Psycho Depot Issue 393 Oct 8, 2004 Current # of subscribers: 191 (daily and digest) Subjects in this issue: Bucket! Tickled P update...... Ricky Nye/Blue & Boogie Piano Summit! more Ricky Nye.... Cincy Enquirer/Ricky Nye ++ psychodots ++ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:07:04 -0400 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Bucket! Sat., Oct. 16th @ R.P. McMurphy's (Cinti., Ohio) ++ psychodots ++ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:09:14 -0400 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Tickled P update...... Forwarding an update from Scott Covrett......... ________________ OK. That last e-mail was a test to see who actually reads TICKLED PINK e-mails. I guess alot do. The STANLEY'S PUB date should be duly noted as THIS FRIDAY, OCT. 8th. Thanks to all who participated. Thanks for listening. ++ psychodots ++ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:10:26 -0400 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Ricky Nye/Blue & Boogie Piano Summit! City Beat October 7, 2004 http://www.citybeat.com/authors/juliemullins.shtml Locals Only: boogie man Local pianist Ricky Nye brings his sixth annual Blues and Boogie Piano Summit to a new venue Interview By Julie Mullins Whether you realize it or not, you've heard Boogie Woogie before. Maybe not in its pure, unadulterated form, but at least in its pervasive influence on popular music, particularly Rock & Roll. You've heard it in The Rolling Stones, more blatantly in Jerry Lee Lewis -- hey, even Tori Amos breaks into Boogie Woogie-flavored stylings at times. With this year's sixth annual Blues and Boogie Piano Summit, Cincinnati native Ricky Nye is seeing that audiences have a chance to hear the real deal at Xavier University's Gallagher Center on Saturday. Nye is affable and quick-witted and, behind his signature retro, thick-framed glasses, there's a gleam of playful mischief in his eyes. To look at him, you might not peg him as a Boogie Woogie/blues musician -- but a darned fine one he is. Speaking of outstanding musicians, Nye has succeeded again in assembling a truly stellar lineup. He wants each year's Summit to have its own "personality" -- this year will have a European slant. From Holland, there's Martijn Schok, who's reputed to be a "real proper" Boogie player, with Greta Holtrop providing sultry vocals. Tim Deelan, also from Holland, is a 12-year-old prodigy fit to carry the tradition into the next generation. Nye recounts a story of the young upstart "burnin' up the piano" at 4:30 a.m. following a concert in Holland. Summit favorite Renaud Patigny (aka the "Boogie Woogie demon") from Belgium will be banging out some unbelievably energetic rhythms and melodies. He plays as if possessed by powerful, otherworldly forces. Rounding out the lineup will be a special guest appearance by a local patriarch of the blues, Big Joe Duskin. Topnotch accompaniment will come from Nye cohorts Nick Lloyd on upright bass and Tony Franklin on drums. One burning question on the minds of previous Summit attendees: Why the venue change from the Southgate House in Newport to Xavier? Nye says he feels this year's largely European lineup would be better suited for a more formal, concert-like setting. "It'll be reminiscent of how it is for me when I go over (to Europe) and play there," he says. Equally important is Nye's desire to open up the demographic with a non-smoking show for all ages, providing increased accessibility for older folks. He adds, "Hopefully the people who came to the Southgate House will come to the show, too. There's a lobby bar and everything, so it's not too libraryish." Reportedly, the Gallagher Center's acoustics are excellent and it's a not-a-bad-seat-in-the-house auditorium. Still, he speaks fondly of the former venue. "I've had it at the Southgate House for the last five years, and I love that juke joint atmosphere," Nye says. He mentions that he'd consider returning there next year. Boogie Woogie's colorful origins can be traced back to impoverished rural areas of the American South in the early decades of the 20th century. African-American Blues pianists played up-tempo music for dancing in barrelhouses. Around 1912, particular left-handed patterns emerged that represent a key ingredient of Boogie Woogie: the division of four beats into eight pulses ("eight to the bar"). This provides the style's distinctive driving rhythm. Add a Blues structure, varied melodic right-hand figures and embellishments and you begin to recognize the style. It sounds familiar because it's had so many revivals. Nye wsa introduced to traditional Boogie Woogie in 1996 at the local Queen City Blues Festival. Unlike piano playing, putting on a festival is not a solo undertaking. Nye struggled to manage the first Piano Summit with minimal outside help -- at the risk of