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Name:
James
Bailes
Birthdate:
Sep
1st
1964
Location:
Orlando,
FL
Occupation:
Federal
Express
Musician?
Not
professional
Hobbies:
Bodybuilding (w/o
steroids), playin' my
gee-tars!
Favorite quote:
Damned if ya do,
damned if ya
don't!
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Steve
2. Eric Johnson
3. Shawn Lane
4. Stone Cold Steve Austin
5. Joe Satriani
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. Ah Via Musicom- EJ
2. Southern Steel
3. Powers of Ten- Shawn Lane
4. Introduction
5. Bring 'em Back Alive
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve
Morse? With a brief explanation please :
)
Southern Steel; I know there are other releases
that are probably more "definitive Steve", but this
one, IMHO, just has groove written all over it, from
start to finish. Beautiful melodies, intricate lines,
embellishments. Great cd. |
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Name:
Joe
Farmarco
Birthdate:
11/24/64
Location:
Baltimore,
Maryland,
USA
Occupation:
Librarian
Musician?
Barely...a
little guitar...chords and stuff...used
to play clarinet, too....
:)
Hobbies:
Buying CDs, following
the activities of Steve
Morse, the Dregs and all of my other favorite musicians.
Favorite quote? "I refuse to scream." Steve Morse
List 5 of your
favorite artists:
1. Steve Morse/Steve Morse Band/Dixie Dregs/Deep
Purple with Steve
2. The Electric Light Orchestra and all things related
3. Tommy Emmanuel - Australia's finest guitarist!
4. The Pat Metheny Group
5. The Beatles and most things related
List 5 of your
favorite cds:
1. WHAT IF - Dixie Dregs
2. LETTER FROM HOME - Pat Metheny Group
3. SECONDS OF PLEASURE - Rockpile
4. DARE TO BE DIFFERENT - Tommy Emmanuel
5. RETROSPECTIVE - Happy The Man
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve Morse?
With a brief explanation please ;
)
WHAT IF....hands down. Not a bad track. The Dregs at the
peak of their studio performance. Steve breaking in to wri-
ting and arranging at the top. Ken Scott also turning in a
stellar (do I need your permission to use this word, Marye?)
production. Steve and Andy said they asked Ken to make the
drums sound 'like cannons.' They do. Also, in all my years
of seeing Steve play live, WHAT IF is the album from which
he draws most frequently. I think that's about enough.
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Name:
Eric
Ferreira
Birthdate:
06/03/81
Location:
São
Paulo,
Brazil
Occupation:
Student
Musician ?
Yes ( amateur
guitarrist)
Hobbies ? Play the
guitar off course! Computer
Gaming and listen to Steve Morse
5 of your favorite
artists:
Steve Morse
Al di Meola
Steve Vai
AC/DC
Deep Purple
5 of your
favorite albums
The introduction: Steve Morse Band
High Tension Wires : Steve Morse
Freefall: Dixie Dregs
Total Abandon: Deep Purple
Passion and Warfare: Steve Vai
Which is your favorite
album featuring Steve
Morse ?
Today it is High Tension Wires. Why? I don't know
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Name:
Alex
F
Birthdate:
09/18/68
Location:
Atlanta, Ga.
Occupation:Computer
Security Software Engineer
(test)
Musician?
Yes.
Hobbies:
Graphic design, starting
to learn wood-
working so I can eventually build my own guitars
Favorite quote? "Soul is when you stop playing the
music, and it starts playing you." Alex Filacchione
(I can be a little self-indulgent here, can't I?)
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
There are
so many - off of the top of my head
1.John McLaughlin
2.Led Zeppelin
3.Jimi Hendrix
4.Queen
5.Tommy Bolin
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1.Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
2. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
3.Billy Cobham - Spectrum
4.Frank Gambale - The Great Explorers
5.SMB - Structural Damage
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring
Steve Morse? With a brief explanation please ;
)
Structural Damage. Why? Don't know. More pop
sounding I guess. Some of his stuff, like Freefall
w/ the Dregs sounds more like Mike Post (they guy
who did the Magnum P.I. theme song and many
others - A-Team I think). I really like The Intro-
duction as well. I don't have all of his stuff, so I
really can't judge!
