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pat morris is: "n o f o n e"

(a bass player wannabe)





A little studio project in Ramona, California.
Guitar - pat morris
Bass - pat morris
Lead Vox - pat morris
Backup Vox - pat morris
Drums - Chea P Drummachine
Manager - pat morris
roadie - pat morris
groupie - pat morris

I'll be leaving Purevolume when my current subscription expires. There is not enough interest in my so-called "music" to warrant spending money on it. Thanks to those who have responded! I'm still on myspace as n of one as long as it's free fwiw. Cya!

more in "bio" fwiw

Please donate to the Steven Licon Educational Fund and thanks.

Main web site for "n of one" - www.nofone.net

Thanks to the nice folks who have come to visit this site. I really appreciate your visits. In the near future I hope to put up some more of my originals, strange as they are - but I since I'm doing this by myself it takes time for me to get things up. Next project is Divided by Degree with more of the same sarcastic bull@#$% that I spew out on a regular basis.

I suppose I ought to make this site a little more interesting since folks bother to come here. Here is a short bio. I was born, I became sarcastic, I have not died yet. Oh, that may be a little too short. I was born in Los Angeles and moved to Palmdale, CA when I was ~ 5 years old. In the desert the heat fried my brain but it was all worth it cuz I met my wife Brenda in 7th grade, fell in love, and we're still together. Two kids, both wild like me and B were. I studied music all through grade school, then got in a fight with the band instructor who'd switched me from alto clarinet to bass clarinet - I loved the alto, elegant instrument that it is, hated the bass, chunky, bulky thing that it is. I quit the band, and my dad, an alcoholic who on occasion would emerge from his ethanolic stupor to check in on the fam, saw that I was kind of in pain, and at the urging of my mom he and she got me a bass guitar and amp - old epiphone - but it was cool. I got some bass lessons from a guy named Bill Watt and by the 8th grade I was in a band called the "Bloody Smoke." What can I say, we were kids! We covered Doors, Steppenwolf, Hendrix. The guitar player was pretty good but he moved away and the band folded. I kept playing with a friend named Julian Kelso who is still playing bass regularly in the band "Touch of Class" in the same home stomping grounds. I also started becoming more serious about school. I am a total geek nerd. In fact, the name "n of one" comes from n=1 which in statistical terms would describe a completely statistically insignificant population, hence the title of my album (if I can actually call it that) of "Insignificance" I was very good in math and science and loved school work. I had hair down to my ass, wore blue jeans, white T shirt, Converse tennis shoes, partied a lot, and had a Pickett Yellow eye-saver slide rule strapped to my belt. My physics and calculus teachers asked me all the time why the hell I was in their class - I was a cocophony of seemingly conflicting influences and I loved every minute of my youth. But at some point Brenda, my sweetie, woke me up to the fact that I had to do at least a little growing up. So, I studied hard and partied less. Early in Jr. College days I fell in with a group called Bo Grif - a new group - drummer, guitarist, bassist. Now these guys were totally awesome musicians and I was sensing that we'd actually go somewhere with this band, but there was a terrible drug influence in this group and I ran away in self preservation, have not heard/seen these two since but hope they're doing okay.

I gave up on music because it seemed like people leave, or they go down bad avenues so I focused on college and ended up in veterinary school at UC, Davis. There while finishing undergrad, I met Scott Weldy who is a long time buddy and drummer. Together with a few other folks up in Davis we formed the band LD50, and played throughout vet school, dis-"banding" in 1983 when we all went our separate ways to have careers. I put the bass away sadly but in return I had two kids, a beautiful supportive wife, and I got to become a zoo veterinarian and life is good. Nowadays I am the head veterinarian at the San Diego Zoo, and since 2000 I've rekindled my love of the bass guitar, briefly taking a stab are reviving LD50 but that failed, and now feeling quite at home in this little crappy studio and playing with another newly-created band that we had called 4PLAY but we found out through an email from a prominent lawyer that another band with the same name was having problems with our band having the same name - so we dropped the 4PLAY name and we are currently called "The Third". We are a rock trio with Brandon Hernez at guitar and Scott Weldy on drums - We were doing exclusively Green Day covers but we're now working on a 17 song original CD - all on this project were written by our guitarist Brandon Hernandez, but I'll find a way to work mine in too at some point. Please visit our web sites on myspace at www.myspace.com/thirdthe.

So, I'll probably always be hanging around with "n of one" doing the genre of music I can do best . . . the genre of crappy garage music. But hey, nature shows us that there is a place in reality even for the bottom-dwelling detritus feeders. Thanks for stopping by.