Dixie Dregs
Steve Morse
Andy West
Rod Morgenstein
T Lavitz
Dave LaRue
Jerry Goodman
February 5 2000, Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Odyssey
Cruise Control
February 9 2000, The Fillmore, Denver, CO, USA
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Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
Ionized
February 12 2000, The Rave, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
Ionized
February 14 2000, Mississippi Nights, St. Louis, MO, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
Peaches En Regalia
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
Ionized
February 19 2000, Metropol, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Odyssey
Cruise Control
February 20 2000, Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
Peaches En Regalia
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
February 21 2000, 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, USA
Dregs, Dream: The Fun and The Overdone
If the new albums by the Dixie Dregs and Dream Theater are any indication, the double bill
at the 9:30 club next Monday will offer a mixture of high jinks and high drama. Look for the
Dregs to produce most of the wacked-out, guitar-driven fun. The recently reunited band is in
freewheeling form on "California Screamin' " (Zebra), a collection of concert tracks spanning
its on-and-off-and-on-again 25-year career. By including its most requested tunes on several
"Best Of" collections and concert albums over the years, the Dregs had already managed to
recycle more stuff than Goodwill prior to the release of this retrospective. This time around,
though, the band actually sounds as if it's having a terrific time rummaging through the past,
especially when guitar hero Steve Morse and violinist Jerry Goodman (of Mahavishnu
Orchestra fame) duel it out on "The Bash," a turbo-charged medley of "Wabash Cannonball"
and "Rocky Top." Other familiar tracks, including "Sleeveless in Seattle," "Ionized" and
"Freefall," allow the band to freely indulge its passion for a heady fusion of rock, jazz, pop,
R&B, funk and metal sounds.
While the virtuosic Morse nearly always leads the way, he gets plenty of help from his band-
mates, especially from Goodman and keyboardist T Lavitz on the jazzy "Wages of
Weirdness," the greasy "Refried Chicken" and the band's spiraling, organ-fueled reprise of the
Allman Brothers hit "Jessica." Morse also briefly teams up with fellow guitarist Dweezil
Zappa--the duo serves up Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia"--and punctuates the album
with a subdued and lyrical reworking of "What If" that proves he's not just another hotshot
guitar slinger looking to flex his fingers.
- Washington Post, February 16, 2000
February 23 2000, Toad's Place, New Haven, CT, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
Peaches en Regalia
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
February 25 2000, Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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February 26 2000, Roseland Ballroom, New York City, NY, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
Ionized
February 27 2000, The Roxy, Boston, MA, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleevelss In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
Ionized
March 1 2000, The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA, USA
Falling somewhere between the Allman Brothers and Mahavishnu Orchestra, the Dregs pioneered
a kind of rebel-yell fusion in the late '70s that was marvelously difficult to pin down. It
was also short-lived: the original band split in 1982, and while composer-guitarist Steve
Morse put out sporadic Dregs product for another decade, nothing recaptured the group's
initial spark. Now Morse has reunited the founding members for a best-of live album. And
for fusion fans, the news is good. "Screamin' " is a high-octane return to form that
showcases the muscular jazz-rock that earned the band six Grammy nominations. Morse, whose
long locks once got him expelled from his Augusta high school, continues to challenge
orthodoxy, blurring the line between rock and jazz as he tears through the Dregs' tight
instrumentals and Southern-fried jams. Highlights include the Jeff Beck-inspired meditation
"Night Meets Light," a countrified romp, "The Bash," and funked-up covers of Frank Zappa's
"Peaches En Regalia" and the Allmans' "Jessica." Dixie Dregs perform March 1 at the
Tabernacle with Dream Theater.
- The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 02-17-2000
March 3 2000, House of Blues, Orlando, FL, USA
Aftershock
Country House Shuffle
Sleeveless In Seattle
Kat Food
Hereafter
The Bash
Odyssey
Cruise Control
Ionized