And to think in 1978 we were all worshipping the groundbreaking work of Eddie Van Halen. How did this guy fly under my radar for 42 years? Amazing, for 1978, for anytime!
@stevodod ha ! right ! Maybe eddie shut up about morse at the time ! Smart , because its just not attainable for eddie to do this...most players today...couldnt cop this well .
You make a good point -cos i remember hearing this back in the day as a young player ..and being floored by it -but it just wernt 'cool " ...so i just kept it in the back of my mind ..all these years later i realize what a monster he was .Like him more here than purple ,but way before eddie ,yngwie ..there was morse !
@stevodod Dixie Dregs are about pure music, Van Halen is really about partying, sex & pissing off parents. Teenagers are only only interested in music in so far as it will a) piss off their parents b) help them get laid. Van Halen, being a loud & heavy party-rock band, fit both descriptions, Dixie Dregs fits neither. Dregs will hardly piss off parents & 9 out of 10 girls won't like it. Van Halen will piss off parents due to loudness & 8 out of 10 girls will like the party hard-rock attitude.
Andy's speech before the tune suggests that it is a "number of country tunes strung together", i e a medley. However the only recognisable melody I can hear is "Wabash Cannonball". Later versions suggests, included within this one "Rocky Top", "Freight Train" and similar. But the acutal "breakdown" in this tune, is it another tune, or one of their own?
tasty and true americana done with deserved pride by devoted players. they combine music scholarship with virtuosity, emotion and discipline and have a true gem to share with the world. i'm lucky to have caught them in concert at least once many years ago and for that i'm grateful.
@prinznevsky embarrassing, even worse than Steve Morse wasting his talent in Deep Purple for money. Musicians are just afraid to be progressive these days, they're tired of starving, especially in the USA. They actually have to go to Europe & Japan to make any kind of money at all.
1st. A dive on Church St. in Nash. about 15ft wide and 50ft deep. They set up on the left, we sat in a booth opposite the drum kit. Most physical sound my body ever felt.
2nd. Neely Aud. @ Vandy U in Nash. Place seated about 300. They set off pyro meant for a stadium. WHABOOM!
3rd. Morse solo @ Hilton Hotel meeting room Nash. Steve demo'd early digital effects for guitars, no stage, mid room, playing multiple leads by looping etc. Nice Q+A about piloting airliners.
Saw these guys at the Philly Zoo in June of 82 opening for the Hooters. We left after they went off knowing full well there was nothing left to see. Killer show.
Wow, in 1977, I was privileged to interview the band, including, Twiggs Lyndon, their road manager, and the Allman Brothers band's road manager too! Steve, Andy, Rod, Allen, all super guys. We all had beer during the interview, at Stony Brook University. Afterwards, Twiggs took me and my friend/photographer Bob Towler, into his van for a special treat! Twiggs had "Duane Allman's" 1959 Cherry sunburst Les Paul! He actually let me play it for a good 10 minutes! I havn't been the same since! :^)
What's so amazing about Steve's picking is that he's actually left-handed. Yep! He has his strongest hand on the neck. There's lots of greats that play that way. Blackmore. Gary Moore, Michael Batio and more.
@Bundy1 That is actually a Telecaster Delux. I bought one in '74 only mine had a maple neck. I sold it in '82 and am still kicking myself for it. I think they only made them for a few years. He has a humbucking (or two) and a single coil strat pickup. Mine had two humbuckings, one had a splitter so I could get a great strat sound too. What a fool I was to sell it. Ugh.
@DebrisHut - No, it's not a telly deluxe, though the neck might fool a lot of people. It's Steve's famous Frankenstein telecaster that he put together himself. Telly body, Strat neck, Gibson 335 humbucker at the neck, Synth pickup at the bridge, and a twelve string trapeze style tailpiece. Definitely an interesting guitar
@jackthebassist - I read it in an interview with Steve, apparently he was experimenting with different pickups, and tried one that worked with a syntesizer of some kind. I don't know any details beyond that. It also had Gibson frets and a strat pickup in the middle
@Bundy1 That is actually a Telecaster Delux. I bought one in '74 only mine had a maple neck. I sold it in '82 and am still kicking myself for it. I think they only made them for a few years. He has a humbucking (or two) and a single coil strat pickup. Mine had two humbuckings, one had a splitter so I could get a great strat sound too. What a fool I was to sell it. Ugh.
Great clip! I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Steve Morse or the Dregs more than 10 times in person.
For me he’s the best (I’ve seen some pretty good ones; Di Meola, McLaughlin, Kottke, Beck, Santana, Schon, Vai, Fripp, Howe and even Chuck Berry) most of Morse's work has a uplifting vibe.
I will say I really enjoyed Rodrigo and Gabriella a month or so back (youtube.com/watch?v=fx0PT-_TWfY), If you get a chance to check them out live, it’s well worth it…
@playdrums Oh yes. That's Rod for sure. I saw them many times back then and what a great show they always put on. Rod's solos were amazing! Glad you've discovered them!
