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cosimo matassa - ( NOTE THIS IS CAMERA 2....SEE HI-126 FOR CU CAMERA ) New Orleans based recording studio owner and engineer - producer 1945-80
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COSMO TALKS ABOUT HIS EARLIEST YEARS AND HOW HE STARTED HIS STUDIO IN NEW ORLEANS - AFTER WW2 WORKED FOR JUKE BOX BIZ IN NEW ORLEANS WITH FATHE
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COSMO TALKS ABOUT THE NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS AND HOW IT WAS THEIR WONDERFUL TALENT THAT MADE HIM LOOK GOOD
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COSMO " IT WAS A GREAT WAY TO MAKE A LIVING..WE HAD NO SENSE OF HISTORY...
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COSMO HOLDS UP A PICTURE OF HIMSELF AS A YOUNG MAN - 1940'S
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COSMO " I HAD TWO JUKE BOXES A WHITE ONE AND BLACK ONE BECAUSE OF RACIAL SEGREGATION
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COSMO TALKS ABOUT SEGREGATION - " IF YOU HAD A SAXOPHONE PLAYER WITH A WHITE GIRLFRIEND...IT WAS A PROBLEM..IT WAS RIDICULOUS..THEY CALLED MY PLACE THE " NIGGER STUDIO" BUT WE WERE PROUD OF IT
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MORE ON SEGREGATION..WE HAD FINE PEOPLE FROM UP TOWN THAT DIDN'T THINK WE EXISTED..THE NEWSPAPER NEVER COVERED US EVEN WHEN WE WERE MAKING HIT RECORDS
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COSIMO ON MEETING DAVE BARTHOLOMEW - THEIR COLLABORATION - LEADER OF A BIG BAND, HE WAS WELL KNOWN, NEW ORLEANS IS A DANCING TOWN, ON DRUMMERS IN NEW ORLEANS
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COSIMO ON THEIR FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE MUSICIANS " WE WERE FRIENDS, BESIDES BEING.."
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COSIMO ON HIS STUDIO BEFORE FATS - " WE WERE DOING THINGS WITH PAUL BARBARAN AND OTHERS YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT ANY MORE..EVERYBODY DID SOME RECORDING...
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********COSIMO DESCRIBES HIS FIRST STUDIO - "IT WAS NOT STATE OF THE ART" START RECORDING DIRECT TO DISC..NO EDITING..EVERYONE PLAYED IT FROM START TO FINISH..IT PUT A DEMAND ON US TO DO IT RIGHT!" ( GREAT) -
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******* COSIMO DESCRIBES THE STUDIO - THE ROOM WAS 15 X 16 BUT IT HAD GREAT ACOUSTICS ....WE LEARNED AS WE WENT...
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*****COSIMO DESCRIBES THE STUDIO ( WITH RICK COLEMAN'S THE PHOTO OF THE EXTERIOR) DESCRIBES THE NEIGHBORHOOD BACK THEN..THE CALADONIA AND OTHER CLUBS WITH LIVE MUSIC..DESCRIBES A NIGHT CLUB BILL AT THE DEW DROP INN...*********THEY HAD COMEDIANS, DANCING GIRLS, NOVELTY ACTS
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COSMO TALKS ABOUT HOW " WE DIDNT MAKE HISTORY..IT SORT OF HAPPENED..A GREAT GROUP OF MUSICIANS....
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COSMO ON PROFESSOR LONGHAIR - ( GOOD ) - GREAT ANECDOTES ABOUT PROFESSOR LONGHAIR
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******COSMO ON DAVE BARTHOLOMEW " WE DIDN'T CALL HIM THE CHIEF FOR NOTHING" HE WAS THE CHIEF..HE KEPT US FOCUSED...HE KEPT FATS FOCUSED
WITHOUT A DAVE THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A FATS ( GREAT)...DAVE KEPT FATS ON TRACK.. ABOUT FATS DOMINOS UNIQUE TALENT AND HOW HE MADE THINGS HIS OWN |
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COSMO ON LITTLE RICHARD...GREAT STORIES OF WORKING WITH LITTLE RICHARD
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** COSMO MATASSA ON EARL PALMER - GREAT DRUMMER ( GOOD BIT) TALKS ABOUT EARL PALMER'S TALENT AND HOW HE WORKED..THEY MARRIED THE TUNES AND MADE THEM THEIR OWN
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***COSIMO MATASSA ON HERB HARDESTY - A SUPREME TALENT - NOBODY TOLD HIM WHAT TO PLAY - HE ALWAYS DELIVERED
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COSIMO ON JOE TURNER - NICE MEMORIES OF WORKING WITH BIG JOE TURNER
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COSIMO ON RECORDING WITH RAY CHARLES
