith, Roland Cook, even Allen Toussaint for a while." Normally a man of few words, Toussaint's tradi tional reserve erodes when discussing Frank Painia and the Dew Drop. "Oh, I wish you could have seen it in its heyday. If you were a musician, at some point of the day you were going to go to the Dew Drop. Unless you were doing something really important, you were probably getting ready to go to the Dew Drop. "lt was a musician's haven. When bands got ready to go to Houma or Vachery, they met at the Dew Drop. When they came back around 2 a.m., they'd go inside the club and jam. There were musi Inside the Dew Drop early 1950. 'Miss Comshucks' is in the center with the hat. cians around the Dew Drop 24 hours a day. There was a permanent place outside the Dew Drop where guys hang out, and inside the club and restaurant too. "just back from St. Louis, nationally known female say, 'Do you know you're talking to my niece!"' ''Frank was the kind of guy people looked to for impersonator." "Iron Jaw" Harris - "dancing Virtually every Black entertainer of note passed answers. He was the kind of guy that walked around with three tables in his mouth." Virginia Plummer through the doors of the Dew Drop. The Sweethearts with his chest poked out, but it wasn't a put on. He - "exotic dancer." Decoy - "now you see him of Rhythm, Amos Milburn, Lollypop Jones, Ivory had strong features and he walked slow with a lot of now you don't back with a brand new bag of tricks." grace. When he showed up everybody got shook up. One could view all of the above for a mere 75 cents, He gave the orders and everybody listened. Whoever and if a reservation was required, it could be had by dropped the glass cleaned it up real quick, and the dialing JA-9605. guy with the mop started mopping real good." "You always got a full floor show back in those A highly respected man in the Black community days," emphasizes Naomi "Toots" Swan, Painia's (in fact he was dubbed "the mayor of LaSalle niece, who worked behind the bar at the Dew Drop Street''), Frank Painia was also a pioneer in the civil for the better part of25 years. "Frank always had an rights movement. In a highly publicized incident, emcee or comedian· that would host the show and Painia, along with screen star Zachary Scott and his loosen up the audience. Then you always had your party, was arrested in November of 1952 and shake dancers and female impersonators, that came charged with disturbing the peace and "mixing." on before the star attraction. The Dew Drop always Scott, a white actor from the north, who was on had a house band back in the Forties, it was either location for a film, had visited the club to see Dave Bartholomew or Edgar Blanchard and the ''Papa'' Lightfoot, when the NOPD received a com Goldoliers, and they'd do a couple of numbers on tlie Female impersonator plaint that "Negroes and whites were being served 1 show too. Patsy Valderer together." " "I guess you'd say that by today's standards the (here dressed as a man) "I remember that night like it was yesterday," club wasn't much, it only held maybe 200 to 300 says Laura Jackson. ''Father decided to make a stand I people. It just had plain wooden table and chairs, but was a big attr.tction and went to jail with everyone else. Whites had I they were covered with clean, white, table cloths, at the Dew Drop. always come into the Dew Drop, in fact a lot of I and everyone that worked there had a fresh uniform policemen frequented the place. The ongoing joke I. on. around the place was, if you needed a cop for some- 1 ·'The Dew Drop always had a reputation for being Joe Hunter, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Chub thing, you had to call the Dew Drop. They just -i a good clean club where you came to have a good by Newsome, The Ravens and Cecil Gant, to name wanted to make an example of someone. They threw 'I time. Frank didn't stand for narcotics, prostitution or but a few. the charges out the next/day. but my father wasn't I fighting. He liked to have a good time like anybody But the Dew Drop also served as a training ground afraid to go to jail, in fact he went a number of times. else, but he was a family man. Eventually he brought for many New Orleans musicians. "The first time l But he had a purpose, he continually lobbied in city ~ his whole family from Plaquemine and he gave them ever got on stage was on an amateur show at the Dew council to eliminate the segregation laws. In fact he • all jobs at the Dew Drop. I was just a little thing Drop in 1946,'' recalls singer/bandleader Tommy was the first Black to ever book the municipal au working in the bar, but I felt protected because l had Ridgley. ' Til never forget, Edgar Blanchard's ditorium." 