Gene Harding: Conan lights the way

[Photo by Camilo León Quijano, Dec 2025.]

GH: One time after Katrina, we were playing and all the power went out in all the clubs. Everybody stopped, and I just said, ‘The hell with it,’ and kept playing the drums. I mean, I was solo-ing I don’t know how long, and when I look up, it was jet-black at night. I think Walter was at DBA; a bunch of people came from DBA, and all the clubs, because it got dark. They came over, because they heard the music, and Conan—you know Conan just died not too long ago—Conan came in, and he had a tiki torch. He brought a tiki torch in there, and I played for about an hour with no power! It was packed in there. People were buying drinks and everything.

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