As I said, would rather know if there's any version of THE BASH recorded whenever Mark O'Connor was in the band for some two years or something. Having watched his version of the old standard Orange Blossom Special that's around here too, this sounds like a mid tempo ballad in comparison. Honest.
Sounds like some Jackson Brown shit, Morse has such a unique style, nobody plays like him. He's got the technical skills and he still keeps it very alive and melodic. I always saw him on guitar magazines but until youtube I never heard his shit, now I know what all the hype is about, the man is pure genius.
hey joeey, thanks for your reply.. i didn't say steve morse was shredding if you look at the next comment. i said chicken pickin. yes bluegrass. country picking. blah blah. i've been listening to these boys for many years. and as for dr.allen sloan. not only can he play fast. but his hauntihg vibrato on the second album is the shit!
Here's some other crazy lunatics from back in the day .youtube.com/watch?v=OmWLAt_KSYE They're all from the same music school. Can you guess who it is?
How cool is this?!Kinda like "high def black and white" the video quality is razor sharp and of course....so's the sound.These guys could play in my garage and it'd still sound killer.
If we should really be nitpicking - as Steve Morse also said this about the whole release - about it, it has too much ups and downs in tempo. It starts at around 180, it hits 190 BPM (!!) during Morses solo momentarily, and slows down during the violin solo to a mere (!) 169 BPM at places ... but Morse released it anyway because of the audience reaction. It aint THAT perfect if you'd ask me. The King Biscuit Flower Hour live version had more stable tempo. But similar jawdrop pickin, though.
Steve Morse beats all the other great tele-slingers, live, for all to see and hear. Tone, Taste, and Timing, it's all there. One of the best guitar performances ever recorded... Incredible.
@gmasterg13 t\This is not shredding, this is Steve Morse electric bluegrass. Like the ZZ Top great solos, every note is planned and executed like on the record. This is no improvising. No doubt Morse notated every bit of it on paper. Like Pat Methany, this band is from the University of Miami music school. Lots of note reading and classical studies. I was going to say, "That classically trained violinist is struggling a little with the bluegrass." But he nails the main melodies like a master.
the phrase shredding kind of came from the 80's when mike varney put together metal massacre albums. cachophony,mcalpine,chastain,etc. during the early 70's with all the rock gods thinking they were bad ass john mclaughlin came in and kicked thier ass. thats when things started moving. before shredding it was called ripping. smoking, blazing etc. shawn lane was ripping in the 70's at 17!
and by the way that's dr fucking allen sloan shredding on violin!! chops!
underrated indeed!!! steve morse is frickin amazing....pickin flawlessly with a damn pick! this is jazz fusion....timing is amazing!!! they are in a league all their own...was lucky to be raised on these guys!!! check out jazz is dead....billy cobham on drums
IS there ANY live FOOTAGE of Marl O'Connor performing LIVE with the Dregs and does this tune? I've just seen a couple of others, Cruise Control etc. I think O'Connor will have the upper hand against Sloane in this tune at least. I only know that he's guesting live on records of the later Dregs, but I mean when he as in it, at the beginning of the 80s.
Also, Michael Gregorys version is awesome too, but lacks the "chicken pick" style with pinch harmonics, and accents at certain beats and notes, that Steve's a master of. Steve runs his chromatic lines as a "pre" note or "grace notes" and ends on the note that is supposed to be in the scale with a major accent to it. His dynamics with the pick at this sound (not that much distortion) and speed is impeccable and unique. And they have soooo fun, and just sounds like they're trying to wing it!
This DVD was made avaiable due to my friends mail to Dregs/Morse manager in the late 90's, when he asked "where's the rest of the live tapes from 'night of the living dregs'", thought that he'd never get a reply. But back it came with a reply "Good idea! we'll probe deep into this! " Allen Sloan has a penchant for not intonating properly live, this footage has several choruses edited out from album version. Allen overdubbed the ones that were kept too. Steve's amazing though. It is at 180 BPM.
they came and set up as a one night act over in the corner of a club in Columbia SC called the Coal Co sometime around 77 or 78. No one paid much attention....until the first song....They pinned everybody's ears back and just blew the crowd away. They were loved and came back and played several more times. (I got all their albums through the 80's - incredible stuff). Oh, put this on some night at a social function that's dragging a little - it tends to pick things up -LOL.
Before this i was only familiar with Steve Morse in the context of Deep Purple, but this gives me a new appreciation for him. (and since i'm a die-hard Blackmore fan, he had to work for my appreciation!)
@sbbytor I miss them, too. I'm so glad that this is posted here in good quality. And as jc129543 says, it really doesn't get any better than this for musicians and music lovers.
I'm also happy that they put the Dixie back in the Dixie Dregs!
People shouldn't try to turn diverse and uniquely talented musicians into superlatives - let Rolling Stone come up with bullshit lists like that.
