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| jagdriver (The aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Oct 31, 2008 - 15:00 Well, hell, it's 1967 and I'm listening The X comin' out of Detroit. That's WABX to you uninitiated, new home to SF's trend-setting Larry Miller, credited with starting freeform radio that only RP emulates today (well, and maybe some college stations such as WNMC in Traverse City, MI). My time capsule is elsewhere in these ramblings, but it goes something like this: I was attending an all boys, college-prep school (totally Dead Poets Society) in Bloomfield Hills, MI (home of the auto barons). One day there was a sign-up sheet to ride a school bus down to the Grande Ballroom (Detroit's answer to the Fillmore after "Uncle" Russ Gibb coaxed Bill Graham into instructing him how to put the whole thing together). We off to go see some group named Cream at a Sunday afternoon under-age concert. I had no idea who they were, but I was certain it would beat doing homework! That was a life-altering experience, to say the least. More here. |
| rowdydaisy (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Oct 31, 2007 - 15:04 nate917 wrote: Dr. John was overrated when I booked him for a school concert 25 years ago. Now he's just passé. He'd have been forgotten were it not for Katrina. He is thought to have a special regional flavor, but I'll stick to gumbo, thank you. He spent intermission of his show off in some corner backstage, trying very hard to look like he was composing music even as he was performing it. (So he was, you know, a musician 24 and 7.) No one cared. They thought he was antisocial, and his "composition" was just scribbles.
Better be careful, he'll put a voodoo spell on you. |
| Helchat (a record store near you) | Posted: Oct 31, 2007 - 15:03 Hannio wrote: Age: 6 Band: Barney Mom paid Ghastly - I was 25 feet away when I noticed two eyes peering out behind his dentures - what a fright!! I peed, peed in my shorts. i nearly peed in my shorts reading your story! Thanks LOL  |
| Pyro | Posted: Oct 31, 2007 - 15:02 nate917 wrote: Dr. John was overrated when I booked him for a school concert 25 years ago. Now he's just passé. He'd have been forgotten were it not for Katrina. He is thought to have a special regional flavor, but I'll stick to gumbo, thank you. He spent intermission of his show off in some corner backstage, trying very hard to look like he was composing music even as he was performing it. (So he was, you know, a musician 24 and 7.) No one cared. They thought he was antisocial, and his "composition" was just scribbles.
I doubt Mac will EVER be forgotten. Like him or not, he is a N'Awlins legend and institution. |
| GChevy410 (Seattle, WA) | Posted: Oct 31, 2007 - 14:58 Hannio wrote: Age: 6 Band: Barney Mom paid Ghastly - I was 25 feet away when I noticed two eyes peering out behind his dentures - what a fright!! I peed, peed in my shorts. HA ha Thank you |
| nate917 | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 12:02 Dr. John was overrated when I booked him for a school concert 25 years ago. Now he's just passé. He'd have been forgotten were it not for Katrina. He is thought to have a special regional flavor, but I'll stick to gumbo, thank you. He spent intermission of his show off in some corner backstage, trying very hard to look like he was composing music even as he was performing it. (So he was, you know, a musician 24 and 7.) No one cared. They thought he was antisocial, and his "composition" was just scribbles. |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:47 digger wrote: Age: 14 Band: "Cream" $5.00 Unbelievable- I was 10 feet away when their limo pulled up and they walked to the stage door-what a sight!! It's "Burned, burned in my memory" Age: 6 Band: Barney Mom paid Ghastly - I was 25 feet away when I noticed two eyes peering out behind his dentures - what a fright!! I peed, peed in my shorts. |
| arserocket (Way down South West Scotland near boredom) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:43 Whirlpool wrote: Is this ever going to end?
There must be something wrong with me because I've liked almost every song in the last hour or more...I thought I knew music until I listened to this station...I know absolutely zilch but I'm learning....thats the trouble with being brought up in a house where your parents like listening to the Osmonds! Nasty but true... |
| window (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:39 crinky wrote: No, I like it, I like it, it's good. You like it now, but you'll learn to love it later. |
| danagraves (Oklahoma now, but, sigh, used to be Berkeley) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:39 Usually like Dr. John...not this song so much though. |
| FeydBaron (Phoenix, AZ) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:39 ANNE_MARIE wrote: what's that slurpy sound at the end?
Water bong? |
| zaknafein (Kansas City, MO) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:39 Whirlpool wrote: Is this ever going to end?
