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The Dixie Dregs- California Screaming |
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| Reviews Review by Pat Bailey of the Steve Morse Mailinglist: I just got my hands on the new CD and gave 'er a good listen last night, and it's on again as I write - in fact she's not leaving the player for a looooong time!! Like any new Morse production, I'll have to listen to it a half dozen times to really start appreaciating it. From my initial listen, it's hard to really pick out a favorite, but so far The Bash is a standout. It's similar but at the same time totally unlike the other two versions. It's starts off the same but then at Steve's solo he takes off on a much different tack: he's doing some sparse ethereal volume-knob stuff for the first 8 bars, then goes into 8 bars of a country-steel-slide-kind-of-sounding thing, followed by 16 bars of mellower picking. Then he fires up with some fiendish shredding which just accelerates from there on. Rod starts out real laid back and just continually builds the excitement right up to the climax. You can just picture his arms flailing away, the head shaking around, and that Big Ol' grin. For the last part of the solo Steve switches to a more distorted sound. At every bend, sustain, or any slight break in his picking you can just imagine Steve doing the lightning quick knob/switch adjustments; the tone switches constantly. On the bridge after the solo, they shift up to a different key and go into this brief 16 bar interlude that I can only describe as sounding like something I saw once on Lawrence Welk. Then it goes into a new section, I believe called Rocky Top, where T gets his solo, and then it's back to the Wabash for the Evil sounding violin solo. Steve and the violin then trade licks and it concludes to a roaring crowd. Fantastic!!! Pat More Reviews soon !!! |