Nobody "invented" shred. If shred only means playing or improvising fast passages, Wes Montgomery could be credited. If it's only in a rock context, Jimmy Page and Frank Zappa were "shredding" at the edge of their chops as early as the late '60's, and Zappa even made use of tapping before EVH was ever on the scene.
@jedepah Yeah, but don't forget Ritchie Blackmore did sweep arpeggios as early as 1969, and was doing the fast picking stuff around the same time, and had the classical influence as far back as 1968.
@jedepah what about the great John Mclaughlin...I feel he is enormously underrated...just listen to the mighty Mahavishnu Orchestra incrediible mind blowing musicanship...they started at the end of 60's and John's shreding is far more advanced than Page's and Zappa's combined......and there's Jeff Beck naturaly....
@wintermutevi Mahavishnu McLaughlin I think has got his props through the years,he just doesn't do commercially popular stuff.I seen Steve Morse solo actually opening for John in a small San Diego club in 1990..what a guitar lesson I got that night.John was jamming with Joey Defrancesco on his B-3.Both his and Steve's band were scorching. On this level of playing there's no "best"...they're all unique with this or that..all have their own personality transferred to the instrument.Awesome video!
@jedepah Dude, I hate the term "shred" as much as you do, but referring to Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Page, and Frank Zappa as quick pickers is like calling a Geo Metro a fast car.
@wurmart43 I wouldn't call Mozart a 'shredder' but there are examples from the classical world of many notes virtuosos, with that 'barrage' thing -- Paganini and Liszt for instance. The earliest violin 'shredder' in classical was perhaps Vivaldi -- "He appended a cadenza which really frightened me, for such playing has never been nor can be... on all four strings with imitations and incredible speed" as a commentator of the time put it.
Morse still rocks. EVH was innovative too. The Dregs, like other progressive rock bands ( Dream Theater, Kings X) attract a limited but loyal fan base.
I listened to these guys in the late 70's when I lived near Macon, GA. They were fairly popular, but radio airplay was limited to songs like "Take it Off the Top."
This is much more hadbanging song than most punk or metal songs today (which I preffer usualy). Not to mention instrumental viruosity, which is not only stupid speed scales and arpeggios up and down, but has dynamics and color. Together it hass balls like hell!!!
DochSchneider and tomita90 said it all. I can't see straight anymore. My brain just melted. Prolly watched it ten times since yesterday. I don't even know.
Sweet... great musicianship. Steve Morse is an exceptionally rare talent. Everyone that is interested in guitar playing or who are just fans of music, should do themselves a favor and check him out.
holy shit...steve morse made a deal with the devil...that's it...only explaination...he's impervious to the forces of time...and he was wailin like this back in 78?? forget about it....
Been following Steve since early 70s in Augusta GA, where the Dregs originated, initially as Dixie Grit (San Diego WTF?) Alan tried to scoop my friend's girlfriend one night at the Ga Moon bar and nearly got an ass whipping. He's a tool but I like Steve. LMAO.
The dregs are seriously heavy, thanks Rod M.
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GregMagDrums 1 month ago
And to think in 1978 we were all worshipping the groundbreaking work of Eddie Van Halen. How did this guy fly under my radar for 42 years? Amazing, for 1978, for anytime!
stevodod 1 month ago
@stevodod ha ! right ! Maybe eddie shut up about morse at the time ! Smart , because its just not attainable for eddie to do this...most players today...couldnt cop this well .
You make a good point -cos i remember hearing this back in the day as a young player ..and being floored by it -but it just wernt 'cool " ...so i just kept it in the back of my mind ..all these years later i realize what a monster he was .Like him more here than purple ,but way before eddie ,yngwie ..there was morse !
TheMichaelseymour 2 weeks ago
@stevodod Dixie Dregs are about pure music, Van Halen is really about partying, sex & pissing off parents. Teenagers are only only interested in music in so far as it will a) piss off their parents b) help them get laid. Van Halen, being a loud & heavy party-rock band, fit both descriptions, Dixie Dregs fits neither. Dregs will hardly piss off parents & 9 out of 10 girls won't like it. Van Halen will piss off parents due to loudness & 8 out of 10 girls will like the party hard-rock attitude.
metamorphosis67 1 week ago
Andy's speech before the tune suggests that it is a "number of country tunes strung together", i e a medley. However the only recognisable melody I can hear is "Wabash Cannonball". Later versions suggests, included within this one "Rocky Top", "Freight Train" and similar. But the acutal "breakdown" in this tune, is it another tune, or one of their own?
henkehakansson2004 3 months ago
tasty and true americana done with deserved pride by devoted players. they combine music scholarship with virtuosity, emotion and discipline and have a true gem to share with the world. i'm lucky to have caught them in concert at least once many years ago and for that i'm grateful.
jaegerkreig 3 months ago
pega! dream theater!
storvorock 4 months ago
and to think, Rod was eventually in Winger...
prinznevsky 5 months ago in playlist Steve Morse 3
@prinznevsky embarrassing, even worse than Steve Morse wasting his talent in Deep Purple for money. Musicians are just afraid to be progressive these days, they're tired of starving, especially in the USA. They actually have to go to Europe & Japan to make any kind of money at all.
metamorphosis67 1 week ago
yeahhh, redneck shred!
elcucca 5 months ago
My weird history w/da Dregs:
1st. A dive on Church St. in Nash. about 15ft wide and 50ft deep. They set up on the left, we sat in a booth opposite the drum kit. Most physical sound my body ever felt.
