Re: [bomp] Fats Domino missing

[Jessica Port <trashwoman63@xxxxxxxxx>]

Saw Quintron and Miss Pussycat play here in LA at the
Echo a year and half ago. Was a totally nutty yet
amazing show!
Hope his crazy gadgetry isn't floating around the
submerged city.
-Jessica

--- weisbaker <roky@optonline.net> wrote:

> 
> ok, but what about  Mr. Quintron ???????????
> 
> Fats Domino Found in New Orleans 
> By Gina Serpe 
> 
> 
> One of rock 'n' roll's chief architects has been
> rescued from the 
> rubble of
> New Orleans. 
> 
> Fats Domino, who had been unaccounted for in the
> wake of Hurricane 
> Katrina,
> was plucked from the flooded city by a helicopter
> late Thursday. He 
> was
> reported to be in good condition. 
> An APB went out for the musician and his family
> earlier in the day. 
> The musician's niece, Checquoline Davis, posted a
> plea on 
> Craigslist.com for
> information on her missing relatives, writing that
> Domino and his 
> wife,
> Rosemary, and their children and grandchildren
> "didn't get out" of 
> their New
> Orleans home. Her plea was one of thousands seeking
> information on 
> missing
> friends and family on the site. 
> The R&B legend had last been heard from on Sunday
> night, a day 
> before the
> storm struck. During a phone call with longtime
> agent Al Embry, the
> 77-year-old performer insisted he would ride out the
> hurricane in his
> three-story home. 
> 
> It is not immediately known if Domino's family made
> it to safety. 
> Domino's house was located in the city's 9th Ward,
> an area that is 
> heavily
> flooded and littered with dead bodies. 
> 
> The singer and boogie-woogie pianist, born Antoine
> Domino, has sold 
> over 110
> million records in his nearly five-decade career
> highlighted by the 
> jukebox
> staples "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That a Shame."
> The New Orleans 
> music
> fixture's 1949 recording of "The Fat Man" is
> considered by some to 
> be the
> first rock 'n' roll record, and Domino was among the
> inaugural group 
> of
> inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
> 1986. 
> 
> Another Hall of Famer, singer-songwriter Allen
> Toussaint, was listed 
> among
> the missing, although Fox News reported that
> Toussaint may be among 
> the
> 20,000-plus refugees seeking shelter in the Super
> Dome.
> 
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