View Full Version : Fats receives 'lost' awards
ozzie
08-13-2007, 09:25 PM
"Twenty of Fats Domino's gold records lost or destroyed during Hurricane Katrina have been reproduced and were presented to the 79-year-old Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer at a French Quarter nightclub."
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=67469
bywterbro
08-13-2007, 09:59 PM
"Twenty of Fats Domino's gold records lost or destroyed during Hurricane Katrina have been reproduced and were presented to the 79-year-old Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer at a French Quarter nightclub."
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=67469
this is a really great thing ozz.....tanks for sharing.....
heres a little something positive from the article...
"the tipitina foundation is planning to open a co-op office across the street from Domino's home, which will provide business development and job skills training for musicians and music students, said Tipitina's owner Roland von Kurnatowski."
ScoopJohnD
08-13-2007, 10:04 PM
Saw that on the news this morning........thanks for posting it Oz. A very kind gesture by the record company for a man who certainly deserves it and I believe would appreciate it. By all accounts I've read a modest man, but one who I think realizes how important his place is the history of music and New Orleans.
Big WOO HOO for Fats.
mdfest
08-13-2007, 10:06 PM
Im reading his biography Blue Monday. Highly recommended.
The article quotes Cosimo Matassa. I would love to hear him speak, or read a book about him. Its always great reading about the places where incredible music was being created. There was a club in Asbury Park that helped Springsteen evolve. Makes you wonder if there are modern day equivalents.
ScoopJohnD
08-13-2007, 10:20 PM
Im reading his biography Blue Monday. Highly recommended.
The article quotes Cosimo Matassa. I would love to hear him speak, or read a book about him. Its always great reading about the places where incredible music was being created. There was a club in Asbury Park that helped Springsteen evolve. Makes you wonder if there are modern day equivalents.
Fantastic book. And not to drift from Fats, but to answer the question. I think the clubs are still there and the bands are still playing them, it's after being signed where things have changed. Bands used to hone themselves on the road.....opening for whoever and could take 3 or 4 records to build a following. Now, 1 record, hit or be dropped, unless there's amazing critical response. Before it was record, tour, short break, record, tour. Not now. And I don't think the loyalty is there. Ian Hunter said it quite well, he likened bands back in the day to sports teams. You latched on to a band or a few and they were YOURS, and you'd keep up with them and try to convert your friends to them. Now it's not THE BAND, but the song. Not even the whole cd, just a song.
Now back to our regularly scheduled Fats programming.
mightyradgumbo
08-13-2007, 11:06 PM
Im reading his biography Blue Monday. Highly recommended.
The article quotes Cosimo Matassa. I would love to hear him speak, or read a book about him. Its always great reading about the places where incredible music was being created. There was a club in Asbury Park that helped Springsteen evolve. Makes you wonder if there are modern day equivalents.
ahhh, the Stone Pony...great venue-Much like Tips with NOLA musicians in that a lot of the local Jersey rockers got their feet wet playing there. Tips is really instrumental (pardon the pun) in keeping the legacy of New Orleans music alive. Between the foundation and this and their clinics they really own a special place in the music of New Orleans.
mdfest
08-13-2007, 11:20 PM
Its not the Pony i was thinking of. Ill have to dust off a book to find the name. I think it was in the back of a hair salon or something. Its gone now.
mightyradgumbo
08-14-2007, 02:46 AM
Its not the Pony i was thinking of. Ill have to dust off a book to find the name. I think it was in the back of a hair salon or something. Its gone now.
hmmm, maybe the Upstage? Never made it there but heard he cut some teeth there
freebo
08-14-2007, 05:42 PM
Whoo frickin' Hoo!
Give Fats some love - he sure deserves it!
I highly recommend that all yall out there read Fats' bio, 'Blue Monday'.
It will change the way you think about R&B and America.
That book is a real labor of love by Rick Coleman. And I agree with mdfest: I'd love to read more about Cosimo's life and times as well.
Aside to mdfest: Watch for Cosimo at the Allison Miner interview stage. I've caught him there three times now. And it's usually with other giants of New Orleans R&B: Earl Palmer, Art Neville, Irma Thomas, Wardell Quegerzue, etc. etc...
Like Dr. John says: 'Catch 'em now, cause you sure don't hear no music coming from the graveyard...'
Yeah you right.