Share your New Orleans Jazzfest experiences!

[Tenenbaum]

Hey,

just curious if any of y'all have been to New Orleans' Jazzfest?

So far, I've heard that:

-bring money

-there's a long commute between stages at the fairground

-bring money

-Dr John could be the shiznit

also, I'm collecting opinions on hot acts to catch at the event, so if you'd be so kind to take a look at the list of performers for the FIRST WEEKEND (APR 27, 28, 29) I'd much appreciate it!

main festival:

http://www.nojazzfest.com/

late nights:

http://www.jazzfestgrids.com/weekend-1

merci buckets~!

[Band_Whore]

Ike and I went to Jazzfest three years ago, It was so awesome. We decided to camp about 15-20mins out of town. It would have been great a cheap but it rain almost every day and we had to get a hotel.( this was before the RV). We stayed at a really cheap hotel. That was a hole other story for a different thread. Anyways money is always good, and a good pair of shoes. There is a hole lot of walking and dancing. We saw a really good local funk band called Papa's Grow Funk, I think thats the spelling. But if they are playing for sure ckeck them out, they are awesome. I hope you have an wick time I wish I could go again.

One more thing if someone offers you acid and they tell you its clean and you won't hardly feel it, RUN RUN far away.

[bradm]

There is a bunch of live show by "Papa Grows Funk" on the Live Music Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/PapaGrowsFunk

Aloha,

Brad

[zero]

'95 Fucking hilarious. We're waiting to get in, early enough, parked a few blocks away. It's the Phish day. There's these idylling cars one of which is a big Cadillac and they're not getting in soon. This very New Orleans guy driving the caddy says to us, one of whom was a really big dude Lichman who drove us down in the '95 Lincoln and was like our chauffeur/bodyguard on tour. We sort of, uhmm, needed one. Anyways I don't think he asked us, the longhairs as much as Lichman but he calls us over and says in this NOLA drawl: 'Hey boys you wanna watch my car while I go in and grab some beer'. The car is running and the store is right there. So Lichman says sure. THEN. The guy walks out with a sixpack, pulls out two from the ring of six. Like he's going to give us a couple. Keeps the two (him and his girl). Passes us the other four and is like thanks guys. Classic.

[zero]

I only went that one year but it occurs to me that I have hilarious stories including:

-smoking bowls in the lineup with Phish's tour manager

-smoking bowls IN THE GOSPEL TENT with Phish's tour manager

-pulling into NOLA parking on a side street and hearing the hiss of nitrous, finding a station wagon, the guys trying to sell it to us right away and then the like 'wait you guys are from Canada?'. Free nitrous all night.

[Tenenbaum]

what's funny is that Phish performed in 96 @ jazzfest ;-)

[zero]

Yeah yeah '96. But we did the Holiday Run both '94 and '95 and that was the first show of the new year and for that reason I often get the year confused.

[afro poppa]

i saw mule play the jazz fest late nite shows in 04...I didnt do the actually jazz fest but i was NOLA for the week...with my mom actually, that was an interesting experience

do yourself a favour and walk around the french quarter etc if you havent visited there already