Today on the Scoot Show, musician Ivan Neville talked about what it was like opening for the Rolling Stones in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Monday night.Neville's band "Dumpstaphunk" is a New Orleans staple, and the home crowd loved having them warm up the stage for the main event. What must that have been like?It was thrilling! very fun, one of those things... you get the opportunity to play a show like that in a venue like the Superdome at home, and things just seem to click and go well. We had a blast, I gotta tell you... coming up to the day of the show, waiting to do the show, especially with the storm and all of that, and how it had been postponed before from Jazzfest, the anticipation of doing this gig was nerve-wracking, but once we were in there, we were in there. Once we started playing the first song, we knew it was gonna be a good little set and a great night!"
What was it like to meet the headliners backstage?
"I did have an opportunity to see them back there and have a few words... we made small talk. They didn't have a lot of time, I saw both of them after our set so they were on their way to go play pretty soon but I got to see Keith for a little while before that and say how you doing, how's the family and all that."Neville played keys for two Rolling Stones albums, and is also part of Richard's solo band Expensive Winos. What was it like to tour with him?"At the time I was pretty wild, I was not a good boy during those days, behaving very badly... Keith's image is very much overblown, he's really not all about all that stuff, it's more of a legend that permeates that vibe about him. He's a cool guy that loves to play music, and I am happy for having survived my wild days like that, and lived to tell the tale."So even in the Eighties, Keith Richards wasn't really the substance-fueled maniac he's made out to be?