Dr John - Iko Iko

[BLACKREDTAILANGEL]

Damn skippy he's a Doctor. And he made a House Call!

[permagrin02]

Good Stuff. The Doctor is in......

[magneto44]

I think the modulation is awesome, makes it a little different

our ears are so used to bubble gum music, anything different sounds weird :P

[HSECMAN]

david sanborn had a show in the early 80's-had stevie ray vaughan on for one of the last tv appearances before he died...is it just me or did sanborn play in a different key during the bridges?? or am i not hip enough to get that?

[KingNast]

@HSECMAN The whole band shifts down a key when they play the bridge (modulation)  It's not necessarily wrong, but it does sound kind of weird. I think they're going from D to C

[HSECMAN]

david sanborn had a show in the early 80's-had stevie ray vaughan on for one of the last tv appearances before he died...is it just me or did sanborn play in a different key during the first bridge??

[aeropilot]

@ebronston: drummer is Omar Hakim

[methesponge]

dr john the night tripper...woooo hooooo

[jbswisher]

Yaay for VHS!!

[auntgaga]

Pretty sure it's David Sanborn. agreed---he's fantastic.

[jdector53]

@auntgaga

he's a reprehensible smooth jazz hack, but he did put sun ra on network tv

[GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep]

Those drums LOL too much reverb and very electro sounding can you say 1983??

[ABevs1]

@GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep lol those were my first thoughts too when it kicked off. So 80's sounding.

[InsertDeepLyrics]

TV studios never know how to mix bands.

"Turn up the guitar solo"

"Which one?"

"Doesn't matter"

[lotsip]

awww summmmm. I can't wait for tomorrow. It's Mardi Gras time around here baby. The Good Doctor. I like the way he sings it in this performance.. He sings it a little different everytime he does it.

[Thunderfingers999]

Holy shit! Jeff Healy! RIP

[captainpatrick1]

@DaisySprout That is Jeff Healy, He was an amazing bluesman. Born in Canada, lost his sight at one year old, played guitar on his lap like a slide guitar but without the slide! Just used his fingers coming over the top. Very unique and very great. Check out the Jeff Healy Band. They had hits in the late eighties and he played with lots of the greatest musicians around.

[mestucker]

I think they are all pretty fuckin ripped but it still sounds good. Does anyone know, is that Michael Utely on the prostrate Fender....and who is that kat on sax? He's fuckin' good!

[TheHolyHandgrenade3]

congrats to dr john for being inducted into the rock hall

[Thunderfingers999]

@TheHolyHandgrenade3 Far too late! Alice, too!

[Stevorific1]

Dr. John is New Orleans!

[fbiller1]

He's a Doctor!

[Jakob1951]

@fbiller1 A medical doctor? What speciality if any?

[MyMoppet52]

This is worth watching this version if only for the intro. Love it! Of course the good Dr. is playing that piano into the ground, as usual.

[clint1663]

the sax should be an accordian

[akarkop]

I've heard sax played WELL in N'awlins...this guy is just playing in the wrong style as is some of the guitar.....Big Easy music is a rollicking, rolling thang...listten to the Dr.

[joe1989joe1989]

The Doc never dies

[wammybarsolo21]

what does iko iko mean?

[joe1989joe1989]

@wammybarsolo21

[joe1989joe1989]

@wammybarsolo21 iko iko means ''i go, i go''

[frederickus]

@joe1989joe1989 - It does mean that, but the song has much deeper meaning. This is a song of war. Giacommo (Jock-A-Mo) is the devil. Jock-A-Mo Fe-Na-Ney is like "devil stay away, or something like that.

[lovinstufflive]

@wammybarsolo21 Listen to the beginning of this video...very closely, and THE DOCTOR will explain

[LTmattYT]

lol i absolutely hate sax in songs like this... it just sounds so out of place.

[mkonjhg1]

Great

[liberalnut]

awesome guy, hope he is still alive, the stuff he has taken! brought us some great songs

[BrianMalone89]

so gangster

[rromyja24]

Had the extreme pleasure of seeing Dr. John and his entourage at Cervante's in Denver and is was the trippiest show ever!! Get stoned and go see him if you can, you won't be dissapointed, wild and wicked!! And a big hurrah to Nawlin's, a city that never sleeps;-)

[Bogframe]

To quote a line from my favorite movie "Get Crazy", Who said a white boy can't sing the blues?

