Lovely story. Thanks for sharing. I saw Dr John a couple of times when he visited London and I also struggled to understand a word he said, but he spoke with his music and we understood that - yes sir. I saw him at the Astoria in London and Mick Jagger was in the audience. The Stones always had good taste in music.

Weird, I understand him perfectly. Maybe it’s the accent.

Ya know it be easy like us, child! Or Where ya'at bruh?? Good old NOLA dialectics! 🎉😘

My dad grew up in the same neighborhood as Dr John, my dad's name was also Malcolm and he hated it. Anyway he had the same old ninth ward accent as Dr. Jawn.

I met him 1997 and had no problem understanding him. Maybe he lost some of his accent after living in NYC.

Really? More like Captain Beefheart-Lite.

@@TheKitchenerLesliewho cares?

@@KittyGrizGriz You, that's why you commented.

@@TheKitchenerLeslieyou sure are putting them down every chance you get.

​@@TheKitchenerLeslie Captain Beefheart couldn't hold a candle to Dr. John

One is Ms Robbie from sweetie pies.

Well! All right!!!

Don't know who's who, but that one girl is amazingly astonishing. The one on the right in the footage.

sure doesnt look like either of them

I don't think that's the Blackberries. Doesn't look like them from all the photos I've seen of them with Humble Pie. More likely it's Robbie Montgomery and Jessie Smith (both former Ikettes) who did the backing vocals on Dr. John's album.

@@henryhoward8341EXACTLY!

@@henryhoward8341yea, the Blackberries sing “Black Coffee” w/the 🥧 on a YT vid

Darn Lucky!! 😊

Saw that ELP tour. It was mind blowing in both a musical sense and visual experience. My youngest daughter now in her mid thirties has my tee shirt from that tour. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Karn Evil 9

ANd I thought you were talking about how Toccata became the theme to Creature Double Feature...so thanks for pointing out the Brain Salad Surgery line, because I was watching the girls.

That's great info! I always thought ELP was first with that line. Thanks!

How Cool about ELP connection! One of my fav bands, thanks ☺️

The artwork intimated fellatio. ELP wanted to call the Album "Whip Some Skull On Me" . The label objected as it was too obvious a double entendre. Dr. John's album had just been released and the term "Brain Salad Surgery" was Nawlins slang for the same thing. ELP ended up using this and no one was the wiser... until much later when it was too late anyway 😂

Just watched that episode of SCTV

Excellent catch! Cheers! Or, check ya later!!! 😄

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@@kevinkruger1686 thank You SO much

ELP took that from Dr. John, not the other way around like you think.

Think Mardi Gras.

So you didn’t know that soul, blues and funk were also performed by white people.

Had give myself a good talkin' too, and it is taking its course.

Except Mac was doin’ this when Don Van Vliet was back in high school…

@@richardgould-saltman8863 lol... sure he was... you're reaching.

@@richardgould-saltman8863 "Beginning in the late 1960s, Rebennack gained fame as a solo artist after adopting the persona of "Dr. John, The Night Tripper" -- Wikipedia

@@richardgould-saltman8863 "Conducting a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, Beefheart recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982." -- Wikipedia Now do the math. You lose.

No, I don’t. From the same article: At age 16, [so, 1957] Rebennack was hired by Johnny Vincent as a producer at Ace Records.There, he gained experience working with many artists, including James Booker, Earl King, and Jimmy Clanton. While a struggling student at Jesuit High School, he was already playing in night clubs, something the Jesuit fathers disapproved of. He formed his first band, The Dominoes, while at the school. The priests told him to either stop playing in clubs or leave the school. Rebennack was expelled from the high school in 1954, and from then on focused entirely on music. In late 1950s New Orleans, Rebennack led his own band, Mac Rebennack and the Skyliners, (Paul Staehle/Dennis "Bootsie" Cuquet, drums; Earl Stanley, bass; Charlie Miller, trumpet; Charlie Maduell, sax; Roland "Stone" LeBlanc, vocals), while playing gigs with others, including Frankie Ford and the Thunderbirds, and Jerry Byrne and the Loafers. His first (co-written) rock and roll song "Lights Out" (1957), sung by Jerry Byrne, was a regional hit. He had a regional hit with a Bo Diddley-influenced instrumental called "Storm Warning" on Rex Records in 1959. At A&R he and Charlie Miller recorded monophonic singles on 45s for Johnny Vincent and Joe Corona for local labels Ace, Ron, and Ric. He oversaw the rhythm section while Miller wrote the horn arrangements and headed up the horns. Rebennack's career as a guitarist was stunted around 1960, when the ring finger on his left (guitar fretting) hand was injured by a gunshot during an incident at a Jacksonville, Florida gig. After the injury, Rebennack concentrated on bass guitar before making piano his main instrument, developing a style influenced by Professor Longhair.[16] Rebennack became involved in illegal activities in New Orleans, using and selling narcotics and running a brothel. He was arrested on drug charges and sentenced to two years in the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Worth. His sentence ended in 1965 and he left for Los Angeles. Once settled in Los Angeleshe became a "first call" session musician in the Los Angeles studio scene in the 1960s and 1970s and was part of the so-called "Wrecking Crew" stable of studio musicians. He provided backing for Sonny & Cher (and some of the incidental music for Cher's first film, Chastity), for Canned Heat on their albums Living the Blues (1968) and Future Blues (1970), and for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on Freak Out! (1966).