Ziggy Modeliste

Oops.

Zigaboo, right? Yeah.

Yeah, man.

One of the greatest of all time.

A lot like Tony Allen and Purdy.

Uh, Zig is just like, uh, Zigaboo, Modaliste, Modaliste? I'm not sure how to say that.

Uh, for the unindoctrinated was the drummer for the meters.

God, this is really hard.

It's a track called There's a Break in the Road.

And the backing band was The Meters plus, God, it's so hard to think while I play, Alan Toussaint.

And there was a bunch of conjecture about, is this James Black, another famous New Orleans drummer, or Zig? And apparently, from the mouth of George Porter, this was Zigaboo on drums.

But if you have not heard that song, it's really obscure.

Tony Williams came down and they got him to do a four on the floor.

I was like, what are you doing? Zigaboo, Zigaboo mode less from the meters.

It wasn't good.

And Rob was, you know, he said, I mean, and Rob was, Rob would be working upstairs.

And that is, that's a, by the way, we've talked about The Meters on this show a bunch.

That is a Zigaboo Modeliste beat, so he's sampling on that track.

We just heard the sample of Oh Calcutta from the first Meters record, 1969.

Yeah.

Right.

And, um, So out of respect for that music, if I'm asked to play that music, I'm going to stick as close as I can to Zigaboo's original parts,

you know? Which were perfect, let's be honest.

Yeah, I mean, how can you mess with perfection? I agree with you.