My thought exactly. |
| Whirlpool (Somewhere in California) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:38 Is this ever going to end? |
| crinky (New England) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:37 Dave_Mack wrote: The one thing you've gotta remember is not to be afraid of it. No, I like it, I like it, it's good. |
| Dave_Mack (On the bus) | Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:33 Losman wrote: You know, I think I'm gonna go down to Madam X
And let her read my mind She said "That Voodoo stuff don't do nothing for me" The one thing you've gotta remember is not to be afraid of it. |
| Losman (Suspended in Gaffa) | Posted: Jul 25, 2007 - 14:26 You know, I think I'm gonna go down to Madam X And let her read my mind She said "That Voodoo stuff don't do nothing for me" |
| prairieskye | Posted: Apr 22, 2007 - 06:26 it's classic Dr John Unmistakeable sound----how but Gis Gris Gumbo Ya Ya |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Mar 21, 2007 - 21:57 siwalker wrote: Yup. An excellent cover on the Stanley Road album. And yes, it should be Gilded, not Guilded. There was a wildly different version done by The Flower Pot Men in the 80's. Never even knew it was a remake until now. |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 05:55 It seems to me you could get similar, if not better results from swinging a few cats by their tails - especially when it comes to the background "singing". |
| Alafia (Pulling the universe in...) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 05:54 
EDIT: can't believe this song is at 5.7! |
| Darkmatter (Sweden) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 05:51 Ooh aye, this is the stuff. Bring on the voodoo!  |
| Mari (île de lesvos) | Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 14:31 Cy wrote: A spooky old Dr. John song, haven't heard this one in a looong time! An interesting addition to the mix.
 the first post for this song all those years ago  I like it! |
| skyguy (CO) | Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 14:27 I was wondering when the N.O. music was going to come out! where's my 2nd line emoticon? |
| dionysius (The People's Republic of Austin) | Posted: Oct 31, 2006 - 16:06 Hey, Mr. Rebennack, hoodoo you think you are? |
| am (The boo-tiful Ozarks) | Posted: Oct 31, 2005 - 08:55 smilestoomuch wrote: hmm...Dr. John twice in two hours? Bill, whatcha thinkin?
Spooky!  Happy Halloween! |
| smilestoomuch | Posted: Oct 31, 2005 - 08:42 hmm...Dr. John twice in two hours? Bill, whatcha thinkin? |
| Bodhisattva (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Sep 02, 2005 - 10:43 a more timely selection would have been "Right Place, Wrong Time".. :-k |
| Baby_M (a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Sep 02, 2005 - 10:42 Did I burn up?  Did I burn up? 
Kinda goes on 'way past the point of diminishing marginal utility. |
| gregorbill (PDX) | Posted: Apr 04, 2005 - 16:04 I've been wanting to hear the original of this for a long time. I'm only familiar with the King Swamp remake of it. |
| algrif | Posted: Mar 06, 2005 - 14:00 algrif wrote: Marsha Hunt (NOT the actress!!) 1987 Walk On Gilded Splinters A hit in its day
I remember now! This was a protest song. Perhaps earlier than 1987. I think this date was a re-release. It came from the term 'wogs'. A (now) offically banned word which the Brits used back in time as a derogatory reference to any person from another country, but especially if non white. Walk On Gilded Splinters |
| algrif | Posted: Mar 06, 2005 - 04:53 Marsha Hunt (NOT the actress!!) 1987 Walk On Gilded Splinters A hit in its day |
| trekhead | Posted: Jan 06, 2005 - 05:30 digger wrote: Age: 14 Band: "Cream" $5.00 Unbelievable- I was 10 feet away when their limo pulled up and they walked to the stage door-what a sight!! It's "Burned, burned in my memory" Age: 22 Band: Weird Al $: Free with admission to KI TYpical- I was 80 feet away and got splattered by fake blood from LIKE A SURGEON act. "Stained, stained into my favorite T shirt." |
| trekhead | Posted: Jan 06, 2005 - 05:25 Ooh, ouch! You're gonna have to use platinum tweezers to get those out. |
| Detlaps (Littlerock in Southern CA) | Posted: Dec 07, 2004 - 15:39 Maybe ya'all play sometime dey won 'bou' dey black widow spaidr! |