2nd. Neely Aud. @ Vandy U in Nash. Place seated about 300. They set off pyro meant for a stadium. WHABOOM!
3rd. Morse solo @ Hilton Hotel meeting room Nash. Steve demo'd early digital effects for guitars, no stage, mid room, playing multiple leads by looping etc. Nice Q+A about piloting airliners.
PRIVATEAYEIEYE 5 months ago
@PRIVATEAYEIEYE WOW - nice!!
AFeelGoodLife 4 months ago
Saw these guys at the Philly Zoo in June of 82 opening for the Hooters. We left after they went off knowing full well there was nothing left to see. Killer show.
Blueslide 5 months ago
very good band...but this song is way too happy
DeathBat12051992 6 months ago
Also available on their album "Night of the Living Dregs" with three other songs recorded live there on 23 July 1978 and four studio recordings.
JeffRL1956 6 months ago
thank god i am sitting on the toilet
rockman1066 6 months ago
They cut out part of Sloan's solo on the album. I wonder why?
randallcaster 6 months ago
THIS IS SO GOOD,YE HAH!!!!!!
MrMegaFredzeppelin 7 months ago
@MrMegaFredzeppelin
Steve Morse is spellbinding,can do the fast precise picking without tons of distortion and delay to cover up mistakes.
onthemoveagain 7 months ago
blue grass hauls ass, hah!
skooter72 7 months ago
For live performances the Dregs never recovered after Sloan left the band, IMO.
BullToTheShit 7 months ago
A no excuses great band.
ReDact45 7 months ago
Wow, in 1977, I was privileged to interview the band, including, Twiggs Lyndon, their road manager, and the Allman Brothers band's road manager too! Steve, Andy, Rod, Allen, all super guys. We all had beer during the interview, at Stony Brook University. Afterwards, Twiggs took me and my friend/photographer Bob Towler, into his van for a special treat! Twiggs had "Duane Allman's" 1959 Cherry sunburst Les Paul! He actually let me play it for a good 10 minutes! I havn't been the same since! :^)
geetarnut 8 months ago
WOW! Stevie Morse is the dawwwwgggggggggg's! \m/
MullmuzzlerDT 8 months ago
6 people love justin bieber
LordSkyX 8 months ago
OMG THAT SONG DOESN'T SUCK SO MUCH !!!!!
HolyGK 8 months ago
3:44 "Oooh Camera!!"
Ihatelittlefagkids 8 months ago
Wow!
noxrubbish 9 months ago
YEEEEEEEHAW!
4ChordsBassist 10 months ago
steve has insane country chops...youch
synesthesia67 10 months ago 3
As Buck Owens and Roy Clark might say, " He's pickin', I'm Grinnin'"
JJKrobo 11 months ago
0:12, fart :)
madgameman1 11 months ago
Music of this stunning caliber existed in the 70's? J/K There was also Return to Forever. Steve is MIND BLOWING!!
MrGuitarguy1986 11 months ago
oh these guys don't suck
ozricstormbringer 11 months ago 7
:-))) i think you can't beat this!
AORCrazy 11 months ago
Steve's solo on this one belongs in the Smithsonian folks, preserved for all to see, hear, and dare we say make a futile attempt at playing. WOW
bigtimmy1100 1 year ago
What's so amazing about Steve's picking is that he's actually left-handed. Yep! He has his strongest hand on the neck. There's lots of greats that play that way. Blackmore. Gary Moore, Michael Batio and more.
ClassicRocknRolla3 1 year ago 2
Thanks for posting this. I have been following Steve Morse for years. What a blast!
LTp465g 1 year ago
I can study this one song and have enough material for solos for, well, any song ever. Not that I could ever play like Steve Morse.
CyValkarion 1 year ago
Is it me or did Steve Morse just lay some serious smack on the world?
theendlessenigma 1 year ago 2
Man Steve Morse...a monster...
MrMuschiato 1 year ago 2
Seen them 3 times at Slim's in San Francisco and seen Steve's solo tour at the Omni in Oakland. They always put on a great show.
dublincalif 1 year ago
Wow, amazing doesn't even begin to describe... O_O
Also cool: Strat neck on a Tele and wah on that fiddle. Awesome!