1 nothing but family around me. If someone ever tried Gondoliers were playing and I sang Piney Brown The Fifties were a great decade for the Dew Drop. 8 to get smart with me, Frank would cut them off and Blues and won first prize. That really encouraged me While the public's taste in music was to change over ~CH • Wavelengtl1 23 JVlaRCH Chapel .. backed up by Brothers, 10-2. Sun 1: 3rd Annual Bacchus Bash, 1 p.m. Live entertam t{·l: C3 3>i fJ ment by Brothers. Debut of the Dragon Wagon , 1,000 lbs. of crawfish m a single pot, no cover. Saturday, 1 no mimmum. Mon. 2: Mardi Gras Eve Warm-up DB'S and the Hoodoo Gurus, pop rock bands per Party. Heavy Duty wl complimentary buffet. form at Jimmy's Music Club, 8200 Willow St., Mardi Gras Day- Home Base- 10 a.m. 'til uptown. Fairmont Court, in the Fairmont Hotel, 529-7111. Every night save Sundays, Sam Adams at 9 pm. Sundav,2 Famous Door, 339 Bourbon, 522-7626. Wednes 688 Mardi Gras Party, with the Fleshtones, Dash days the Famous Door Five occupies the premises Rip Rock, and Arms until4 am. Akimbo. Jimmy's. [IIllll] Feelings, 2600 Chartres, 945-2222. Mondays, All Ages Hardcore Mardi Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 7:30-10:30 Gras Bash: Angry Red pm: Kenny Butler. Tuesdays and Fridays, 7:30- Planet, Rhythm Pigs, the 10:30 pm: Kenny Ard Screws, and Oehumanizers 544 Club, 544 Bourbon, 523-8611. Gary Brown perform at the Knights of and Feelings, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday Columbus, 3315 Jefferson Highway. from 9 until 3, and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 until4. Southern Cooking, Mondays and Tuesdays Friday, 6 Firehose, with Ed Fromohio and from 9 to 3, and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Human League. Techno-pop band performs their from 3:15 to 9:15 hits at the Sanger. ex-Minutemen George Hurley and Fortin House, 624 Bourbon. Brazilian music Mike Watt, will be at the VFW nightly from 7 to 11 pm. Sunday 8 Hall Sunday 8. Pete Fountain's, in the Hilton, 523-4374. Pete Rediscover . . • All Ages Concert Featuring Firehose. The former Fountain and his band nightly at 10; one show Minutemen perform with DC3, Divine Horsemen, only, reservations. A Classic and Crimony, at the VFW Hall, 3113 Franklin. No Le Gauloise, in the Hotel Meridien, 614 Canal, alcohol served; all ages welcome. Thursday 26 525-6000. The Creole Rice Jazz Trio, 11 am to 3 Nightclub, Women Writers speak at Newcomb. Call 865- pm on Sundays. Gazebo, 1018 Decatur, 522-0862. Thurs. through Thursday 12 5238. Home of The New Music Festival, C/11:, , 900 camp St. Sun.: Chris Burke and New Orleans Jazz, 12 to 5. Sunday 29 Georgie Porgle, in the Hyatt Regency, Plaza DUKES OF Wednesday 18 Level, 566-0000. Through Tues. 3: King Floyd. Fri. Maple Leaf Poetry Reading: April Fool's Cele 6 through Sat. 7: Frankie Ford. For schedule, All Ages Concert: Swampcore presents an all bration. All fools welcome! DIXIELAND ages show with Toxic Reasons, KGB (from Ger please call. many!!), and Colorado's Happy World. Call 949- Hilton Hotel, Poydras at the river. In Le Cafe Bro FRIDAY NIGHTS meliad: the Hilton Opera Singers, Saturdays from 0151 for directions to the VFW Hall on Franklin "All American Jm" begins this month on Chan Ave. 7 to 9 pm; Placide Adams'Jazz Band, Sundays 309 Rue Bourbon nel32. from 9:30 in the morning until 2:30 in the after New Thursday 19 noon. In Kabby's: Eddie Bayard and His N.O. Clas Orleans Huey Lewis and the News, popular rock band, sic Jazz Orchestra, Friday and Saturday nights Reservations: performs at the Sanger with blues group The LIVE NlUSIC from 8 pm to m1dnight or Sunday from 10:30 am Robert Cray Band. to 2:30pm. In the English Bar: the Alan White Duo 525,5595 Tuesdays through Saturdays, 4 to 7 pm and 9 to 11 pm. Also, in the French Garden, weekdays 10 to 1, Sunday 22 ~FRENCH Wayne Newton performs at UNO Lakefront and weekends 10 to 2· Snady cash and the Big Arena. QUARTER Easy. Bayard's Jazz Alley, 701 Bourbon, 524-9200. Jazz Unlimited every night, from 8. Blue Room, in the Fairmont Hotel, 529-7111. Wed. 4- Sun. 8: Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Tues. 10 - Sun. 22: The Mamas and the Papas. lues 24 - AprilS: The Manhattans. Bananas, 1001 N. Rampart, I] 525-4678. Fri., Feb. 29: Li'l I Queenie and the R & B Sunday, 1 Death Squad. Sat 1· Johnny Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak, Poetry