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Tricks Online Hang-Outs
Some of Tricks' Favorite Musical Websites:
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King Crimson is a Favorite band of Steve, Rick, Krys, and Dave.
We've seen King Crimson in concert many times, & highly recommend them as musician's musicians.
Guitarist Robert Fripp is one of Rick's all-time favorite guitar craftsman.
Spock's Beard - They are one of the coolest modern Progressive Rock bands.
Drummer Nick 
D'Virgilio is one of Steve's favorite drummers.
Yes - You all know Yes, but check out the Yes website.
Bill Bruford and Alan White are 2 of Steve's biggest drumming influences.
Steve Howe is a huge influence on Rick's guitar playing.
Rick says: "I can't play like Steve Howe, no way. But my guitar playing is influenced by Howe's guitar playing style."
Gentle Giant - An obscure but marvelously prolific and absolutely amazing progressive rock band from the 70's.
A Favorite prog band of Steve, Rick, Krys, and Dave.
No other band is like Gentle Giant.
Dream Theater - A Heavy Prog-Metal band - jaw-dropping musical talent.
Former DT Drummer Mike Portnoy is one of Steve's favorite drummers.
Guitarist John Petrucci is one of Rick's favorite guitarists.
Transatlantic is a Side Project band that features former Dream Theatre drummer Mike Portnoy, Marillion Bassist Pete Trewavas, Spock's Beard founder Neal Morse, and Flower Kings guitarist Roine Stoldt. Rick, Krys, Steve, and Dave Lopez saw Transatlantic at Park West in Chicago on April 20, 2010. What a treat!
Premiata, Forneria, Marconi (PFM) - an Italian progressive rock band, brought to the U.S. in the 70's by Greg Lake
Hold on to your hats! These old Italian guys are still rockin' hard, with all original members from the 70's.
PFM is a distinctive style of prog rock, tinged with classical and jazz influences.
A Favorite prog band of Steve, Rick, Krys, and Dave, they reunited in the 90's and have created new music.
Jethro Tull
"Think I'll sit down and invent some fool . . . some grand court jester . . ." Nuff said!
Well, one more thing - Martin Barre is one of Rick's all-time-favorite guitar players.
Inspired by live Jethro Tull (e.g., the "Bursting Out" live album which contains wildly extended jamming),
Rick says: "when the Tricks jamming gets really 'out on the limb' and scary-fun, I often have Martin Barre in my mind's eye".
Strawbs - prog rock with a heavy folk influence - mighty Mellotron moments.
Another fave from the 70's. Rick Wakeman played keyboards on their earlier stuff. They are still touring with most of the original members from the 70's.
Gabriel at the helm has always been a Tricks inspiration. Collins was / is a top Steve favorite. Hackett was / is a top Rick Favorite.
Porcupine Tree is our biggest, coolest, newest favorite neo-prog band.
Krys and Rick saw them in concert 5 times in 2005, and several times since. They are amazing musicians' musicians!
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Steve Morse is one of the best guitarists in the world.
Founder of the Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse has been a member of Deep Purple since 1994.
Favorite guitar hero of Guitar Doctor Dale.
Dixie Dregs drummer Rod Morgenstein is a major influence/inspiration for Steve Dutkiewicz.
Marillion is an old Tricks favorite Prog-rock band from way back.
1979 - 1988 lead singer was Fish | 1989 - present lead singer Steve Hogarth
Camel is a Krys & Rick favorite from way back. Happy hippy music!
Fates Warning
Steve says, "It's been quite a while since I had an album gets it's hooks into me like Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray (1997). Much of the spell was cast by the very unique playing of Drummer Mark Zonder. For at least a year I'd crank it up and watch the concert video performance every night before a TRICKS gig".
Enchant - Steve discovered Enchant a few years back, but now they are no more.
Little Feat
Steve, Rick, and Dave got to see, hear, & feel Little Feat at The Intersection a couple time in early 00's.
The Jamband's jamband. Steve says, "What a funky, coool band ! Many drummers were in attendance to watch and 'WOW' with late great drummer man Ritchie Hayward"
Virgil Donati
Steve's vote as the most incredible drummer ever !
Urban Legends Reference Pages
Wonder if that e-mail alert is true or not? Urban legends brings a touch of sanity to the World Wide Web! - Snopes.com contains thousands of articles about urban legends, Internet lore, odd news stories, strange facts, common misconceptions, superstitions, unusual word origins, and more.
The Onion - News parody. "Best newspaper in the country".
It's like the San Francisco Chronicle, except better written and intentionally funny.
It has a bit of liberal bias, but still very funny.
Here is a site that will make you hungry.
(While the TRICKS girls like Steve's beat, the DICK'S girls like Steve's meat.)
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Highly Recommended by Rick:
Free Market / Voluntaryist / Libertarian / Anarcho-Capitalist Sites -
A genuine anarchist doesn't want to rule anyone, except himself.
"Anarchy doesn't mean what you think it means" Rick says, "anarchy isn't chaos, anarchy isn't violence, anarchy simply means 'no rulers'. Everything that is done by governments can be done much better and much cheaper by free individuals with the freedom to create, trade, and associate peacefully with those they choose".
Rick's occasional Blog - "Rick Doogie Musing"
An excellent online anarchist magazine. A top favorite of Rick's.
It is slavish devotion to government that ruins order, creativity, prosperity, and morality.
"What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman,
that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Sign up for FEE "In Brief" - interesting e-mail news commentary.
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), one of the oldest free-market organizations in the United States, was founded in 1946 by Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy. FEE’s mission is to offer the most consistent case for the “first principles” of freedom: the sanctity of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and the moral superiority of individual choice and responsibility over coercion.
Bassbeast turned Rick onto Dan Carlin. Thanks, Dave! In "Hardcore History" - the very unconventional Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past. This is a difficult-to-classify show that has a rather sharp edge. "Common Sense with Dan Carlin" - is a blend of audio commentary and news analysis by one of the leading thinkers among today's politically independent crowd. Carlin manages to be entertaining and informative in a uniquely non-partisan way.
Into the Way-Back Machine:
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