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Name:
Matt
Hoyle
D.O.B.:
3/5/72
Location:
Waynesville,
NC
Occupation:
college
student
Musician?
yes, but not
paid
Hobbies:
amateur astronomy,
Macs(computers),
comics, bicycling
Favorite quote?
You know you've landed
gear up
when it takes full power to taxi
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Steve Morse
2. Adrian Legg
3. Marc Cohn
4. Ludwig van Beethoven
5. John Williams, the composer
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. High Tension Wires--SMB
2. John Williams Greatest Hits
3. Bring 'Em Back Alive--Dixie Dregs
4. Marc Cohn--Marc Cohn
5. Ah Via Musicom--Eric Johnson
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring
Steve Morse? With a brief explanation please ;
)
High Tension Wires This album just seems to be
Steve Morse, in a microcosm. It has tunes which
speak to each of his influences--classical guitar,
Celtic music. And so many of the tunes exemplify
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Name:
Daniel Filipe Rocha Rodrigues
Miguel
Birthdate:
August
20th,
1979
Location:
Porto,
Portugal
Occupation:
Law
Student
Musician?
Yes,
I'm a guitar
player
Hobbies:
Reading, Philosophy,
Meditation,
Anthropology, Arts, Exercising, Having
long talks about "whatever happens to
come
up"
Favorite quote?
" I have a dream
this
afternoon, that the brotherhood of man
will become a reality. In this day, with this
faith, I will go out and carve the tunnel of
hope through the mountain of despair. With
this faith I will go out with you and trans-
form dark days into bright tomorrows. With
this faith we will be able to achieve this
new day when all of God's children, black
men and white men, jews and gentiles, Pro-
testants and Catholics will be able to join
hands and sing with the negroes, in the
spiritual of old. Free at last, free at last,
thank God almighty, we're free at last"
- Martin Luther King Jr.
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Steve Morse
2. Pat Metheny
3. Sting
4. Maria João & Mário Laginha
5. Béla Fleck
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. "Imaginary Day"- Pat Metheny Group
2. "High Tension Wires"- Steve Morse
3. "Mercury Falling"- Sting
4. "Lobos, Raposas e Coiotes"- Maria João/
Mário Laginha
5. "The Bluegrass Sessions"- Béla Fleck
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring
Steve Morse? With a brief explanation
please ;
)
"High Tension Wires"- it's simply a beautiful
record, I can link each and every song on this
record to something that has happened to me-
AAMOF HTW is pretty much THE ideal
soundtrack for my life at ANY given moment.
It's a source of inspiration that goes way
beyond music to me. |
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Name:
Frederic Moreau
Birthdate:
13/12/67
Location:
London,
Europe, France, Earth,
wherever I'm needed :
)
Occupation:
3D
computer
graphics
Musician?
Yep, amateur
bass player for
17years..
Hobbies: music, 3D,
SF movies and books/novels
(reading), sports,
girlfriend
Favorite quote? I
have a bad feeling about this! : )
and: Yes and no.
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Steve Vai
2. Steve Morse
3. Joe Satriani/Stu Hamm
4. Aerosmith
5. Queen, the Who, Thin Lizzy, TM Stevens,
and many others...
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. Passion and Warfare
2. Stressfest
3. Get Your Wings
4. Night at the Opera
5. Flying in a Blue Dream, Gambale/Hamm/Smith,
LTE1 & 2...
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve Morse?
With a brief explanation please ;
)
Stressfest, or maybe Coast to Coast or Southern Steel...
heavy sound, incredible chops from all three members
of the band, and f###ing great songs!
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Name:
bob o'hara
Birthdate:7/30/51
Location:LAKE
PARSIPPANY,
N.J.