Bundy1 1 year ago
@Bundy1 That is actually a Telecaster Delux. I bought one in '74 only mine had a maple neck. I sold it in '82 and am still kicking myself for it. I think they only made them for a few years. He has a humbucking (or two) and a single coil strat pickup. Mine had two humbuckings, one had a splitter so I could get a great strat sound too. What a fool I was to sell it. Ugh.
DebrisHut 1 year ago
@DebrisHut - No, it's not a telly deluxe, though the neck might fool a lot of people. It's Steve's famous Frankenstein telecaster that he put together himself. Telly body, Strat neck, Gibson 335 humbucker at the neck, Synth pickup at the bridge, and a twelve string trapeze style tailpiece. Definitely an interesting guitar
bbar1ish 1 year ago 14
@bbar1ish Synth pickup?....Enlighten me
jackthebassist 6 months ago
@jackthebassist - I read it in an interview with Steve, apparently he was experimenting with different pickups, and tried one that worked with a syntesizer of some kind. I don't know any details beyond that. It also had Gibson frets and a strat pickup in the middle
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@Bundy1 That is actually a Telecaster Delux. I bought one in '74 only mine had a maple neck. I sold it in '82 and am still kicking myself for it. I think they only made them for a few years. He has a humbucking (or two) and a single coil strat pickup. Mine had two humbuckings, one had a splitter so I could get a great strat sound too. What a fool I was to sell it. Ugh.
DebrisHut 1 year ago
When you are good...
greymattervandal 1 year ago
Great clip! I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Steve Morse or the Dregs more than 10 times in person.
For me he’s the best (I’ve seen some pretty good ones; Di Meola, McLaughlin, Kottke, Beck, Santana, Schon, Vai, Fripp, Howe and even Chuck Berry) most of Morse's work has a uplifting vibe.
I will say I really enjoyed Rodrigo and Gabriella a month or so back (youtube.com/watch?v=fx0PT-_TWfY), If you get a chance to check them out live, it’s well worth it…
barnaclewill 1 year ago
very good guitarrist
tiagoguedestube 1 year ago
FANTASTIC!!!!!
socalweddingdj 1 year ago
Awesome! I actually prefer Steve playing country-fusion than hard rock (and I like all Purple albums he did even Abandon!)
oporuy 1 year ago
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHmotherfuckin'HHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bstensland 1 year ago
is that rod morgenstein on drums? sorry if thats a dumb ass question im a new Dregs fan and I know Morgenstein played with them in the 80's.
playdrums 1 year ago
@playdrums Oh yes. That's Rod for sure. I saw them many times back then and what a great show they always put on. Rod's solos were amazing! Glad you've discovered them!
efotoguy 1 year ago
@playdrums
Yeah, that's him. The on;y Dregs drummer there's been. I can't believe there isn't more Mark O'Connor stuf on youtube.
randallcaster 1 year ago
Damn... this is so cool. Simply beautiful.
SadTheory 1 year ago
you can hear how precise Steve Morse is
he plays with no distortion so it comes out clean and clear
players use to play fast only with distortion so that when the mess up a bit it isn't heard
avivilan12 1 year ago
As I said, would rather know if there's any version of THE BASH recorded whenever Mark O'Connor was in the band for some two years or something. Having watched his version of the old standard Orange Blossom Special that's around here too, this sounds like a mid tempo ballad in comparison. Honest.
Henkehakansson 1 year ago
Greatest band that ever walked...!!!
wellcraft28 1 year ago
I have just witnessed country-fried awesome.
fierypenguin311 1 year ago
Wow. Eddie van Who?
csmcmillion 1 year ago
What is truly amazing is that these guys were all in their early 20's when this video was made.
motorcityquig 1 year ago
Yeee Haww!!!
howiboy 1 year ago
Sounds like some Jackson Brown shit, Morse has such a unique style, nobody plays like him. He's got the technical skills and he still keeps it very alive and melodic. I always saw him on guitar magazines but until youtube I never heard his shit, now I know what all the hype is about, the man is pure genius.
howiboy 1 year ago
Steve Morse is always amazing...its just strange seeing him with sleeves on his shirt hahaha
rpgavan 1 year ago
Country music on speed - Brilliant.
PaulDoc999 1 year ago
Morse's part sounds like Joe Maphis
jeTTa002 1 year ago
Fuck me is all I can say.
What a gem of a clip, thanks so much for uploading it.
ReallyBigFatLarry 1 year ago
STEVE MORSE MUITO FODA !!!!!!
sandrorhoads 1 year ago
Steve Morse used to live in Augusta... That makes me appreciate this damn state a little more now XD
CyValkarion 1 year ago
Steve shredded my head clean off!
nickslespaul 1 year ago
I always knew Morse was awesome, but didn't know he has been around this long on the scene.
shanatp 1 year ago
Senza dubbio il secondo miglior chitarrista del pianeta dopo Enrico Modini
RAFEdiBJE 1 year ago
@RAFEdiBJE Enrico WHO?????
sandrorhoads 1 year ago
hey joeey, thanks for your reply.. i didn't say steve morse was shredding if you look at the next comment. i said chicken pickin. yes bluegrass. country picking. blah blah. i've been listening to these boys for many years. and as for dr.allen sloan. not only can he play fast. but his hauntihg vibrato on the second album is the shit!
gmasterg13 1 year ago
Here's some other crazy lunatics from back in the day .youtube.com/watch?v=OmWLAt_KSYE They're all from the same music school. Can you guess who it is?
