How the hell did this no talent or voice one hit wonder get nominated to be in the rok @ roll hall of fame , I mean SHAME? There are Great bands that deserve to be in , like Rush , The Guess Who and Grand Funk Railroad. Somewhere right now there is a Rush song on a radio station. Grand Funk Sold out Shea Stadium in 3 days , it took The Beatles 6 weeks.They were the first band to have TEN consecutive PLATINUM LPs in a row. THE ROCK HALL is A LOAD OF CRAP. and THEY CAN KISS my ASS. andgo to HELL
@zorozornes Soooo instead of hatin on Dr John why don't you spend your energy petitioning the R&R HoF to induct Grand Funk. The reason Dr John is in the HoF is that he is a musicians musician, he has more talent and technique in one finger than Mark Fahrner and the boys have put together. the good doctor is quite more than a one hit wonder. In fact you can count up the Railroad's hits on one hand and still have fingers left over. Face it, talentwise they couldn't carry Mac Rebenacks gear bag.
@SmokindaBlues Hell yes brother... Screw Grand Funk - damn that band sucks ass... Why in the HELL would anybody bring that shit up on a Dr. John post? Yes, he's long gone in this vid which is goddamn cool by me. It's funk, brother... His career speaks for itself...
i was living in detroit and the girl across the street was alone. she invited her friends over and they put this record on in the window and turned it all the way up. after two hours, someone called the police. they made the teens turn it down and take it out of the window. the kids stood on the sidewalk until the cop car was out of sight. then they put it back. i called the police and they said they don't return within an hour to the same complaint. listened to it for 8 hours straight!
Joevs21001 - Granted his voice is not to par with what is considered a good voice, but for his style of music it fits perfectly. Listen to Season of The Witch - Dr. John. Others have done it, but his voice brings you deep into the Bayou
@JuicyClamRacing1 Granted his voice is not to par with what is considered a good voice, but for his style of music it fits perfectly. Listen to Season of The Witch - Dr. John. Others have done it, but his voice brings you deep into the Bayou
Granted Doctor John is an incredible musician but it just simply baffles my mind that someone who has a voice like his made it very far past the music execs when they listen's to his demo's! Rock on Doctor John!
gris-gris originating in Africa, came to the USA with African slaves and was quickly adopted into voodoo. Although in Haiti gris-gris are thought to be a good amulet and used as part of practiced religion, in the Cajun communities of Louisiana, gris-gris are thought to be a symbol of black magic and ill-fortune. In spite of the negative connotations of gris-gris, Gris-Gris doctors have operated in the Cajun communities of Louisiana for centuries and are looked upon favorably communities.
I have a masters degree in education. I have a baccalaureate degree in classics. Who is the illiterate one here? Pardon my acronym but, ROFL. Please get a life and learn the meaning of rhetorical. If you have difficulty with definitions, perhaps go away will suffice.
@jampitts Hey, jampitts. First, when replying on YouTube, try to get yourself in the right thread - "right place" if you like. Second, don't go boasting about a couple of diplomas you bought on the internet as this fools nobody. Third, had you been as literate as you pretend, you'd have realised that there's an apostrophe in the term "master's degree". Fourth, if you insist on appearing clever, at least take the time to construct a meaningful argument - then do a spellcheck. Simple, no?
@twangbarfly You have now been proven an idiot. A 'masters' refers to a general type of degree, therefore the 'programs' isn't a possesion of the 'masters' as it isn't a person, animal or thing, it can't possess anything.
Therefore, there is no apostrophe! Don't reply. I am not amused by a fool. Do not reply further.
@jampitts You have proven nothing other than your own inanity. You claim to have an education in the classics and to be a christian, and yet you do not know the difference between "indignity" and "indignation". Your worthless existence consists of trolling though YouTube to vent your indignation on those whose mindset is thankfully different to yours, but your preening self satisfaction is built entirely on your very shaky grasp of grammar. You'd do better to stick to your Sunday school lessons.
@jampitts Oh my, a highly educated fool! Ten-a-penny, jampitts - or am I supposed to be impressed? It doesn't matter how much time you've put in studying Reader's Digest versions of the classics; that hardly constitutes grounds for a degree by even the most "liberal" definition.
Your needle seems to be stuck on "rhetorical", jampitts. Go and have another look in the dictionary; and while you're there, you might like to look up "irony".
@jampitts Everything I know about language and literature I learned from a McDonald's correspondence course - and I'm running rings round you! Time you eased yourself down from your high horse, my self-righteous friend. And while we're on the subject of literacy, borrow a dictionary and look up "indignity" and then compare it with "indignation". Then come back and talk to me about "rhetorical".
@jampitts Jampitts, the epitome of worthless christian proto-fascism. You are bloated by preening pride and arrogance, you are brimming with anger and hatred. Arduous schooling has failed to render you capable of constructive thought or discourse, and yet you feel some god-given right to bark at others what they should be doing and thinking.
You would do well to turn the other miserable christian cheek; you will find no end of takers only too happy to slap it for you, you ignorant zealot.
