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Clete Ritta
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Posted 5 Jun 2010 12:15 am |
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Post Dixie Dregs.
Earliest incarnation of the Steve Morse Band circa 1984.
Rod Morgenstein on drums and Jerry Peek on bass.
(Later with Dave LaRue on bass and Van Romaine on drums).
One of my all time favorite chicken pickers.
I'm still trying to figure this one out!
It's called Pride of the Farm.
Enjoy!
Clete |
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2010 7:01 am
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| Thanks, Clete. Steve Morse is my all time favorite guitar player. "General Lee" (with Albert Lee) on The Steve Morse Band "Introduction" CD has some great chicken pickin on it as well. |
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Richard Sevigny
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Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 5 Jun 2010 7:18 am
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Great stuff. Steve Morse is comfortable in just about any style and can pick/shred with the best of them.
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Joey Ace
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 5 Jun 2010 8:09 am
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Awesome player. The Dregs is the band that opened my ears to Fusion.
Steve is currently on an extended world tour, as the guitarist in Deep Purple, another influence from my formative years.
He was born in Hamilton. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2010 10:34 am
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My progression was Allman->McLaughlin->Morse. I learned more about music from learning Dregs and SMB songs than any other single source, and I appreciated the American-ness of his playing (thought he was born North, he lived Southern)...  Page/Clapton/Beck etc. are fine in their own right, but you just have to live with kudzu, chiggers and swamp gas to get that ooze in your playing. He's actually said that he was "confused" when he wrote some of the more precious, RTF-y Dregs music, and he now calls what he does "too rock for jazz." |
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 5 Jun 2010 11:38 am
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Steve's truly a "world class guitarist" in every sense of the word(s)..... He can play anything he wants in any style of music and as someone said, he's on a world tour with Deep Purple. He could just as well have been with Miles Davis or Buck Owens if they were still around. I noticed on his "Telecaster?" that he had a pair of humbuckers, a strat pickup in the middle and a Tele chrome neck pickup between the bridge humbucker and the strat pickup as well as a trapeze tailpiece and a tuneamatic bridge, that's one guitar that says it all. Some might not know but Steve even took some time away from music to become an airline pilot for a spell, the guys awesome.......JH in Va.
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2010 11:15 am
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I met Steve in Tallahassee, shortly after he had started buying a little farm. He finally got sick and tired of being unable to pay off his mortgage, playing world-class fusion & rock with the Dregs, Kansas, the Steve Morse Band... Even though he had been named Guitar Player Magazine's "Best Overall Guitarist" five years running, punk and hair bands had killed appreciation for talent. He'd been flying his bands around himself for years to save money, so while on tour he hit the books and then dropped out of music for a year and got a "day job" flying 767 airliners. When he'd earned enough and bought the farm (so to speak), he quit the airline and went back to being a starving musician. Hmmm, how come I never got offered a day job like that...  |
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Glenn Suchan
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Austin, Texas
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Posted 9 Jun 2010 10:10 am
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Clete, thanks for the post. I've always enjoyed The Dregs and the Steve Morse Band. Great music!
IMHO The Dregs were at their best when Jerry Goodman replaced Allen Sloan on violin. As you know, Jerry Goodman was way ahead of his time as a rock/jazz violinist with the band The Flock, in the '60s; and with Mahavishnu Orchestra, in the '70s. In the 80's, I think his playing was the perfect foil for Steve Morse's incendiary playing. Here's one from that era:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgY23689RWo
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 9 Jun 2010 1:18 pm
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Thanks Glenn,
I was just a bit too young to get into Mahavishnu in the 70's (though they are one of my favorites now).
The first time I heard Steve Morse was the Dregs of the Earth album.
I was very fortunate to see the Dixie Dregs many times in the NY area in the early 80's afterward. I saw SMB a few times as well.
First concert was in NYC at Town Hall shortly after the release of Dregs of the Earth. I went home in a daze.  I became another obsessed DregsHead!
I remember meeting Steve after a show (I think it was My Fathers Place in L.I.)
He was totally humble and friendly and a little shorter than he looks on stage. 
I also met Dave LaRue at his home years later when my bass player went for a lesson with him.
I've never seen Jerry Goodman live, but I have the House of Blues concert of the Dregs and he is rippin!
Clete
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Glenn Suchan
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Austin, Texas
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2010 6:37 pm
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He's also a good pedal steel player.. Did you guys know that? 
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 14 Jun 2010 2:56 pm
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Bob,
I did know that Steve plays steel, although there's only one song I'm aware of with the Dixie Dregs. It was a cut from the album What If titled Gina Lola Breakdown. With his command of volume swells and bends on the guitar though, he can sound convincingly like a steel on guitar too.
Clete |
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 15 Jun 2010 2:32 am
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David,
Thanks so much for the sugarmegs links. I found the My Fathers Place recording there! They played everything faster than the record, the energy was amazing. Brought back great memories. I swear I could hear myself yelling in the background crowd haha. This also reminded me that it wasn't Allen Sloan but Mark O'Connor on violin and guitar at the later concerts I saw.
He rips it up on The Bash, and played guitar harmony with Steve on Rock And Roll Park.
On the last song Cruise Control, Steve does a long solo with Rod on drums and does a medley of Manic Depression and Dazed and Confuzed, that floored us all. Im still grinning, thanks.
Clete |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 15 Jun 2010 3:51 am
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been a big SM and Dreggs fan for a long time, I was able to see the SM Band just a couple of months ago here in Charlotte..
I hate that he makes it look so easy...whats wrong with him anyway ?
t
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And Dixie Dregs and Morse out the wazoo (under "Steve", natch). How about Morse