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Founding members have reformed into the band Vapors of Morphine, maintaining much of the original style and sound. The band used an idiosyncratic set of instruments and combined blues and jazz elements with more traditional rock arrangements, which gave it an unusual and original sound. The instruments mainly consisted of baritone saxophone ...
Members of the American alternative rock band Morphine. Pages in category "Morphine (band) members" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
An American band, Brazzaville, recorded a tribute song titled "Sandman," which is available on their second album Somnambulista; California band Honey White (their name taken from a Morphine song) recorded a tribute song titled "The Sandman" for their first E.P. release My Band Rocks! in 2002.
Vapors of Morphine is an American rock band founded in 2009 by the remaining members of the alternative rock band Morphine, saxophonist Dana Colley and drummer Jerome Deupree, along with blues guitarist Jeremy Lyons. Deupree stepped down in early 2019; Tom Arey (Peter Wolf, Ghosts of Jupiter) has taken his place.
Soon after that, Sandman called him and asked him to take part in a demo session that ended up being the band's second album, Cure for Pain. In 1999 he made 15 appearances with Morphine, playing along with drummer Conway, shortly before Sandman died while performing in Italy in 1999, ending the band suddenly. [3]
Musical chemistry between Colley, Conway, and Orchestra Morphine member Laurie Sargent (a Boston mainstay and former member of Face to Face) led the trio to start their own group, Twinemen, [3] a name they took from a comic drawn by Sandman. Formed in 2001, Twinemen have since released three full-length studio albums and toured extensively.
After Sandman suffered his fatal heart attack in 1999, Colley and Conway formed Orchestra Morphine, a group of Sandman's friends and colleagues who toured to celebrate the music of the band and to raise funds for the Mark Sandman Music Education Fund. Colley and Conway also formed Twinemen with singer Laurie Sargent. Conway and Sargent were ...
Colley invited Lyons to play the two-string bass and sing in the newly formed band. The group later changed its name to Vapors of Morphine, and they had been playing weekly in Atwood’s Tavern, a small venue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since the spring of 2009. [2] Lyons also performs regularly for children at schools, libraries and special ...