Readings: J. and the Hit Men, Boxx. Umpteenth Annual No Holds Barred Mardi Gras Sun 2: Oliver Morgan. Poetry-Prose Reading, from 3 p.m. • Mardi Gras: Bands all day, Established 1902 including Johnny J. and the Hit Men. Please call 800 South Peters St. Sunday 1, and Monday 2 for the rest of the month! Mask Makers Display at the French Market. Brew House, Jackson Brewery, Decatur St.. 525- 525-8544 9843. Alternating Saturdays and Sundays from 3 Wednesday4 to 8:30, Andy and the Pacemakers and Deja Vu. Cafe Panache, 200 Magazine, 522-2233. Fridays: through Sunday 22 Willie Tee and Jim Singleton. Saturdays: Rueben Festival Of Contemporary Gonzales and his Salsa Band. Dance. The C/11:,, 900 Camp Cajun Crawfish House, 501 Bourbon, 529-4256. St. Tues. through Thurs.: Laissez-faire Cajun Band, 9 p.m. Friday 6 Chiefs Cajun Cafe, 123 Decatur. Live music while FOR OVERNIGHT Ram Das Lecture: Author/ you eat, all month. philosopher speaks on "cultivating the heart of Clarion Hotel, 1500 Canal, 522-4500. Tues. - ACCOMMODATIONS compassion" at Tulane's Dixon Hall, 7:30 p.m. Thur. 6 p.m.: Janice Medlock on the Terrace Call 865-3226 for information. Court, also 7 to 11 on weekends. OR THE PLEASURE Cosima's, 1201 Burgundy, 861 -8110. Wednesdays Sunday 8 at 9: Ray Bonneville. OF OUR EXQUISITE NYIMIIf Fit for Ule. The audubon Zoo sponsors discus Creole Queen, Poydras Street Wharf, 524-0814. sions of diet and workouts. Cruises nightly, 8 to 10 pm, with Andrew Hall's VICTORIAN LOUNGE Maple Leaf Poetry Reading featuring Beverly Society Jazz Band. . Live Entertainment Rainbolt. Crystal Disco, 801 N. Claiborne. Thurs.: Bobby A...~D DINING ROOM New Orleans Review Marchan and the Big Throwdown Contest. Sun.: Every Saturday Night Tuesday 10 Bobby Marchan and Higher Ground. Also, a Gong Scrlpwrlting Workshop. Every Tues. this month, Show, 11 p.m. till. "All Town Invited:' 9PMto lAM the New Orleans Video Access Center will hold Dream Palace , 534 Frenchmen, 943-6860. see your favorite local sessions in Loyola's Dana Center Call524-8626. Sun 1 and Mon. 2 Urbatlons from Detroit. Tues artist perform New 3: 11 a.m. Krewe of Kosmic Debris w1the Pair-a Orleans Classics. Sunday 15 dice Tumblers; 3 p m. Continental Drifters; 8 Maple Leaf Poeby Reading w1th Bill Roberts. p m The Blues Krewe. Fri . 20 and Sat 21 . The Top 40 Dance Music Rad1ators. 50s to 80s, Rhythm Tuesday 17 Ernst Cafe, 600 S. Peters, 525-8544. Mardi & Blues, Rock & Roll Masters of the Universe, family show featuring Gras Schedule: Thu. 26 Heavy Duty. New and more He-man, comes to the Lakefront Arena. Orleans' f1rst nightclub disc JOCkey spmmg N.O. Call for Entertainment classics, Mardi Gras mus1c & R&B. Com 3811 St. Charles Avenue Sunday 22 plimentary buffet. Fri. 27. Live entertainment Schedule New Orleans, LA 70115 Maple Leaf Poetry Reading with Ricky Barton f6aturing Ivy 10-2. Sat. 28: Nationally renowned (504) 899-9308 and Red DeveLca. Dixie Kups, performing no . 1 hit .. Going to the 24 Wavelength • MARCH Hotel Intercontinental, 525-5566. In the lobby Chez Frank, 4630 Downman Road, 241-9761. Lounge, Joe Simpson, 5·8 pm and Theresa Kelly Live music Fridays and Saturdays from 10:30 till. from 8-11 pm. In Pete's Pub, Wednesdays The Club, 1701 St. Bernard, 947-9334. Sundays Fridays: 5-7 pm, Bob Moinelli. from 9 until1. Black Market featuring Alvin Banks. Hyatt Hotel, 561-1234. Sundays, 10 am to 2 pm, Cubby's, 8700 Lake Forest Blvd ., 241-6769. Chuck Credo and the Basin Street Six in the court Tues .• Fri.. Sat., Roc kin Jerry & The Spice of Life, yard Restaurant. Fridays, 4-8 pm in the Mint Julep 10 pm. Wed., Stan the Oldies Man. Sun .• Mon .• Lounge, Nora Wixted. Bobby Cure & The Summertime Blues. NEW Landmark Hotel, 541 Bourbon, 524-7611. Mon. and Thurs. 4-9 pm, Greg Villafrance. Fri. through kJ\ft.LEANS Sun. noon-4 pm Greg Villafrance. Tues. Wed., ..... UPTO W N Fri. -Sun. 4-9 pm and Thurs. 9 pm-2 am, Terry l)IT NEWEST Lee. Fri.-Wed., 9 pm-2 am, Mike Bun is .. Benny's Bar, 738 Valence, 895-9405. Most Leo's, corner Felicity at La Salle. Fridays: Marve Wednesdays and Sundays: JD and the Jammers. LIVE Wright and Reminiscence, 9 to 1. Most Sat.: Charmaine Neville. Music almost every Maison Bourbon, 641 Bourbon, 522-8818. Thurs. night; call for details. MUSIC CLUB through Tues .: Lloyd Lambert. Wed.: Chuck Bert & Quentrell's Happy Lounge, 8520 Spruce, Credo. 866-0024. Weekend disco. Malson Dupuy Hotel, 1001 Toulouse. Thurs. Cafe Banquette, 3445 Prytania, 891-2227. Sat. through Sat.: piano by Tim Davis. 