Event: DR.JOHN Date: Friday, 3. July 1998 Time: 21:30 Stage: MAIN STAGE ON THE DRAVA RIVER This is a testament to funk, to funksters, tricknologists, mujicians, care-rack-ters, who got music burning in their brains and no holes in their souls. So saith Mac Rebenack, who some of yall might know as Dr. John the Night Trippper. o begins Under a Hoodoo Moon, one of Rocks most original and infectious autobiographies. In these pages, Dr. John, the alchemist of New Orleans psychadelic funk, tells his story, and what a story it is: of four decades on the road, on the charts, in and out of trouble, but always steeped in the piano-based soulful grind of New Orleans rhythm & blues of which he is the acknowledged high guru. He grew up in 1950s New Orleans, grooving to Little Richard and Fats Domino. At sixteen he was a journeyman rocker, a record producer, a junkie. From recording studio to back alley to whorehouse to juke joint, he saw every corner of the wide-open city, living one step ahead of the law - until the law caught up with him, and he landed in the penitentiary, with no time to play and hard time to pay. Years later, he mixed all his New Orleans memories into a salty musical gumbo, added a little voodoo spice, and crowned himself Dr. John the Night Tripper - a psychadelic Pied Piper whose crackling voice and eye-opening lyrics made him one of rocks eccentric visionaries. Through the 1970s, his records - Gris-Gris, Gumbo, "Right Place, Wrong Time" -- sold millions. And in the 1980s, after kicking the addiction affliction, he became (in the words of The New York Times) "traditions elegant suitor," his jazzy r&b albums In a Sentimental Mood and Goin Back to New Orleans winning back-to-back Grammys. Now, with Under a Hoodoo Moon, Dr. John takes his place as a rock storyteller par excellence: Full of wit and wordplay, tales of hoodoo saints and high-living sinners, his memorable memoir casts a spell as hard to resist as Mardi Gras itself. Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) lives in New York City, though he tours internationally the whole year round. Jack Rummel lives in San Lorenzo, New Mexico. Dr. John A prodigious songwriter, masterful piano player, two-time Grammy Award winner and celebrated ambassador of New Orleans music, Mac Rebennack (a.k.a. Dr. John) has secured a place for himself in rock history. The Los Angeles Times called him "a marvelous link in a chain of great New Orleans R&B piano players stylistically descended from Professor Longhair." And over the past 25 years, since the release of his first album, he has been an innovator in his own right. On Television, his MCA/GRP debut, the Crescent City roots doctor puts his distinctive gumbo twist on a set of funky new originals and two memorable cover tunes, Sly Stones "Thank You (Fallentin Me Be Mice Elf)" and "Money," the Berry Gordy-Jane Bradford smash hit of 1960 that launched the Motown label. A follwup to 1992s Goin Back to New Orleans, which won a Grammy last year for Best Traditional Blues Album, New Orleans, which won a Grammy last year for Best Traditional Blues Album, Television features more of the smae exberant piano tinkling, infectious goodtime grooves and gravelly wit that has made Dr. John a true New Orleans icon,. From thoughtful, socially-conscious statements like "Lissen," "Spaceship Relationship" and the title track to the tongue-in-cheek blues of "U Lie 2 Much," from the evocative voodoo vibe conjured up on "Witchy Red" and "Only The Shadow Knows" to the swaggering rap of "Shut D. Fonk Up," Television touches on some of the same musical territory covered on Dr. John landmarks like Gris-Gris, Gumbo and Babylon while also opening up some directions.