Occupation:MEAT
DEPT. MANAGER
Musician?yes,
guitar
Hobbies:bicycle
racing,speedskating,xc sking, weightlifting,
playing guitar,and listening to
music.
Favorite
quote?luck is when
preperation meets opportunity
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1.steve morse
2.chet atkins
3.django rienhart
4.duane allman
5.jeff beck
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1.southern steel, htw, c to c, structural damage, intro.,
stress, what if, etc. etc. etc. etc.
2. allmans, idelwild south, @ thier first work
3.django's hot club of france
4.atkens and pauls, "lester and chester"
5.the jeff beck group
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve Morse?
With a brief explanation please ;
)
structural damage, every song is great!
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Name:
Marye
Rosenbaum
D.O.B.
06-09-65
Location:
The
United
States
Occupation:
Artist,
Mother, Partner if family
business.
Musician:
No
Hobbies:
Life
Favorite quote: It
never gets weird enough for me.
"Hunter S. Thompson," also "when the going gets
weird the weird turn pro."
List 5 Favorite
Artists:
1. Van Gogh
2. Paul Cezanne
3. Michael Angelo
4. Henri Matisse
5. Myself
If You were referring
to musical artists the
5 would
be:
1. Steve Morse
2. Ian Gillan
3. Rush
4. Deep Purple
5. Steve Morse Band
List 5 favorite
CD's
That is way to hard to narrow down, but I
will try.
1. High Tension Wire
2. All Gillan Solo works
3. All Rush works
4. Most Deep Purple works
5. Hub City Kid
What is my favorite
CD/Album featuring
Steve Morse.
That is too difficult to narrow down just one,
they all have too much musical merit to have to
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Name:
Doug Schacher
Birthdate:
April
29th 1953
Location:
Vancouver,
BC. Canada
Occupation:
Manage a team of software specialists
in a large company.
Musician?
Pseudo.
Hobbies: Music,
racquetball, having fun, watching football, travelling.
Favorite quote? "Of
course, you can't play the same
thing twice in a row." - Steve Morse from an
instructional video.
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Steve Morse
2. Al DiMeola
3. Frank Zappa
4. Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM)
5. King Crimson
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. Dregs of the Earth - Dixie Dregs
2. Roxy and Elsewhere - Zappa/Mothers
3. Photos of Ghosts - PFM
4. Brahms 4th Symphony - Cleveland/Szell
5. Passion Play - Jethro Tull
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve
Morse? With a brief explanation please ; )
Dregs of the Earth by the Dixie Dregs encompasses
many styles of music. The writing and performances
are incredible. This is a must have CD in any
collection. |
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Name:
Martin Pangloss
Teboe
Birthdate:9/13/61
Location:
Northern
California
Occupation:
Systems
Engineer/Flunkie
Musician?
yes
Hobbies:
Reading, history,
music in all forms, Howard
Stern
Favorite
quote? "She's not
dark and beautiful, but
she's beautiful in the dark."
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1.Steve Morse/Dregs
2.Eric Johnson
3.Pat Metheny
4.Robben Ford
5.Allan Holdsworth
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1.High Tension Wires
2.Crash Test Dummies-And god Shuffled his Feet.
3.Dixie Dregs-Freefall
4.Jeff Beck-Wired
5.Led Zeppelin II
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve
Morse? With a brief explanation please ;
)
High Tension Wires...I think this is the most 'intro-
spective' example of Steve's work. The album came
about in a time that Steve reported feeling 'dis-
illusioned' with the music business. It is the most
diverse, and creative album of his that I've heard.
Most of the parts are played by Steve, and it's
beautiful. |
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Name: Eric
Vandenberg
Birthdate:
05/11/77
Location:
NJ
Occupation:
Musician,
Instructor
Musician:
No
( j/k )
=)
Hobbies:
Listening
to
music, Reading,
Yoga, all kinds of other stuff, if I've
got the
time
Favorite quote:
Respect
my authoritaeeeeee
-Erik
Cartman
List 5 of your favourite artists
( Oh, ok...list
5 OF THEM, not my 5
favourite ones, right ? That would be harder !)
