Jazz Fest video on AT&T, Sat 5/3

Overall: Stream audio is well mixed but two problems: audio is slightly out of sync with video, ahead of it! and phasing got bad towards the end. Video is freeze-framing here and there but it's so much better to see this stuff. And they've thrown in some features, my favorite being watching the second line with the New Wave Brass Band. They even added some acts that weren't on their schedule: Widespread Panic and Jimmy Buffett who was recorded that day!

Saturday, 5/4
AT&T webcast in the order they appeared (times are NY time)

Roddie Romero and the Hub City All-Stars! The audio on this is overmodulated. The stream stops. On restart I miss most of his set. Probably a buffering problem.

A piece on Muses.

Susan Cowsill
This is on 2:41 NY time. River Of Love.

Theresa Andersson Group!
Looking hot as usual.

Kim Carson
White trash. Another cover - Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. Nice.

Jon Cleary!
- Tipitina, done with all the latin influences heard before.
- Zulu Strut
- It's All Over Now
- typical R&B played well but awfully repetitive.
- nice drum intro! nice gtr solo. What We Got, No Different Than What You Got. Good funk groove.

Good mixes so far w/ AT&T. Sounds good other than that one spot where it was distorting. Well directed and cameras are doing a good job.

Dr John! (everyone getting wet)
- Right Place, Wrong Time. Nice shot of keyboard and crowd! Very nostalgic for the pics of Jazz Fest I've seen from the 70s, black and white...
- Keep That Music Simple, funny.
- 'Let's get Shannon McNally's ass up here and do one of them Bobby Charles tunes.' lol. You can lose everything and you still have music. A song for the hurricane survivors. 'Give it up for her ass'.
- song about murders in New Orleans. Say What? Jab at Bush! Yea! "There's a whole lotta shit to be answered for." Hear, hear.
- I'm Qualified, comparing rich vs poor.

Voice of The Wetlands All-stars!
Quint intros them wearing an LSU shirt. LSU sucks! Sorry, I couldn't help myself. All stars indeed. The cream of the crop. Don't Let The Water Wash Us Away.
- Louisiana Sunshine. Another song to help people rebuild their lives. Disco beat?

Stream stops and restarts at beginning.

I get it to work again but I miss the next song.

They don't edit out the between-song wait.

- Dedicates this song to the people who are trying to move back to New Orleans. Sung by Jumpin' Johnny Sansonne. 'Insurance man nothing more than a big ball buster.' Good to hear these songs about how hard it's been. (AT&T has the wrong lower third up as Johnny sings. It's not Dr John playing anymore...) Bush and Haliburton and Blanco. Good song.

- Ain't Gonna Lose No More. (We Gonna Fight). A Mardi Gras Indian is on stage in pink. (Monk Boudreaux) Saving our wetlands in Iraq, we want our money back! Alright!

- Hold Em Joe? chant. The rain is coming down! They cut it short.

The subdudes!
.... What an honor to play after the Dixie Chicks, I mean Dixie Cups.
They are subdued. I always thought the name was more 'sub dudes' but it sure applies to their music now and then. Subdued. Subdued dudes? Sub ub ub...

- Lord you got to help me now... late at night. (ED problems?)

- '1972, the hippies came and rearranged our minds'! Love is a beautiful thing. A familiar tune. 'Leave the mud people alone.' (That's the year I came down there too.) Nice to hear this again.

Now they show a tent where Strum Sticks are sold. A non-musical host.

Zac Brown (on ahead of schedule)
- generic, boring country.
- hard rock w/fiddle and organ, then reggae. Who Knows. Into ska w/ fiddle then Allman Bros. Gtr and fiddle trading licks.
- 'right cheer', cracker for "right here." Whoa, an Irish riff?
- Opening for Etta James that night at the HOB. Talk about a mismatch. Another generic country tune. Just As Free As We'llo Ever Be. Then into Van Morrison's Into The Mystic. Funny, I was thinking he sounded similar to Van, except for the lyrics, phrasing, band, and talent. Then back into his song. "Though we don't have a lot of money, all we need is love." He's from GA.
- Lists his favorite things: ' cold beer on a Friday night, a pair of jeans that fit just right' All country cliches. Next! And he loves his mama. Give me a break. Thanks the soldiers for dying so he doesn't have to sacrifice. (Expletive edited out.)

Irma Thomas! (and the Professionals)
- It's Raining? I miss this.
- Ruler Of My Heart. Sounds like she's going to play the hits. Nothing wrong with that. Thanks the out-of-towners.
- unknown song. The horn players have got their little dance routine with Irma.
- If You Want It, Come And Get It...
- Soul Survivor
- Time Is On My Side
- I Just Got Over! complete w/ second line audience participation. And Iko Iko and Hey Pocky Way and then back into I Just Got Over. Thanks the audience for helping out the city again.

Stream stops then restarts back at the Voice of the Wetlands.

Wayne Toups! (long set)
Starts early. OK
- nice
- Leap Of Faith (hear some phasing throughout AT&T webcast)
- slow dance song
- some song about a train
- from a soundtrack...
- unknown song with bad audio problem (kind of like an echo/phasing problem)
- song in French, nice and long.
- unknown song
- another. Some nice jams. The Allman Brothers Blue Skies - ending.
- ending tune, phasing is bad at points. Phasing continues after tune ends.

Not on the schedule but it appeared anyway:
Widespread Panic, phasing is bad at times. It's adding it's own rhythm track.
Not much to this music. Gets better. "Sewing machine" is an important lyric, important enough to be repeated three times? This at least has a harder edge than whatever I'd heard Phish do.

Tim McGraw - which I could not watch. Awful stuff.

piece on soft shell crabs!

piece on second lining with the New Wave Brass Band!

(rec today!) Jimmy Buffet (w/ Sonny Landreth? Allen Toussaint comes in)
Is this a little lagniappe?
I am no Jimmy Buffett fan these days. I did like his Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw days though. This stuff is music perfectly safe for an elevator near you.

- One Particular Harbor
- Ilo Ferreira, more elevator music
- fins song
- Ralph MacDonald on percussion! Brings Allen Toussaint on to do Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans. That was a jazz Fest moment? Pretty pitiful.

Looking forward to tomorrow.