New Orleans ILMers, are you out there?

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So i've found myself in the sultry burg of New Orleans for what appears to be an extended stay. I am generally unfamiliar with the area, and my contacts here unfortunately do not share my passion for the (typically indie) Rock, the Jazz and other sonic delights. This is very general, I know, but I would appreciate any and all advice you might have about the usual concerns: clubs, bars & other venues, record shops, local rags etc.

It should be noted that I have only peripheral knowledge of dixieland, ragtime, creole, zydeco and other local features, but I would love to explore this more while I am here.

Finally, I NEED A JOB! Perhaps this is ILM abuse, but if any of you know of any record shops, galleries, bars etc (see above) in which I might pursue such avenues, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you!

― DM Sojourner (Hexy M.F.), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I lived in New Orleans in 1994-1995, in an apartment that's now part of the Degas House museum. In 1998 I went back to wrestle with old demons and the meaning of Mardi Gras, and wrote this article which you may find interesting:

http://www.mndaily.com/ae/Print/1998/09/

The online version accidentally left off this introductory quote:

Well if you're going to New Orleans, you ought to go see the Mardi Gras/If you're going to New Orleans, you ought to go see the Mardi Gras/When you see the Mardi Gras, somebody'll tell you what's Carnival for

-- Professor Longhair, "Go to the Mardi Gras"

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Here are a bunch of other links, most of them on my blog, Complicatedfun.com, where New Orleans culture remains a lifelong obsession:

http://www.offbeat.com/
http://www.peachesrecordsandtapes.com/
http://www.professorlonghair.com/
http://www.barnburnermusic.com/
http://www.rebirthbrassband.com/rbb/index.shtml
http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/
http://www.wwoz.org/
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/

For more New Orleans music:
http://www.goodtimesroll.org/shows/programs.shtml
http://www.rhinorecords.com/
http://www.shoutfactory.com/
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/

I also recommend reading Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story, which is hilarious:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/030680980X/qid=1118531431/sr=8-3/ref=pd_ka_1/104-4894231-4877540?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

For starters, you could do worse than just wander around the Treme in the daytime talking to people. I don't know if Trombone Shorty's is still there, but I'm sure Kermit Ruffins holds down a weekly gig somewhere around there.

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Pete: Thanks! This will keep me busy for a while.

― DM Sojourner (Hexy M.F.), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

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― BrianWright, Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

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― BrianWright, Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

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― BrianWright, Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

My old City Pages colleague Katy Reckdahl is always worth reading in Gambit, too (a.k.a. bestofneworleans.com). Here's something she wrote last summer about the police killing of trombonist Joe Williams:

http://www.hot8brassband.com/why.htm

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Brian. That is a fantastic idea that never crossed my mind. I could scale the heights of fortune and prestige as a No Limit soldier! They probably need booty dancers at least, and I've always had a secret fondness for Juvenile and his delicate wooing of the ladies. I might even make it out of this with my own diamond encrusted, badly Photoshopped album sleeve.

― DM Sojourner (Hexy M.F.), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

hey...theres a couple small record stores you may check out.
Rocks Off on Magazine St. is pretty good for new releases and vinyl. Magic Bus in the French Quarter (I can't remember the address, it recently changed) is great for used, and if I recall has a cheapie vinyl section. Clerks aren't too snobby in either place, either.

― p.j. (Henry), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Magic Bus is on Toulouse St., near One Eyed Jack's (music venue). I think there's another one on Conti, too.

Also, Jim Russell's Rare Records, on Magazine St. (around the 2000 block, I think) has a lot of old jazz, blues, funk, and soul records, as well as some secondhand turntables and accessories.

― Ethan Forrest (ethanf), Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

x-post

Actually the whole C-Murder/C-Miller story is worth knowing. Who knows if he's guilty. I used to walk through the Miller family's old project, Calliope. That's where the Nevilles grew up, too.

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Pete - is that Peaches Records thing for real? $19.98 as a starting point for cds? and are the No Limit albums really going for $40-$50 a pop? that site just boggles my mind, i shoulda held on to all those crappy No Limit discs i used to have.

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

DM, for future reference, if there's a good show going on, there's a new orleans FAP thread on ILE and me and adam (hexenductor) are usually up for some music/drinking

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Seen anything good this summer fetchboy, I'm missing the chart room...

― temeraire (r h), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

the coughs/white mice show at some random punk house was pretty good. I don't know if you've ever been to any gigs @ Eldon's House in the Bywater but thursday night Deacon Dan, a hilarious one man electronic-spazz band, is playing there. Me and some friends are going.
are you still in town? do you know what's up with adam, kate, and jeff?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I've never been to Eldon's house and have actually never heard of it.. I'm in chicago this summer and have seen some very good shows. As far as I know, adam, kate and jeff are just hang around this summer. Adam no longer has internet. You should give them a call, I doubt they'd pass up a chart fap.

btw, if you want to go to winter music conference this year, you can definately stay with me in miami.

― temeraire (r h), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Peaches is ridiculous.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

im not sure if i'll still be in the country by the time it comes around, but i'll definitely keep your offer in mind.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

So is it as bad as it looks on TV?

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I feel awful because I cracked some joke this morning about the lack of coverage on the French Quarter. Really, I'm just happy the news is paying attention to the heavily populated areas that are really hurting right now. I hope all the ilx0rs who are around the hurricane area are doing OK.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

The whole city is being evacuated now. I posted a bunch of news links here:
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/pscholtes/2005/08/30

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

ILE thread here:

Katrina's aftermath

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

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