1. Frank Zappa
2. Steve Vai / Eric Johnson
3. Steve Lukather
4. Morse
5. Rose Sharpe / David Bova ( tie
)
List
5 of your favourite
albums:
( s.a. )
1. Passion & Warfare- Vai
2. In New York- F. Zappa
3. Keep it to yourself- Mullmuzzler
4. Meltdown- Vinnie Moore
5. 3 CD's of all kinds of songs I compiled
myself....
=)
What is your favourite album featuring Steve
Morse ?
Uhmmm...Southern Steel, great uplifiting songs,
great playing, and a cool atmosphere |
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Name:
Rose
Sharpe
D.O.B.:
10-29-1964
Location:
NJ
Occupation: Yoga
Instructor
Musician?
Singer
Hobbies: Dancing, singing, cooking, going
to gigs...
Favorite quote? The mind is like a parachute,
it 'll only work if its open
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Steve Morse / Dave LaRue
2. Aerosmith
3. Pete Townshend
4. Steve Vai
5. Eric Johnson
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. High Tension Wires--SMB
2. Quadrophenia- The Who
3. Structural Damage- SMB
4. Ah Via Musicom- Eric Johnson
5. The Inner Mounting Flame- Mahavishnu
Orchestra
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring
Steve Morse? With a brief explanation please ;
)
Ill have to go with HTW, it wakes me every
morning. I love all the songs and what they
represent to me.
They are all soothing and calming, and as I
wake I lie there and smile this little smile knowing
that the day will be ok.
The Road Home is especially special to me and
to someone else, which makes it even more special. |
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Name: Philly
Kid
Birthdate:
9/7/60
Location:
Portland,
Oregon
Occupation:
Administrative
Assistant
Musician?
not
really
Hobbies:
My
radio show - The Guitar Shop and reading
Favorite
quote?
I only use my superpowers for good,
never for evil!
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Steve Morse/Dixie Dregs/SMB
2. Jennifer Batten
3. Joanna Connor
4. Robbie Laws (local blues guitarist)
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. Unsung Heroes - Dregs
2. What If - Dixie Dregs
3. Little Queen - Heart
4. the Mother Station - Brand New Bag
5. Concrete Blonde - Recollections
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve Morse?
With a brief explanation please ; )
Unsung Heroes! Without a doubt. Reasons:
I prefer this
version of Cruise Control. Divided We Stand has some
wonderful timing stuff going on in it (and a great solo by
Steve). Day 444 is simply a beautiful piece of music.
Rock n Roll Park is a GREAT rollicking song, featuring
the inimitable T Lavitz (as Andy West used to say) on
sax. Attila the Hun has that great 'windswept' feeling to it,
with some awesome runs, and that beautiful short slow
part (and the whole thing features Allen Sloane's sweet
violin sound). Kat Food - great funky tune, marvelous
bass solo. And Go For Baroque brings tears to my eyes. |
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Name:
Heath Barrett
Location:
Adelaide,
Australia
Occupation:
Student
Musician?
Guitarist
Hobbies:
Playing
Guitar! Reading
List 5 of
your favorite artists:
1. Steve Morse / Dixie Dregs
2. Megadeth
3. Kings X
4. Allan Holdsworth
5. Platypus
List 5 of your favorite
cds:
1. All the Morse/Dregs stuff
2. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
3. Platypus - When Pus Comes To Shove
4. Kings X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
5. Alan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
What is your favorite cd/album featuring Steve
Morse?
With a brief explanation please
Favourite Morse cd varies. Currently it's the introduction
Great playing + some of his best songwriting.
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<Name: John
H. Christopher
Birthdate:
Aug. 24,
1964
Location:
Roswell,
GA
Occupation:
Restauranteur
Musician?
