Dave LaRue w/Satriani

[lowfreqgeek]

I first learned about Dave LaRue in 1994 when a guy in our church who happened to be a drummer gave me a stack of Steve Morse Band/Dixie Dreggs CDs to listen to. I had just turned 16 and hadn't really heard any of that music before. Then the 5th Anniversary Bass Player CD came out a year or 2 later and featured Dave's song Hub City Kid.

Fast forward to 2006 - I went to see Satriani and Eric Johnson in Albuquerque, expecting Stu Hamm to be on bass. I was totally surprised to see Dave LaRue and his Bongos on stage. It was an awesome show, but a lot has happened since 2006, so it fell into the deep recesses of my memory banks.

Fast forward to 2025 and this show was just posted on Youtube from the 2006 tour, which I realized was recorded in Anaheim only 2 days after they played Albuquerque. Satriani isn't really my thing, but this is pretty fantastic! I shared with my 18yr old son (who was in the oven when I went to this show) and he's both impressed and jealous. Pretty cool when your 18yr old is impressed and jealous of his dad...

Anyway, I'll stop blabbing.

 

[Lo-E]

Dave’s hometown, New Brunswick, NJ (the “Hub City” because it’s just about the dead center of NJ) is near where I lived in my teenage years and I used to mix sound at a New Brunswick bar called The Court Tavern, where Dave LaRue, Van Romaine and a local guitarist named Glen Alexander had a residency with a fusion trio called Stretch.

I mixed sound for Stretch a number of times and found all three of those guys - and Dave especially - to be extremely nice, down-to-Earth, accessible cats. They made a big impression on a teenage kid (who had no business mixing sound in a bar!).

At that time Dave was using Bag End cabinets (so was Glen) and Spector NS-2 basses - a fretted and a fretless. This was around 1984, so several years before he and Van ended up in Steve Morse’s band and they were already playing at a jaw-dropping level. I feel lucky to have been there to hear those shows.

Thanks for posting the video!

 

[jerry]

Dave’s hometown, New Brunswick, NJ (the “Hub City” because it’s just about the dead center of NJ) is near where I lived in my teenage years and I used to mix sound at a New Brunswick bar called The Court Tavern, where Dave LaRue, Van Romaine and a local guitarist named Glen Alexander had a residency with a fusion trio called Stretch.

I mixed sound for Stretch a number of times and found all three of those guys - and Dave especially - to be extremely nice, down-to-Earth, accessible cats. They made a big impression on a teenage kid (who had no business mixing sound in a bar!).

At that time Dave was using Bag End cabinets (so was Glen) and Spector NS-2 basses - a fretted and a fretless. This was around 1984, so several years before he and Van ended up in Steve Morse’s band and they were already playing at a jaw-dropping level. I feel lucky to have been there to hear those shows.

Thanks for posting the video!

Alexander and LaRue must have stayed tight, he's on LaRue's solo album and in a band called the Connection.