Oz Noy - Cissy Strut (The Meters original) 

Just discovered Mr. Noy this week and now I'm obsessed. Such a great mix of chops and feel. Pure fun.

i saw this song live at my music school with my music teachers backing him up. When he plays he touches every fret on the guitar. pretty amazing how he looks at music. All he cares about is groove lol

Keyboard solo so nice, had to listen twice.

Can't deny the pure genius of the original. Very simple with a lot of holes to fill. Gives covers much latitude. These guys turned funk into jazz by doing just that. The Meters were the best at their craft, inventing things that resonate to this day. Being from NOLA I had the chance to see them many times in my youth. Great times in a great city.

Anton Fig on the drum.....magnifico!

i've met Oz and was lucky enough to learn a thing or 2 (or more) from him, the vast majority of his stuff is 4/4. he is also one of the coolest and funniest dudes you could ever meet

Oz Noy's Guitar tone is just sick...

l'm always ready to go to the Land of Oz Noy !

Drummer and bassist holding that groove down big time 🤙🔥🔥🔥🔥

yep, you are right, they shift twice or so. nicely done, didnt realize it until simply counted.

Unbelievably good, THANK YOU!

Fastest guitar player in the west..... he managed to put his sweatshirt on in the space between the A and B sections..... now that’s a novel trick.

This is so dope.

How dare you mess with the rhythm like this! I love it!!!

I love John Medeski!

Fantastic!

Very nice version! Jazzy and groovy

RIP Ralph MacDonald you will be missed. :(

Very nice, indeed. Heard the show on WKCR last night and loved this groove.

I've never seen John Medeski make a satisfied face like he does during your solo Oz (3:58). Man oh man your chops are just so damn on point. Truly inspiring man, many many thanks for sharing this footage.

עוז נוי שלום, חבר. שלום. אתה לעשות מוסיקה מדהימה, יש לו כשרון גדול, נגינה מעולה, טכניקה טובה, ביטוי מדהים, משאבים ויצירתיות, אתה מאוד להשלים. חיבוק. Shalom

Damn!! 👽+🎸= Oz!

Such time! And great production. Love it.

Always great to here a faithful, note for note rendition of a classic. 😂 seriously though, just love the little twists, turns and stutters, with a healthy tip of the hat to the original.

Warning to all you wedding DJ's out there: This may not be the best version of this song to play for the first dance.

fantastic

Somebody buy these guys a quarter note.

As Ray Charles once told his drummer. "That drum beat is part of history, you can't go fucking with that."

John medeski on organ. Love the time games here.

This is so cool!

This is my new personal theme song......

great stuff man. dig the added wah my man. sounds great.

omg john medeski kills!

your just to cool...I love all your stuff...

I think i watched this video at least 40 times

This is bad-ass for sure. Great Band.

Is that Will Lee !!!???

That was the best use of a wah I ever heard except maybe Huron River Blues by Steve Morse

There is difference in bars 2 and 4,bar 2 is 7/8 and bar 4 is 9/8.Great metric variation,it take song on another level... Bravo Mr Noy

Excellent playing and twist on the chords! Was not a fan of the time signature change, but it was definitely interesting and different (I did like how it eventually resolves to the original groove: 7/8 + 9/8 = 16/8 or two bars of 4/4). To each their own.

It’s like Steve Hillage meets New Orleans to begin with. Great meaty stuff. The video producer needs to brush up on his/her continuity……the number of tee shirt changes by the bassist! Seriously, I loved this take on a classic piece of funk.

Will Lee

Nice....

The Meters !

Inizio alla Pink Floid che sfocia in uno stile Innovativo e molto bello complimenti

This is awesome, man! The Meters is such an inspiration and this is such a creative version of the song. I absolutely love it! Too hear this live would be so cool. Are you ever coming to Sweden och maybe Copenhagen some time soon? / Jonnie, Gylf.

good stuff

yes sir!

where has this been hiding?

Show !

that was overly tight! (not a complaint!)

Keyboard solo is absolutely fucking nasty.