@twangbarfly Hey idiot, you have proven your lack of education for all to see. Masters has no apostrophe and you're too ignorant to confess your lack of intelligence. That is okay, all here can see how stupid, hateful, immoral and arrogant you are. You lost the battle to a Christian, a much better being than you could hope to be, lol. You liberal pukes always feign "the rights of others," except when it doesn't suit you, hypocrite! I don't turn the cheek, I blast you in the face, my choice.
@twangbarfly That's rich, you show your lack of education, attack a person for being indignant at filth, uphold said filth, and then feel you have the right to judge my level of education as well as my personal state of being, based on your arrogant assumptions which are solely founded on your hatred of the one God, Yahweh. Go kick mud you neanderthal. Better yet crawl back into the primordal ooze, protozoic state, you are so fond of. Satan begone with you! Further responses will be ignored.
@jampitts Ah, the fizzing christian neocon at the end of his tether, writhing and fuming, with a few laughable spluttering biblical outbursts thrown in for good measure. What a wonderful spectacle, and how cheaply it can be had!
Arrogant, money-grubbing american christians? Crucifying them would be such a waste - just light the blue touch paper and watch them go!
Oh yeah, that man can sing in a mic! He puts on a fantastic show!!! The Nite Tripper is a Living Legend! / To walstib77 He was probably too high to care where the mic was! ;P
Did I really just read "lip singing" instead of "lip syncing?" Boy, you ever want to see what's wrong with our educational system, just pay a visit to YouTube at any time. Anyway, like him or not, the Doctor is a one of a kind.
@Kubeksfriend Sadly, you're correct. You would not believe the degree of cheating or buying writers for term papers and thesis' by college/university students in this country!
The original recording has the song going from the I chord to the IV chord. This version has him hanging on to the I chord through the whole verse. It's different... but it's his song, after all. Still rocks!.....
Dr John's music isn't about color. It's about New Orleans. If you don't know New Orleans, Its the most culturally diverse city in America, possibly the world! When I lived in the midwest people looked at me funny. It's definitely not black or white, it's the dialect of New Orleans. We shorten words and blend them with the next word. We don't speak like the rest of America. It's quite efficient tho and if you dont get it try visiting more. Laissez les Bon-Temps Roullez!
It's more simple than Ray, but in track of Will.I.Am - "Mama Mia", where "What'd I Say" was sampling key is more similar.
But thanks for this track. It reminded my father, that he can play this on guitar. Sorry for my poor english, but you know what i sayin. bla bla bla la la la
I would bet that the man on congas/percussion is Sam Clayton. He was a member of Little Feat and played with other big acts such as Average White band - but: Originally he is from New Orleans. And - as much as the video quality allows any assessment here, he looked just like that at the time!
@jampitts Now which god's name in particular are you referring to here? The god of the Aztecs, Incas, Egyptians? The god of the Hindus,Muslims, Brahmins? One of the Roman or Greek deities, or a Norse god perhaps, or a pedantic variant on the object of Christian worship defined by some medieval council. Let me guess - you mean "your god". Well you see, I don't believe in "your god" so I will say what I like about figments of the collective imagination, while you stand and hurl quaint abuse.
@twangbarfly The only one true God moron. Yahweh the creator. Now amuse yourself with your quaint worship of yourself. Idiots like you believe in the matrix, so consider this rhetorical, that means no reply needed, none requested, none desired. The fact is you prefer to admonish morality and condone filth, typical of one whose religion is their belly. Had your liberal, moronic parents aborted you, as is another wonderful strong belief of the lefty nutwings, such nonsense would be muted.
@jampitts So let me see - yaweh is god, I'm an idiot, I worship the matrix, I admonish morality and condone filth, my parents are liberal and moronic, you don't condone abortion, but you'd be prepared to make an exception in my case, and I talk nonsense.
Seems to me you feel entitled to behave however you damned well please, as long as you don't swear. Now that's what I call a HYPOCRITE. Tell me, what would you personally do with heretics and unbelievers, i.e. those who disagree with you?
@jampitts Well here's what I'd do with you and your like - I'd have you rounded up, scourged, crowned with McDonald crowns and crucified upside down in shopping malls, leaving you to bleat on about your worthless god to passers-by too busy shopping to care. I'd have children dressed up as Disney characters walk by laughing and spitting on you. It'd be a favour, allowing you to imitate your lord right down to the wire. But consider this rhetorical so no reply needed, requested or desired.
@twangbarfly Since you don't understand what rhetorical means; The masses, you know like 95% would actually beat you to a pulp, seeing your hateful insanity on the left man-based religion is in the minority, vast minority, leaving you to wonder why your insanity somehow supersedes the sanity of the vast majority, lol. Stop replying, you're an idiot!
@jampitts My, my, the "learned" Jammpitts is attempting to turn YouTube into his own personal pulpit and will brook no retorts from the assembled congregation. "Rhetorical"? Why, that's simply your inept way of saying " Shut the fuck up!" because you are incapable of thinking for yourself. I'm not having a "conversation" with you, you idiot - you do not have the intellectual flexibility to converse. I'm merely giving you rope to hang yourself in public and your making a damned fine job of it.
