Long running
New Orleans electric instrumental band Woodnhead will celebrate 37 years
of obscurity with a gig at
Carrollton
Station in New Orleans this Friday, November 16th.
Guitarist/founder Jimmy Robinson, keyboard player Fran
Comiskey, drummer Mark Whitaker and bassist Paul Clement will be joined by
guests
The Bonerama
Horns (Mark Mullins, Greg Hicks and Craig Klien) guitarist Cranston
Clements and 2 former members,
drummer James "Animal" Comiskey and
bassist Lenny Jenkins.
The
show should start around 9:30, will go long in to the wee hours, and will be
recorded and filmed.
This will be
the last Woodenhead gig at Eric Orlando's Carrollton Station, as he is, after
10 years of running his great venue is moving on.
He
will be missed, and we look forward to sending him off in style.
Woodenhead
New Orleans legendary electric instrumental
band
1975-2012
Woodenhead has emerged as probably the most important and
certainly the most fascinating musical unit New Orleans has seen in
years...adamantly original, almost spiritual.." Eddie Allman, BATON ROUGE MORNING ADVOCATE
"Ya'll suck!" audience member, Laplace Speedway, 1979
"Jimmy Robinson is a major talent who could easily become
one of Austin's guitar heroes.."
Michael Point, AUSTIN-AMERICAN
STATESMAN
"Why Ya'll play dat music dat make people fight?"
Audience member, 1978 after huge brawl breaks out among frenzied Bridge City
Gumbo Festival attendees during Woodenhead's set
"A great band. Really great feeling" JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, 1985
"They've been around forever. They're not really
happening" Editor of defunct New Orleans music magazine at meeting for
defunct music conference. 1986
"At the New Orleans jazz festival, Woodenhead gets a
standing ovation for teaching traditional jazz fans just how far imagination
and electricity can push the form" ESQUIRE
MAGAZINE
"Woodenhead is not for the faint-hearted, musically or in
spirit...they play a hard-driving, challenging
music that will literally rock you out of the comfortable
cradle of Jazz, R&B and rock and roll into which life in New Orlesans has
lulled you." Rock Adam GAMBIT
"The guitar is way too loud" audience member, Cat's
Cradle, Chapel Hill, N.C. June 15, 1985
"I can't hear the guitar at all" audience member,
Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, N.C. June 15, 1985
"Robinson is a killer guitarist, capable of removing the
heads of most head banging metal freaks. He is also 'tasty' in the
old-fashioned sense, rarely letting speed overtake the essentials." Mark
Bingham, WAVELENGTH MAGAZINE
"You boys need some uniforms" Jimmy Robinson's
grandfather repeatedly from 1975 until his passing in the mid-eighties.
"An innovative band of extraordinary
instrumentalists"...TRIANGLE LIVE, Winston-Salem, N.C.
A band dedicated to creating music of the highest integrity, and
not compromising during their three decades of performances and
recordings." MJ Brady PROGNOSIS
"It's kind of painful to my ear" Audience member, Tipitina's, 1980
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