Bass
guitarist, singer
Hobbies:
Reading,
watching tv, walking for
health
Favorite
quote?
"I
want to gain what I'll never lose,
tonight." From the song "Tonight," by Kerry
Livgren.
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
(assuming *besides* the Dregs/SMB)<
1.Rush
2.Kansas
3.Toto
4.Yes
5.Jethro
Tull<
List 5 of your favorite
cds:<
1. David Ragsdale,
"David & Goliath"
(featuring Jerry Peek!!)
2. Conni Ellisor, "Night At The Museum"
3. Kansas, "Live At The Whisky"
4. Rush, "Hold Your Fire"
5. Clannad, "Sirius"
What is your favorite cd/album
featuring Steve Morse,
explanation please ;
)
Right now it's "Sturctural Damage." The
songs truly
appeal to me; it is as if the bandmembers
, having proven they can shred with the best,
now wish to support the songs and make the
solos more concise, rather than just solo
for the sake of soloing.
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Name:
Mike
Kissel
Birthdate:
06/24/1963
Location:
Westminster,
Colorado
Occupation:
Programmer/Analyst
Musician? No thanks, I've
had my fill.
Hobbies: Scaling mountains, curing diseases,
solving
long involvedcalculus problems, beating people at their
own game, passing laws/gas, teaching self-help courses,
brain surgery, parenting future Hall-O-Famers, scoring
touchdowns, making minute rice in 20 seconds, enjoying
other peoplesmisfortune...in a nice way,
lusting...in a nice way.... plagiarizing, spelling hard words..
.and playing guitar...in a bad way.
Favorite quote? When your riding ahead of the herd, take
a look behind you every once in a while to see if it's still there....
or What are you doing in there?!? You've been in there for an
hour forgawdssake!!!
List 5 of your favorite
artists:
1. Van Gogh
2. Picasso
3. Manet
4. Monet
5. Oh, what's that guy's name that did all those freaky pencil
drawings...you know...Metamorphasis...Eigar something....
List 5 of your
favorite cds of the Moment:
1. Megadeth - Cryptic Writing
2. Steve Morse Band - Coast To Coast
3. FingerStyle Magazine CD #37 - Various Artists
4. Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar
5. Michael Hedges - Oracle
What is your favorite
cd/album featuring Steve Morse?
With a brief explanation please ; )
Coast to Coast, by far!!!! I love the
Dregs,
but I'll take Steve in a Power Trio over all the textures
and moods the Dregs can produce! I know....blasphemy!!
But hey....I grew up loving heavy Metal and Glam!!! SMB
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Name:
Robert
T. Murphy
(Murf)
Birthdate: 6 January 1947 (old as dirt
to some people)
Location: Orlando,
FL
Occupation:
Engineer
Musician? -
Depends on who you talk to...sorta. I play
in bands
and havegotten paid in the past. I'm certainly not a professional....
I play outat least once a week. I also have a guitar players web
site"http://home.sprynet.com/~murf01/"
and write for various
different websites, and music zines.
Hobbies:Guitars (suprise!!), Shooting
and reloading.
Reading, (sciencefiction such as Heinlein, Hubbard, etc
and Tom Clancy stuff)
Favorite quote?
"We should not judge
players but simply listen to th
music which results. And if you like it, listen again." .....Steve
Morse
List 5 of your favorite
artists:(certainly not all I like!!)
1.Steve Morse
2.Walter Trout
3.Chris Duarte
4.Robin Trower
5.Gary Moore
List 5 of your favorite cds:(it's really hard
to pick as I have around
900 CD'
1.Blues Alive - Gary Moore
2. Southern Steel - Steve Morse
3.Made in Japan - Deep Purple
4.Abraxas - Santana (I've bought this one several times!!)
5.Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower
What is your favorite cd/album featuring
Steve Morse? With a brief
explanation please ; )
Southern Steel - I like this one cause
it rocks pretty good and I lean
towards the more guitar oriented material.
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