Galactic, Mike Gordon, & Friends

Galactic, Mike Gordon, & Friends
Originally uploaded by Mathew A. Koeneker

Happy Friday and hopefully the end of your work week. Try and take at least one day off this weekend and attempt to recharge your soul.

I attended the Mike Gordon and Galactic triple threat attack with the band Orgone as the opener last night at the University City's premier live concert venue -- The Pageant. For an all ages show, the staff were nice and on top of things. No one kept trying to take my glass and replace it with a plastic cup which has always been a personal pet peeve of mine.

The show even went till about 12:20 am which is late when curfew is considered. Each act played one decent set and then sat in with each other a few times before a grand finale with everyone on the stage. It sure was crowded. The addition of Cyril Neville absolutely brought the funk levels up a notch.

The band is currently touring in support of it's new album YA-KA-MAY which was released Feb 9, 2010 on Anti Records. The album features established legends such as the Rebirth Brass Band, Irma Thomas, Big Chief Bo Dollis, Allen Toussaint and Walter “Wolfman” Washington with younger artists like Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry, John Boutté, Josh Cohen and Scully, and Glen David Andrews, as well as groundbreaking new “Bounce” artists like Cheeky Blakk, Big Freedia, Katey Red, and Sissy Nobby. The end result is New Orleans like it’s truly meant to be heard, and pure GALACTIC.

It was nice to be welcomed back into the fold of the taping community seeing as how I have been absent for awhile. I will amend this post with hyper links for bands, clubs, etc. a little bit later today. I will also find a source for the show and get that info into your hands as well. Thanks to all the hard work by Klaus, Kinder, ScottT, SteveB and all the rest.

As to the many other folks that ran up and gave me a hug and/or hearty hello, it was grand to see all of you again. There are just too many of you to mention, so I will just send you all some positive vibrations.

An interesting sidebar is a small test that I ran. If you like to keep your ticket stubs in pristine condition as I do, take a high resolution picture and save it on your phone. The hand held infrared scanner devices that the wardens of the door use will read the scanned and imaged ticket quite well.

Namaste,
Mati :-)