Bonerama (New Orleans Brass Funk Rock)
Thur, June 12, 2008
7:00pm
Pier Park
Panama City Beach
"When Bonerama struts onstage with its four-trombone frontline, you can guess it's not quite like any rock 'n' roll band you?ve seen. When they tear into some vintage New Orleans funk, there's no questioning from which city these guys hail. And when those ?bones start ripping into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin licks, all stylistic bets are off....
New Orleans? fertile club scene was directly responsible for Bonerama getting together. Trombonists Mullins and Craig Klein were both members of Harry Connick's band, where they'd been since 1990. Both were looking to supplement this gig with something a little less structured. "Harry sets the bar pretty high, and you have to play it the same way every night for everyone to follow."
The big chance came in the summer of ?98, when Mullins had a weekly residency at Tipitina's in the French Quarter. The club was then turning weekly slots over to some of the city's favorite musicians, including Allen Toussaint and Cyril Neville; Mullins got charge of Wednesdays. Word got out one week that he and Klein were staging their trombone super-session and everybody they knew wanted to get involved. "It seemed that half the trombone players in town showed up," Klein recalls. "At the end of the night we had them all onstage, maybe fifteen trombones at once. It sounded like a freight train; a big wall of sound coming right at you...." (read more)
Thur, June 12, 2008
7:00pm
Pier Park
Panama City Beach
"When Bonerama struts onstage with its four-trombone frontline, you can guess it's not quite like any rock 'n' roll band you?ve seen. When they tear into some vintage New Orleans funk, there's no questioning from which city these guys hail. And when those ?bones start ripping into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin licks, all stylistic bets are off....
New Orleans? fertile club scene was directly responsible for Bonerama getting together. Trombonists Mullins and Craig Klein were both members of Harry Connick's band, where they'd been since 1990. Both were looking to supplement this gig with something a little less structured. "Harry sets the bar pretty high, and you have to play it the same way every night for everyone to follow."
The big chance came in the summer of ?98, when Mullins had a weekly residency at Tipitina's in the French Quarter. The club was then turning weekly slots over to some of the city's favorite musicians, including Allen Toussaint and Cyril Neville; Mullins got charge of Wednesdays. Word got out one week that he and Klein were staging their trombone super-session and everybody they knew wanted to get involved. "It seemed that half the trombone players in town showed up," Klein recalls. "At the end of the night we had them all onstage, maybe fifteen trombones at once. It sounded like a freight train; a big wall of sound coming right at you...." (read more)