Joeey 1 year ago
How cool is this?!Kinda like "high def black and white" the video quality is razor sharp and of course....so's the sound.These guys could play in my garage and it'd still sound killer.
FoulOwl 1 year ago
If we should really be nitpicking - as Steve Morse also said this about the whole release - about it, it has too much ups and downs in tempo. It starts at around 180, it hits 190 BPM (!!) during Morses solo momentarily, and slows down during the violin solo to a mere (!) 169 BPM at places ... but Morse released it anyway because of the audience reaction. It aint THAT perfect if you'd ask me. The King Biscuit Flower Hour live version had more stable tempo. But similar jawdrop pickin, though.
Henkehakansson 1 year ago
Steve Morse beats all the other great tele-slingers, live, for all to see and hear. Tone, Taste, and Timing, it's all there. One of the best guitar performances ever recorded... Incredible.
wrs840 1 year ago
it's badass chicken pickin! not shredding it was created waaaaayyyyy back!!
gmasterg13 1 year ago
@gmasterg13 t\This is not shredding, this is Steve Morse electric bluegrass. Like the ZZ Top great solos, every note is planned and executed like on the record. This is no improvising. No doubt Morse notated every bit of it on paper. Like Pat Methany, this band is from the University of Miami music school. Lots of note reading and classical studies. I was going to say, "That classically trained violinist is struggling a little with the bluegrass." But he nails the main melodies like a master.
Joeey 1 year ago
the phrase shredding kind of came from the 80's when mike varney put together metal massacre albums. cachophony,mcalpine,chastain,etc. during the early 70's with all the rock gods thinking they were bad ass john mclaughlin came in and kicked thier ass. thats when things started moving. before shredding it was called ripping. smoking, blazing etc. shawn lane was ripping in the 70's at 17!
and by the way that's dr fucking allen sloan shredding on violin!! chops!
remember that?
gmasterg13 1 year ago
After better than 30 years - this song still fu**ing rocks!
snsams6 1 year ago
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snsams6 1 year ago
really awesome!!
sucking345 1 year ago
Dad,
Thank you so much for having great musical taste and raising me on band such as the DIxie Dregs
mizzula1984 1 year ago
old but gold.....
gaidoreru 1 year ago
underrated indeed!!! steve morse is frickin amazing....pickin flawlessly with a damn pick! this is jazz fusion....timing is amazing!!! they are in a league all their own...was lucky to be raised on these guys!!! check out jazz is dead....billy cobham on drums
rainmonde 1 year ago
(puh-ting) wow thats it im startin a farm whos comin with me
ezeroh1 1 year ago 17
IS there ANY live FOOTAGE of Marl O'Connor performing LIVE with the Dregs and does this tune? I've just seen a couple of others, Cruise Control etc. I think O'Connor will have the upper hand against Sloane in this tune at least. I only know that he's guesting live on records of the later Dregs, but I mean when he as in it, at the beginning of the 80s.
Henkehakansson 1 year ago
@Henkehakansson man idk if i feel the same about the dregs without mark...
jafubi 1 year ago
Now THATS chicken picking.Take that Wylde.;)
Nevigo 1 year ago 2
One of the most underated bands in History!
justananderson 1 year ago
WHOOOOEEE!!!!
CJSkeezer 1 year ago
Nice jazz rock oldies video! Superolman52
SuperOldman52 1 year ago
Also, Michael Gregorys version is awesome too, but lacks the "chicken pick" style with pinch harmonics, and accents at certain beats and notes, that Steve's a master of. Steve runs his chromatic lines as a "pre" note or "grace notes" and ends on the note that is supposed to be in the scale with a major accent to it. His dynamics with the pick at this sound (not that much distortion) and speed is impeccable and unique. And they have soooo fun, and just sounds like they're trying to wing it!
Henkehakansson 1 year ago
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This DVD was made avaiable due to my friends mail to Dregs/Morse manager in the late 90's, when he asked "where's the rest of the live tapes from 'night of the living dregs'", thought that he'd never get a reply. But back it came with a reply "Good idea! we'll probe deep into this! " Allen Sloan has a penchant for not intonating properly live, this footage has several choruses edited out from album version. Allen overdubbed the ones that were kept too. Steve's amazing though. It is at 180 BPM.
