Tipitina's

This year we have Cajun and Creole music.

We have a museum exhibit, we have heritage demonstrations, we have stage shows, we have educational symposiums, and we have a Rock the Rafters kickoff show at Tipitina's on Thursday night.

Can you walk us through some of the highlights of the lineup? Who are some of the big headliners performing and some of the lesser known acts that you're particularly excited about?

Yes.

And then I don't know why they had to start bringing in the big commercial acts that you can see anywhere.

But yeah, rock and ball or Tipitina's.

There's so many clubs in town where you can

go.

I got a Tipitina's T-shirt, man.

Absolutely.

Oh, by the way, behind me is a poster from Jazz Fest.

It changed my life, though.

Now, I mean, I, I didn't wear them at Tipitina's the other night, and one gig just shredded me back to where I was.

So I'll be going to Walmart tomorrow before I leave town.

'Cause I've tried the, the other brands-

... and they don't work.

Oh, yeah, Walmart.

That's what happened at, at Tipitina's.

The cheap New Orleans brand fell off like second song, then I was in pain for the rest of the night.

He was like, hey, man, if I get you guys a gig, will you guys let me manage the band? We was like, yeah.

So he got us a gig at Tipitina's.

We was like, great.

And we were called a group at the time.

Yet someone is selling that, and hopefully they get their money back.

But, but you look at venues like Tipitina's.

When someone doesn't show up to a Galactic show, Galactic owns Tipitina's-

Right

... someone doesn't show up to that show, you know, they have 800 tickets sold.

And that kind of fostered an environment that was conducive to future generations of creativity, you know?

I'll tell you something else about Jimmy and about Sonny Schneider when he was working at Tipitina's.

They used to call me.

They called me at the station every week and said, hey, man, are you guys playing the flesh tones? I'd be like, yeah, we're playing.

Yeah.

Yeah, so, but once I got there, you know, I immediately went to college at the University of the Neville Brothers.

You know what I'm saying? It's like I came up literally at their feet, you know, in Tipitinas.

They're like four feet above me, and I'm looking up at Aaron.

And so, but.

When I think of music and so much legendary things you can talk about musically here in New Orleans, but man, Tipitina's is right there as well.

Not only do you guys do the Tipitina's Record Club podcast, but you have a little tie-in with the club itself there on Shops, huh?

Yeah, yeah.

About eight years ago, the club was looking, it's getting into kind of rough territory with the previous owner, was having a hard time keeping it going.

than just streaming through a system or something, you know? So yeah, it's fun.

And, and the record club, uh, it's great because we've been putting out a lot of, um, like unheard music stuff.

That's like live at Tipitina, some legendary artists like Fats Domino and Etta James and, and live at Tipitina is that like recordings that have never been heard.

Very cool.

It was recorded live at Tipitina's, which is a famous bunch of recordings where they record live the performance.

Really cool.

This is really gritty, raw, wild stuff.

A dear friend of mine got me a copy of this.

Some really cool stuff.

I would check out their website, Tipitina's.

I think it's tipitinas.com. Maybe live at Tipitina's.

Maybe they'll do a volume two.

The photo is in the Historic New Orleans collection because it's a photo of Professor Longhair performing at Tipitina.

It's taken by Michael P. Smith, the famous chronicler.

What

story.

So the end of it is that we found this photo and it was in the collection because it was an important photo of Professor Longhair taken by an important photographer.

But it turns out in the front row of that photo is Bunny and Lyle making out at Tipitina's in 1976.

Oh, very nice.