Re: OT: Morphine and two saxes?

["David Kirkdorffer" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

I know that Morphine definitely had settled on a name by 1990 - as I'd see
them play regularly back then at The Middle East Restaurant, in Cambridge
MA.  Their first record -- GOOD -- references "Billy Conway replaces Jerome
Dupree all live gigs 1991..."  As I played with Jerry Dupree in a band a 
few
years later, I can attest to the fact that Mark Sandman and Jerry Dupree
came at life from *very* different visions.  Zooming forward many summers
later... a friend of mine delivered the news of Mark's death to his
girlfriend while on holiday.   Bad, sad scene.  When Sandman died, he took
with him a bit of the soul that had existed in the Cambridge / Boston music
scene.

Good, the first Morphine album,  is a bit on the dry side but well worth
picking up.  At the time, they nothing sounded like else.  When King 
Crimson
and Morphine were both playing the HORDE festival tour, I remember Trey 
Gunn
making a comment that he was looking forward to seeing Morphine play "..to
see how they do it.." or words to that effect.

Have a lucky day

David Kirkdorffer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Nelson" <psychle62@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Morphine and two saxes?


> Yeah, Dana Colley often did the Roland Kirk two-sax
> thing. I think the remaining two Morphiners are
> playing in a 3 piece with former Face To Face
> singer/guitarist Laurie Sargent called The Twinemen,
> living here in New Hampshire.
>
> I never met them, but Morphine recorded at Fort Apache
> in Cambridge, MA at the same time my old band Heavens
> to Murgatroid did (1992). They didn't have a name yet;
> I remember the big dry-erase board where we were
> blocking out mixdown time and competing for available
> slots with "The Mark Sandman Project". (RIP)
>
> Thinking back, it's possible that they *recorded*
> elsewhere (Q-Division?) but were mixing at the Fort...
>
> -t-
>
> --- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>
> > Andy asked if it was two saxes played by one guy
> > and in the three shows I saw them play  early and
> > mid career it was only one bari..
>
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