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And the Great Gamma looked upon the gathered masses, and he did raise his arms to the sky, and thus did he speak to those assembled:

What shaketh, y'all?

What shaketh here is new original music and always more of it on the way. In our first four years of managing somehow to tolerate each other 12 albums were recorded, no covers, no blatant ripoffs though you will find the odd homage to people who have influenced us, as in the Joe Walsh solo imitation on Perfect Love (which Joe would laugh at, I'm sure, but hey, what's that about, anyway?). That's just meant as tribute.

We have also, together and separately, worked on our own side projects as well as things with The Wimshurst's Machine, Larry Krishna, Land In Sicht and various other people who have asked us to participate along the way.

Note: See the bottom of the page to learn about Hillary.

From our Quotables Department: Dave, you're a crap piano player, but a brilliant guitarist. -- Jacqueline Daunt

Thank you very much to Angelika, who was our Eve on The Diaries of Adam and Eve. You can hear much more of her work at www.soundclick.com/angelikaanddemons and we hope you will.

Thank you VERY much To Fabiola del Pilar Lizana Toledo of Chile, whose photo is the cover of Sixth Sense. And to Winnie Tang of Hong Kong/Shanghai, who graciously provided the cover photo for First Light, to Carolyn Lavery of Australia, our moonworshipping belly dancer on the inside of Seven, Honey Delano, the female voice at the beginning of Tango!, to Shimon Afriat for his participation in She Was Beautiful from Diaries of Adam and Eve, various instruments and cowriting on Tears Never Travel Alone and the second guitar solo on The Bittersweet Nature of Life, to Jacqueline Daunt for her lyric used in View, to Augusto Chiarle for the saxophone solo that opens the Diaries of Adam and Eve album.


Gamma Leonis is:

John Worsley:
lead vocals
humorist
cranky old geezer

Dave:
backing vocals
lead vocals
lead guitar
rhythm guitar
resonator guitar
acoustic guitar
lap steel guitar
bass guitar
bodhran
accordian
keyboards
mandolin
Theremin
Drum track programming
recording engineer
producer
arranger
lyricist/tunesmith
artwork design
public relations/advertising
janitor
humorist

(but never a bored member!)

He's this funny pasty color because he never goes outdoors. But please, no jokes. He's very sensitive.

Why this name?
We were previously called Solar Wind. However, it was revealed to us that there's a band in LA, a nice jazz-rock fusion group called Solar Wind, and so, out of respect for them, we got a better name.

We're named for a double-star cluster, which we thought was fitting since there were initially only two of us. The clusters orbit each other, which keeps them in balance. We, likewise, keep each other from wildly flying off into space. Gamma Leonis has been recognized as part of the Leonis system, the Lion, Gamma being the lion's mane.
Do you play live?
John performs at coffeehouses, church cantatas, sing-alongs, funerals, weddings, divorces (he sang at mine!), in the checkout line, in the shower. He's like that. He'll sing anywhere Dave does not appear live anywhere anymore, but he doesn't appear dead, either. We saw him moving just the other day.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
I think it really pissed them off, to be honest with you. Then again, when a record company sells 100,000 CDs at $15 a pop and gives a five-man band $10,000 to split among themselves, total, imagine how pissed they are. I find it hard to believe you're depriving the bands of any significant income unless they have their own publishing company.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Well, if you insist...

...which you won't.
Band History:
I met John at a church cantata my ex was directing. He came to the front of the stage, belted out a tune, melted the mic and broke three windows. I just knew he'd be perfect for my recordings. I interested him in joining me by suggesting that if he didn't I would superimpose a picture of his head on Gwen Stefani's body and show it on the Internet. At that point I had his attention. And the rest, as they say, is history. -- Dave
Your influences?
I think albums that influence the sound are more illustrative. Here are some of the most influential on our sound:

