Tricks Related Links

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.
Drummer Bill Bruford is one of Steve's favorite drummers.
Also, a band called 21st Century Schizoid Band is made up of former Crimson members.

Spock's Beard - They are one of the coolest modern Progressive Rock bands.
Drummer Nick D'Virgilio is one of Steve's favorite drummers.
("On A Perfect Day" has drummer Nick on guitar and lead vocals.)

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, 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.
Drummer Mike Portnoy is one of Steve's favorite drummers.
Guitarist John Petrucci is one of Rick's favorite guitarists.

Premiata, Forneria, Marconi (PFM) - an Italian progressive rock band, brought to the U.S. in the 70's by Greg Lake
PFM played 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.

Genesis with Peter

Gabriel at the helm has always been a Tricks inspiration.
Drummer Phil

Collins was / is a top Steve favorite.
Guitarist Steve

Hackett was / is a Rick Favorite.

Porcupine Tree is one of our newest favorites.
Krys and Rick saw them in concert 5 times in 2005. They are ultra - cool 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 was and 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".

The Flower Kings
A prolific Prog band that just keeps getting better with every album. Swedish progressive rock masters!

Enchant - Steve's newest favorite band.

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 drummer man Ritchie Hayward"

Virgil Donati
Steve's vote as the most incredible drummer ever !

And then there's Terry Bozzio - another fantastic drum maestro.

Some of Tricks' Favorite Internet Radio Shows:

Aural Moon "The Net`s Progressive Rock Garden", is an live progressive rock broadcast, streaming the best music from such artists as Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Brand X, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Camel, and many, many others both popular and unheard of.

RATW was America's radio show during the 70's. It was heard on more than 160 stations, coast to coast. The website plays random shows from their 232 archived shows. Featuring music and interviews by Paul McCartney, The Who, Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Queen, Genesis, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix, ELO, Moody Blues, Yes, Jethro Tull, and many more.

Steve's favorite internet radio

Forget TALK radio, - This is THOUGHT radio!
One of Rick's favorite radical philosophical freethought anti-tyranny podcast sites.,
Hosted by Stephan Molyneux. Unique and Creative thoughts on getting free, Really free!
Freedomain Radio is a philosophical conversation based on empirical logic and the Socratic method (always curious, always questioning.)

Some of Tricks' Favorite News, Information, & Entertainment Sites:

Wikipedia - Online Encyclopedia
What Is Progressive Rock ?!?

Rick's favorite new podcast
The Demise of the violent State - and the Rise of - Voluntary America
ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME TO REALIZE THE AMERICAN DREAM?
You own yourself, and you make decisions for yourself. As Aristotle pointed out over 2300 years ago, humans are creatures of reason, rational animals. Thus, we are capable of running our lives as we see fit, and acknowledging others' ability to do likewise.
Instead of the State and the all-too-common problems it creates, let's foster a society of complete liberty. Let's allow the tremendous ingenuity of a truly free marketplace of goods, services, and ideas provide for all of us - while fully respecting our lives and property.
A voluntary America is about reclaiming ourselves, our fundamental dignity as unique persons, and living life to the fullest, in accordance with the principle of individual rights. Why should we have ever settled for less?

The Obviousness of Anarchy by John Hasnas
An Essay explaining the necessary reality of a society without government.
Better yet, stick this in your iPod, and Listen to the podcast:
Whether government is necessary is not an abstract metaphysical question. It is an entirely practical question concerning the delivery of goods and services. The defenders of government argue that certain goods or services that are essential to human life in society can be supplied only by a government. Anarchists (Voluntaryists) deny this.

Urban Legends Reference Pages
Wonder if that e-mail alert is true or not? Urban legends sanity on 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.

One of Rick's newest faves. Reason To Freedom ; Think For Yourself ! - A weekly libertarian magazine promoting thinking for oneself, thus helping to create a free, benevolent society.

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.

Lew Rockwell - anti-state, anti-war, pro-market
Steve and Rick both check out the commentary here, most every day. Indispensable.

Where Tricks buys lots of music equipment.

An excellent online anarchist magazine. A top favorite of Rick's.
"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

Great commentary. The name says it all.

Steve doesn't get time to read his favorite drumming magazine much, just browse the web site.

Highly Recommended by Rick:
Free Market / Voluntaryist / Libertarian / Anarchist Sites -
A genuine anarchist doesn't want to rule anyone, except himself.
"Anarchy doesn't mean what you think" 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".

The Anarchist Alternative -
Pro-government teachers, preachers, beneficiaries, lawyers, journalists and employees all insist that the word "anarchist" means one who favors "chaos" and violence. That is a LIE.
It is not just a lie, it is the opposite of the truth; for it is government that causes chaos and violence.

“The Market for Liberty” audiobook -
This free audiobook brilliantly explains why government is an unnecessary evil
and how the Free Market is superior in every possible way.
We don't need government for courts, for defense, or for roads. This book answers your doubts.

Ludwig von Mises Institute -
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics. The Mises Institute, with offices in Auburn, Alabama, seeks a radical shift in the intellectual climate as the foundation for a renewal of the free and prosperous commonwealth.

A Voluntaryist Page -

The One Minute Case For Individual Rights -

Center for a Stateless Society -

Molinari Institute -

Imagine Freedom -
from governments and churches

The Foundation for Economic Education -

Library of Economics and Liberty -

The Last Ditch -

Rick's Blog - "Rick Doogie Musing".

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.)