@twangbarfly The "s" in your quotation is not to be capitalized. The quotation mark is not to be spaced from the first word in the quote. Naturally the illiterate must resort to the language of their ilk. After the word "up" an exclamation is out of the question as are the quotation marks, as well as a comma missing there. The quotation marks around conversation further illustrate your lack of education. The hyphen is ridiculous.You can't make a job of anything. So many grammatical errors!
@jampitts In reality, jampitts, I couldn't care less about you and your ilk. I wouldn't even spit on you if you were on fire. I just find it amusing to watch hypocritical self-righteous religious trolls like you getting steamed up at the merest transgression of your supposedly god-given rules, always so convinced that you are god's elect. To put it mildly, jampitts, you are beneath contempt.
@twangbarfly You will be on fire one day, no spit will be found. Indignity becuse if immoral filth is not self-righteous. Perhaps an education may help you with a better choice of words. As npreviously stated, you revel in immorality and filth, with no modicum of dignity or moral compass. Please respond no further, your stupidity can be seen by the masses, you know, the ones who realize you're nuts.
@jampitts "Indignity becuse if immoral filth is not self-righteous", you say, and then you invite me to get an education. Really, jampitts, you are clearly very poorly equipped to dole out advice on education and literacy, though the trifling issue of your overwhelming ignorance would hardly stop you from getting on your soapbox and trying. Your presumptuousness knows no bounds, jampitts as you attempt to tell others how to write, how to think, how to behave, and how they will spend "eternity".
I guess I must have been 8 or 9 years old when I saw Dr. John as the Nighttripper on television. It was so different from the music I knew way back then and it blew my mind. I guess from that moment on I opened my ears to all kinds of music.
@357ism - You're correct about Alvin "Shine" Robinson. I believe that is Art Neville of the Neville Brothers on the organ (far left). Can't help on the others.
I'm posting using my daughter's account. My username is DLilShine
@missdai84 Thanks for that, DLilShine. Slowly we might piece this crew together. And the good thing is that every time someone identifies another band member, it gives me an excuse to watch it again.
@SJYNYC it certainly seems plausible. Jim Henson drew from all sorts of pop culture of that day. I think the Muppet piano player (pretty sure it's a dog, but not positive) has a really gravelly voice and gyrates a lot when he plays ha.
@overzealousdump I just did some quick research, the muppet was called "Dr. Teeth".. he was the leader of the Muppet Show band (with Animal on the drums). Henson said he was based on Dr. John. (and the muppet looks like him!)
the Dr. was my neighbor!!!! he lived across the street and my sister Sylvia babysatt for him and daughter Tara,thats right!!!!!! Cantara St. in North Hollywood, he was very cool, gracious.....and brought Mick Jagger over once ..............God I wish I wasnt 6 yrs old at the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Relax,cher. Except for those drunk putains on the Girls Gone Wild dvds, just one visit to New Orleans can change a person.I've seen it happen to more people than I can count.For truth.Hell,maybe someone spiked his Hurricaine
or fixed him with a little gris-gris.That wouldn't be a first either!
Music from my high school days. Loved it then and still do but I swear all my life I thought he was black. Oh well I learned something today............thanks for a great memory song!
U & me both LOL!! All my life I'd heard this song growing up & didn't know he was white, until I saw him perform it at Mardi Gras in '89 I was like damn, he's white LOL!!
Dr. John is a hell of a drug.
cooperalbright 6 days ago 4
Awesome tune and musician. Hey Zoro, go to a Grand Funk song!
ironlungbloodfist 2 weeks ago
Dr Tooth?
drania76 1 month ago
How the hell did this no talent or voice one hit wonder get nominated to be in the rok @ roll hall of fame , I mean SHAME? There are Great bands that deserve to be in , like Rush , The Guess Who and Grand Funk Railroad. Somewhere right now there is a Rush song on a radio station. Grand Funk Sold out Shea Stadium in 3 days , it took The Beatles 6 weeks.They were the first band to have TEN consecutive PLATINUM LPs in a row. THE ROCK HALL is A LOAD OF CRAP. and THEY CAN KISS my ASS. andgo to HELL
zorozornes 1 month ago
@zorozornes Soooo instead of hatin on Dr John why don't you spend your energy petitioning the R&R HoF to induct Grand Funk. The reason Dr John is in the HoF is that he is a musicians musician, he has more talent and technique in one finger than Mark Fahrner and the boys have put together. the good doctor is quite more than a one hit wonder. In fact you can count up the Railroad's hits on one hand and still have fingers left over. Face it, talentwise they couldn't carry Mac Rebenacks gear bag.
SmokindaBlues 1 month ago 3
@SmokindaBlues Hell yes brother... Screw Grand Funk - damn that band sucks ass... Why in the HELL would anybody bring that shit up on a Dr. John post? Yes, he's long gone in this vid which is goddamn cool by me. It's funk, brother... His career speaks for itself...
cjrebelofficial 1 month ago
Grizzly Adams, Wolfman Jack, and Jimmy Hendrix rolled into one. Good song though.Lol1
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All I know is I would have really liked to have traveled with the bunch for a little while.
