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Facing Medical Expenses, Former Neville Brothers Drummer “Mean” Willie Green Needs Help from Some Nice People

“Recent medical expenses” have made retirement difficult for former Neville Brothers drummer “Mean” Willie Green and his friends are stepping up to help.

Tipitina’s will host a May 9 benefit for Green - dubbed Give the Drummer Some - with performances by the New Orleans Suspects, the New Orleans Klezmer All Stars and “a very special set featuring a rotating cast of drummers from around” New Orleans, Offbeat magazine reports. Additional guests will be announced.

Former Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart is promoting the show on his Facebook page and asked fans to “consider lending a hand if you’re able.”

Meanwhile, a Go Fund Me page has raised $16,000 of its $20,000 goal to assist Green.

“For so many years Willie has helped provide the soundtrack for all of our lives,” Suspects manager Mike Quinlan wrote on the page. “As he retired this past year, we look to help provide him with a little relief from both medical and personal bills in these trying times.”

4/19/22

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Stephen Morris interview with Offbeat Magazine, March 1989

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Technique review in Offbeat magazine, January 1989

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Rock critic Jon Newlin wrote a review about the concert in the May 19, 1973 issue of Figaro, a review that is either a brilliant piece of writing or nonsensical rubbish as the Brits say. He described Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant as “a verdical odalisque with a shiny, cylindrical neck like Fernand Leger’s Big Julie, a cross between a peachy Jacobean kewpie doll, and a hard 40’s blonde (on the order of, say, Lizabeth Scott) after 800 volts worth of spoolies. Along with a zany, dumb, rubber band singing voice, he has a cagey galumphing balls-of-the-feet dance style.”

quoted in Stairway to Bourbon Street (originally in Offbeat Magazine May 2011)