Clint Maedgen Gets Vertigo
Clint Madgen, a man who’s day job is playing for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and at night is front man for both The Bingo Show and Liquidrone, gets a bad case of Vertigo thanks to Music Rising.
One of the most talented composer/performers I have ever seen, Maedgen seems to finally getting some of the limelight he deserves. Having the musical ability, talent and heart to take your place in a legendary groups like The Preservastion Hall Jazz Band is impressive enough, but Maedgen is also the compositional and performance force behind two of the most unique bands ever to grace NOLA’s cutting edge: The Bingo Show and Liquidrone.
Despite losing basically all his material possessions he has finally been brought to the attention of the world music community, and as a result is begining to receive the audience he deserves. Go Clint!
You can watch him playing Vertigo with The Edge from U2 here. Watch it, it will make you feel good…
May 27th, 2006 at 9:38 am
I had the pleasure of seeing Clint perform at The Burning Spear in Shreveport in 2000 whilst on a visit to the US from my home in England. I thought then how fantastically talented he was and that he deserved more rocognition than he was recieving at the time. He has a presence thats hard to define and is a tour de force on stage. He turned a small bar into Wembley Stadium for me and I am thrilled he is now being recognised for the genius he is. If ever there was an example of success coming from adversity, Clint is it!
May 27th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
I have followed and written about Clint’s career ever since I first discovered Liquidrone (see link under NOLA Music in sidebar) back in ‘98. In my opinion he is NOLA’s most valuable and underrated musical resource!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
July 9th, 2006 at 10:56 am
I saw Clint play with Bingo! at Fiorella’s back in 2003 whilst on holiday from the UK and have been looking him up on the net regularly ever since. The band were all great but it was clear that he was something special. I am so pleased to see him finally being recognised as a great talent, the guy is incredible. Please someone send him over to the UK - he’d be a sell out!
February 13th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Clint!! My man!! Saw your Complicated Life video and it was awesome. Remember the old Barnes & Noble days? I constitute a flash form your past. Search and look me up. Very glad with your success. Rick