MORPHINE - LIVE TV The NETHERLANDS 1994 | VOODOO WAGON - A Brother Jobe Special

Morphine - Live Dutch TV 1994

1.Have A Lucky Day

2.Buena

3.My Brain/Sharks Patrol These Waters

Brother Jobe posted this t’other day on the Voodoo Wagon and I quite forgot to reciprocate  properly! (rude I call it!)

It is great and whilst short, if you don’t know your Morphine is a great intro to a heavy but melodic trio 

Enjoy!

I did!

Morphine’s Film Noire-tinged sound was inspired by the Beats, by the Boston rock scene, and by the Blues. Jeremy’s background help anchor the new band in the bedrock of the old. The bandmates’ interest in experimental and exotic musics (of West Africa and beyond) reflect a restlessness that insures that this group will ALWAYS be more than a simple tribute band. Their tendency to segue between songs with sound-scapes of ethereal jamming is a tribute to the mythology of Morphine, which was NOT in fact named for the narcotic, but rather for Morpheus a Greek God of Dreams (tapping into the Sandman mystique of European folklore).

VoM has had some hiccups along the way; they were unable to agree on a band name early on, beginning by alternating between “Members of Morphine & Jeremy Lyons” and the “Elastic Waste [sic] Band,” which morphed into “The Ever Expanding Elastic Waste Band”… until early in 2014 when someone asked Jeremy if he didn’t “play with the… um… the ‘vapors’ of Morphine?” And there was the name.

Another hiccup came in 2012: Jerome had been suffering from tendenitis for some time. and ended up taking off more than a year for rest and therapy. Billy Conway filled in on a couple shows in New Orleans, but Billy lives in Montana now, so drum duties for local gigs were taken on by their friend Jeff Allison, who continues to play gigs with the band, even now that Jerome has come back off the bench and onto the stool again.

Vapors of Morphine is currently recording new music and accepting bookings across the world.

MORPHINE live on Dutch TV Show "2 Meter Sessies" (1994)

RIP the two members of Morphine Mark Sandman two string slide bass (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999), aged 46 Billy Conway drums (December 18, 1956 – December 19, 2021), aged 65 "You both will always be remembered as legends."

Noting that Conway the saxophonist and original drummer Jerome Deupree formed Vapors of Morphine in 2009 and carried on the traditional format set by Sandman et al, then Jerome left Vapors of Morphine in 2019 having continuedto suffer the agonies of tendonitis in his hands

vapors of morphine - archive

morphine here . . . . .