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2 unusual facts about The Meters


Jess Roden

It was recorded at Olympic and Basing St Studios in London as well as at Sea Saint Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana, and included contributions from Allen Toussaint and The Meters from the US sessions and in London, "Rabbit" John Bundrick and Mick Weaver (keyboards), Steve Webb (guitar), Richard Bailey and Simon Kirke (drums).

Piety Street

It was recorded in New Orleans with local musicians including Meters bassist George Porter, Jr. and Jon Cleary.


Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

Swift relied on a large number of samples, by artists including James Brown, Donald Byrd, Sly & the Family Stone, The Meters, Quincy Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Roy Ayers and Marvin Gaye.

Drop Trio

They cite musical influences from Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Miles Davis, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Meters, Galactic, Horacio Hernandez, and more unexpected influences from the rock genre such as Yes, Rush, Primus, King Crimson and The Beatles.

Nocentelli: Live in San Francisco

Nocentelli: Live in San Francisco is a live album by funk guitarist Leo Nocentelli of The Meters on the label DJM Records.

Uptown Rulers: The Meters live on the Queen Mary

The Meters live on the Queen Mary is a live album by the funk group The Meters recorded on March 24, 1975 during a Venus and Mars party hosted by Linda & Paul McCartney.


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John Huizinga

In 1964 a weekly Dutch TV series reported how members of the expedition, including Herman Haan, were breathtakingly pulled up in an immense steel ball along the meters high, sheer cliff to the centuries-old burial sites of the since long mysteriously vanished Tellem people.