I love these guys! I got to see them live on New Year's Eve 1979/80 at the Fox. I remember trying to learn pieces of this song and being excited at what I could do even if it was just parts.
OH yeah !!tastes just like southern fried chicken. These guys are classicaly trained and therefore know the rules to bend the rules. These intricate passages are hard to pull off. And I'm sorry but Dream Theatre isn't Dixie Dregs. Dixie Dregs is funky, blusey, rock , calssical and jazz with no concern for rules. And they are EXCITING. Before DT fans threaten my life, I will clarify that they are great but boring at times. But that's just me.
Isaw this band for the first time in 1978 with foreigner at the colosseum in Jacksonville FL I couldn't believe it then and it still gets me now. AWESOME!!!!
I saw Roy Buchanan open for the Dregs in 1980 at Town Hall in NYC. They were both great. Not sure how i got there or how I got home, but I remember the music. Haha
@albanymike I was at that show too (and almost every Dixie Dregs show in the tri-state area at the time)! Nothing like seeing them perform live then, or since.
you know the story of how this band got together?
it's probably detailed much better somewhere, than i can do it justice and i'm sure i'm misquoting (happens a lot when you get old ;), but part of it went something like this:
buncha cats at U Miami studying music. they did a tune together for one of their performance classes and afterward, they looked at each other and they just knew. they were like "hey, you know, that worked. let's form a band". and the rest, as they say, was history.
Pretty close. Hey there...Steve morse i believe is a florida boy and now resides in Ocala...Has his studio and landing strip for his plane...Awesome picker....
Kansas rules as well. Mahavisne orchestra also rocks...checkm out..billy cobham jeff beck and jeen like ponte all sound like this tune here...
i believe that true. One of my video engineer friends knows steve he could fill us in. But geirgia yes. I first saw them at the Whipping Post in augusta ga in late seventees...but yes Ga Fl bornoand raised. Surely he has travelled the world with kamsas alone..They are awesome at any rate. So whats your Music affiliation JonP..I see the 1961 that woould make us close in age....Are you a musician?
im so lucky i found this on the southern rock cd i bought at wal-mart. probably never wouldve heard of it otherwise. definetly one of the best instrumentals ive ever heard!
70s young man...Very progressive though. I know many younger musicians that are just fining them now....Great time the 70s.....For me Midi was introduced and my hammond quickly went to the trash!
First dregs tune I figured out. Back in the old days before everything was in tab. Early 80's. Then it was Cruise Control, Odessey, and Twiggs Approved.....busted my ass on that stuff....used a record player and a tape deck....hit record on the deck and lifted the needle over and over to record a "loop" of the parts I was trying to figure out....Wow! Thanks for the memories!
I'd take this music over any of that overdone "let's see who can tune down the lowest and play really really fast without hardly making a musical statement" shit that's so prevalent with todays new bands. The diversity of styles and arrangements this band put out on their first release has more style and flare than most of these bands collective releases ..
I agree with you about a lot of the stuff being made today, but while I enjoy this, you must admit that it's not as inventive or as adventurous as your average Zappa album track. It's good fun, it's tasteful and it's virtuosic, but it's not really all that daring.
@tom303477 it's not so much a judgement as an observation. Frank sometimes had a tendency to write stuff that was so busy and complex that it lost its groove. Whereas Steve Morse, first with the Dregs and later with his power trio, always managed to keep the complexity in the service of the feel. That's all.
@LifesonFan4Life you're right dude... however I still prefer those shittys bands you mentioned over the general crap you hear on the radio these days... I mean, Lady Gaga? She can fuck off for all I care. I remember some song about a Lollipop not too long ago. Know what I'm talking about? That song's like, all things I HATE in music combined in one single song. Omfg.
Bte nice name, Rush rules!!! Are you seeing them this summer? I'm flying to Toronto from the UK!
georgiafatwood, lol nah im only 17 years old so thats probably got somethin to do with it but id never got into them til now. was always into the early allmans and jazz. which led to this
oh yea, i stopped relying on the radio mainly cause they play crap. in the past 6 months the best thing i heard on the radio was Jimmy herring cause he decided to play in Greenville SC. one song.