Tensioner 1 month ago
w00T
MrRoodenbug 1 month ago
@missjoghemmett don't see why you would be complaining
MrJormon75 2 months ago
i was living in detroit and the girl across the street was alone. she invited her friends over and they put this record on in the window and turned it all the way up. after two hours, someone called the police. they made the teens turn it down and take it out of the window. the kids stood on the sidewalk until the cop car was out of sight. then they put it back. i called the police and they said they don't return within an hour to the same complaint. listened to it for 8 hours straight!
missjoshemmett 2 months ago
Joevs21001 - Granted his voice is not to par with what is considered a good voice, but for his style of music it fits perfectly. Listen to Season of The Witch - Dr. John. Others have done it, but his voice brings you deep into the Bayou
JuicyClamRacing1 2 months ago
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@JuicyClamRacing1 Granted his voice is not to par with what is considered a good voice, but for his style of music it fits perfectly. Listen to Season of The Witch - Dr. John. Others have done it, but his voice brings you deep into the Bayou
JuicyClamRacing1 2 months ago
Granted Doctor John is an incredible musician but it just simply baffles my mind that someone who has a voice like his made it very far past the music execs when they listen's to his demo's! Rock on Doctor John!
joevs21001 2 months ago
anyone know the names of those black chicks?
charfman84 2 months ago
Smooth as silk baby!
twiggy148 2 months ago
nice feathers mac!
MrSlimjimk 3 months ago
skate 3 brought me here
2010gnccracer1 3 months ago
Supreme
DanielBowden1975 3 months ago
Looks like a friend of my uncle's back in the 70's.
HomelessOnline 3 months ago
gris-gris originating in Africa, came to the USA with African slaves and was quickly adopted into voodoo. Although in Haiti gris-gris are thought to be a good amulet and used as part of practiced religion, in the Cajun communities of Louisiana, gris-gris are thought to be a symbol of black magic and ill-fortune. In spite of the negative connotations of gris-gris, Gris-Gris doctors have operated in the Cajun communities of Louisiana for centuries and are looked upon favorably communities.
11puddy 3 months ago
No Sir !!! 29 FUCKTARDS are in the wrong place! Good Stuff.
Lovefordogs1 3 months ago
That backup chick in the maroon dress is a hottie. :)
mikeknight4u 4 months ago
Love the hat..
BILL51156 5 months ago
They were in the right place to snort some coke!
joegolf71 6 months ago
THIS IS MY SONG!
blkprietita811 6 months ago
I have a masters degree in education. I have a baccalaureate degree in classics. Who is the illiterate one here? Pardon my acronym but, ROFL. Please get a life and learn the meaning of rhetorical. If you have difficulty with definitions, perhaps go away will suffice.
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts Hey, jampitts. First, when replying on YouTube, try to get yourself in the right thread - "right place" if you like. Second, don't go boasting about a couple of diplomas you bought on the internet as this fools nobody. Third, had you been as literate as you pretend, you'd have realised that there's an apostrophe in the term "master's degree". Fourth, if you insist on appearing clever, at least take the time to construct a meaningful argument - then do a spellcheck. Simple, no?
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@twangbarfly You have now been proven an idiot. A 'masters' refers to a general type of degree, therefore the 'programs' isn't a possesion of the 'masters' as it isn't a person, animal or thing, it can't possess anything.
Therefore, there is no apostrophe! Don't reply. I am not amused by a fool. Do not reply further.
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts You have proven nothing other than your own inanity. You claim to have an education in the classics and to be a christian, and yet you do not know the difference between "indignity" and "indignation". Your worthless existence consists of trolling though YouTube to vent your indignation on those whose mindset is thankfully different to yours, but your preening self satisfaction is built entirely on your very shaky grasp of grammar. You'd do better to stick to your Sunday school lessons.
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twangbarfly 6 months ago
@jampitts Oh my, a highly educated fool! Ten-a-penny, jampitts - or am I supposed to be impressed? It doesn't matter how much time you've put in studying Reader's Digest versions of the classics; that hardly constitutes grounds for a degree by even the most "liberal" definition.
Your needle seems to be stuck on "rhetorical", jampitts. Go and have another look in the dictionary; and while you're there, you might like to look up "irony".
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@jampitts Everything I know about language and literature I learned from a McDonald's correspondence course - and I'm running rings round you! Time you eased yourself down from your high horse, my self-righteous friend. And while we're on the subject of literacy, borrow a dictionary and look up "indignity" and then compare it with "indignation". Then come back and talk to me about "rhetorical".
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@jampitts Jampitts, the epitome of worthless christian proto-fascism. You are bloated by preening pride and arrogance, you are brimming with anger and hatred. Arduous schooling has failed to render you capable of constructive thought or discourse, and yet you feel some god-given right to bark at others what they should be doing and thinking.