14: Perfect Strangers. Sat. 21: Force of Habit. Sat. MARDI GRAS Mahogany Hall, 309 Bourbon, 525-5595. Sun 28: On the Verge. days: Banu Gibson. Mondays through Saturdays: Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow, 865-9190, Call SCHEDULE Dukes of Dixieland. Mondays: Football Night. for listings. Feb 27: Continental Drifters Mediterranean Cafe, 1000 Decatur St., 523- Glass House, 2519 S. Saratoga, 895-9279. 2302. Sat. and Suns. 1 until 6 p.m.: Scotty Hill's Thursdays: Re-birth. Feb 28: Li'l Queenie & the French Market Jazz Band, with piano music before Jimmy's, 8200 Willow, 866-9549. Sat 28: Doug R&B Death Squad and after. Baron's Harold Please & Surgeon General. Sun. Mar 1: Boxx and Johnny J. The Mint, 500 Esplanade at Decatur. Harry May 1: Hoo Doo Gurus, the DBs & the Continental and the Hitmen ronne on the piano noon till 3 pm. Drifters. Mon. 2: Fleshtones & Dash Rip Rock. Mar 2: Oliver Morgan Old Absinthe House, 400 Bourbon. Nightly save Fri. 6: Divided Council. Sat. 7: Voices of Winter. Tuesday, from 9:30, Bryan Lee and the Jump Thu. 12: White Animals & the Rogues. Fri. 13: Mar 3: Johnny J. & the Street Five. Tuesdays: the J Monque'D Blues Waka Waka. Sat. 14: Bad Finger from England, Hitmen and Black Magic Band. w/ the Bones Explosion. Thu. 19: WTUL Rock Old Opera House, 601 Bourbon, 522-3265. On Marathon. Fri. 20: TBA. Sat. 21: Rock On Mondays-Wednesdays: Mexx Company, from 8 Marathon continues. Thu. 26: Murmurr. Fri. 27: pm. Thursdays, from 9: 15: BT Connection. Fri Radiators. Sat. 28: True Faith. BANDS ALL DAY days and Saturdays from 5 to 8:45: Louisiana Hot Keswany's, Uptown Square, 200 Broadway, Fri MARDI GRAS Sauce. Sundays from 2: 15 to 6:30: Louisiana Hot days and Saturdays from 7:30, Sundays 12:30 to Sauce. Sundays from 7: 15: BT Connection. 3:30p.m. composer/pianist Tim Davis. Happy Hour 10AM-9PM Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter, 523-8939. Sun: Maple Leat, 8316 Oak, 866-9359. Sat. 1: Exuma. $1.00 Well & Beer Harold De jan and the Olympia Brass Band. Mon. Sun. 2: Java. All Wednesdays: J. Monque'd Blues and Thurs.: Kid Thomas Valentine. Tues. and Fri.: · Band. Fri. 13: Li'l Queenie. Fri. 20: Song Dogs. Available {or Private Partie, 482-4700 Kid Sheik Colar. Wed. and Sat.: The Humphrey Sat. 28: Beausoleil. See their ad for further dates. Brothers. Penny Post Coffee House, Daneel St. Folk music 525-4160 * 525-4678 870 .:JI~ ,(/(Je. Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon, 586-0300. In every night. 1001 N. Rampart the Mystick Den, Tuesday-Saturday, Bobby Pontchartraln Hotel, 2031 St. Charles Ave., 524- Lonero, from 10 pm. 0581. Piano bar in the Bayou Lounge nightly from Ryan's 500 Club, 441 Bourbon, 566-1507. From 9 5: Tom McDermott, Mondays-Fridays until 8, and nightly, the Celtic Folk Singers. Mondays-Wednesdays 9 to midnight. Carl Cate Sblsa, 1011 Decatur. Pianists from 8:30 to Franklin, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 to midnight. 11:30. Mondays and Wednesdays: Amasa Miller. Tipilina's, 501 Napoleon, 897-3943. See the cal Tuesday and Sundays: Cynthia Chen. Thursday endar in this issue. Saturday: Fred McDowell. Harry Mayronne, plays Sunday noon until 3 pm. Seaport Cate and Bar, 568- 0981. Tues. through .....WEST BANK Sat.: Sally Townes, 9 to 1. Scruples Cafe , 723 Burgundy, 523-7386. • Bronco's, 1409 Romain, Gretna, 368-1000. Mon RARE! Through Sun. 15, Sat. 11 to 3: Rafael Cruz. Call for days, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays: Missis the complete schedule. sippi South. What's Happen' Out Back? RECORDS, 711 Club, 711 Bourbon, 525-8379. Tues.-Sat., 1801 Club, 1801 Stumpf Blvd., 367-9670. Mahog Fats, Irma. Otis, Jerry Lee, from 9:30, Randy Hebert, in the Showbar. Wed. any, Thursdays Motown. All the Best Are on from 9:30 and Saturdays from 10. The Great Sat.. 9 pm-2 am. AI Broussard in the Main Bar. Wednesdays from 9:30, Up 'n' Up. New Jukebox "Out Back" BUTTONS, Snug Harbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949-0696. Every Enjoy the Covered Pa.tio Fat Cats, 505 Gretna Blvd., 362-0598. Mondays, Taste the Great Food Mon., 10 pm to 2 am: Blue Monday with Char Tuesdays, Thursdays through Saturdays: the maine Neville and Amasa Miller. Every Tues., 10 (Burgers, Po-Boys, Deli POSTERS Groove Band with Jimmy Simon. Sandwiches, Lunch Spectalsl pm till 4 am: Late Night Jazz Jam with Bill Hun Froggies, 403 West Bank Expressway, 367-0227. Listen to your favorite oldies Movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, tington, Charlie Occhipinti, and Matt Lemmler. The Dino Kruse Band every Thursday. . on our'second great jukebox