Papa Grows Funk at Bennie's Boom Boom Room

[TheCapitalist]

Wow! Reeling from last nights performance. What a show. Burning N.O. funk at its finest. There is some good music coming thru the Burg. Live music rules! I don't need no stinking sleep!
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[TheCapitalist]

Glad you like it. I'm just an old married fart, but I got out anyway. Bennie's is next to Bianchi's Pizza (sp) Front Street. Almost across the street from the infamous bagel shop. Owned by son of Shempers. My first time down. Just a hole in the wall with beer and good music. A friend tapes live music, so I am a beneficiary of his hobby, so to speak. I have a cd of a Jackson show about 3 mo. ago and will have this show in hand today or tomorrow. I'll drop a copy at Donanelle's this week and you can hear all of it.

[Baloo]

Thanks for sharing that link, Capitalist!

[Maggie-Doodle]

GREAT music! I love the horns....Is the Boom Boom room a decent place for ladies to go in a group or would it be better to have males along? I would love to go hear some of the bands they have but have felt like it might be a dive. Is there a cover charge?

[Guru]

I know Celia Baron, is she playing with them now?

[TheCapitalist]

Not the other night, guru. M. doodle, it is a dive. Most people were half my age. Everyone was respectful, and a lady would be fine there, esp. a group, but not necessary. Small and crowded that night. Not many chairs, but with a funk group even old men can't sit still! It's all about the music! The playing was hot and when we left the Bottling Co. was dead and already locked up! The band plays every monday at the maple leaf in NO. http://www.papagrowsfunk.com/

[TheCapitalist]

You'rer right about the time. I'm a working boy and get up at 4:30-5:00 every morning weekend or not and never set a clock. Really have to catch a second wind. I was slamming drinks and pills to get primed: 3 cups coffee and ibuprofen! That's not how i would have done it 20 yrs ago!! Stated start times often stretch to 11:00 or later. BTW, one of the first places i went when i moved back to HB 10 years ago was to the crawfish boil at Donanelles. Band and crawfish then.

[Maggie-Doodle]

You'rer right about the time. I'm a working boy and get up at 4:30-5:00 every morning weekend or not and never set a clock. Really have to catch a second wind. I was slamming drinks and pills to get primed: 3 cups coffee and ibuprofen! That's not how i would have done it 20 yrs ago!! Stated start times often stretch to 11:00 or later. BTW, one of the first places i went when i moved back to HB 10 years ago was to the crawfish boil at Donanelles. Band and crawfish then.

Geez, ifn they don't even start until that time of nite...I could forget it. I am like Hawk, to dang old to be goin jukin at that time of nite anymore! :) My "party hearty" days are over! :(

[deadmandancing]

Hattiesburg has always been a late town. Back when bars closed at midnight, folks still didn't go out until 11. Crazy. I am very much in support of some earlier gigs, but I can't get anyone to consider it. :(

[TheCapitalist]

Cool. do you run the site of the same name? I just bear it when it is something i must hear.

[deadmandancing]

Hey, Capitalist. Yep, that's my site. Unfortunately, I'm getting up there in years, and I hardly ever make it out anymore. I still try to keep current, though.

[TheCapitalist]

Same here. Buddy tapes a lot. When I hear something i really like, i have to see it. Takes me a day or two to get over it, though. If you want to play, you have to pay, as they say. I work hard, so i play hard.

[Scarlett O'Hara]

Dst de big prob with us old folks; dese band start too dam late. One dese days I'm going to cover the biergarten and bring music back for the older buch. Hell, I was de one what started it many years ago.

But if I do it again, de music will start around 7pm and end at 10pm. I would lke to bring back the authentic cajun, tex-mex, swing and a little easy jazz, maybe some steel drum calipso, and some clasic country. and yes, papa funk would be welcome if'n he dont gots too famous and charge too much.

One of the best times I've had was years ago listening to Soul Doctor at Donanelle's:clap::clap::clap::clap:

[Conveyor Belt]

You don't have to go in the Boom Boom room to hear the music. Just sit on one of the chairs left out at the Bagel shop, or if Brownstone's is without music, sit out there and you can hear it.

[Guru]

Until recently I've never gone out before 10 pm or so. Gotta make that late party entrance to hear female necks snapping or at least that was the sentiment then.
It's hard to make it to town very early for me even now. It's a little over a 30 minute drive into town and I gotta finish my bush-hogging!
How times have changed.