You would do well to turn the other miserable christian cheek; you will find no end of takers only too happy to slap it for you, you ignorant zealot.
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@twangbarfly Hey idiot, you have proven your lack of education for all to see. Masters has no apostrophe and you're too ignorant to confess your lack of intelligence. That is okay, all here can see how stupid, hateful, immoral and arrogant you are. You lost the battle to a Christian, a much better being than you could hope to be, lol. You liberal pukes always feign "the rights of others," except when it doesn't suit you, hypocrite! I don't turn the cheek, I blast you in the face, my choice.
jampitts 6 months ago
@twangbarfly That's rich, you show your lack of education, attack a person for being indignant at filth, uphold said filth, and then feel you have the right to judge my level of education as well as my personal state of being, based on your arrogant assumptions which are solely founded on your hatred of the one God, Yahweh. Go kick mud you neanderthal. Better yet crawl back into the primordal ooze, protozoic state, you are so fond of. Satan begone with you! Further responses will be ignored.
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts Ah, the fizzing christian neocon at the end of his tether, writhing and fuming, with a few laughable spluttering biblical outbursts thrown in for good measure. What a wonderful spectacle, and how cheaply it can be had!
Arrogant, money-grubbing american christians? Crucifying them would be such a waste - just light the blue touch paper and watch them go!
twangbarfly 6 months ago
I'm in the right place.......baby!!
hellsbellsmoi 6 months ago
ﾆｭｰｵﾘﾝｽﾞ･ヴｰﾄﾞゥｰﾏﾝ､ﾄﾞｸﾀｰ･ｼﾞｮﾝ～お決まり"RightPlaceWrongTime"～ｽﾄｰﾝｽﾞ他ロック界ﾋﾞｯｸﾞﾈｰﾑ達から敬いが!?～私は意に関せず
blackandtanful 6 months ago
@blackandtanful what he said!
silentsniperrr 6 months ago
Funky as shit
aboutdafunk 7 months ago
Wonderful groove.
alsimpsongtr 7 months ago
Red and gold dress
evelynamodifieddog2 7 months ago
@evelynamodifieddog2
I'll take a burger with that shake LOL
wysiwyg248 7 months ago
Oh yeah, that man can sing in a mic! He puts on a fantastic show!!! The Nite Tripper is a Living Legend! / To walstib77 He was probably too high to care where the mic was! ;P
23nature 7 months ago
Mic stand was in the wrong place
Perk571 7 months ago
Why can't I ever find 70's drugs?
SentientCouchPotato 8 months ago
@SentientCouchPotato : 'Cause da Good Chemist done lef da buildin an took da dope wif em
MrDec202 7 months ago
amazing! really it's all about MOJO! ohhh yeah! :)
rodrigodario 8 months ago
25 people are in the wrong place.
vramirez101 8 months ago
its all about MOJO!!!
chupas2526 8 months ago
Pure new orleans
dougc426 8 months ago
Pure oleans
dougc426 8 months ago
DR JOHN adopted his name from a voodoo priest from new orleans that lived in the 1800s......FACT.......
nowatout 8 months ago
how high was he when he put that gear on lol
Whit3nDirTy 8 months ago
<3 Dr. John because of my parents :) RIP Mom!
chrisbsgirl81 8 months ago
Thanks, Mac. Your music is beautiful! I wish you long life and love.
wizenedgoatbeard 8 months ago
just saw him again at jazz fest...he sounds the same way he did back in the 70's...what a new orleans legend
MegaNola1 8 months ago
Did I really just read "lip singing" instead of "lip syncing?" Boy, you ever want to see what's wrong with our educational system, just pay a visit to YouTube at any time. Anyway, like him or not, the Doctor is a one of a kind.
Kubeksfriend 9 months ago 2
@Kubeksfriend Sadly, you're correct. You would not believe the degree of cheating or buying writers for term papers and thesis' by college/university students in this country!
jsbach15 9 months ago
anyone know whos on guitar?
chewyflea 9 months ago
Damn I need that hat!!
jameserika1487 9 months ago 2
He's lip singing. There's a black dude behind stage really singing this! lol
DJDupless 9 months ago
Such a wild thing going on there!
kax61 9 months ago
I've seen him play several times and I'm still not convinced he's not black...
tabber87 9 months ago 2
soul just loves to Rock
michaellovesthecat 10 months ago
as i often say white guys that did music in the 70's that were soul were the best. the whiggers today are sad.
mic187x2 10 months ago
Joe Cocker is another one that sounds black, to me anyway.
roodyhoo 10 months ago
to Kool For School
michaellovesthecat 10 months ago
Fun to see those black girls having so much fun with a white boy who has this much soul
BrianMChampion 10 months ago
this guy and kc from the sunshine band, sound so black but are soo white :)
this give me hope as a skinny whiteboy :)
monkeylordofdoom14 10 months ago
I'm hoping that, at some point, someone showed Dr. John that a mic stand is adjustable.
walstib77 10 months ago 24
@walstib77 He doesn't need a mic or a mic stand! HA!
