Zebra Records (Wea)
2000
California Screamin' (Live)
About This Album
Guitarist and leader Steve Morse set up a Dixie Dregs family reunion for August 26-28, 1999, at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles, and the resultant document is the 2000 live CD California Screamin'. In attendance were nearly all Dregs members, present and past (missing only early keyboardists Frank Josephs and Mark Parrish, and violinist/guitarist Mark O'Connor), with the bassists and violinists playing separately, depending on whether the material was new or vintage. That means original Dregs Allen Sloan (violin) and Andy West (bass) perform the introductory classic "Wages of Weirdness" before guest guitarist Dweezil Zappa harmonizes with Morse on a delicious cover of father Frank Zappa's "Peaches En Regalia." Later bandmembers Jerry Goodman (violin) and Dave LaRue (bass) play on the latter (and another great cover, the Allman Brothers' "Jessica"), and alternate with the original members throughout. "Morse," original drummer Rod Morgenstein and long-ime keyboardist T. Lavitz play continuously, hosting their old friends on "Freefall" before inviting back Goodman and LaRue for "Aftershock" (from the band's latest studio CD, 1994's Full Circle).
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