| digger (Vermont) | Posted: Dec 07, 2004 - 15:37 Leslie wrote: What an amazing first concert! Compare that to my first concert at age 13-Captain and Tennille  Age: 14 Band: "Cream" $5.00 Unbelievable- I was 10 feet away when their limo pulled up and they walked to the stage door-what a sight!! It's "Burned, burned in my memory" |
| maddmatt (Huntsville, Al) | Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 20:45 Cool, groovin' song. |
| mogwei85 (zurich) | Posted: Nov 08, 2004 - 01:55 boring, :oops: |
| jadewahoo (Sedona Az, Beautiful Earth) | Posted: Oct 29, 2004 - 09:30 Dr. John, he da Man... Night Tripper all in the realms of dark, bring it some light. Yeah! Dr. John. Yeah. |
| ANNE_MARIE (The Ozark Mountains) | Posted: Oct 29, 2004 - 09:21 what's that slurpy sound at the end? |
| GGendeman (Lockport, IL) | Posted: Oct 24, 2004 - 07:40 siwalker wrote: Yup. An excellent cover on the Stanley Road album. And yes, it should be Gilded, not Guilded. |
| Johray63 (The middle of Meppel, Holland) | Posted: Sep 10, 2004 - 02:22 Whack-a-Mole wrote: Ah to live in Holland...er flash back to reality, wife kids and mortage. Yeah music is the only way I get off now days. Thanks RP for this nice hit of Dr. John 'The Night Tripper' in the morning. :D
It didn't mean to promote Holland's (relative) liberal drugs policies and I don't do drugs anymore myself (or better, hardly), but I know what the effect can be, listening to a song like this!
BTW, the liberal attitude towards sex and drugs seems to become a thing of the past since "we" need to walk in step with the rest of Europe, more and more. |
| tony620d (an office) | Posted: Aug 26, 2004 - 08:02 repetitive. 1 |
| steeler (teetering on the abyss) | Posted: Jul 28, 2004 - 09:46 Businessgypsy wrote: Interesting to hear Coco Robichaux's name in this song again. In the mid nineties, I lived in a loft above an art studio in the Marigny, a New Orleans neighborhood. The building next door was Cafe Brazil, and Coco lived in a pad above the bar. His window opened on my rooftop, and we used to exchange pleasantries and complaints from time to time. Coco was a voodoo spiritualist, and also a musician of considerable talent. Nice to be reminded that the world is balanced by a few peaceful folks who aren't overocupied with the material world.
Interesting. Thanks for the information. |
| jbgeezus | Posted: Jul 14, 2004 - 15:06 I could see how this song would be absolutely wonderful while sitting in a dark room, completely stoned...unfortunately, that's not usually how I listen to RP. |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Mar 19, 2004 - 07:41 Interesting to hear Coco Robichaux's name in this song again. In the mid nineties, I lived in a loft above an art studio in the Marigny, a New Orleans neighborhood. The building next door was Cafe Brazil, and Coco lived in a pad above the bar. His window opened on my rooftop, and we used to exchange pleasantries and complaints from time to time. Coco was a voodoo spiritualist, and also a musician of considerable talent. Nice to be reminded that the world is balanced by a few peaceful folks who aren't overocupied with the material world. |
| siwalker (Dartmouth, Devon, UK) | Posted: Feb 24, 2004 - 11:39 darrenm wrote: OK, someone help - where have I heard this before?
Is it Paul Weller? Yup. An excellent cover on the Stanley Road album. And yes, it should be Gilded, not Guilded. |
| darrenm (LONDON) | Posted: Feb 24, 2004 - 11:28 OK, someone help - where have I heard this before? Is it Paul Weller? |
| Monkeysdad (Chatsworth, CA) | Posted: Feb 24, 2004 - 11:26 Did I moider? |
| RichardPrins (Canada) | Posted: Jan 13, 2004 - 10:55 (pimp)  |
| philarktos (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Dec 13, 2003 - 15:53 Gregorama wrote: What exactly is gris-gris? And for that matter, chili-con-con?
Is it like cajun Chili con carne? And what is tilla burda? Is all this French or Creole lingo? Love it anyway.did a search. The website of a cajun band named "Gris Gris" states: "Gris Gris in cajun folklore means a spell, it was said that you could have the gris gris put on you." The Merriam Webster Dictionary: "One entry found for gris-gris. Main Entry: gris-gris Pronunciation: 'grE-(")grE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural gris-gris /-(")grEz/ Etymology: French Date: 1698 : an amulet or incantation used chiefly by people of black African ancestry" |