Henkehakansson 1 year ago
LOL wah-fiddle
artizhan 1 year ago
is that jerry goodman on violin?
westrokker 1 year ago
@westrokker That is Allen Sloan on the fiddle.
guitar1611 1 year ago
they came and set up as a one night act over in the corner of a club in Columbia SC called the Coal Co sometime around 77 or 78. No one paid much attention....until the first song....They pinned everybody's ears back and just blew the crowd away. They were loved and came back and played several more times. (I got all their albums through the 80's - incredible stuff). Oh, put this on some night at a social function that's dragging a little - it tends to pick things up -LOL.
scsalesreptile 1 year ago
SMOKIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joeylodes 1 year ago 2
qlos secos ! :D
rmsa0801 1 year ago
OMG steve morse can play...
SUPERB
ChronoCrusade08 1 year ago
Oh steve morse is young! :D
Great guiatplayer
GREAT SONG
ChronoCrusade08 1 year ago
That is fantastic older footage of a dynamic band. Believe me there were very
many young axe slingers picking up on Steve Morse's technique and style
and he was a profound influence on many future speed and thrash metal
guitar players. He was a legend in the hard rock metal community before
he joined Deep Purple.
MrSmokeydog 1 year ago
Before this i was only familiar with Steve Morse in the context of Deep Purple, but this gives me a new appreciation for him. (and since i'm a die-hard Blackmore fan, he had to work for my appreciation!)
57250tr 1 year ago
god-damn! Steve Morse always puts a smile on my face when he plays guitar
RockwithaVengance 1 year ago
It really doesn't get any better than that.
jc129543 1 year ago
I remember seeing this live on Long Island at My Fathers Place.
Miss this band bad.
sbbytor 1 year ago
@sbbytor I miss them, too. I'm so glad that this is posted here in good quality. And as jc129543 says, it really doesn't get any better than this for musicians and music lovers.
I'm also happy that they put the Dixie back in the Dixie Dregs!
Strings4notes 1 year ago
This is Kick ... Ass! I wish they'd get back together.
Hagopn1 1 year ago
Yeeeeeeeeeee haaaaw! ---:)
Hagopn1 1 year ago
INSANE!
praetorian18 1 year ago
You gotta love that!
Axeminister5 1 year ago
I remember the first time i had see that video, i was with my brother. We was really astounded!!!
MustaineOliva 1 year ago
@ jedepah- couldn't agree more.
ebby1212 1 year ago
teeeeiiight!
skangmox 2 years ago
People shouldn't try to turn diverse and uniquely talented musicians into superlatives - let Rolling Stone come up with bullshit lists like that.
Nobody "invented" shred. If shred only means playing or improvising fast passages, Wes Montgomery could be credited. If it's only in a rock context, Jimmy Page and Frank Zappa were "shredding" at the edge of their chops as early as the late '60's, and Zappa even made use of tapping before EVH was ever on the scene.
Just enjoy the music.
jedepah 2 years ago 49
@jedepah Yeah, but don't forget Ritchie Blackmore did sweep arpeggios as early as 1969, and was doing the fast picking stuff around the same time, and had the classical influence as far back as 1968.
Whackooyzero 1 year ago
@jedepah You, my brother, are a true music fan. I totally agree with you!
tibyv8 1 year ago
@jedepah I totally agree It is like comparing apples to oranges. There is no way
that any person that has any knowledge of music from a general standpoint that
cant distinguish the difference between a cascading run and an obliquely fast improvised passage in a song note for note.
MrSmokeydog 1 year ago
@jedepah Django Rheinhardt invented shredding(and on acoustic jazz guitar no less!!!)
chillichomper 1 year ago
@jedepah The word "shred" should be reserved for cole slaw. (and pimento cheese).
Joeey 1 year ago
@jedepah what about the great John Mclaughlin...I feel he is enormously underrated...just listen to the mighty Mahavishnu Orchestra incrediible mind blowing musicanship...they started at the end of 60's and John's shreding is far more advanced than Page's and Zappa's combined......and there's Jeff Beck naturaly....
wintermutevi 1 year ago
@wintermutevi Mahavishnu McLaughlin I think has got his props through the years,he just doesn't do commercially popular stuff.I seen Steve Morse solo actually opening for John in a small San Diego club in 1990..what a guitar lesson I got that night.John was jamming with Joey Defrancesco on his B-3.Both his and Steve's band were scorching. On this level of playing there's no "best"...they're all unique with this or that..all have their own personality transferred to the instrument.Awesome video!
austingunsmoke 1 year ago
@jedepah Dude, I hate the term "shred" as much as you do, but referring to Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Page, and Frank Zappa as quick pickers is like calling a Geo Metro a fast car.
gmdinformation 1 year ago
Djang Reinhardt is name that comes to mind, the first really fast guitarshredder as far as I know.
SevenCircles 1 year ago
@jedepah and even before that... I would say that Mozart was a genius "shredder" :)
wurmart43 1 year ago
@wurmart43 I wouldn't call Mozart a 'shredder' but there are examples from the classical world of many notes virtuosos, with that 'barrage' thing -- Paganini and Liszt for instance. The earliest violin 'shredder' in classical was perhaps Vivaldi -- "He appended a cadenza which really frightened me, for such playing has never been nor can be... on all four strings with imitations and incredible speed" as a commentator of the time put it.
fourplusseven 1 year ago
Classical composers invented shred.
