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From: rosen@ucbvax.ARPA (Rob Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Morse covers (are the Dregs still around?)
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 14:08:58 EDT
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In article <1383@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) writes:
>   Pardon my ignorance, but are they still around?  The last album I'm familiar
>with is Dregs of the Earth (I believe).


   Unfortunately, the Dregs broke up a few years back after they lost their
label (I believe it was Arista, but I'm not sure).  Steve Morse and Rod
Morgenstein went on to form the backbone of the Steve Morse band, which has
at least one album out on the Musician label ("The Introduction").  T Lavitz
played on an album by a group called Art in America (I don't know what happened
to them, but I believe T had something to do with the production of that album),
and Andy West moved to the Bay Area and was gigging for awhile with Joaquin 
Lievano, the wonderful guitarist formerly with Jean-Luc Ponty.  I'm not sure
what happened to the violinist who played with them on the last album (INDUSTRY
STANDARD, 1982 I believe), but apparently Allen Sloan went to medical school
and is presumably in residency somewhere.

     A tip for die-hard Dreggies: in 1978 or so Capricorn Records released a
compilation album called HOTELS, MOTELS, and ROAD SHOWS (I think that's the 
name of it); on it were featured cuts by Capricorn's various bands (the Allman
Brothers were on Capricorn, I believe).  The Dregs (then the Dixie Dregs) were
featured on one cut from FREEFALL which just happens to be a live rendition of
"Refried Funky Chicken."  I haven't got the album, so I can't tell you if
it's worth the search (it should be in cutout bins), but if you see it some-
where, buy it 'cause it should only be $5.99 or so.

-- 
            "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste
	     (or intelligence) of the American public."

		  --H.L. Mencken


		       --Rob Rosen

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