Ike Padnos

Ike" Padnos - founder of the mighty Ponderosa Stomp - and Eli "Paperboy" Reed.

Ike" Padnos was interviewed by Phillip Rollins of MTV.com's Street Team at the Louisiana Museum Cabildo.
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Ike" Padnos - founder of the mighty Ponderosa Stomp - and Eli "Paperboy" Reed.

Craig W. Weinlein, Esq., Dallas, TX, litigation and intellectual property specialist Dr. Ike Padnos, Producer, Ponderosa Stomp, New Orleans

Ike" Padnos, an obsessive record collector and founder of the Ponderosa Stomp, a three-day roots-music festival that was founded in the Crescent City but relocated to Memphis in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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"Everybody had such a good time, and a lot of people wanted me to put together shows with all of these musicians," Padnos says."The only way I would do it was if I could be anonymous and do it as part of a secret organization.That's when we started the Mystic Knights of Mau-Mau, which was named after the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song ("Feast of the Mau Mau").

Padnos weathered Hurricane Katrina better than most in his wind-and-water-ravaged city, but he knew right away the Stomp would have to be relocated or delayed.

"Memphis has a rich musical heritage," Padnos says of his decision to move the Ponderosa Stomp to the Gibson Guitar Factory.
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"These are the kinds of things that happen at the Stomp," Padnos says.