NASTY NED DOES IT AGAIN SEE HIM LIVE AT THE BULL TONIGHT

Nasty Ned & the Noo DogsLIVE @ The Bull229 Williams St.Piscataway, NJCall - 732-752-1240 for directionsShowtime 10PMFeaturing: Lee Fink, Mike Flynn, Gene Downin and Jake jar el - and yours truly - and some special guests!You will not want to miss this one!www.nastyned.com


neds blog review of last night

i have been dubbed the official roots photographer so you will be seeing some of my photo work soon ,right now its all eddie ray the web master

see the review below

4/14/2006

Thanks to everyone who braved the road construction nightmare last night to make our 2nd American Roots Open Mic a rousing success.I love having these parties and not having to mess up my own living room, but like Nick says - this is my living room - and it's yours, too.Tremendous effort last night from the dedicated bluesman and live music supporter Duane Chez. He does a lot from behind the scenes for American Roots and on the stage as well as he played his ass off last night. He supplied all of the stage gear AND brought the coolest friends with him including, my brother from another mother, Mike Caruso from the Doughboys.Because of the repaving of Main Street we all had to park in a lot across the street from The Rail - you would think not too big of an inconvenience right? But the guys unloading the equipment truck had to carry each piece across a street being repaved! Dodging trucks and tractors and guys shoveling molten asphalt at their feet... You get the picture. It was an awesome effort.Thanks Duane Chez. You are the man - and you played like one last night.We kicked off with a solo from Paul Ransom, Virginia Beach - then Duane Chez and friends featuring Mike Caruso on bass, Jake jar el (Noo Dogs) on drums, Snakeman Runyan on harmonica and vocals and the one and only Johnny Charles, who absolutely blew everybody away with his awesome playing! My man was ON!There were great performances by Jim Popik and Jeff Page from Ten Foot Tall Band with Walter Foot (Bardaji Group) on drums and "Big Boy" Kenny Nerbek (Filthy Rich & the Poor Boys) on Bass with Kevin Tracy from Hilltop studios in Bangor, PA sitting in on keys.Ten Foot Tall Band is opening for Marshall Tucker at Starland Ballroom in a couple of weeks and have agreed to return next week with a pair of tickets (to that show) for us to give away to one of next week's lucky ticket holder. Remember there is NO Cover charge at American Roots, but we encourage donations of "any denomination" to help pay the guest host band for bringing their gear, sharing it with everyone and playing for free. So when you come down to the station, please drop a little something in the big white jar marked "Donations" at the door and Jessica will give you a ticket that can win you some cool stuff later.Last night we gave away a $30 food and drink certificate for The Rail and a bunch of cool T Shirts. Last week, two pair of Joe Satriani tickets, next week, Marshal Tucker with Ten Feet Tall tickets and other cool stuff.I'm going to have to fly, here. I have a million things to do yet before rockin' the Bull tonight with the Noo Dogs (and friends) in Piscataway. wwww.nastyned.com for details.Let me first mention the tremendous contributions by Michael Krizan, Bob Bernard and Snakeman Runyan and others who rocked with a sort of reunion of Hot Sauce, then Gus Bardaji with Todd Lanka on bass and Walter foot on drums, joined by Kevin Tracy on keys. Mark and Kate Weber for there great duet performance and Eric and one of his guys from Odus Driftwood who performed as a country duo (their entire band couldn't make it but promise to do so in the future. Then a big jam at the end with everybody from Duane Chez and friends including JR Bradfield and a little blowin' and shoutin' from me.Thanks again to Ed Pampani (our official Am Rts photog) and Eddie Ray from Computown for the cool pics.

don't miss the bob lanza blues band

Sat April 1

Old Brewery Tavern
138 W Union Blvd
Bethlehem, PA 18018-3804
610-691-9406
http://www.oldbrewerytavern.com/




Sat April 15&22
Orphan annies jam time
9 pm start
1255 Valley Rd. Stirling, NJ 07980
908-647-0138
http://oannies.tripod.com/

please not i normally attend this jam and i not only take pics but i get up and jam also how about that ! hope to se you there




Saturday April 29
http://www.bluetonecafe.com/index.htm
The Bluetone Cafe • 683 Walnut Street • Easton, PA 18042Ph (610) 258-5812

nasty ned knows how to throw a party

This Friday Night, April 14th, 2006

Nasty Ned & the Noo Dogs
LIVE @ The Bull229 Williams St.Piscataway, NJCall - 732-752-1240
Showtime 10PM

Featuring: Lee Fink, Mike Flynn, Gene Downin and Jake jar el - and yours truly - and a surprise guest!

But first, we're going to celebrate American Roots, Thursday, April 13th @

American Roots Open Mic Live Music Series @
The Rail inside the Historic Bound Brook Train Station
350 E. Main St.
Bound Brook, NJ
Call – 732 748 RAIL
www.therailonmain.com

All are invited to celebrate our musical heritage!

