Morning Thunder (1979)

this copy: 44:48 min. SBD/AUD B/c

Band members:

    Steve Vai: guitar
    Dave Rosenthal: keyboards and guitar
    Eddie Rogers: drums
    Randy Coven: bass

tracklist:

01 Call It Sleep
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03
04
05
06
07
08
09

I don't know. You fill in the blancs (WIU2B)

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tape transferred: WIU2B

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"This was the second band I put together at Berklee College of Music. More crazy music and long 
rehearsal hours. These were great people and we loved playing together. It was everything to us.

There's nothing like living in an environment where you do music all day and night. It was 
intensely creative and stimulating. We had a great time and played some interesting gigs.

There are some existing tapes of this band floating about"

From The Complete Mark Pinske interview

Pinske: He was doing transcriptions for, believe it or not, for $10 a page. Some people took $15 
a page. And Steve made me always promise to never tell Frank how much time he spent on one page, 
because his transcriptions looked immaculate. The real true story on Steve is kind of 
interesting, because you'll hear variations. You'll even hear Steve's own version of it, which 
isn't even totally accurate. Steve was a young kid. I was in the studio setting up some vocal 
mics one day, and Frank had gotten back a transcription of a live cassette that he had sent Steve
called "Persona Non Grata." And Frank came out there with the sheet, and held it up to me, and he
said, "Look at this, Mark. You gotta see this. Look at the way he transcribed my guitar solo 
here. He makes me look like a genius." He did some triple-dotted eighth notes, or some darn thing
that just looked immaculate. And Frank said he was just screwing around, but Steve made it look 
really like it was some elaborate thing. And Frank got a kick out of it. He said, "Yeah, he sent 
me his tapes. Come on in the control room." I was setting up a mic out in what we called "the 
yard," out there, where I was telling you about in the studio. I came in, and Frank put in the 
cassette, and Steve had a band called Morning Thunder, which was a garage band. And I heard all 
this Jimi Hendrix-type of whammy guitar stuff going on, and Frank said, "I'm flying Steve out 
here tomorrow."