JonWRowe 1 year ago
@jedepah
Well said. There's no room for registered trade marks in mass music. It's all open source now... so enjoy hearing and using.
reghin79 11 months ago
Morse still rocks. EVH was innovative too. The Dregs, like other progressive rock bands ( Dream Theater, Kings X) attract a limited but loyal fan base.
mrmikeyn 2 years ago
79,564 views YAY PEOPLE ACULY LIKE GOOD MUSIC STILL!!!!!
catsrusme 2 years ago 3
And Eddie Van Halen was credited for the beginning of shred?
aligatorsandwitch72 2 years ago
Morse crushes him!
guitarfish56 2 years ago 7
I was questioning why he does when Morse is far more superior than EVH.
aligatorsandwitch72 2 years ago 3
I listened to these guys in the late 70's when I lived near Macon, GA. They were fairly popular, but radio airplay was limited to songs like "Take it Off the Top."
It's great to see such great musicianship!
peartfan2112 2 years ago
every time i watch this my mind explodes
containznutzrule 2 years ago
unfuckingbelievable
jfl440 2 years ago
Super******
piotr3339 2 years ago
the secret is chromatic dorian scales
kpgpwi64 2 years ago
This is much more hadbanging song than most punk or metal songs today (which I preffer usualy). Not to mention instrumental viruosity, which is not only stupid speed scales and arpeggios up and down, but has dynamics and color. Together it hass balls like hell!!!
ulihoven 2 years ago
It's one thing to hear this song, its quite another to see it done, and so effortlessly. Back to the woodshed for me!
ariot42 2 years ago 3
primo players playin'
doesn't get any better
flopcat1974 2 years ago
chicken pickin fun!!
jcvguitar 2 years ago 2
DochSchneider and tomita90 said it all. I can't see straight anymore. My brain just melted. Prolly watched it ten times since yesterday. I don't even know.
whogivesanut 2 years ago
Awesome!
Deepurple88 2 years ago
I honestly can't believe that just happened.
DochSchneider 2 years ago 30
that is absolutely fucking mind boggling, my brain hurts, fucking amazing
tomita90 2 years ago
As much as I love the musicians and the music, the most amazing thing about this is the camerawork. Truly incredible.
sjdanthem 2 years ago
I have this dvd on color. Is it originally black and white?
L0rdream 2 years ago
I Still got my button "Dregs Do It With They're Fingers" Great old footage!
stratgm 2 years ago
OMFG!
giosinosps 2 years ago 3
wow
TheStringman06 2 years ago
WOOOW a younger steve morse O.O
DANGILBERT03 2 years ago
Holy Crap! 1 minute and 37 seconds in and I've already died and gone to heaven. God, Steve Morse is such an amazing guitar player.
Lightmane321 2 years ago 3
WOW...just WOW!
laughingFallApart 2 years ago
they are fantastic
o4eno4en 2 years ago
Awesome band! Does anyone have a song of theirs called Attila The Hun?
skok65 2 years ago
Sweet... great musicianship. Steve Morse is an exceptionally rare talent. Everyone that is interested in guitar playing or who are just fans of music, should do themselves a favor and check him out.
iwillifuwill25 2 years ago 2
this is not human anymore... wow
Danzjohnny 2 years ago
is there anymore footage of them out there??? This rocks!!!
happymowing 2 years ago
that guitar sounds like a frenetic gnome addicted to speedball
altheriam 2 years ago
holy shit...steve morse made a deal with the devil...that's it...only explaination...he's impervious to the forces of time...and he was wailin like this back in 78?? forget about it....
synesthesia67 2 years ago 5
i was thinking the same......
ramitupursnout 2 years ago
OMG!!!!
mastmetal50 2 years ago
Been following Steve since early 70s in Augusta GA, where the Dregs originated, initially as Dixie Grit (San Diego WTF?) Alan tried to scoop my friend's girlfriend one night at the Ga Moon bar and nearly got an ass whipping. He's a tool but I like Steve. LMAO.
joeloftusblues 2 years ago
ahh the GA Moon, been there done that .. Dregs tooooooo seen many many times .. love 'em
newberry58 2 years ago
hard to believe the drummer went from this to winger
arbshredder 2 years ago
Rod Morgenstein is so versatile it doesnt matter he plays its gunna sound great
tasdrumer679 2 years ago
i wanted to write the same comment, allthough i like winger...
gthurnher 2 years ago
The one I pity is the bass player ....
Nyquistic 2 years ago
why the bass player?
brunocortina 2 years ago
He gets the least interesting part :-)
Nyquistic 2 years ago
nice. just now discovered this band and ...may
be life changing.
kellter70 2 years ago 2
it did changed John Petrucci's life ..
brunocortina 2 years ago 4