jsbach15 9 months ago
Does anyone understand a word he is saying. I mean, honestly? Anything?
hampsterman22 10 months ago
The original recording has the song going from the I chord to the IV chord. This version has him hanging on to the I chord through the whole verse. It's different... but it's his song, after all. Still rocks!.....
larryjackson04 10 months ago
new orleans version of Liberace...
laurajomanton 10 months ago
In 2 days I'll have an excuse to listen to this dude all day!!
babymoondancer 11 months ago
Takes me back we all could do a do a little Emp
michaellovesthecat 11 months ago
Dr John's music isn't about color. It's about New Orleans. If you don't know New Orleans, Its the most culturally diverse city in America, possibly the world! When I lived in the midwest people looked at me funny. It's definitely not black or white, it's the dialect of New Orleans. We shorten words and blend them with the next word. We don't speak like the rest of America. It's quite efficient tho and if you dont get it try visiting more. Laissez les Bon-Temps Roullez!
cebakewell 11 months ago
@cebakewell i agree
BrotherBar 10 months ago
Nolafunk is really excited to have Dr. John & the Lower 911 perform 2 rare intimate shows in NYC.... March 4th and 5th. DONT MISS IT!
NOLAfunkNYC 11 months ago
I'm sure, that somebody sampled piano from 1:00-1:15. But who?
tylkodupa 11 months ago
@tylkodupa It sorta sounds like Ray Charles-What'd I Say. Look it up here on YouTube and let me know what you think.
drelle504 11 months ago
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@drelle504
Maybe yes. I'm not sure.
It's more simple than Ray, but in track of Will.I.Am - "Mama Mia", where "What'd I Say" was sampling key is more similar.
But thanks for this track. It reminded my father, that he can play this on guitar. Sorry for my poor english, but you know what i sayin. bla bla bla la la la
tylkodupa 10 months ago
I would bet that the man on congas/percussion is Sam Clayton. He was a member of Little Feat and played with other big acts such as Average White band - but: Originally he is from New Orleans. And - as much as the video quality allows any assessment here, he looked just like that at the time!
rombo61 11 months ago
@rombo61 I would bet that the man on congas/percussion is Sam Clayton. .....Originally he is from New Orleans.
Dr John was hanging with many cats from Louisiana who had drifted to LA. He was doing arraignments for a TV producer then & had contacts across LA
CarlSchwamberger 11 months ago
if you didn't have bongo players in the 70's, you weren't worth shit.
insaneterrain 11 months ago
21 Fucktards are in the wrong place!
VancouverJames 1 year ago 59
ftw
diemilkdud 9 months ago
@VancouverJames GODDAMN RIGHT
VinGaetaDesigns 7 months ago
@VinGaetaDesigns Filthy swine using God's name in vain. Trash.
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts Taking the name of pigs in vain in a self-important little outburst about "blasphemy" - how quaintly vulgar!
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@twangbarfly In other words you approve of taking God's name in vain. You do ,however, take offense to blaspheming swine. Now that's quaint! Swine!
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts Now which god's name in particular are you referring to here? The god of the Aztecs, Incas, Egyptians? The god of the Hindus,Muslims, Brahmins? One of the Roman or Greek deities, or a Norse god perhaps, or a pedantic variant on the object of Christian worship defined by some medieval council. Let me guess - you mean "your god". Well you see, I don't believe in "your god" so I will say what I like about figments of the collective imagination, while you stand and hurl quaint abuse.
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@twangbarfly The only one true God moron. Yahweh the creator. Now amuse yourself with your quaint worship of yourself. Idiots like you believe in the matrix, so consider this rhetorical, that means no reply needed, none requested, none desired. The fact is you prefer to admonish morality and condone filth, typical of one whose religion is their belly. Had your liberal, moronic parents aborted you, as is another wonderful strong belief of the lefty nutwings, such nonsense would be muted.
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts So let me see - yaweh is god, I'm an idiot, I worship the matrix, I admonish morality and condone filth, my parents are liberal and moronic, you don't condone abortion, but you'd be prepared to make an exception in my case, and I talk nonsense.
Seems to me you feel entitled to behave however you damned well please, as long as you don't swear. Now that's what I call a HYPOCRITE. Tell me, what would you personally do with heretics and unbelievers, i.e. those who disagree with you?
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@jampitts Well here's what I'd do with you and your like - I'd have you rounded up, scourged, crowned with McDonald crowns and crucified upside down in shopping malls, leaving you to bleat on about your worthless god to passers-by too busy shopping to care. I'd have children dressed up as Disney characters walk by laughing and spitting on you. It'd be a favour, allowing you to imitate your lord right down to the wire. But consider this rhetorical so no reply needed, requested or desired.
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@twangbarfly Since you don't understand what rhetorical means; The masses, you know like 95% would actually beat you to a pulp, seeing your hateful insanity on the left man-based religion is in the minority, vast minority, leaving you to wonder why your insanity somehow supersedes the sanity of the vast majority, lol. Stop replying, you're an idiot!
