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The Meters (later The Funky Meters) are an American funk band formed in 1965 in New Orleans by Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), George Porter Jr. (bass), Leo Nocentelli (guitar) and Art Neville (keyboards). The band performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977 and played an influential role as backing musicians for other ...
Cissy Strut is a compilation album of thirteen songs released by Island Records in 1974. [ 14] All songs were originally released by Josie Records on The Meters ' first three albums from 1969 to 1970. Robert Christgau had a positive review and called Ziggy Modeliste 's drumming "the secret", adding "it's almost as if he's the lead".
The Meters is the debut album by the American funk group The Meters. It was released in May 1969, the first of eight albums by the band. The band's early works were developed through improvisation. [1] Band members had spent most of the 1960s performing together in nightclubs of New Orleans. They had a fluid musical style that included elements ...
The Meters cut their first three mostly instrumental albums with Josie Records, before signing with Reprise and recording 1972's Cabbage Alley, their first album to feature mostly vocal songs and arrangements. Rejuvenation is the follow-up album. It was produced by Allen Toussaint and recorded at his brand new Sea-Saint Studios in New Orleans ...
Look-Ka Py Py is the second studio album by the American funk group The Meters. The instrumental album was ranked number 218 on the Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, [5] 220 on the 2012 revised list and 415 on the 2020 revised list. [6]
Cabbage Alley is the fourth studio album by the American funk group the Meters, produced by Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn and released in May 1972 by Reprise Records. It was the band's first album for the label, following the demise of Josie Records a year earlier. The signing afforded the group a higher recording budget and re-introduced ...
The album was released in July 1975, [1] at a time when the band was opening for the Rolling Stones on their U.S. Tour. The album sold 88,000 copies and didn't meet the record label's expectations. According to Rupert Surcouf, the band's road manager at the time, the record label realized "the Meters didn't fit into any conventional mold", and ...
Fundamentally Funky. (1994) Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology. (1995) Kickback. (2001) Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology is a compilation album by the funk group The Meters. The album was released in 1995 by Rhino Records. It is a comprehensive compilation of the band's work.