being unable to concentrate on his own playing and, as he put it, "I really almost had an aneurysm." Fortunately, his brother Ken Neiheisel stepped in the second year and, ever since, has played an integral role in making the Summits happen. Nye's greatest satisfaction came during the fourth Summit, when people started pouring into the room and he didn't recognize one face. "The second year," he adds, "there was so much energy in that room that it was buzzin'. I'm just so excited when I see people that are that excited about it." THE BLUES AND BOOGIE PIANO SUMMIT takes place at Xavier University's Gallagher Center on Saturday. For more info, see rickynye.com. ++ psychodots ++ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:16:37 -0400 From: Mary Bosken Subject: more Ricky Nye.... Cincinnati Post October 7, 2004 Below is an excerpt of Rick Bird's weekly column, for the entire column go to: http://www.cincypost.com/2004/10/07/bird100704.html Boogie woogie: Ricky Nye, the area's leading preservationist for the piano blues, holds his 6th annual Blues & Boogie piano summit 8 p.m. Saturday at Xavier's Gallagher Center ($20). The venue is a big switch for Nye, who has previously staged the event at the more suitable honky tonk Southgate House. Performers include Netherlands players Martijn Schok, Greta Holtrop and Renaud Patigny and a special appearance from Cincinnati boogie woogie legend Big Joe Duskin; (513) 745-3939. ++ psychodots ++ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:51:15 -0400 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Cincy Enquirer/Ricky Nye Cincinnati Enquirer October 8, 2004 http://www.cincinnati.com/freetime/100804_nightbeat.html Meeting of the boogie-woogie minds Blues summit features pianists aged 12 to 83 C.E. HANIFIN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER What: Blues & Boogie Piano Summit. When: 8 p.m. Saturday. Where: Xavier University's Gallagher Student Center, 3800 Victory Parkway, Evanston. Admission: $25 day of show, $20 in advance. Call (513) 745-3939 or go towww.rickynye.com. Six years ago, local musician Ricky Nye started a kind of foreign exchange program for musicians who play blues and boogie piano. Each year, Nye travels to Brussels to play at an annual boogie festival with his friend and fellow pianist, Renaud Patigny. (The two met when they played at the Queen City Blues Fest, now known as the Cincy Blues Fest). Patigny, in turn, comes over to Cincinnati to play at Nye's annual event, the Blues & Boogie Piano Summit. The show highlights master pianists from the States and across the pond. This year, the lineup includes several artists from the Netherlands: pianist Martijn Schok with singer Greta Holtrop, and Tim Deelen - as well as Patigny, Nye, who lives in Silverton, and Cincinnati's Big Joe Duskin. The lineup not only spans continents, it reaches across generations, as well. Duskin, 83, is a world-renowned talent who has been playing for decades; he released a new album last month,Big Joe Jumps Again! "He is a real father of the music," Nye says. "He's a national treasure." Deelen is a 12-year-old prodigy making his first big international appearance. Nye describes the bespectacled blond as "this sweet little Harry Potter-looking little kid who just plays like a monster. "I see this year as the juxtaposition of the upstart and the veteran," he says. "It's kind of the passing of the torch." Also new this time around is the venue. After holding the first five summits at the Southgate House in Newport, Nye decided to try something different: the Gallagher Student Center at Xavier University. The venue change means that the summit will be smoke-free and open to all ages. Nye says he hopes that the show will draw younger people as well as older ones, as he'd like to help bring blues and boogie piano music to a new generation. "I started playing when I was five, so it's very exciting for me to see young people that are immersed in this music," he says. "It just thrills me." ++ psychodots ++ End of Psycho Depot 393 Oct 8, 2004 Comments, suggestions, postings, and administrative or the switch between digest and daily versions of the Depot (or be on both!): Mike Brown depot @ psychodots.com To order psychodot merchandise: contact Stan Hertzman of Umbrella Artists and Strugglebaby Records shertzman@cinci.rr.com 513 871-1500 Voice 513 871-1510 Fax and Hal Bernard Enterprises, Inc., 2612 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208 For back issues (2 ways): Email: Tony Nowikowski tony@nowikowski.com or Web Site: http://home.insightbb.com/~p-dots/ Check out the psychodot Home Page at: http://www.psychodots.com Check out the graveblankets Home Page at: http://graveblankets.com Check out the Bears Home Page at: http://www.thebearsmusic.com Check out the Ricky Nye Home Page at: http://www.rickynye.com