Vapors Of Morphine - Live

www.vaporsofmorphine.com/
Booking outside of the United States: [e-mail]
"They keep the weird, wonderful legacy of Morphine alive"
- Jed Gottlieb, The Boston Globe
The ’90s “Low Rock” band Morphine (led by the late Mark Sandman) smoldered hot and fast, but was snuffed out before it’s time. From its ashes something wafted into the ether. Something lingering in the air mixed with a Southerly wind, and has materialized as Vapors of Morphine.
Vapors of Morphine honors the legacy of its predecessor without claiming to be the same band. Original Morphine members Dana Colley (baritone sax) and Jerome Deupree (drums) are joined by vocalist/guitarist/bassist Jeremy Lyons. They perform the music of Morphine, also adding psychedelic renditions of West African songs, originals and obscure Rock and Delta Blues tunes. VoM play with inventive arrangements - the unusual yet powerful instrumentation of electric baritone saxophone (a sound evocative of Jimi Hendrix’ guitar), the Mark Sandman-style 2-string slide bass (sometimes guitar, or electric bouzouki) and drums. Vapors of Morphine leave audiences (from Boston to Brazil, New Orleans to the Netherlands) wanting more.
The band formed officially in 2009; Colley was asked to bring a group to Nel Nome Del Rock Festival in Palestrina, Italy, in tribute to Morphine leader Mark Sandman, who died of a massive heart attack on the very same stage ten years earlier. Since that historic show the group has released one CD (under their original working name “The Ever Expanding Elastic Waste Band”), and played selective shows at home and abroad. Highlights have included Mês Da Cultura Independente (São Paulo, Brazil, 2014), The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (USA, 2012); Virada Cultural Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2012), New Orleans’ Voodoo Experience (USA, 2011); and Maquinaria Festival in Santiago, Chile (2011). The band have appeared at Film Festivals in Austin, TX (USA), Tui, Spain and Amsterdam, Netherlands (Austin Film Festival 2014, PLAY-DOC 2012 and PLAY/IDFA 2011, respectively) in tandem with screenings of two documentary films, Morphine: Journey of Dreams and Cure for Pain: the Mark Sandman Story. VoM plays club dates across much of the Northeast, Southeast and Midwestern United States, and concerts in South America and Europe.
All three of the surviving members of Morphine - Dana Colley, Jerome Deupree and succeeding drummer Billy Conway - met blues guitarist Jeremy Lyons in September of 2005 after he was washed up on Massachusetts’ shore from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A bond was quickly formed between the musicians, born of a mutual love of New Orleans’ music and culture, horror at the destruction, and empathy based on their own, personal disaster of six years before. A musical simpatico was clear from the start. After informal collaborations prompted Dana to invite Lyons to the gig in Italy, Lyons had a 2-string slide bass like Sandman’s built and began learning much of the Morphine cannon. The group has played with either or both Morphine drummers, appearing occasinally as a quartet, but Deupree is the primary drummer.
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.

[@susanmulligan7649]

Thank you Dana...I appreciate you...well done sir 😎

[@jsaintr.i.r4018]

As close as y can get 🎉❤ Salute 🎉❤

[@fredericbouquin1815]

Jerome Deupree enfin!

[@tarikhammad4651]

At age 34 I discovered Morphine . I love Morphine so much , Make me feel so good when Blast their music.

[@mtnman6046]

well said!

[@AndyinMokum]

Yup, it's a unique, mega cool sound.

[@harddriverecordingandfilmsNY]

I'm a late bloomer too!

[@EXPLOTAMARTE]

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[@barullo8880]

can you guys post the whole gig in hd? it would be sick

[@KikeBernal]

Uno de mis sueños, quisiera estar en un evento de estos.... cuando será?

[@doribys]

Buenísimos

[@derekgregg9009]

Why is there a guitar player

[@JohnECocaine]

Why? Do your own shit!

[@OifelOifel]

Because that music deserves to be played again and again. In the honor of Mark...

[@SingularityMedia]

Because its amazing music, and it continues marks legacy.