Political, Military, and Storyvllle, 1104 Decatur, 525-8199. Check their Jo Jo's Lounge, 4332 4th St., Marrero, 340-9129. "Out Back" ad for information. Fridays and Saturdays at 10, Sundays at 6: The other pop memorabilia Tropical Isle, 738 Toulouse, 523-9492. Thurs., Red Thorn Rock 'n' Roll Band. MONDAYS Fri.. Sats.: AI Miller. THe club also features Michaul's Restaurant, 601 Patterson, 361-4969. Domestic Beer $1.25 unscheduled jam sessions. Mondays: Joseph DeNone, keyboard, 8-10 pm. Local Music, Blues Windsor Court Grill Room, 300 Gravier, 523- Tuesdays: Charmaine Neville & Real Feelings, 8-11 all day/all night R8tB, Jazz, Classical, 6000. Fridays-Saturdays from 9:30, the Joel pm. Wednesdays and Thursdays: File Cajun Band, TUESDAYS Country, Simpson, Jazz Duo. 8-midnight. Fridays and Saturdays: Chris Burke, Draft Beer Night Winnie's, 2034 A.P. Tureaud, 945-9124. Sundays 8-midnight. 50¢ Glass/$2.50 Pitcher from 6 unti110 pm, Ernie K-Doe. Folk and More Rincon de Ia Vieja Guardia, 2105 Hancock St.. Free Oysters Many.Promo Items Gretna. 367-6733. Latin big bands. 7 pm - l 0 pm Marina Whart, 5353 Paris Road, Chalmette, 2n- WEDNESDAYS Open 7 Days ...... LAKEFRONT 8215. Thursdays-Saturdays from 9: F.rank Dallas. Ladies Night 10 - 9 lst Drink Free. 1/2 Price The Bounty, 1926 W. End Park, 282-9333. Sun., Wed., Thurs.: The Topcats. Mixed Drinks Nexus, 6200 Elysian Fields, 288-3440. Fri.: Julia CINENlA 8 pm- 12 am Garcia and George French. 6 to 10. David THURSDAYS : . '\ 1214 Torkanowsky and his trio with Philip Manuel on Loyola Film Buff's Institute, 895-3196. Thur. 5: Farenheit451. Mon. 9: UmbertoD. Tues. 10: The Busch Night. 75¢ Busch Decatur St. vocals, 10 to 2. Sat: the Julian Garcia Quartet, Longnecks. 9 pm - 'til ( 10:30 to 2. Eavesdropper. Wed. 11: Rumble Fish. Thur 12: fl (,fl · i\ NOLA 70130 John Reed: Insurgent Mexico. Mon. 16:1ngmar FRIDAYS I ~ \ - 1!. ); 561 -5683 Bergman's Wild Strawberries. Tues. 17: Latin! ...... MID- CITY Wed. 18: Lightning Over Water. 1980. Thur. 19: Free Oysters. 6 pm- - 9 pm • . J The Castle of Purity. Mon. . 50¢ Draft. 6 pm - 8 pm True Brew Coffee, 3133 Ponce de Leon, 947- 23: Vertigo. Tues. 24: Death • • · SATURDAYS in Venice.' Wed. 25: The · · • • Rotating Import Beer Specials 3948. Call for schedule. Thin Drum. Thur. 26: El: The .• · .., Strange Passion. Mon. 30: · SUNDAYS ...... N .O. EAST Truffaut's Jules and Jim. • ,. ' S1.50 Bloody Marys, ll am - 5pm Tues. 31: The Last Plane Beau Geste, 7011 Read Blvd., 242-9710. Fri. and Out. Wed., April 1: The Last Picture. Show. Most Now with 2 Great JUKEBOXES Sat. : Moondance featuring AI Norman. shows at? and 9 p.m. 480 1 Magazine 899-9228 MARCH ·Wavelength 25 Tulane McAlister Auditorium, Sun. 1, 7:30p.m.: A Room with a View Fri. 6, 8 p.m.: SWeet Uberty. CONlEDY shanaha~ Sat. 7,8 p.m.: Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Sun. 8: • MONDAY e Gone with the Wind. Wed. 11 : Dr. Zhivago. Fri. 13, The Mint, Decatur at Esplanade, 525-2000. Tues. MONDAY NIGHT 8 p.m.: 9 112 Weeks, and midnight: Stripes. Sat. through Sat.: Rtcky Graham. 14, 8 p.m.: Jumping Jack Flash. Wed. 18: Herbie MICHELOB Ea Marie laveau's Restaurant, 329 Decatur St., $1.25 Michelobs all the Love Bug. Fri. 20: Jungle Book, Pinocchio. 525-9655. Fridays: "Hot Stuff, N.O. Style", star § Sat. 21, 8·p.m.: Song of the South, and 10 p.m.: I~ night starting at 9PM ~ ring Becky Allen, Fred Palmisano and Wanda Lady and the Tramp. Sun. 22: Cinderella, Winnie Rouzan. the .Pooh. Wed. 25: All the President's Men. Fri. a TUESDAY 5 Punchllne Comedy Club, 27, 8 p.m.: Stand By Me, and midnight: The Kids 4704 Veterans Blvd ., 454- BEAT THE CLOCK are Allright. Sat 28, 8 p.m.: Children of a Lesser vi 7973. Tues. 3 through Sun. Starting at 9PM Hi-Balls E God. Sun 29,7:30 p.m.: Breakfast at Tiffany's. 8: Suzie Louks, headliner; are 50¢ and go uo 25¢ Eric Davis, and Dickey . = every Y2 hour § Palmer. Tues. 10 through · I Sun. 15: Nick Lewin, Mark a WEDNESDAY Iii§ Di Ciara, Mitch Moore. Tues. 17 through Sun. 22: 25¢ DRAFT NIGHT Champagne James Lee Reeves, Bob Wise, and Scott Carter. A Gallery for Fine Photography,5423 Magazine, Tues. 24 through Sun. 29: Glen Hirsch, Steve From 9pm- 12am I Sunday 891-1002. Tues. 10: Photography: Magic, Mys Smith, Gary Stephens. Tues. 31 through April 5: tery, and Manipulation. Jon Haymon, Trip Wingfield, Charles Zucker. I THURSDAY Brunch Academy Gallery, 5256 Magazine , 899-8111 . Closed on Mondays. LADIES NIGHT Through Wed. 18: Faculty art sh 26 w...... • MARCH Live Juz Fridays 5pm ·'til Willie Tee & Ja.qtes~lngJeton Ba~pJ Boul Moa·hi t::omphmentary hc;~rs d'oeuvres 4pm ·7pm tafia Jluic S~ys Wavelengtl!: 7pm- 'til lhe Doctcir is In Ruben 'Mr. Salza' GoiiZales The beginning of Wavelength on fessor Longhair, and lots of Dave WYLD AM-94 was truly historic. Bartholomew. Bartholomew, in 112-C.UE ..