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.