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts My, my, the "learned" Jammpitts is attempting to turn YouTube into his own personal pulpit and will brook no retorts from the assembled congregation. "Rhetorical"? Why, that's simply your inept way of saying " Shut the fuck up!" because you are incapable of thinking for yourself. I'm not having a "conversation" with you, you idiot - you do not have the intellectual flexibility to converse. I'm merely giving you rope to hang yourself in public and your making a damned fine job of it.
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@twangbarfly The "s" in your quotation is not to be capitalized. The quotation mark is not to be spaced from the first word in the quote. Naturally the illiterate must resort to the language of their ilk. After the word "up" an exclamation is out of the question as are the quotation marks, as well as a comma missing there. The quotation marks around conversation further illustrate your lack of education. The hyphen is ridiculous.You can't make a job of anything. So many grammatical errors!
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts In reality, jampitts, I couldn't care less about you and your ilk. I wouldn't even spit on you if you were on fire. I just find it amusing to watch hypocritical self-righteous religious trolls like you getting steamed up at the merest transgression of your supposedly god-given rules, always so convinced that you are god's elect. To put it mildly, jampitts, you are beneath contempt.
Now shut up, relax and watch the video!
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@twangbarfly You will be on fire one day, no spit will be found. Indignity becuse if immoral filth is not self-righteous. Perhaps an education may help you with a better choice of words. As npreviously stated, you revel in immorality and filth, with no modicum of dignity or moral compass. Please respond no further, your stupidity can be seen by the masses, you know, the ones who realize you're nuts.
jampitts 6 months ago
@jampitts "Indignity becuse if immoral filth is not self-righteous", you say, and then you invite me to get an education. Really, jampitts, you are clearly very poorly equipped to dole out advice on education and literacy, though the trifling issue of your overwhelming ignorance would hardly stop you from getting on your soapbox and trying. Your presumptuousness knows no bounds, jampitts as you attempt to tell others how to write, how to think, how to behave, and how they will spend "eternity".
twangbarfly 6 months ago
@VancouverJames But at the right time.
Alikah1 7 months ago
@VancouverJames bye you must a took a left turn back to fuckafornia
nswbbk 6 months ago
I am in the right plaace, heelll yeah.. super funky and groovy..
alijav091 1 year ago
love that dudes hat
4321jdc 1 year ago
wow how messed up was he at this moment.........he dont even know where he is
nottippinem 1 year ago
Yeah, I can totally see how Jim Henson got Dr. Teeth from him.
babymoondancer 1 year ago
...sooo funky...:)!
isiskristall 1 year ago
I guess I must have been 8 or 9 years old when I saw Dr. John as the Nighttripper on television. It was so different from the music I knew way back then and it blew my mind. I guess from that moment on I opened my ears to all kinds of music.
dakarlion1 1 year ago
Anyone knows the title, where he sings " how can i be so white and so funky" ????
PerPohlmann 1 year ago
Looks like his mic is 'in the wrong place'-he's got to keep leaning over and down to sing and the mic doesn't catch the 1st word of each verse.
Even so...I just love this guy's piano playing. And that voice.
TheLeastDiseased 1 year ago
THAT'S a fucking band!!!
vollsticks 1 year ago
Dr John undoubtedly one of the greatest blues, R&B, rock and roll and of course funk pianists who ever lived
minxel16 1 year ago
The Doctor is IN!!
logansGT 1 year ago 2
Congrats Dr John in finally making it into the Hall of Fame!
TheBassgurl 1 year ago 3
After listening to the good Dr, I feel like having fried Catfish n Crawdaddys, sum
Sssshicken gumbo ,anda lil biti sidea fried Uh-yones. oooooooh - Weeeeeeeeee. i dig this song, hehe ...........ty for posing this classic.
LuckyLeBone 1 year ago
he reminds me of the muppet with the gold tooth,,,,,,,loved season of the witch
mrlijones89 1 year ago
timeless and still breathtaking
MrSchokoletta 1 year ago
Dr Teeth and the electric mayhem band
Redshift21 1 year ago
This song made for Soul Train, get on board!!
djbigpean 1 year ago
With the possible exception of Bill Clinton, you're right, Dr. John IS the blackest white guy
kappa1996 1 year ago
With the possible exception of Bill Clinton, you're right, Dr. John is the blackest right guy
kappa1996 1 year ago
@kappa1996 No way Bill Clinton is blacker than Dr. John lol
evilsceptic 1 year ago
Uh huh. Takin it back to 1973. Dr. John FTW.
swlabr43 1 year ago
WHAT A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN
shorelineboy 1 year ago
About him showing up in St. Louis a day late for one of Ron Powell's shows..
bulletinman 1 year ago
I think Otis Rush was looking for royalties although only title is the same.
Fatshead 1 year ago
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adeptodaboamusica 1 year ago
Nice hat!
adeptodaboamusica 1 year ago
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leamsi2262 1 year ago
Great clip. Who's in the band? I think that's Alvin Robinson on guitar but that's as far as I get. Can anyone fill in the gaps?