Interesting.I remember the fisrt time I hear the Dregs on the radio.1980 it was a station call KTID or K_TIDE.They played "What if".I remember being quite enthralled over the haunting sound of this tune coming from over the warehouse radio intercom where I worked at the time.
Hey HendrixClaptonSRV-FYI, somewhere on Youtube is a video of Jimmy Herring in his G.I.T. days (80's) and he is a Steve Morse CLONE....has the Tele with all the pickups, similar tone, long straight hair, etc....they play a dregs tune and an original that is dregs inspired....VERY cool to see where his roots are. The Dregs and Morse inspired TONS of musicians back in the day.
There's a live version of the song from that DVD "Live in Baden-Baden (Germany) March 1990" in the "Bonus Views" section where they play it in 1984. If someone has it please share it. Thanks and cheers to all!
I knew the Dregs at that time. Backstage at West Palm Beach on that tour, their violinist, Allen Sloan, and I were trying to talk when Hatchet got REALLY loud, and we were stopped mid-sentence. Allen searched for a comment, and then said that Hatchet sounded like "an amplified sawmill" !:P!:P Waaaay too funny ! Great days hanging with great musicians !!! Really funny guys, and super nice, too. Andy West, T Lavitz, Rod Morgenstern, Steve..."Microwave" Myrtrowicz, one of their roadies. Peace:)
I know that I met Twiggs in '79, and though I knew who he was, didn't get a chance to "know' him before his death. Eerie first Dregs album cover, with them freefalling and Twiggs waiting for them on the ground................Peace:)
Saw Dixie Dregs in '74 or '75, can't remember which. At the time I did not nor could not know I was in the presence of such music masters. As I look back I can honestly say they were light-years ahead of musicians playing the bar scene at that time.
Hadn't followed them for years then realized I could get them on my computer (new...cool),,,saw them several times when they were in the bar scene..see post below....amazing live....I think I really liked their Montreux recordings....
extreme cool
groach22 3 months ago
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this band's guitarist plays like Steve Morse!!!!
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CsffSmXa 6 months ago
wild
WingNutLCC 6 months ago
love it on FFW !!
52appaZ 6 months ago
That is not a picture of Andy West. What gives?
MegaMefoo 7 months ago
I love these guys! I got to see them live on New Year's Eve 1979/80 at the Fox. I remember trying to learn pieces of this song and being excited at what I could do even if it was just parts.
bootstrap99 8 months ago
wow...FuNkY
bassbiff 10 months ago
steve n andy from AUGUSTA,GA. where monsters r grown,.,.hoop
MultiChunx 10 months ago
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justplayfm 10 months ago
Great band made up of guys who studied music at The U
MiamiSouthPaw 11 months ago
the dregs fricken go all out everytime thay play !! this is another great dregs tune !!
napalmvoododaddy 1 year ago
i'll take an overdose of some refried funky chicken
thePhunktOGraphist 1 year ago
played bass for years, always wanted to master this!
sheracad 1 year ago
@sheracad Earlier this year there was a complete transcription of this piece in Bass Player magazine.
gebass6 1 year ago
@fourplusseven
Helluvah track to be Track 1 on their first release, eh? :)
JonP1961 1 year ago
The guitarist, Steve Morse, is now in Deep Purple
CamPulaski 1 year ago
@CamPulaski
He has been for a while, when he's not doing Steve Morse Band tours, tribute albums, Dregs reunion gigs, etc. He's a busy man ;)
JonP1961 1 year ago
Found out about this band from Dream Theater, only fair seeing how they stole Dreggs keyboardist XD
SmokingWickerman 1 year ago
weird enough for ya? lol great stuff!
eric1love 1 year ago
I was lookin at stuff and stumbled on this, love it! sounds really good
howiboy 1 year ago
OH yeah !!tastes just like southern fried chicken. These guys are classicaly trained and therefore know the rules to bend the rules. These intricate passages are hard to pull off. And I'm sorry but Dream Theatre isn't Dixie Dregs. Dixie Dregs is funky, blusey, rock , calssical and jazz with no concern for rules. And they are EXCITING. Before DT fans threaten my life, I will clarify that they are great but boring at times. But that's just me.
alcatras4 1 year ago
You ought to repost this track. As someone once said to me, "OMG What did you do to that song?!"
