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davehouck
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Post Number: 2190
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 2:30 pm:   Edit Post

Since I haven't asked permission to copy them, here's a link, and here's one.
dela217
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Post Number: 536
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 7:45 pm:   Edit Post

I used to go see these guys every time they blew through New Orleans. I thought that the top on that bass was just gorgeous. I would LOVE to see a better pic of this bass.
davehouck
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Post Number: 2191
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 8:29 pm:   Edit Post

It is indeed a nice looking bass. I've been a big fan of the Dregs since the first album came out, and saw them several times in Chapel Hill in the seventies. And I loved that bass!
chuckc
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Post Number: 14
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 6:25 am:   Edit Post

The Dregs were just awesome in concert. The first time I saw them a very young Eric Johnson opened the show. EJ was obviously intimidated by the masterful Steve Morse, but Andy West just killed it with some of the hottest licks short of JAE. The last ime I saw them Mark O'Connor had joined and boy! that guy had some incredable chops. They were truly musician's musicians.
lidon2001
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Post Number: 26
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 7:39 am:   Edit Post

I saw Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs a few months back. Dave LaRue on bass. Great show.
richbass939
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Post Number: 358
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post

I saw them twice, 12 years ago and about 8 years ago, both times in the same converted movie theater in Boulder, CO. Really intimate venue, really close to the stage. I think the good doctor was on violin the first time, Jerry Goodman (?) the second time. LaRue on bass. Both times were a real treat. Chuckc, I agree completely, truly musician's musicians. It was worth standing outside in line for 45 minutes in 5 degree, 20 mph weather. Being in line that long let us sit 25 feet away from Morse.
Rich
keith_h
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Post Number: 151
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 11:27 am:   Edit Post

I would always try to see them when they came through the Chicago area back in the late 70's early 80's. Used to cover a couple of the Dregs tunes in a band. I still have the Guitar Player magazine with Andy West's interview. I find it interesting when asked who were his biggest bass influences he replied "Steve Morse".

Keith
mario_farufyno
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Username: mario_farufyno

Post Number: 925
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 11:39 am:   Edit Post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33P03i_YA0

Andy with his Alembic
oddmetersam
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Username: oddmetersam

Post Number: 271
Registered: 7-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 2:40 pm:   Edit Post

WAY back when, I had a lesson with Andy West up in San Rafael, CA. He had a rack of GK heads (don't remember the speakers) and this was in his Steinberger bass days. I was too much in awe to really get much technical information. In the beginning, he asked me to play one of my own lines but interrupted me about 1/3 of the way through to start suggesting alternate fingerings.

Truth be told (and I mean no disrespect -- honest!), I was at least hoping he'd listen long enough to what I was trying to do and let me finish before critiquing me...Oh, well, it was probably a lame line, anyway!

But I was also his last student for the day and he asked if I wanted to join him for lunch! Yeah, like i was going to say, "No"? We had a great conversation. I used to photograph airshows as a hobby and told him about the SR-71's being stationed at Beale AFB at the time. He's a very technologically oriented guy.

This was also when mirrored aviator glasses were all the rage, but he had a novel use for his. When we sat down at the cafe he took them off and placed them on the table at such an angle that he could see his own reflection in the lenses. Most of us are unaware, but when you sport a beard rivaling Moses', it's easy for bits of food, crud, car keys (just kidding), etc. to constantly become trapped in it without the owner's knowledge. This way he could tell if there was anything in his beard before it became an embarrassment.

I've seen him play with Steinberger, Alembic and I want to say, G. Modulus (?) basses and he was killer each time.
pauldo
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Username: pauldo

Post Number: 958
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 4:56 pm:   Edit Post

Love Andy!
Mario, that link was fabulous, great audio quality.

Here's a Steinberger clip (audio is poor):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EVA80E6xd8Y&feature=relmfu
mario_farufyno
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Username: mario_farufyno

Post Number: 926
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 6:12 pm:   Edit Post

Great story, Sam. What a honor!

Love him, too. Paul
mario_farufyno
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Username: mario_farufyno

Post Number: 927
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 6:34 pm:   Edit Post

Great story, Sam. What a honor!

Love him, too. Paul
oddmetersam
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Username: oddmetersam

Post Number: 273
Registered: 7-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 6:58 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks, Paul. And I meant to say, a G. Gould bass, not G. Modulus.

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