Happy Music Monday! Today we’re featuring something a little different. First of all, we’re announcing that our friend Marco Benevento will join us at the Hiro Ballroom in New York on 2/18/2012 as our special guest on keys for night one of the Nolafunk.com Mardi Gras Ball! We’ve been joined by Marco Benevento several times in the past, most recently on the Acuara Stage at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Thanks to Brian Epstein for these two shots from Jazzfest!
A note from archivist fUNKYbret: Seeing as it’s Music Monday, I’m pleased to offer some aural insight into what may have been the genesis for Bonerama’s relationship with Mr. Benevento. Back in January of 2009, Bonerama was aboard Jamcruise 7 with a plethora of amazing musicians. On the fourth night of the cruise, the band made their way to the “Jam Room” for some late night fun. As fate would have it, the Bonerama horns took the stage for a bit while Marco was up on keys. The rest, as they say, is history.
Does that sound cool? Wanna listen in? Thanks to our friend Charlie Miller, this most super of superjams is available for your listening pleasure. Keep in mind, this is all improv, so it’s about as loose and jammy as it gets. The magic begins (for Bonerama, at least) about halfway through disc two, track two (aka track 7 on the streaming player in the top right corner of the page) with a jam on Cissy Strut. Check it out!
Here’s a glimpse into the Rolling Stones tribute gig at Rock N Bowl in NOLA on 1/6/2012. See anybody you recognize? (Posted to YouTube by ChuckCredoIV)
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Stumbled upon this video on YouTube of the “SHS” Jazz Band performing “Bap Bap” by Mark Mullins. If you can identify the students or school that are in this video, please leave a comment and let us know!
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Today we’re throwing you a bone about a great festival. We’re very pleased to announce that we’ll be performing at the 8th Annual Wanee Festival in Live Oak, FL! Bonerama will join a fantastic lineup that includes: The Allman Brothers Band, Furthur, Gov’t Mule, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Buddy Guy, Bruce Hornsby, Mickey Hart Band, Hot Tuna, North Mississippi Allstars, Dumpstaphunk, Zach Deputy, Devon Allman’s Honeytribe, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, and many, many more still to be announced.
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It’s Music Monday again here at Bonerama HQ, where we offer up a free audio stream/download via Archive.org. In case you didn’t already know, Bonerama has an extensive collection of recordings at Archive.org spanning almost 10 years!
Today we’re featuring a fresh audio recording from 12/29/2011 at The Plaza Live in Orlando, FL. Bonerama was on a three day run through Florida leading up to New Years Eve in Lake Worth at the Bamboo Room. Thanks to Devin Ryan for making this recording available via Archive.org. Enjoy!
The BNR horns were part of a show @ Rock&Bowl last night that really rocked. The Rolling Stones Tribute Festival. The band was strong: Chuck Credo, Alex McMurray (guitars), Reggie Scanlan (bass) John Gros (keys, not Bobby), Chad Gilmore (drums) Irene Sage (vocals) Joe Stark (guitar and vocals), Fred Leblanc (vocals). Dave Stocker, English Bob and Glen also played keys or guitars. We spent 2 days of rehearsing and working hard on the songs and added some cool Bone stuff in the mix of it all. Mark wrote a killer arrangement of Gimme Shelter with the bones starting the Keith Richards guitar part. It was a guitar layered part done in the studio on the Stones ‘Let It Bleed’ record from 1969. The layers last night were just Greg, Mark and I all night long.
It was a lot of fun playing all Stones songs. I definitely have a new appreciation for The Rolling Stones.
Who knows, maybe a Stones song may show up on a Bonerama set list. -ck
Set One:
Get Off My Cloud
Bitch
Heartbreaker
Under My Thumb
Happy
Tumbling Dice
Ruby Tuesday
Rip This Joint
Waiting On A Friend
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Moonlight Mile
Gimme Shelter
Satisfaction
Set Two:
Brown Sugar
Loving Cup
Beast Of Burden
Sweet Virginia
When The Whip Comes Down
Dead Flowers
Midnight Rambler
Sympathy For The Devil
Wild Horses
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Here’s a link to some pics from Michael Savoie: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.327149090640413.74931.100000359738199&type=3
Here’s some vintage promotional material from 2003 courtesy of Mark Mullins. Were you with us way back when?
Today we’re throwing you a bone about a great festival. We’re very pleased to announce that we’ll be performing at the 8th Annual 
