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March 11th, 2005, 02:20 PM
gluelegg

Hey guy's, Steve Negus SAGA's original drummer just decided to hang em up!
I guess the touring was to much of a grind.
Anyway the rest of the band are all the original guy's!
The show we did with G3 I hung out with Vai's drummer Jeremy Colson(not Virg but still a fine drummer)don't know who was with Satch and Fripp was solo, no band and his show was the weirdest thing ever(I love him but the guy's a freak).
The closest thing to electric drums I play is an octopad thank u very much!
Hey ntbcreative how cold is it in Winterpig!!!LOL
Anyway DINO ROCK RULES!!!
March 11th, 2005, 04:14 PM
FuseU1

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We did one last summer in Holland for about 25,000 with YES, the G3 tour(Vai, Satriani, Fripp)Judas Priest etc....

Now that's "righteous"...whuddup. [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Playing &/or hangin' w Alan White, & I'm guessing Jeff Campitelli w Satch...is Bob Jarzombek[?!] still w Priest? & do you know who was w Fripp, perhaps Mastelotto?
...Eh, enough w the "fan-based" questions...I'm still a fan [read: geek] AWA a player...word. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

...& then, w Toto & Si.

Anyhow, that's 2-Kewl. [img]cool.gif[/img]

[ March 11, 2005 12:22 AM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]
March 11th, 2005, 07:40 PM
FuseU1

Yeah, Colson's solid in that gig [img]cool.gif[/img] ...[& Virg is a haaarrrd act to follow]... [img]wink.gif[/img]

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DINO ROCK RULES

Ha ha
2nd that! [often]... [img]cool.gif[/img]

Noooooo...Fripp, strange?! [img]wink.gif[/img]
You'd never guess by his music... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
But then [for you Carl Sagan-style philosophers], what IS "strange"?] J/K [img]wink.gif[/img]

Obviously Si is past the whole illness scenario & everything is cool now, eh? That's a good thing...

[ March 11, 2005 03:48 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]
March 11th, 2005, 09:35 PM
Groovemeister

My friend Bob Witzling toured with Simon Phillips recently and said that he was an amazing drummer.

I've only ever really seen his playing on the Zildjian Day Video and a small clip of some Toto gigs. He looked like he smoked!

He's was out of action for a while wasn't he?

MP
March 11th, 2005, 10:19 PM
moosetication

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Originally posted by Groovemeister:
He's was out of action for a while wasn't he?

Yep, he was quite ill around the end of 2003 and beginning of 2004. Ricky Lawson depped for him in Toto.

I first saw Simon on the Jeff Beck "There and Back" tour at the Manchester Apollo in (wait for it) 1981 or something. He was f-word extraordinary even then. He'd stand up off his throne at the end of fills around the kit, lots of excitement. Fast forward to June last at the RAH, where I caught him again after a gap of a mere 23 years.

I think he'd been playing a bit in the meantime. [img]wink.gif[/img] But now he's an old man like me [img]eek.gif[/img] , he's a little more ... measured, shall we say, in his style.
March 11th, 2005, 10:26 PM
Groovemeister

Moose,

What exactly was wrong with him matey? I'm assuming he's all fixed up now right?

MP
March 11th, 2005, 10:28 PM
moosetication

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Originally posted by Groovemeister:
What exactly was wrong with him matey? I'm assuming he's all fixed up now right?

It was never made clear. Yes, as far as I know he's in good fettle now.
March 12th, 2005, 01:49 AM
Blue Tav

From what i read somewhere, 'Si' was suffering from 'Chronic Fatigue'. He was probably overworked with touring and studio work. Let's not forget that he's become a great and in demand record producer and mixer as well as being one of the top drummers in the world !

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March 12th, 2005, 09:13 PM
FuseU1

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'Chronic Fatigue'

Whoah.

Well, I guess some of us just "ain't quite kids anymore, is we" [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img] ...[what with all that testosterone & whatnot...that stuff starts wars, y'know...] [img]wink.gif[/img]

Si rox. Best to him. [img]cool.gif[/img]
March 13th, 2005, 02:05 AM
Groovissimo

Pic of the Great Simon...

http://www.riffi.com/images/Simon08.jpg

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