[chet2020]

thanks for posting ...Iko-iko.. can somebody post some of the songs off Dr. john cd..."Dr. john plays mac rebennack"/1981. ? saw him live last night at yoshi's,Oakland w/ modeliste and band. great set.

[slideharp1]

Yea, the Doc's New Orleans thru to the marrow. Not heard him with these guys before. I've seen the blind guy before at least once and also in a movie (is that jeff healey?) He was onstage in a bar, boogi-ing up a storm behind a wall of chicken wire. Can't hear him here tho', out of the mix, and the other guy's duelling with him.

[ebronston]

Slide, that's Jeff Healey (RIP), he was in that awful Patrick Swayze movie "Roadhouse". The "other guy" dueling with him is Hiram Bullock, with Marcus Miller on bass and of course David Sanborn on sax. Not sure who the drummer is.

[slideharp1]

O k, thanx. Saw "Roadhouse" so long ago I don't remember how good or bad it was, just a Music Movie and as for JH, well you remember someone who plays like that. Fretting, lap-style....dunno how he does it. Re. kll - Mardi Gras,...Yeah,yorite. The Krews spend All Year getting their themes and outfits together, 130 of them. And that's a Whole Lotta Carnivals for 10 days! And the girls don't mind 'flashing' (it IS just a flash) I didn't even know the National Media picked up on it.

[arlingtonguy54]

This is a great version of Iko Iko. Dr John does it like it was meant to be done.....raw

[Kmarxist]

Anyone know who is on the six string?

[daviedmx38]

R.I.P. Jeff Healey!

[ebronston]

The black guitarist with the smoking solo is Hiram Bullock.

[MySupaFli]

I haven't seen anyone do this song better... It seems the Doc is one with this song.

[turbogrammy]

if it ain't a new orleans artist , it's a cover and thats all there is.

the dead may be good but they ain't new orleans. sorry folks. xx

[rodrigus5]

He is a new orleans artist...Big Time

[mooreentstudios]

Born and raised.

[jennaofthecuckooclan]

Thats such a cool intro

[northwest90s]

I didn't think some of the Dead versoins could be topped but this is realy good

[KLOOBA]

Check out the Dead version live in Egypt.

[PtolemyJones]

What a great TV show this was...

[volcom1551]

jeff healey and dr john are two cool cats

[leli4u]

mardi gras hurricane katrina this cat is the heart and soul of the bayou and more

[Kamzik2006]

Jeff Healey, RIP

[clamdraggin]

Of course hes a real doctor! Dont get no more real...so Y'all just go on and do what the doctor says y'hear???

[MoonSet14]

@clamdraggin He is cure by his music :)

[augfive]

what? hirum died?

[OldOrleans7W]

check out the mardi gras indians here on youtube

[ziggysk8z]

sanborn needs to play saxophone like a human

[billaverbach]

Iko Iko is not that traditional.

It was written by James Crawford Jr.

[ACityOfFriends]

James "Sugarboy" Crawford originally recorded it, but the song has been a part of New Orleans folk culture for almost two hundred years, parts of it coming from Ghana, Africa with the slaves.

I have a pretty complete history of Iko in the description of my video of people at this year's Mardi Gras Indian celebration trying to sing the song. It's pretty funny.

[mudcatGS86]

I love the battling guitar solos from Jeff Healey and Hiram Bullock. What a great show this was I'd forgotten all about it -thanks kbelna!

[msuperboy]

this is so fucking boss.. BIG UPS TO THIS

[DString20]

R.I.P hiram bullock and jeff healy

[reportothedancefloor]

dr. john is such a genuis! saw him at the house of blues in nola, he's amazing live!

[bobbystarrdust]

im a pianist and always love dr john and new orleans piano style... great video!!!!! glad it was to be found

[Gushotspot]

Swinguera de New Orleans -- DR JOHN esse é o cara! ---Night Music com David Sanborn, que saudades desse programa!! Marcus Miller (bass), Hiram Bullock (guitar), David Sanborn (sax), Don Alias (Percussion) e Omar Hakim (Drums), que banda!!

[cunningham91]

sounds better with just piano

[ZenOfTube]

Looks almost effortless, it just flows outa this dude.

Dig the bangin' bass line too.

I LOVE THIS!!