This week's guest host band is Duane Chez and Friends, featuring Mike Caruso, Gar Francis, Todd Lanka and Jake jar el !!

Plus, I hear a whole lot of other very interesting, talented and eclectic players will share their musical influences with you, too, as it defines their music today... you just never know who is going to show up.

You will not want to miss one minute of this!

Come early to enjoy dinner and get a good seat...
and to put your name on the play list if you intend to jam.

Duane Chez and Friends at 8PM - you at 9PM

If you forgot how much fun we had last week - click into this link for a quick reminder http://american-roots.blogspot.com

Please forward this nooz to a friend... and keep those emails coming - I enjoy hearing from you.

Watch www.nastyned.com or http://nastyned.blogspot .com
for more live shows as they are scheduled...

Email Nasty Ned at nastyned@att.net

American Roots

American Roots

nasty ned and the american roots night at the rail in bound brook

american roots

http://american-roots.blogspot.com/

as you know i also photograph local acts american roots is a jam at the rail in bound brook hosted by the great bluesman nasty ned

here is a review by him of our first thursday jam

Thanks to everyone for making our first American Roots open mic a success. Someone kidded, that I just wanted to throw a party and not have to mess up my own house."Well it did feel like my own party - and thank you all for coming. If you ask Nick, the manager, he'll tell you The Rail is my house, and he wants you to know it is your house, too. There was a very cool vibe in the room.With lots of passionate players and plenty of real music enthusiasts together in one place celebrating a music form that breathes life into our culture and the bedrock on which modern music stands - American roots open mic proved to be a great place for a music fan to come and get-up close to the music and for musicians, an intimate venue with a very enthusiastic audience.Bassboards Blues BandMany thanks go to last night's guest host band, Bassboards Blues Band, who proved not only to be dedicated and talented musicians with a fantastic young singer named Kate Weber, who goes convincingly from Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin to a piano accompanied 30's torch song - BBB showed themselves to be good people, both gracious and generous who stepped forward for the cause.There was a very entertaining performance by Tom Fuller and Kate Weber. The guitar mastery of regional W.C. Handy Award winner Johnny Charles who I joined on Albert Collins' "Black Cat Bone" and Sonny Boy Williamson's "Pontiac Blues". It was my pleasure to perform with Michael Krizan, Jersey's King of the Delta Blues gut-bucket-slide guitar and with Noo Dog Gene Downin on bass, Glen Kubrak on drums, Doctor Greg from Bassboards on keys, we knocked out a couple of Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield songsBrad Crowell put in a solid performance with "Crossroards" and "One Way Out" as some nice things happened on stage with Ed Z and Bill and Glenn from White Trash Hurricanes and Jimmy from Bassboards blowing harp. Later, a solo performance from Tom Fuller became a duo as I joined him on a Jimmy Reed number and an acoustic guitar/harmonica rendition of Free's "All Right Now." Also a young singer/songwriter named Patrick ShaCola, who we all met for the first time last night, performed three introspective and melodic originals.There were a lot of players meeting other players - some for the first time, sharing ideas and some hooking up and playing together - very cool. This American Roots open mic is going to become a scene where you can come to find a new band mate or a new band to join, or where you might happen upon that special player who's the missing piece for a project you're doing. And it's going to become a scene where producers and A&R types hang to scope things out - especially with the caliber of players who are showing up and as the word spreads. Concert Ticket Give-AwaysI gave away two pair of concert tickets to see Joe Satrani at Starland Ballroom compliments of The Rail.How this will work each week is - there is, as you know, No Cover Charge at our open mic, but we encourage a donation of any amount you're comfortable with giving that will go to the guest host band who plays for free and then supplys their equipment for the others. When you make an optional donation you're given a raffle ticket that could win you a pair of concert tickets, or a dinner for two, or other cool gifts later in the night. There where plenty of photo ops for photographers, and thanks to Ed Pampani, our official American Roots photographer, and Eddie Ray from Computown who is building an American Roots gallery online - probably at www.nastyned.com - there are sure to be a lot of great shots chronicling our first night. I'll post them here when they become available. Next week's guest host band is Hunterdon County and Bethlehem-Allentown area blues veteran Duane Chez and friends. Duane will be bringing along some very notable players (some of my favorites) you'll not want to miss. (I'm not sure I can mention names, yet so I'll hold off.)Anyway, enough of my scrawling. In closing, some absolutely exciting things happened last night; one prior to the show and one just after you all left, I'll talk more about it in another post.Thanks again for your support and interest. I look forward to seeing you all again next Thursday at the American Roots open mic party at The Rail.Keepin' it real, Ned

a pleasant symmetry

a pleasant symmetry


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