338:. So I heard those two styles and my grandfather (Deacon Frank Lastie) was playing the earlier stuff. It was never a big deal going from one idiom to the other." Riley elaborated on the influence of his mentor, "That's something I got from my uncle Walter 'Popee' Lastie. Whenever he would sit down and tell me about playing the drums, he would always say, 'Whenever you play a solo think about the melody and try to play the form of the tune so that people can relate to it.' As opposed to playing just a beat or playing a lot of wild licks. Whatever I play I try to make it musically coherent." Walter showed nephew Joe Lastie how to refine the drumming technique his grandfather played in church. The younger Lastie, later a drummer with the Preservation Hall jazz band and leader of his own ensemble, found his family's legacy taught him that a life in music was possible.
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midst of the melee, one of the "blind" band members shouted at him, "Watch it, Popee, here comes a Regal Beer bottle at you." During his career Lastie played drums for acts as varied as snake dancers and New
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week, and I thought that was a lot of money. They met some racial profiling, too. They paid their dues so we can be where we're at today as musicians." Walter played on Fats Domino's "Hello
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Freddie hired all young people. He is the cause of a lot of musicians my age getting their start." Beginning in 1955 Lastie toured with New Orleans piano player
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