#240 Stooges Brass Band Why You Worried About Me Men of Class 2012 (by John Shaw)
This was the first time I have heard the Stooges play this song, which I usually associate with the TBC or the Rebirth Brass Band. This was the Men of Class 2012 second-line leaving the first stop and heading south on Louisiana Parkway, 10/21/12
The Men of Class second-line moves on from Big Man’s Lounge south along Louisiana Avenue in Uptown, with the Stooges Brass Band, 10/21/12
The Men of Class second-line stops near Big Man’s Lounge, where they are joined by the Sisters With Class, 10/21/12
Some scholars believe that second-lines in New Orleans derive from West African practices of parading and drumming around a village in order to bless it or protect it from evil. But in New Orleans, the day’s activities involve more than parading and playing music, for the procession stops at a number of places where the social aid and pleasure club that is parading will salute another club. This takes on the aspect of ritual, and thus second-lines serve to build ties and alliances within New Orleans’ inner-city neighborhoods, 10/21/12
#212 Men of Class Second Line 2012 (by John Shaw)
You could say this dancer took his second-lining to new heights when he climbed up on the scaffolding of a pumping station being remodeled on Broad Street in Uptown New Orleans. The Stooges Brass Band are providing the groove, 10/21/12
The Men of Class second-line proceeds across the bridge into Uptown New Orleans, where a second-liner climbs up on the scaffolding of a pumping-station that’s being remodeled. I have noticed that part of the phenomena at second-lines is dancers climbing up on ledges, roofs or other high places so as to be noticed by the crowd, or perhaps to be able to see the whole parade stretched out beneath them, or maybe both. 10/21/12
#203 Stooges Brass Band Deed I Do Men of Class 2012 (by John Shaw)
The Stooges Brass Band play Stevie Wonder’s “Deed I Do” as motivation for the Men of Class and second-liners as they cross the bridge on Broad Street into the Uptown, !0/21/12
#202 The Men of Class Coming Out The Door 2012 (by John Shaw)
The Men of Class come out the door at the Yacht Club on Broad Street to begin their 2012 second line with the Stooges Brass Band.
The Men of Class began their second-line at the Yacht Club on South Broad Street, with the Stooges Brass Band. I wasn’t aware at the time that my homeboys in the TBC Brass Band were marching with the Treme 12 second-line downtown, because that second-line wasn’t listed on the WWOZ schedule.
