California Screamin'

California Screamin' Artist: The Dixie Dregs
Label: Lightyear
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 633014402128
EAN: 0633014402128
ASIN: B000046S1B


Release Date: 2000-02-01

California Screamin'


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Tracks:

  1. Wages Of Weirdness
  2. Peaches En Regalia
  3. Freefall
  4. Aftershock
  5. The Bash
  6. Night Meets Light
  7. Refried Funky Chicken
  8. Jessica
  9. What If
  10. Sleeveless In Seattle
  11. Ionized
  12. The Great Spectacular
  13. Dixie

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  1. What If
  2. Night of the Living Dregs
  3. Free Fall
  4. Unsung Heroes
  5. Full Circle

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Smokin'!.......2003-11-26

I've been an avid fan of the Dregs (Dixie Dregs) since their first album back in the late 70's. They were the first band since the Mahavisnu Orchestra that knocked my socks off, never to be found. My favorite tunes have been the bluegrassesq tunes that have been so Dregized! I love the entire California Screamin' CD, but the live version of The Bash (with snipits of Frieght Train and Rocky Top) is over the top. Morse and Goodman display in spades their immense talent and flawless technique. From the Flock to the late Dixie Dregs, Goodman still smokes. Play on boys, play on!

5 out of 5 stars Great Live CD.......2003-06-29

At first I thought is was ok but after a alot more
plays I think this is a great CD. I didn't think
the sound was very good either but it's because the
bass is very loud, turn the bass down a few below
12 o'clock and the sound is amazing, very detailed.
All instruments are very well defined. Much better
on Solid State equipment than Tubes. Recommended.

4 out of 5 stars Good live album, song selection and pacing are a little off.......2003-05-12

All of the songs here are well played, as you would expect from the Dixie Dregs. But the song selection and ordering keep it from being a fully satisfying live album. It's a 3-1/2 star album, though there's enough I like about it to make me round up. But if you don't have the superior "Bring 'Em Back Alive" yet, definitely buy that before you get this one.

This 1999 live album reunites guitarist Steve Morse, drummer Rod Morganstein, and keyboardist T Lavitz, along with both Andy West and Dave LaRue on bass and Allen Sloan and Jerry Goodman on violin (LaRue and Goodman had played on 1994' "Full Circle"). The CD booklet doesn't say which bassist and violinist play on which tracks--it doesn't sound like they're all playing at once. The album includes three tracks each from the first Dregs album, "Freefall", and the last, "Full Circle". My favorite track is a cover of Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia", with Morse playing dual guitar leads with guest Dweezil Zappa. The "Full Circle" cuts are all highlights here, especially "Sleeveless in Seattle". "The Bash", a lightspeed bluegrass version of "Wabash Cannonball", has never been one of my favorite Dregs pieces, but the version here is the best I've heard. One the flip side, "Wages of Weirdness", off "Freefall", is one of the lesser pieces in the Dregs canon, and a strange choice here for the leadoff position. The middle of the album is paced strangely, with slow ballads "Night Meets Light" (great though the song is) and "What If", and a long cover of the Allman Brothers "Jessica". The album closes with 1-1/2 minutes of the strangest rendition of "Dixie" you will ever hear.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

3 out of 5 stars Not the Best Dregs.......2002-11-14

I agree with the reviewer who says this is substandard work for the Dregs. Inasmuch as everything Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs do is so much better than almost anything done by anyone else, it's a fine album for the hard-core Steve Morse fan (yes, this includes me) to own. But the sound quality of this effort is not great and the intensity of the music is somehow lacking compared to the band's usual work.

My recommendation - if you aren't familiar with Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs, buy the far superior "Bring 'Em Back Alive" as the best possible introduction to the band. You'll also enjoy possibly the finest, heartstopping guitar solo ever recorded.

5 out of 5 stars

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