Leo Nocentelli presents "Another Side"
May 5, 2022
New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Gentilly Stage - 2:10pm to 3:10pm
Shure MV88 > iPhone 12 > Motiv Audio App > WAV > FLAC (24/48)
Recorded by Funk It Blog
Give Me Back My Loving (NOT RECORDED)
(Unknown) (NOT RECORDED)
(Unknown) (NOT RECORDED)
Till I Get There (NOT RECORDED)
01. // I Want to Cry
02. Leo speaks
03. You've Become a Habit
04. Pretty Mittie
05. Leo speaks
06. Your Song [Elton John]
07. Tell Me Why
08. Getting Nowhere
09. Leo speaks
10. Give Me Back My Loving
11. Introductions
Leo Nocentelli - vocals & guitar
Marc Stone - 12 string guitar
Kendrick Marshall - keyboards
Lo Farber - guitar & vocals
Jason Neville - vocals
Earl Smith - vocals
Margie Perez - vocals
Steve Perrilloux - congas & vocals
Angelo Nocentelli - bass
Maurice? (from Italy) - vocals
Jamal Batiste - drums
Note: This recording is the last 36 minutes of the set. I arrived and started recording around 2:28pm.
https://soundcloud.com/rlbayers/leo-nocentellis-another-side-tell-me-why-5522-new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival
https://soundcloud.com/rlbayers/leo-nocentellis-another-side-give-me-back-my-loving-5522-new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n15P_Akx_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOCriAEKN_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ViywNEO3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGtwky2UvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwzAwR_7RTY
https://www.nola.com/gambit/events/jazz_fest/article_8c17d640-ccdf-11ec-8780-ff106e79c912.html
Leo Nocentelli recorded "Another Side" in 1971 at a time when the Meters were not together. Nocentelli shared the story of the lost album the Gentilly Stage. He was inerested in music by James Taylor at the time, both in the chord progressions and in story-telling songs.
He seemed to enjoy telling the story behind "You've Become a Habit." The song was inspired by the 1963 film "Irma La Douce," starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. The storyline is about a man who falls in love with a prostitute, but it's all obscured by euphemism and understanding — about things people weren't supposed to say publicly. But Nocentelli preferred to tell it like it is. At the Gentilly Stage, he barely played his guitar during the song.
There was a full band supporting Nocentelli. Marc Stone played a 12-string guitar, and Lo Farber also played an acoustic guitar. He had his brother Angelo Nocentelli playing bass and Jamal Batiste was on drums. A trio of backup singers included Margie Perez, Earl Smith and Jason Neville. Despite all the acoustic guitars and talk of his "country" album, the songs had the rhythms one would expect of a former Meter, and only a handful had a strong country sound. Nocentelli also covered Elton John's "Your Song" on the album and sang it at the grounds.
Nocentelli wasn't known for singing while with The Meters, but he sang every song on the album and at the set. He also told it like it was about problems with the sound equipment. There were problems with feedback and mic levels. At one point, Nocentelli said he'd run around the race track if that's what it would take to find the problem. It worked out as a sort of bonus for fans, as he was asked to sing "Give Me Back My Loving" a second time. He complied, with better sound than when he opened the set with it, and the crowd loved it.
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