Joeey 1 year ago
Isaw this band for the first time in 1978 with foreigner at the colosseum in Jacksonville FL I couldn't believe it then and it still gets me now. AWESOME!!!!
tom303477 1 year ago
never grows old!
where's my bass?????
gotta practice!!!!
sheracad 1 year ago
12 bar blues in the deep fryer-- hot splatter!
tremblate 2 years ago
LoVe It!
akamrblast 2 years ago
how fun this must be to play!
sheracad 2 years ago
@sheracad it's fun but HARD AS HELL!!!!!!!!!! (I'm a bass player ... and I don't use a pick)
MagellanOfBass 1 year ago
I saw Roy Buchanan open for the Dregs in 1980 at Town Hall in NYC. They were both great. Not sure how i got there or how I got home, but I remember the music. Haha
albanymike 2 years ago
@albanymike I was at that show too (and almost every Dixie Dregs show in the tri-state area at the time)! Nothing like seeing them perform live then, or since.
critta63 1 year ago
thats the groove!
byLivio 2 years ago
Very cool. I love the Dixie's..........
I have heard this, when i was a children...thats music....Yehaa
JensHappe 2 years ago
you know the story of how this band got together?
it's probably detailed much better somewhere, than i can do it justice and i'm sure i'm misquoting (happens a lot when you get old ;), but part of it went something like this:
buncha cats at U Miami studying music. they did a tune together for one of their performance classes and afterward, they looked at each other and they just knew. they were like "hey, you know, that worked. let's form a band". and the rest, as they say, was history.
peace
JonP1961 2 years ago 3
Pretty close. Hey there...Steve morse i believe is a florida boy and now resides in Ocala...Has his studio and landing strip for his plane...Awesome picker....
Kansas rules as well. Mahavisne orchestra also rocks...checkm out..billy cobham jeff beck and jeen like ponte all sound like this tune here...
peace
Jeff in palm beach.
.Keys and guitar
jthovenstrauss 2 years ago
@jthovenstrauss
Could be his birthplace. I thought he was Georgia bred, though.
All good bands/musicians you've mentioned there, btw.
JonP1961 2 years ago
i believe that true. One of my video engineer friends knows steve he could fill us in. But geirgia yes. I first saw them at the Whipping Post in augusta ga in late seventees...but yes Ga Fl bornoand raised. Surely he has travelled the world with kamsas alone..They are awesome at any rate. So whats your Music affiliation JonP..I see the 1961 that woould make us close in age....Are you a musician?
Cool Daze
Peace
Jthoven! Jeff
jthovenstrauss 2 years ago
this was off of freefall i think. came out '77? i wanna say...wow,haven't heard this in years
jjhnnybgd 2 years ago
indeed it was. along with the epic prog tune "What If"
never knew how to classify them, so I just went with:
Southern Progressive Jazz Rock Fusion
:D
JonP1961 2 years ago 3
im so lucky i found this on the southern rock cd i bought at wal-mart. probably never wouldve heard of it otherwise. definetly one of the best instrumentals ive ever heard!
angusyounghero 2 years ago 6
this brought memories ! ty !! saw em @ summerfest , milw . opening up for allman bros in 83 .. awesome !!!
mvs784 2 years ago
never heard this be4, what era was this song made in?
