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 | noah [email] said at 4:35 PM 05-01-2006:
Bo Dollis sitting in on a rival Mardi Gras indian set.
Teresa was there
Elvis Costello’s sweet purple suit
Mr and Mrs Springsteen
LaBamba and Pender form the Max Weinberg Seven are in the band!
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 | boudet [email] said at 4:36 PM 05-01-2006:
damn, i wanted to go to this, nice view. |
 | josh [email] said at 4:41 PM 05-01-2006:
380 pixels wide. 380 pixels wide. 380 pixels wide. |
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| noah [email] said at 4:45 PM 05-01-2006:
Sorry Josh, i just flickr'd it too fast |
 | andrew [email] said at 4:57 PM 05-01-2006:
Nobody represents New Orleans like Bruce Springsteen! |
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| andrew [email] said at 5:17 PM 05-01-2006:
There's always been a lot of very mainstream, irrelevant kind of stuff at Jazz Fest. No disrespect to Bruce, he's great, but I think its too soon to be doing this kind of stuff. I've only been to Jazzfest a few times, I got to see Ray Charles, that was cool, but for the most part I could do without most of it. I liked to see Snooks Eaglin on the sidestages and stuff like that. I really don't even want to go back there though, it just makes me sad. |
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| josh [email] said at 5:26 PM 05-01-2006:
why is it too soon? i would think the city needs all the tourism money it can get at this point. |
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| boudet [email] said at 5:29 PM 05-01-2006:
yeah, they really needed the fest to happen. |
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| andrew [email] said at 6:05 PM 05-01-2006:
All the people that got displaced to Houston and elsewhere will just have to listen to their Bruce Springsteen CDs at home I guess. |
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| andrew [email] said at 12:23 AM 05-04-2006:
Some people might say that it's disrespectful to the 1,500 people that died in the flood. But so what, dead people are LOSERS! Make that money! |
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| josh [email] said at 12:31 AM 05-04-2006:
A. So the city should just shut down forever because people died in a natural disaster?
B. They already had Mardi Gras, why is that any better than this?
C. I think the people who own (or work at) resteraunts, bars, shops, drive taxis are pretty happy the city is trying to come back, and still do events like this. It's a city whose #1 industry is tourism. If they don't try to keep at least some of that going, the city will not come back. If Jazz Fest (and Mardi Gras) keeps a few dozen (or more) local businesses open this year, is that a bad thing? |
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| andrew [email] said at 12:45 AM 05-04-2006:
It's not a necessarily bad thing, but business as usual won't be good enough. All the tourist money in the world can't replace a broken government infrastructure, busted levees, and a displaced population. It's turning out that New Orleans will never be the same again, and that may be a blessing. The poverty and racism there was horrible. |
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| josh [email] said at 1:26 AM 05-04-2006:
Well, sure, but that's not what I'm talking about - Jazz Fest/Mardi Gras/whatever won't fix the levees. But it may keep local bars, resteraunts, taxi services, museums, shops, etc open... and those things are what gives New Orleans' people their jobs. If the people have no jobs, New Orleans WON'T recover, even if the levees were magically made invulnerable. No jobs = no people = no city. |
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| noah [email] said at 5:49 PM 05-01-2006:
No Bruce was exactly what New Orleanians needed. His plain spoken assurances that the rest of the world has not forgotten. Recognition that it was worse than reported. A rallying against the “President Bystander.” All desperately needed.
They played nothing from the Springsteen catalog.
His new band blistered through old country songs and gospel hymns all with a Dixieland tinge. Completely appropriate.
It was part pep rally, part revival. I saw many in tears. |
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| andrew [email] said at 8:07 PM 05-01-2006:
Where there any black people in the crowd? |
 | zack [email] said at 8:15 PM 05-01-2006:
jesus christ. |
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| andrew [email] said at 9:24 PM 05-01-2006:
I think that's a legitimate question. From what I've read in The New York Times, it seems like the future of the city is just as a tourist front with nothing else behind it. Without black musicians, the city just isn't what it was. And I don't mean just Clarence Clemons. The Jazzfest had a diverse mix of people everytime I went, but it seems like those days may be over. |
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| josh [email] said at 9:27 PM 05-01-2006:
Here's the line-up from the front page of the JazzFest site:
Fats Domino, Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger Sessions Band, Jimmy Buffett, Dave Matthews Band, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Lionel Richie, Keith Urban, Yolanda Adams, Herbie Hancock, La India, The Meters, Allen Toussaint w/ Elvis Costello, Etta James, Dr. John, The Ohio Players, Irma Thomas, Ani DiFranco, Keb’ Mo’, Hugh Masekela, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Koko Taylor, Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw, Little Feat, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr., The Radiators, Sam Moore, Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick, Warren Haynes, Angelique Kidjo, Yerba Buena, Chris Owens,Irvin Mayfield, Buckwheat Zydeco, Galactic, Deacon John, Rebirth Brass Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Donald Harrison w/ Eddie Palmieri, Snooks Eaglin,Cowboy Mouth, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Kermit Ruffins, Roland Guerin w/ Marcus Roberts, Sonny Landreth, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Terence Blanchard, the subdudes, Ellis Marsalis w/ Lew Tabackin, Nicholas Payton, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and many, many more. |
NathanK said at 10:38 PM 05-01-2006:
Slick Rick the Ruler! lI wonder if Bob Dylan will do more than show up this time. |
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| josh [email] said at 5:48 PM 05-01-2006:
also - teresa looks like she hasn't aged a day since college |
 | kate [email] said at 3:09 PM 05-02-2006:
I was just saying this to noah! |
 | brandon [email] said at 6:00 PM 05-01-2006:
I think it's very appropriate to have Bruce Springsteen at Jazzfest.
I hope he sang that song about the little pink houses.
"Ain't that America!" |
 | john [email] said at 11:44 AM 05-03-2006:
Wasn't that John Cougar Melloncamp? |
 | brianbibbly [email] said at 9:32 PM 05-01-2006:
RISE UP! RIIIIIISE UP! I heard it was amazing. Man, I can't believe I missed the first post-katrina Jazz Fest. *sniff* | |
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