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I've seen her on Amazon.

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Thanks for the effort, interesting to hear she's most likely not French! Who knew!


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it will be our life time mystery..

found all of her songs to download though

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I ran across this thread in a search for Lorna Lee...and I have some answers for you! Turns out...I worked with Lorna in Lake Arrowhead, CA at our local C21 office, where she was working as a Realtor in 2005. You’ll be surprised by what I’m about to tell you. A co-worker til me that Lorna was the sister of Gary Wright (The Dreamweaver) and was quite the singer in her own right. Not only had she loaned backing vocals to many of her brothers recordings (Dreamweaver being one of them)...but she’d loaned backing vocals to many other well known works. AND... if that weren’t enough, her husband was Adrian Lee, who played keyboards with Cliff Richards band for many years in Europe (Cliff Richards is considered “The Elvis Presley of Europe” and later joined up with Mike and the Mechanics as their keyboard player for over 10 years. Needless to say...being a musician myself...I got to know them well, and even jammed with them both a few times at “Mountain Jam”...an event my wife and I held every six months at our home! Lorna and Adrian were and are both incredible musicians. Lorna has always kept a very low internet presence due to all the greatness she’s surrounded by. I worked with her when she was recording this album with a lot of help from Adrian ( who is a master of musical technology and now does movie soundtracks!)...and she told me she doesn’t speak French but always loved the language in music and wanted to record an album in French! I love this one, too! But she’s American guys! If you want to find some of her other music, search Lorna Wright and you’ll find a bit! Sadly...Lorna was diagnosed with Cancer after this album was released. She left our company to focus on her treatment, and I eventually lost track of her. Hope she’s doing well, because she was a wonderful, very gifted person! Hope that helps shed a little light.


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this is one of a hell research :)

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WoW very detailed answer, thanks!

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Indeed, this research is amazing... and the name of Gary Wright - wow, I actually forgot about him, and just now revisited a very interesting version of Devils and Seducers, which to my knowledge was composed and recorded strictly for the film Staying Alive.
It's definately Gary's work, it's just mixed differently - wish I knew more about how this version came to be....

It's also interesting the various jobs musicians and artists use to help make ends meet, Lorna being a Realtor, Philip Glass being a taxi driver [!!], along with the thread here where Stick players discuss their day jobs.....

KMunch, I'm glad you found this thread and were inclined enough to join up to be able to post a reply.

Cheers !!

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I’m glad I was able to answer the questions about Lorna. Big George, I’ve worked in the industry and it always amazes me how different people handle big success so differently! Edgar has been playing his whole life, started performing when he was 8 (with his brother Johnny) and recording when he was 12. He’s in his mid-seventies now, and still plays over 100 gigs worldwide every year! It’s just the life he’s chosen, and I don’t see him stopping until the day he dies! He had a drummer once, when it was The Edgar Winter Group (Free Ride, Frankenstein era in the 70’s) who was named Chuck Ruff. Chuck became pretty famous for his Frankenstein drum solo, which Rolling Stone rated as number 25 on the Top 100 drum solo’s list. After the EWG broke up, Chuck went on to play with Sammy Haggar’s band. He recorded “I Can’t Drive 55” and a couple of albums with them. After quite a few years of success, he quit and went back to Reno...and like Phil, became a taxi driver! In fact, that’s what he was doing when I first met him in Reno in 1999. Reno has a great music scene, maybe because of all the casinos that act as venues there. He was still drumming in his own Chuck Ruff Group, and they were damned good! I saw them open for Tower of Power there! Chuck was still an amazing talent, I’ve never seen anyone play that great, big venue or small stage! A true talent, who chose to keep his life “real”. It happens!


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wow, that's some great stories there !!

I remember seeing Johnny play with just a drummer and a cat on 8 string electric bass, with the octave strings, plugged into a massive rack of processors and two Peavey Musician IV's with double 15 cabs.... anyhow, this was around 1989 near New Years Eve, at the Ritz [old Studio 54 disco...] and holy cow - Yorma [Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna...] opens the whole night playing solo electric guitar [my friend Danny claims he played a strat, I don't remember !!] then a trio of maybe local cats ?? then I think another band - by now people in the crowd were being wheeled out, believe me when I say every derillict in town was there !! It was great, Johnny came out around 2.30 am and he just plugged into his two Music Mann amps and played for like close to three hours, just mind blowing instrumentals with the occasion grunt or rambling words... it was truly amazing... I remember getting back to my folks place in Bay Ridge Brooklyn and the sun was coming up !!

But even more remarkable was seeing the Tony Levin Band come to Toads Place, New Haven CT 'round the early summer of 2004....

Perviously the Tery Gunn line up of King Crimson came to town, maybe the fall of 2003 ?? I do know it was the last stop prior to Mexico - but back to Tony Levin....

While for KC, the place was packed... for Tony Levin, maybe 30 to 50 mature people... and that was it ???

I felt genuienly sad about this..............

Tony stated to the audience to carry the tables up front so all could sit comfortable and enjoy their drinks.... which the audience did.

Tony then mentioned later on during the gig how shows like that can be a bust [$$$ wise I assume...] he mentioned that gigs like this - they get to do things they could never do in a packed house.

Like Tony and Tony's brother [on electric piano] doing a spectacular duet, Tony playing fretless bass.... and Tony telling the story about the real gig of the day [putting in his mothers air conditioners earlier....] but, keep in mind the band included Mr Synergy Larry Fast on synths, and the rest of the band - no lie - was the Peter Gabriael touring band !!!!

No joke.... it was a gig unlike anything I ever seen before or since, the wives/girlfriends ?? worked the merch tables... it was a gig i'll never forget, nor will the 30 - 50 folks who were there to see it.

Incidentally - I bet they played close to 3 hours.... it was very generous of them, and out front awaited their rental van with trailer - very D.I.Y.

Yes, you are correct.
Some truly believe they are owed something - while other's are just happy to be out doing what they truly love, and what they are called to do.

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I think it all comes down to the level of dedication someone decides to put into their playing. I vividly remember, when I was 18...a guitar player in one of my bands saying “ I’m going to make it in the business, and I’ve got to treat it like a job...playing 8 hours a day, 5 days a week!” That has stuck with me, because most players don’t put that much into it, it’s just a hobbie! I started observing this when I worked with Edgar. His guitar player, Mitch Perry, worked with him for 9 years (the longest Edgar’s kept any single player in his band) and then moved on from one band to the next, never stopping, with pure dedication and unrelenting desire to play. I think he’s playing somewhere, from town to town, state to state, every single day! If you look him up, he’s played with some great bands over the years. Unstoppable! Same goes for a couple of old buddies of mine. Chris Frazier played drums for Edgar...then Whitesnake...then Eddie Money...and for the last 7 years, Foreigner! Another committed player! And of course Kelly Keeler (who I mentioned earlier as being at one of Edgar’s album party’s at The Roxy...is now singing for Foreigner. It’s interesting to see how only the dedicated, hard working musicians move around in these circles! And it all comes down to how much effort and hard work they all put into their playing! Only a select few can fit into that mold!


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