357ism 1 year ago
@357ism - You're correct about Alvin "Shine" Robinson. I believe that is Art Neville of the Neville Brothers on the organ (far left). Can't help on the others.
I'm posting using my daughter's account. My username is DLilShine
missdai84 1 year ago
@missdai84 Thanks for that, DLilShine. Slowly we might piece this crew together. And the good thing is that every time someone identifies another band member, it gives me an excuse to watch it again.
357ism 1 year ago
Wasn't a muppet based on him? (unofficially?)
SJYNYC 1 year ago
@SJYNYC it certainly seems plausible. Jim Henson drew from all sorts of pop culture of that day. I think the Muppet piano player (pretty sure it's a dog, but not positive) has a really gravelly voice and gyrates a lot when he plays ha.
overzealousdump 1 year ago
@overzealousdump I just did some quick research, the muppet was called "Dr. Teeth".. he was the leader of the Muppet Show band (with Animal on the drums). Henson said he was based on Dr. John. (and the muppet looks like him!)
SJYNYC 1 year ago
@SJYNYC The whole muppet's band is based on it
1manfactory 1 year ago
Right On Dr. John ! Congratulations On being nominated for enshrinement into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
LuckyCedarlane 1 year ago
well he was born in NOLA, what do you expect?
VercingetorixXIII 1 year ago
Wish the sound was better. Awesome. I think we should bring back the fashions of the 70's.
otisklein 1 year ago
Dr. John At the Santa Monica Pier - Thursday night- 7pm Great swamp/funk/r&B -get your gumbo cooking.
fredheart2002 1 year ago
Looks like the guy from electric mayhem in the muppets.
kezadrone 1 year ago 3
@kezadrone that character was inspired by the good doctor
lsumaverick 1 year ago
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mikeknight4u 1 year ago
the Dr. was my neighbor!!!! he lived across the street and my sister Sylvia babysatt for him and daughter Tara,thats right!!!!!! Cantara St. in North Hollywood, he was very cool, gracious.....and brought Mick Jagger over once ..............God I wish I wasnt 6 yrs old at the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
momyrose 1 year ago 3
dr. gumbo
0520bitch 1 year ago
creole
richdadon15 1 year ago
Love it!!
smmeegal 1 year ago
i loled
TheCentz 1 year ago
He looks like he crawled out of a swamp, through a drag show, and onto the stage. Classic!
shantidude 1 year ago
I was wondering what track they played on Ellen's show - thanks for posting
brismike65 1 year ago
A black dude trapped in a wrinkly white body.....lol
The doctor is in da house; great stuff!
logansGT 1 year ago 3
The Doc is IN...
marinagipps 1 year ago
yea, I am......................
cinderellalifestyle 1 year ago
Are those the Ikettes - Jessie Smith, Robbie Montgomery - singing backup?
gamoonbat 1 year ago
Is he the Inspiration for Dr Tooth on the Muppets? I think he is one groover of the first order, too cool for school.
taariqtaariq 1 year ago 3
@taariqtaariq LMAO....good one!
MountainGyspy 1 year ago
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napphedprncss 1 year ago
dr john slams!!!..love is man, AWESOME!!
ohvirtuousone 1 year ago
Mac fuckin' Rebbenack.....truly hardcore.
vollsticks 1 year ago 2
shake. that. ass.
immayhem 1 year ago
lawd..I likes a lit'l nu awlin's tunes sung by this ole' bowy! Love to have some mudbugs and gumbo while listening to this great musician!
andersmh123 2 years ago
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fuckin wanabe local poser we dont talk like dat sun who dat bitch
Duke1266 2 years ago
fuck you eat shit and die...better yet just die! if you was here i would put my foot up your faggot ass.
andersmh123 2 years ago
@Duke1266
Relax,cher. Except for those drunk putains on the Girls Gone Wild dvds, just one visit to New Orleans can change a person.I've seen it happen to more people than I can count.For truth.Hell,maybe someone spiked his Hurricaine
or fixed him with a little gris-gris.That wouldn't be a first either!
The Saints came marching in,congratulations!
acotw67 1 year ago
excellent track
julienlefebvre1981 2 years ago 2
Music from my high school days. Loved it then and still do but I swear all my life I thought he was black. Oh well I learned something today............thanks for a great memory song!
hotstuffandicecream 2 years ago 2
"I swear all my life I thought he was black"
U & me both LOL!! All my life I'd heard this song growing up & didn't know he was white, until I saw him perform it at Mardi Gras in '89 I was like damn, he's white LOL!!
blackadam06 2 years ago 10
@blackadam06 I thought this was a black guy all these years, same as with Toni Fisher and Timi Yuro.
418sadeyes 10 months ago
@blackadam06 Some thought the same about Leon Russell and Tom Jones!
sweetnpeachy1 10 months ago
One of my favorite songs EVER. MANY thanks for the live rendition!
ManyGodz 2 years ago 2
Love that voice!
DjFiedCaptainMo 2 years ago 3
For people in New Orleans, it's like saying that blacks in England sound white. New Orleans has its own dialect.
hankaaron1961 2 years ago 3