John Popper by Charlie Russo |
Stolen Ogre along with Blues Traveler front-man John Popper have been added to the stellar line up of the Music Aid Northwest and KZOK 102.5FM benefit, The Tsunami Relief Concert, 8 p.m. January 28th 2005 at The Premier Club.
Other performers included the debut of Alan White's "White"
featuring drummer Alan White of YES, John Lennon's Imagine LP,
George Harrison's All Things Must Past LP), rock-fusion act The
Geoffrey Castle Band (with special guest guitarist Roger Fisher and
drummer Mike Derosier of Heart and Alias), and an all-star finale
including special guest T.B.A. General admission tickets will be
available through www.care.org/musicaid and at the door. The
announcement and interview with Alan White about the concert on
KZOK's The Bob River Show can be heard on Stolen Ogre's website at
www.stolenogre.com.
Stolen Ogre's Michael McMorrow said, "I am honored to be part of the
larger tsunami relief effort; to be part of the humanitarian side of
the human race, a part of our true common cause to help each other
as one human race, one world. We don't have much control over
Mother Nature; but we do have control over how we treat each other,
how we respect one another. It's all in how we respond, how we act
as people. Unfortunately, it takes an event like this to wake us up
to the fact we are all one family riding on the planet. Though in
the big picture our time here is extremely brief, what we do now
directly affects the 6 billion + people who will take our place here
in a 100 years."
Stolen Ogre's performance with Popper marks an interesting full
circle for the band. It was on a H.O.R.D.E. festival tour that
McMorrow met and jammed with Blues Traveler drummer Brendan Hill. Inspired from those jam sessions, Hill along with McMorrow became
founding members of Stolen Ogre which, in fact, was named after a
good luck ogre doll that resided on Hill's drum kit during Blues
Traveler's early years. Hill also recorded on the band's current
release Road To Jericho of which Enigma magazine noted, "It is
really hard trying to put these people in a specific genre because
they take so much from so many different areas. Bottom line, its
rock, folk, jam and pop all mixed together in one big happy
concoction."
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