FezTickle 2 years ago
Original Release Date: November 30, 1976
autocrat111 2 years ago
The 70's. DYNMOHUM
dynmohum 2 years ago
70s young man...Very progressive though. I know many younger musicians that are just fining them now....Great time the 70s.....For me Midi was introduced and my hammond quickly went to the trash!
jthovenstrauss 2 years ago
Awesome. I'm not saying this to sound like a dick, but didn't MIDI happen around
'83?
I'm a guitarist, so for me, I "discovered" MIDI last year.
mt
martyteboe 2 years ago
First dregs tune I figured out. Back in the old days before everything was in tab. Early 80's. Then it was Cruise Control, Odessey, and Twiggs Approved.....busted my ass on that stuff....used a record player and a tape deck....hit record on the deck and lifted the needle over and over to record a "loop" of the parts I was trying to figure out....Wow! Thanks for the memories!
3shiftgtr 2 years ago
I'd take this music over any of that overdone "let's see who can tune down the lowest and play really really fast without hardly making a musical statement" shit that's so prevalent with todays new bands. The diversity of styles and arrangements this band put out on their first release has more style and flare than most of these bands collective releases ..
LifesonFan4Life 2 years ago 17
I agree with you about a lot of the stuff being made today, but while I enjoy this, you must admit that it's not as inventive or as adventurous as your average Zappa album track. It's good fun, it's tasteful and it's virtuosic, but it's not really all that daring.
lexo30 2 years ago
Yeah, but as much as I love FZ, this is more melodic and listenable than a lot of Zappa's stuff. Frank could be a real snob at times. ; )
jfl440 1 year ago
@jfl440 Don't judge just sheik yer bootie
tom303477 1 year ago
@tom303477 it's not so much a judgement as an observation. Frank sometimes had a tendency to write stuff that was so busy and complex that it lost its groove. Whereas Steve Morse, first with the Dregs and later with his power trio, always managed to keep the complexity in the service of the feel. That's all.
jfl440 1 year ago
@LifesonFan4Life you're right dude... however I still prefer those shittys bands you mentioned over the general crap you hear on the radio these days... I mean, Lady Gaga? She can fuck off for all I care. I remember some song about a Lollipop not too long ago. Know what I'm talking about? That song's like, all things I HATE in music combined in one single song. Omfg.
Bte nice name, Rush rules!!! Are you seeing them this summer? I'm flying to Toronto from the UK!
MagellanOfBass 1 year ago
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hahaha
GAYBO'S MUSIC!!!!
BBqsaucesnax 2 years ago
Care to expound on that comment BBq ?
LifesonFan4Life 2 years ago
Part of my life back in the seventies in Atlanta. Tasty.
fuzzarelly57 2 years ago
What fun to play!!!
If I only had the chops!
sheracad 2 years ago
I F-ing LOOOOOOOVE this song...
Karlboy111 2 years ago
I need me some cocain after this.
TheBrassHole 2 years ago
how i havent heard of this is beyond me. really great music
HendrixClaptonSRV 2 years ago
Were you asleep at the wheel for the last twenty years or what?
georgiafatwood 2 years ago
georgiafatwood, lol nah im only 17 years old so thats probably got somethin to do with it but id never got into them til now. was always into the early allmans and jazz. which led to this
HendrixClaptonSRV 2 years ago
Gee, Kiddo, Consider yourself lucky! You have so much to look forward to.......
georgiafatwood 2 years ago
i hope so man
HendrixClaptonSRV 2 years ago
These guys never got much airplay even when they were current. But they are fantastic.
mig1964ca 2 years ago
oh yea, i stopped relying on the radio mainly cause they play crap. in the past 6 months the best thing i heard on the radio was Jimmy herring cause he decided to play in Greenville SC. one song.
HendrixClaptonSRV 2 years ago
Interesting.I remember the fisrt time I hear the Dregs on the radio.1980 it was a station call KTID or K_TIDE.They played "What if".I remember being quite enthralled over the haunting sound of this tune coming from over the warehouse radio intercom where I worked at the time.
gebass6 2 years ago
Hey HendrixClaptonSRV-FYI, somewhere on Youtube is a video of Jimmy Herring in his G.I.T. days (80's) and he is a Steve Morse CLONE....has the Tele with all the pickups, similar tone, long straight hair, etc....they play a dregs tune and an original that is dregs inspired....VERY cool to see where his roots are. The Dregs and Morse inspired TONS of musicians back in the day.
