Nasty Ned is a veteran roots-rockin' blues man who celebrates the music while enjoying a career that has put him on some of the hottest stages in America with the coolest cats and kittens in the world.
One writer wrote, *"Nasty Ned is on par with the best modern blues has to offer". Another... *“Nasty Ned does his thang with hipness ala John Lee Hooker". Yet another... *“There’s something about the stage that turns this guy into the best front-man I’ve ever seen”.
Sid McGinnis (CBS Orchestra) told Ned, “You were like the devil up there”!
Nasty Ned, who enjoys taking live performance into the recording studio says, "It's about the joyous noise, electrification, the sensation, connectay-tion, story-tellin' temptation, and just plain doin' the do - you know, havin' a good time diggin' roots, and playin' them deep, deep blues”.
In 1964, after hearing Slim Harpo and “Baby Scratch My Back” on WABeatleC, Ned rubbed two nickels together and bought his first Hohner marine band harmonica, laying down the saxophone he had been playing in grade school since 1959.
By '66 he was fronting his own band, The Carnival of Soul, wound up on TV in Newark, NJ with the Chiffons, turned down Kama Sutra and began digging for the roots of rock & soul. That's when he found the blues.
and... "What a long strange, wonderful trip it has been".
Ned remembers seeing and hearing Albert King open a show at the Fillmore East during the 60's, then playing elbow to elbow on stage with the man at the old Lone Star Cafe in the early 80's.
Ned claims very seriously of the blues, “I’m lucky to have found an outlet for my pain and confusion. I can let go of it man... not a lot of people are that fortunate”.
Yet he’s quick to admit, he “should have stayed playing baseball during the 1960’s”.
Today, Nasty Ned the performer, writer, promoter, visual artist, media personality, bidnessman and long time show-host of American Roots Live, continues to realize his vision of an equal opportunity celebration of American roots music. For after hundreds of nights on local stages, American Roots Live now celebrates the music live, online and on the radio around the world thanks to label and publisher American Showplace Music.
And, also today, with five decades of "doin' the do" under his belt, Ned still breathes for the creative process and is always ready for anything. For this reason, and because he is being held hostage by producers with a bevy of Russian hit-women, Nasty Ned now co-hosts "Plug-in", the home recording web TV show. (find it below in friends)
Nasty Ned has lived the blues, has become the blues and has risen above hardship. He says now, simply, he is enriched and honored to have found the “fathers of the joyous noise and to let burn their eternal spirit in my soul and stylings".
On the ASM recording, "American Roots Live Presents the Studio Masters, vol. 1", Ned and session mates, Lee Fink, JR Bradfield and Swami expand the boundaries of jam, blues and jazz with the one-take improv "South Salem" and then step just beyond the blues with "Not a Married Man".
"That's All Goodnight" is Ned airing it out after a long night in the studio, alone in the open sound room - still stomping his feet and carrying on past four a.m. and no one in the control room 'cept the little red, green and blue equipment lights in the dark.
Hiya Ned just droppin by to see if any new tunes up :) Can't wait to hear the new CD :)
Played you and Honeyboy sunday listeners really like his Comin' Home, and I close with That's All lol. Hey great rankings (of course) look forward to seeing you guys when I come home to NY in Dec.
I read and listened to your music page. I love your sound and music. Brilliant! Thank you for the opportunity to browse your page. I would like to put your reverb player on my page but they need to be rearranged. My page is overwhelmed with players and they need to be set down to 1 play only. My page is too hard to open. Please let me know when you post new material as I am working with so many bands I never know when new songs are released.
My passion is in the music and here on the spaces there is so much from everywhere. There is so much to be appreciated to be able to listen to a variety of music; some signed and some unsigned. I am a music critic and taking a break for the season. I do miss the challenges of critiquing the music but I may not be back to my critic work on My Space until sometime in the Fall. I am taking the Summer off! Time to have some fun and relaxation.
Music is Life, Like Air is to Breath...
"The aim of music, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of music that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." ~J .08