Uriah Heep - Live in Birmingham 1973
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Kansas - Leftoverture, Point Of Know Return, Masque, In The Spirit of Things, Power, Somewhere to Elsewhere
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood, Thick As A Brick
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love, Are You Experienced?
Traffic - The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Momentary Lapse of Reason, Division Bell, Meddle
Dixie Dregs - Divided We Stand
Asia - Asia, Alpha
Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards
Deep Purple - Purpendicular, Machine Head, Perfect Strangers
Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
Leo Kottke - Great Big Boy, Peculiaroso
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans, Fragile, Keys To Ascension, The Ladder, Union
Rush - Power Windows, Roll The Bones
Alison Krauss and Union Station - New Favorite
Jeff Beck - Wired, Flash, Blow By Blow, Jeff, Who Else?
Led Zeppelin - IV, Led Zeppelin, Houses Of The Holy, II
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories, Beethoven's Last Night
Clannad - Banba, Magical Ring
Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Out There
Poco - Seven
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Clear Spot
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe, Roxy and Elsewhere, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Live In New York
Journey - Infinity
Santana - Abraxas, Moonflower
Al DiMeola - Electric Rendezvous, Kiss My Axe, Elegant Gypsy, Friday Night In San Francisco
The Beatles - Abbey Road, White Album, Let It Be
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity, Systematic Chaos
Mountain - Climbing, Nantucket Sleighride
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Synergy - Synergy, Sequencer
Joe Satriani - The Extremist, Surfing With The Alien
Rainbow - Rising, Bent Out of Shape, Long Live Rock and Roll
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
The Turtles - (all)
Eric Clapton - Layla and Other Love Songs, 461 Ocean Boulevard, Pilgrim, Disraeli Gears, Live Cream
The Firm - The Firm, Mean Business
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - (all)
The Police - Synchronicity, Ghost In The Machine
ZZTop - Tres Hombres
Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter And..
The Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night
The Doors - (all)
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force, Marching Out
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
The Moody Blues - A Question of Balance, In Search of the Lost Chord, For Our Children's Children's Children, On The Threshold of a Dream, Seventh Sojourn, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour










Favorite spot?
No matter where you go, there you are. One patch of dirt is as good as another.

Equipment used:
Yamaha 16-channel mixer
Echo Layla 24 PC interface
Behringer Tube Composer
ART tube preamp
Korg DTR-1 tuner
Trace-Elliot rack bass preamp
AKG 240M headphones
CAD Equitek E-100/2 and E-300/2 mics
el-cheapo Theremin
Dell computer running Cakewalk Sonar 8 software
Ensoniq SQ-1 keyboard as MIDI controller only
'70s Fender Princeton amplifier
Tech 21 Tri-OD, Boss OC-2, DOD Yngwie, Digitech Brian May, Digitech Whammy, Mu-Tron wol/wah pedals
'60s Guyatone lap steel w/Mighty Mite P-90 pickup
Squire fretless Jazz Bass
'76 Fender Precision Bass
'71 Gibson ES-335TD
Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor
'95 Paul Reed Smith CE-24
'06 Taylor 114E
'80s Squire Strat w/Warmoth neck
parts Strat w/Seymour Duncan P-90s
Carl's Custom Guitars Telecaster
Dean Cadillac
'74 Gracia Model C classical
OLP Silhouette w/Duncan, Lace Sensor pickups
Gretsch resonator
Italian-made accordian (can't recall the brand at the moment)
Bodhran hand-made in Ireland
cheap, touristy gourd shakers
Copley mandolin

Anything else...?
First of all, thank you very much to all of the fantastic people who listen to us regularly, welcome to everyone just discovering us, know that it is our great pleasure to share with you what we work so hard to create.

Hillary (See Pictures Page) is a close personal friend of Dave's. She was in a terrible auto accident several years ago and suffered brain injury. Hillary was an excellent violinist and was well on her way to great things in life when this happened to her. Hillary is courageous, good-natured and strong. She has already made progress back toward where she was before well beyond what doctors estimated she ever would, but she's a long way from finished with her struggle at this point. She doesn't want people to feel sorry for her, she wants us to be hopeful for her, and we surely are. Please, please support Brain Injury research and give to support groups, and help Hillary and many, many others who have suffered the kind of trauma she has someday have their miracle of at the very least coming close to resuming the lives they once knew. You never know when it could happen to you.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you judge him, you'll be a mile away, And you'll have his shoes.

It takes a big man to cry, it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

Bless you all.