3/12/2024 0 Comments The players club ronnie naked![]() It was easy to just sit in with people and then the next think you're getting a call to do gigs. In New Orleans people care and want to help you. Tennessee Williams had a quote that New Orleans was the only city that ever loved him back. It’s just not that important to people in New York now, but there were so many clubs and bands in New Orleans to play with, a real community, people willing to help you out. The thing about New Orleans is that music is a necessity there. That’s how I got into more jazz, which I wasn’t into in New York. I would just go sit and listen to people and would go watch my favorite drummers, I didn’t play at all, was just a fan, an observer of the music. The first year I went all I did was listen, I didn’t play, I took it all in. I kept going back and got into 20s 30s 40s type jazz. While I was making The Throbs record with Little Richard he was talking about New Orleans a lot and I moved there thinking I was going to play r n b, but that wasn’t happening. I kicked around New York a bit and ended up moving to New Orleans in 95. We got Little Richard to play piano and had Alice Coopers producer Bob Ezrin-we worked till ‘91 and we got dropped because we weren’t grungey. We were supposed to be the New York Guns N Roses, which was the kiss of death. ![]() I joined The Throbs in the late 80s and we got signed to Geffen records, I suppose we were the hot shot New York band of the time. So here it is, at long last, an interview with one of the legends of the burlesque revival!įirst, tell us a little about the Throbs. Several months ago I interviewed him for this blog, and we decided to save the interview for the release of the DVD. More recently I've had the privilege of using his music on my instructional DVDs produced by World Dance New York, and of discussing a long term project I have in mind to promote appreciation of the music historically used in burlesque striptease, and the musicians who choose to collaborate with burlesque dancers today. I also showed my photographs in a group show about burlesque with his amazing and beautiful wife, painter Charlene Lanzel. I know Ronnie from another life, when he was in a rock band called The Throbs. While living in New Orleans, he helped to create a scene there that fostered dancers who would become The Atomic Bombshells of Seattle, who recently performed in Shanghai. While most cities that have a burlesque scene have a swing band or two that will collaborate with dancers in some burlesque shows, and more and more shows are working with their own bands, in this city we have long had a wealth of extremely talented and devoted musicians that are specifically interested in collaborating with burlesque shows and doing music intended specifically for burlesque dancers.Īt the moment we're fortunate to have our own native son, Brooklyn-born Ronnie Magri, in his hometown. We have a wealth of live music in our burlesque. In New York we have live music at the Slipper Room every Wednesday night with amazing musicians including Brian Fisherman, with whom I've been performing for over 10 years, Le Scandal has featured The New York City Blues Devils and the Le Scandal Orchestra, Big Apple Burlesque features a live band every week, Brian Newman produces a burlesque show with his trio at Duane Park, and there's more, including pianist and arranger Albert Garzon, who seeks out old burlesque music and creates shows based on burlesque legends like Lydia Thompson, Georgia Sothern, and Gypsy Rose Lee. The dancers rehearse their numbers with the bands, and the musicians watch the dancers to see if they need to give them a drum hit when a glove drops to the floor, if the music needs to be sped up or slowed down, or if they need to repeat a form until the dancer is ready to finish her number. In burlesque with live music, there's real collaboration. I've been performing, or at least dancing, to live music all my life, including one glorious night with Spinal Tap, but most of the time I was just dancing along to the music. ![]() I have been extremely lucky to work with some of the best musicians in burlesque.
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