Who Dat On da bas ? Will ?

like yea.

Never heard Oz Noy before, love this! Is it correctly called fusion?

@jcostello69 As i said before. Counting it that way only fools the head. it is a 4/4 like you said so count it as a 4/4 and learn how the ups and downs land. That is the whole Idea behind funk. To dance around the beat and not to make a strange beat, if you want that you have to listen to some more progressive stuff:P

Wasn't this song Aerosmith's inspiration for Last Child?

@DrummerRF yes, but the guitar, organ and bass give off the impression of a 7/8 is what i mean.

it is not. they cut one beat at the end of the first part of the theme. everything else is in 4/4

Unbelievable.

@teerexness Check out his version of Blue Monk, or his original What Love Is.

Play witth Greg Koch that's all im saying

@aleifhamdan i would say 6/8 6/8 3/8 6/8 7/8 4/8 but there is no sence since its the easyest to just count 4/4 and try to understand how the funk feel works in that way.

He plays the Potato tonight Aug 28th

Negev Orleans.

we get it, you like Hendrix

Hi Graham, I think Oz use a Crybaby mod. by Ziv Nagari. Greeting from Germany

what would be the fun of covering a song if you can't try to make it your own? I mean if they simply played it how it already is, it would be easier to just listen to the original...

What kind of wah is he using? It sounds so vocal.

Keyboard player could be related to Bill Burr! LOL

which wah-wah is he using?

what you were trying to do is plug all your learning material damn bro I'll probably been playing guitar longer than you I'm not putting you down your accomplish musician but it doesn't seem that you were trying to put me down I will go in the studio and redo that song and I guarantee if you get back on my website hear it after the studio you will be blown away then you will be apologizing for sending me all that learning material on my website best of luck Wayne

Why NOT rearrange something? Rules can hold people back from being creative if you don't remember that you can break them. but I do love the original version!

5.5/4 time on the head?

@mmwphan it's actually easier to count it 4/4 the whole way, like the drumbeat, its just that he inserts two 7/8s to give that f*cked up feeling

wtf time is that?

is that Garth on bass lool

CISSY STRUT AT THE OLD AGE HOME, NOT READY FOR IT YET. LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL VERSIONS, ITS GOT THE SOUND THESSE GUYS ARE INSPIRED BY. NOT YOUR BEST GROVE ANTON, SUPRISED ME. YES I TO CAN PLAY THE S____, OUT OF DRUMS TOO. BUT WOULD PROBBIBLY USE ALOT OF 32S AND 1/4S ON BASS DRUM WITH FLAMS TRIPLETS AND SOME TASTY 16THS NOW AND THEN. ALWAYS LIKED YOUR DRUMMING....KEEP ROCKIN.....

It's not a wah. It's an envelope filter/follower. Kind of an Auto-Wah

Mostly because to me what they did rearrange (rewrite) was only done to make it different not better.

izeh yoffie oz -KAVOD Anthony -Haifa

Lost it in the clever displacement.

@aleifhamdan I see not how you can count a 7/8 in this song. There is only 4/4.

hey I just watched your video because you commented on my lil video on RU-vid and got to tell you bro not impressed you see i also play jazz no money in it bro what's impressive that I've got so many hits and it hasn't even been up but a week and a half to maybe is the shredding I did bro 100 32nd notes bro and I didn't have effects on my guitar like you do little gain from a little fender champ x2 and my cellphone that's it see what you were trying to do is plug all this

@vampolka, check out Jeff Beck. And he doesn't need all the pedals. Eric Johnson, Steve Morse, Steve Hackett, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes. Etc., etc.. Life's much too short to listen to this guy when there are so many great guitarists out there.

Ya dont have to dance to enjoy music???

This guy is supposed to be some new guitar god? Nice song, well played. Could've been played just as well by 1000 other nameless guitarists. The bar seems so much lower since New York City took over 100% of our culture in the U.S., doesn't it?

i like john mayers version better faster and less choppy

The original was better.

Why rearrange something that was perfect to start with. Just write a new song..