Dana Colley: electric baritone sax

Jeremy Lyons, Dana Colley and Jerome Deupree together are "Members of Morphine: the Elastic Waste Band." They perform songs by the late Morphine-frontman Mark Sandman, as well as their own brand of "psycho-delta blues." In July of 2009, Jeremy, Dana and Jerome performed at Nel Nome Del Rock Festival in Palestrina, Italy, ten years to the day after Mark passed away on that very same stage. The trio include two-third of the original line-up of the seminal Boston-based progressive rock band, the two who backed Sandman up their debut record Good and the band's break-out follow-up, Cure for Pain. Jeremy plays electric guitar and a version Sandman's own 2-string slide bass.

"I met former Morphine saxophonist Dana Colley at an event at the now-legendary Hi N Dry Studios loft in Cambridge, MA, once the home studio of Morphine front man Mark Sandman. It had only been a couple of weeks since Katrina sent my family and me packing for Massachusetts, and I was still reeling. (Yet the uncanny symbolism of "Hi N Dry" was not lost on me.)

"Dana loves New Orleans and was aghast at the disaster; he gave me a warm, sympathetic welcome, offering me equipment, studio time, and a place to hang. We hit it off, and after perusing his old tour journals, we discovered that not only had he seen me perform with the Big Mess on Jackson Square in New Orleans in 1993, but he even had a Polaroid photo of us taped to the pages.

"It has been said that Dana Colley plays the baritone saxophone like Jimi Hendrix played the guitar. This is not far off the mark. Dana generally plugs his sax into a series of effects pedals and a tube amp, playing with harmonics, distortion, feedback, and bass tones. Dana and I have performed several shows as a trio with Jerome Deupree on drums (including a one-show "tour" to New Orleans in 2007). The mix of my delta-style electric slide, Dana's psychedelic, "low rock" baritone sax, and Jerome Deupree's improvisational drumming make for something unlike anything I've ever heard. One example of this sound has been recorded for a compilation for Somerville's Sally O'Brien's Bar, available at http://www.sallyobriensbar.com/."