~ 200 Magazine On his first show Dr. Daddy-0 an fact, was a guest on Wavelength. (1 blk from Canal) nounced, "This is the man who Among the history the two old started rhythm & blues. And he did friends discussed was their col it right here in New Orleans," as laboration on "Good Jax Boogie" he played Roy Brown's "Good around 1949. Daddy-O's radio RocJ,in' Tomght." Daddy-0, who show, concerts, and column in the has been in gospel radio for over 30 Louisiana Weekly were sponsored years. has kept some aspects of his by Jax Beer, under whose ausp1ces gospel show which may not appeal Bartholomew recorded the jumpin' to some, though if you think Little number mentioning "a cat named Richard rocks, you oughta hear Daddy-0." Other guests were Alice New Orleans gospel great Bessie Byrd (Professor Longhair's wife) Griffin sing "Move on Up a Little and Bo Dollis of the Wild Magno Higher." It seems she's goin' to a lias. better place, where "It's always wa~·e length's new time is strictly HAUW-DY, HAUW-DY, HAUW drive time: four to six p.m., though DY, and never goodbye." 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"Blacks could go to musician had no better friend than Frank Painia,'' Bourbon Street then or any of the other places they recalls Burke solemnly. "Everyone that was out wanted to go, but couldn't before integration. That there at that time knew that if they got in a jam, if was new to them and meant a lot of our customers the years, Painia adapted, continuing to offer the they could get to New Orleans, Frank Painia would left. best entertainment in New Orleans. At one time or help them out. He would feed, and put a roof over ''Also my father got sick in 1965, and he was another people like Ray Charles, Christine Kittrell, your head, until you got on your feet. He even had a continually in and out of the hospital. He had always James Brown, Milt Jackson and Little Richard were room in the back that was full of clothes that other been at the Dew Drop, six or seven days a week. The familiar faces around LaSalle Street. Little Richard people had left at the hotel. If he couldn't use you at only time he took a day off was to take the family in fact would immorta1ize the club when he waxed the Dew Drop, he'd get on the phone and try and get fishing. When he couldn't be there everyday, things the appropriately titled Dew Drop Inn, years later. you some work somewhere." started to slip. Being sick he couldn't concentrate on The early Sixties continued to be heady years for the business." the Dew Drop as Painia continued to vary his floor Naomi Swan also added, "I think Frank began to shows to meet his audience's tastes. When Soul The Declining Years feel he could present any show and people would just became the latest trend, the Dew Drop hosted the The glory years for the Dew Drop slowly crept to a show up like they did before. He was the type of man likes of Sam Cooke. the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, standstill sometime around the mid-Sixties. Laura who always wanted things done his way. He didn't Joe Tex and Otis Redding, to name but a few. Jackson blames the club's demise on a number of take to advice too well even if it was good." By the late Sixties, the Groove Room was clqsed, and the more profitable hotel portion of the business was expanded in its place. Live music continued in the front bar, or the Dew Drop Cafe as it was called, but the impressive floor shows were no more. The bold weekly ads that once graced the Louisiana Weekly had shrunk to a mere column in width. and appeared irregularly. Still they recalled the better days when they boasted "Blazing Action- Boss Entertainment." Mostly local acts were featured including Diamond Joe, Lil' Booker, Johnny Adams and as always Patsy. Even as late as the summer of 1967, "the boss of the blues," Joe Turner, was still a Dew Drop attraction. "Even though he was still doing well with the bar and the hotel, I knew it had to hurt him when the nightclub was closed." continues Swan. "That was his baby. He liked nothing better than getting a bottle out when an entertainer came to town and have a few drinks. That was his life. By the time I stopped working there in 1969, they stopped having live entertainment altogether. Frank was really sick and there