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SOLO COSIMO MATASSA INTERVIEW ENDS
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INTERVIEW WITH HERBERT HARDESTY, EARL PALMER AND COSIMO MATASSA ( SHOT IN MID SHOT WITH ALL THREE SUBJECTS SITTING AROUND A TABLE)
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COSIMO TELLS A STORY OF ERNEST MCLEAN PLAYING GUITAR ON A SMILEY LEWIS RECORDING
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THEY TALK ABOUT SMILEY LEWIS - EACH MAN TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH SMILEY LEWIS
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***HERB HARDESTY TALKS ABOUT ROOMING WITH ERNEST MCLEAN WHEN THEY FIRST WORKED WITH FATS DOMINO - ROOMED TOGETHER ...HERB TELLS THE STORY ABOUT BEING WITH A GIRL IN THE ROOM WHEN HERB HAD A GIRL - NICE ANECDOTE
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SMILEY LEWIS GETTING SHOCKED IN COSIMO'S STUDIO STORY AS TOLD BY HERB AND ANOTHER STORY ABOUT SMILEY RECORDING
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EARL TELLS ANOTHER STORY ABOUT ERNEST MCLEAN - SHAKING HIS HAND ( FUNNY STORY)
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EARL PLAMER DESCRIBES ERNEST MCLEAN'S SOLO STYLE AND HERB TELLS MCLEAN STORIES
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HERB ON MCLEAN
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COSIMO TELLS STORY ABOUT FATS DOMINO IN A SESSION STOPPING A PERFORMANCE TO COMMENT ON IT AND RUINING IT IN THE PROCESS FATS STOPPED AND SAID " HOW I SOUND?"
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***COSIMO ON RECORDING FATS " WE DIDN'T HAVE MULTI TRACK..WHEN YOU STOPPED YOU HAD TO ALL START FROM THE BEGINNING AGAIN" -
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******EARL PLAMER TALKS ABOUT WITH BARTHOLOMEW'S BAND TOURING WITH FATS FOR " FAT MAN" AND GOING OUT WITH JEWEL KING " THREE X 7 - FATS WAS SHY AND AFRAID TO GO ON TOUR..LEW CHUDD TOLD DAVE TO TELL HIM HE IS GONG TO SUE HIM ( GREAT STORY!!!) GREAT STORY ABOUT FAT'S FIRST TOUR AND HOW FATS BECAME THE STAR AND HOW PROFESSOR LONGHAIR WENT ON THE TOUR AND HOW FESS RUINED THE PIANO AND THEY HAD TO PAY FOR IT
FATS WAS JEALOUS ABOUT PROFESSOR LONGHAIR CAUSE HE WAS A BIG HIT WITH THE AUDIENCE |
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HERB TELLS ABOUT SEGREGATION - NOT BEING ABLE TO STAY IN THE HOTELS AND TALKS ABOUT TEARING UP THE HOUSE THEY STAYED AT AND HAD TO PAY HER BACK - EARLY FATS TOUR - FATS PAYED POOL TO HUSTLE THE BAND MEMBERS - EARLY FATS TOUR PROFESSOR LONGHAIR ON FIRST TOUR
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****EARL PALMER TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH DAVE BARTHOLOMEW ON COMING UP WITH THE SECOND LINE BEAT FOR "I'M WALKIN'" ( USE THIS STORY AS INTRO FOR I'M WALKIN!!!! DAVE SAID " THAT'S IT THATS IT!"
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HERB TALKS ABOUT REHEARSING WITH OTHER DRUMMERS AND HOW THEY TRIED TO COPY EARL
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COSIMO MATASSA ON EARL PALMER " HE IS ONE OF THOSE RARE DRUMMERS THAT CAN DRIVE A BAND WITHOUT SPEEDING UP"
" THE JOOK BOX OPERATORS WANTED SHORT RECORDS AND EARL COULD DELIVER IT |
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***HERB TELLS STORY ABOUT RECORDING I'M WALKIN" AND HOW HE DESIGNED HIS FAMOUS SOLO
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****COSIMO AND EARL TALK ABOUT COSIMO'S STUDIO AND IT'S SOUND AND HOW HE SO NATURALLY ACHIEVED IT - COSIMO TALKS ABOUT WHEN THEY WENT FROM SKIN DRUM HEADS TO PLASTIC AND HOW BAD THE EARLY PLASTIC ONES WERE
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***COSMO TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH DAVE BARTHOLOMEW IN THE STUDIO AND HOW ALLEN TOUSSAINT WOULD TELL A SOLOIST WHAT TO PLAY BUT ALLEN WOULD NOT..HE LEFT THE SOLOS TO THE INSTRUMENTALISTS "I WAS ALWAYS FREE TO PLAY WHAT I FELT_ SAYS HERB HARDESTY TALKS ABOUT THE SOLOS ON THE FATS RECORDS
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STATEMENT ENDS
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