3shiftgtr 2 years ago
30 years ...lol
jthovenstrauss 2 years ago
amazing bass!
sheracad 2 years ago 2
Dregs fans are the best...we know what we know and are at peace with it...
06mets 2 years ago 2
Being a fingerstyle bassist who has never been good with a pick, Andy West's part seems even more amazing!
motorcityska6TD 3 years ago 2
hes not only a great guitarist but a great guy
brownbear224 3 years ago
There's a live version of the song from that DVD "Live in Baden-Baden (Germany) March 1990" in the "Bonus Views" section where they play it in 1984. If someone has it please share it. Thanks and cheers to all!
nlxbass 3 years ago
smokin' riffs1 what FUN to play! is that stanley on bass?
man! i should've kept my chops up!
sheracad 3 years ago
Bass player is Andy West.
PudgeMartin 3 years ago 3
Just as awesome as the day it was recorded. Thanks for posting this even though I have the CD, your recording sounds great.
dhardinger1 3 years ago
I had this record and wore it down to a nub! Outstanding musicians.
ramitupursnout 3 years ago
I was 12, my mom took me to my first concert, Molly Hatchet and the dregs. 79'
gomundo00 3 years ago
I knew the Dregs at that time. Backstage at West Palm Beach on that tour, their violinist, Allen Sloan, and I were trying to talk when Hatchet got REALLY loud, and we were stopped mid-sentence. Allen searched for a comment, and then said that Hatchet sounded like "an amplified sawmill" !:P!:P Waaaay too funny ! Great days hanging with great musicians !!! Really funny guys, and super nice, too. Andy West, T Lavitz, Rod Morgenstern, Steve..."Microwave" Myrtrowicz, one of their roadies. Peace:)
binnyman 3 years ago
Thats great man... Did you know Twiggs at all?
gtristdan 3 years ago
I know that I met Twiggs in '79, and though I knew who he was, didn't get a chance to "know' him before his death. Eerie first Dregs album cover, with them freefalling and Twiggs waiting for them on the ground................Peace:)
binnyman 3 years ago
Is it me or is this higher pitched than the record? (maybe even sped up a little bit)
MagellanOfBass 3 years ago
it is but was the only version i found and relized it after and was hopeing nobody would notice
wildboy360 3 years ago 2
Dude don't worry about that, I think it sounds AWESOME in F! Maybe it's because I heard this version first, and the original (in E) only after...
For some reason I always come back to this one because I love how it sounds in F. :D
Take care man!
MagellanOfBass 3 years ago
thanksss for the support man
wildboy360 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this! THIS SONG RULES
MagellanOfBass 3 years ago
Look up "tight" in the dictionary & you'll find a picture of the the Dixie Dregs.
Unsurpassed musicianship!!
mudcatblue 3 years ago 4
Saw Dixie Dregs in '74 or '75, can't remember which. At the time I did not nor could not know I was in the presence of such music masters. As I look back I can honestly say they were light-years ahead of musicians playing the bar scene at that time.
bamapoppy 3 years ago 4
I will never forget this. 17 years old...1979 a boy, a bong, and the dixie dregs.
AshGSam 3 years ago
Vastly unknown and under rated...where are they now?
georgiafatwood 2 years ago
I know Steve Morse (the guitarist) is with Deep Purple...he also had a short stint with Kansas a few years back as well.
slm1963 2 years ago
Hadn't followed them for years then realized I could get them on my computer (new...cool),,,saw them several times when they were in the bar scene..see post below....amazing live....I think I really liked their Montreux recordings....
georgiafatwood 2 years ago
lol
gangstasevi 3 years ago 3
Long live the Dregs!!!
Great pics and thanks.
1matrix9 3 years ago 3