was nobody to take his place." Frank Painia eventually succumbed to cancer in July of 1972. He was eulogized on the front page of the Louisiana Weekly and rightfully cited as·· always at the front of any movement to make Black people push forward.'' After his death the barbershop. res taurant and bar were leased out to new occupants, while Painia 's wife Freddie struggled to make a go of the hotel. By the mid-Seventies the buildmg had fallen into disrepair and on more than one occasion listed as for sale. Today the Dew Drop still sits quietly on LaSalle Street, its brick facade covered with aluminum sid ing. looking forlorn and in need of a facelift. But the building is still in the family. Painia 's grandson Kenneth Jackson. who once ran a snowball stand for his grandfather, runs the hotel and cuts hair in "Frank's Barber Shop." "I couldn't stand to sec the family lose this place," says Jackson, now 30, who abandoned a teaching career to preserve the faltering business. "It's just too close to me and besides I think my grandfather would tum over in his grave if it was lost. ''I was real close to my grandfather and he used to give me little projects to do and let me run errands for him. People still come by here and talk about the days when the Dew Drop wa\ really jumping. Some times when people pass by here I can sec on their face they're thinking about the good times this place once held. It never fails that every Mard1 Gras some one will come by from out-of-town and ask for Frank Painia. You can see that they're disappointed be cause he's dead and because the place IS not like it used to be. "Right now I'm trying to get the business back on its feet and pay off the last mortgage. rIll trying to do some repairs to bring some class back to the place. Sooner or later I'm gonna renovate the bar. and maybe add a restaurant and live music agam. Who knows. maybe some day I'll light up LaSalle Street just like my grandfather did. e 28 Waveleagth • MARCH ( • I • f I : : : t ! : ! t f \ I • south by southwest RHYTHM GUITARIST and/or SINGER WANTED BIG EASY STUDIOS 16 TRACK RECORDING Former members of Radio Brooklyn and Dense FACILITY. PRICES START FROM $25 PER Flesh starting new band. Emphasis on originals HOUR. TRANSFER YOUR 1/2" 8 TRACK TO 1" and some covers. Call Fred 282-6712 or Elvy 16 TRACK. DIGITAL OUTBOARD GEAR, COM 895-0231. PLETE RANGE OF SERVICES. CALL 282-4381 OR 288-6107 . • CAJUN DANCE CLASSES Randy Speyrer offers a three-week course in the traditional Cajun waltz, two-step , one-step and jitterbug. T & Th 6-7 p.m. Sign up now! 899- 0615. MARKJ. DAVIS WANTED Attorney at Law Female singer; also need a keyboard player. Call 288-1009 for audition. Paul, 885-9774. Covers (Missing Persons, Berlin, Kim Wilde) and originals. Entertainment Law MASSAGE by Sparkman Wyatt at Loyola University Recrea tion Center. By appomtment. 865-3137 or 943- THE WIRE music and media conference 1824. is Britam's definitive jazz and new music maga zine. It is a strong dose of good sounds every MUSICIANS REFERRAL month. Send $4 Jar a quality sample copy to Servtce;Booking Agency Suite 2005, 215 Park Avenue South , New York, Lookmg for that right performing band or pro NY 10003. fessional mustcian? Call Star Power, New York (607) 724-4304 IF YOU HAVE compact discs you don't want, sell them to me. I IT IS: An opportunity for people in the music industry and in • BRITAIN'S DEFINITIVE pay $7 classical, $6 others, $12 doubles. Call . 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On Saturday, openi11g remarks by Huey.Meaux, keynote Music& Digital Sampling Keyboard Entertainment Law address by Carl Grasso of IRS Records, a panel discussion OQ how a (504) 467·3655 local act can break out nationally (with key players in the Timbuk 3 866-8755 story), numerous workshops, and a Club Crawl with more showcase gigs. Sunday, closing comments, a barbecue-and-softball party, and still more showcase performances. • WHO: South By Southwest is sponsored by the Austin Chronicle and co-sponsored by arts and entertainment magazines from all over: Wavelength, Lafayette's The Times of Acadiana, the Dallas Observer, Denver's Westward, Albuquerque's Route 66, Nightflying from Arkan sas, In Between from Galveston, the Oklahoma Gazette, Kansas City's • • • K.C. Pitch, Upstate from Shreveport, San Antonio-Current, Atlanta's Creative Loafing, Houston's Public News, and more. WHAT NEXT? If you wish to register for South By Southwest, just use the form below (Visa and Mastercard accepted). If you just want more information, write to the same address. Call the AIDS Information Center REGISTRATION FORM ___ PEOPLE@$ 522-AIDS $55 per person (Please list names below or on separate ·sheet) (NEW ORLEANS METRO AREA) Less 20% group discount for 4 or more registrants Registration Total $ 0 Please send more information (TOLL-FREE LOUISIANA STATEWIDE) PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE NAME: COMPANY: ADDRESS : ______1 CITY, ST.: ------1 PHONE: ______Play softball? _____ Bring a glove? ____ SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST PO Box 49066, Austin TX 78765 ___ P.O. BOX 2616 NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA 70176-2616 __ MARCH • W11Yelengt11 29 4S~·AGE .