[keyeword]

i dont care who you are . . . that white boy is FUNKY. . .amen

to marty. . .that's david sanborn on sax

[marty6161]

awesome, who's the sax player?

[acidinurmind]

this is a great song by a the great dr. john

[hektoram]

fantastic dr.john :)

[3ltempo]

Holy Crap! Just realized that Jeff Healy is in this. See what I mean? Fusing two styles, people who otherwise might never have played together. Boy, Jeff must have been right on the cusp of greatness when this came out.

[SwampDaddy7]

Jeff, one of the best damn guitarists this world has ever seen with the King of Cool himself, Dr. John?!? Cool!

[3ltempo]

I remember Night Music. I was only 18 and I still knew I was seeing something that couldn't last. It was a forerunner to CBC's "Fuse". In each case, the idea was to invite guests onto the show and let them play their way, then put them in a different musical situation - a-typical backup, different tunes, that sort of thing.

One of the hosts disappeared in the second year and it wasn't the same anymore. Loved this show. they should do it again. This, btw, introduced me to Dr. John.

[CottonwoodInstitute]

alchy. love em though

[randalbyrd]

I do believe they gave the guitar players some. *S*

[aglija]

wonderful accent :D

[ePhilosopher]

gris verb rebinack

[CottonwoodInstitute]

rebennack?

[kll510]

That announcer sounds like he knows nothing about Mardi Gras. I like the song "Iko Iko" but this wasn't my favorite version. Mardi Gras in New Orleans isn't anything like the more traditional Mardi Gras in Acadiana(Cajun country.) New Orleans Mardi Gras is just a drunken, boob flashing fest. To experience a real Mardi Gras go to some of the little towns in Southwestern LA, such as:Eunice and Basile.

[shinigami285]

that announcer is David Sanborn, one of the baddest sax players to ever play

[jdector53]

@shinigami285

turbo fucking false on that one

[logansGT]

kll510 - "That announcer?"

Even if you didn't recognize David Sanborn, he was obviously doing a little skit with Dr. John.

Maybe you should broaden your horizens and get a clue. Time to get out of Eunice.....she won't mind (*_~)

[ebronston]

kll, you're way off base. 90% of Mardi Gras is very family-oriented, families masking and picnicking together on the parade routes. Yeah, there is drunken boob-flashing in the French Quarter, but that's a small part of it, and unfortunately, that's the part the national media focuses on. Mardi Gras in N.O. is just as "real" as MG in Eunice and Mamou--it's just different. Just because YOU don't get into it doesn't make it "not real".

[mognor]

Marcus on bass - always a pleasure to watch and hear!

[srvhendrixfan1]

I love how the host goes and picks up the sax and starts dancing really white lol

but whatever, Dr. John is awesome

[fivethreeone]

what year is this video?

[Omtomramoa]

The 'Night Music'-show ran from 1988 to 1989 and always featured excellent music and musicians. It was too damn good to last

[KizzMoii]

when was this

[ABCBLUES1]

Hiram and Healey...tough to top

[andmataren]

That host is the whitest dude ever, haha.

[Burnsomatic]

I absolutely love Dr. John. He's a magnificent musician. And also...dat mutha fucka funny!

[jesuswuzahippy]

does nyone have the link to the live at montreux version?

[Naturalmind7591]

Is that Dave Sanborn on sax?

[allikatzpop]

AAAAEEE!we jus luv dat dr..He cures whatever got you down....

[raggedy]

Is that Marcus Miller on bass?

[lcasse]

Just noticed the late, great Jeff Healey on guitar in this session. I saw Healey play with Dr. John in Toronto- sometime in the late 1980s I think- and it was great.

[relimes]

Did Dr. John just fart?

[MrJungle123]

I know people gave you minus marks for your comment but I think they thought you were being stupid. At about 38 seconds there is a certain sound and then a chuckle from the crowd... ...you never know. If he did then that boy can keep one hell of a straight face...

[douglegacy]

What a band! I just saw the Dr. at the Greek Theatre in L.A. opening for ZZ Top. It was a great show.

[maddermofo]

That's a strange combination!!! New Orleans blues music opening for rock 'n' roll. But no matter.

[maddermofo]

great version

[drummer032855]

wow great performance, i used to watch sanborn's show - - max that's the mojo, thanks

[bocephus510]

Dr. John was hip, hot, and hairy before it was cool.Thanks for the post kbelna