~ New Orleans, when adversity Ruffles 'Cajun-Spice' potato chips tions from Uptown for the benefit of club on North Rampart, near Marie nd disaster strike, there's always (the brand endorsed by Justin Wil Johnny Carson and his zillion view Laveau's final resting place. On the our mama. We fondly recall the son)." We dunno because we were ers, with Cyril (in neo-Rastafarian other side of the French Quarter, on llocal mother who, after having made standing outside on Veterans Boule garb) and Aaron (in some of that Decatur Street and within ~ block or her fortune in the beauty culture in vard .in Kenner, waiting two hours for black Spandex we mentioned earlier) two of the actual spot where jazz was dustry, went to Mass each day and . the Krewe of Saturn to parade past; each taking a turn at the microphone. invented, the conspiracy to assassin prayed that her only daughter would memorable moments included the Massaging funny bones on the same ate President John F. Kennedy was marry "a man like St. Joseph." pre-parade procession of a punk gang show was New Orleans comedienne hatched and Tennessee Williams Our favorite episode in Up From on BMX bikes ripping through the Ellen Degeneres. used to walk his dog, is Chief's Ca The Cradle Of Jazz, Messrs. Berry, ranks of the citizenry (average weight A few nights later, clad in an ultra jun Cafe, featuring liveCajun music Foose and Jones' new tome, is the in black Spandex: 340 pounds), and psychedelic shirt, Albert Collins sat on Friday and Saturday nights. one where Dr. John's mama, the slinky shuffling of the Stardust in with the band on Late Night With According to manager Greg Foles, Dorothy Rebennack, confesses that ers dance team, all of whom come David Letterman. What bothers us in it's a "real" Cajun restaurant/bar (as she kept the Hoover out of her 17 equipped with a rhinestone star sewn the televised cases of both Collins and opposed to those "Cajun-Spice" Ruf year-old son's bedroom: "I wouldn't on the left -side of their respective de- the Nevilles is that neither Dave nor fles, which are, of course, "unreal" dare clean it up. I might be throwing rrieres. Johnny let the gentlemen talk. We because they're manufactured in a away another 'Stardust'!" EMI/America is releas·ing a 12" have conversed with all five in place where the economy is boom It was a breathless situation recent dancehall version of the first single dividuals and can assure any produc ing, the people understand what a ly on TV's Super Password when, from the Neville Brothers' Uptown ers that they are unanimously more turn-signal is and the streets are safe given the clues "Plump" and album. Metairie's own John Guar erudite than Jane Seymour, who to walk at 4 a.m.). "Blueberry," the contestants were nieri, Manager of A&R Talent tried to convince Dave that it was Speaking of "safe streets," Bobby expected to guess - that's right! Acquisi~ion for EMI, has dubbed the "romantic" to kidnap one's spouse Marchan is sponsoring a "Big "Fats" Domino! disc "Re-Mix Etouffee" and informs for a weekend of passion on a motel Throw-Down Contest" every The Plump Blueberryman's Val us that the Nevilles' first video will be room bed previously used by God Thursday at the Crystal Disco '81 on entine's Day concert on Austin City shot not at Naggo Head, Jamaica or· knows-how-many-diseased-ridden North Claiborne and a "Gong Show" Limits was hailed by one music con beneath Annibale Carracci's Olym vacationists and adolescent bed every Sunday at the same address, of noisseur of our acquaintance as ''the pian gods and goddesses on the ceil welters. If we want "romanticism," which Bobby proclaims: " Tell 'em greatest thing since the invention of ing of the Palazzo Faroese, but at we reach for Mr. Collins' "Freeze" they got police protection down here freeze-dried remoulade sauce." 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