10-20-2017, 12:46 PM
(10-20-2017, 11:10 AM)danfromnj Wrote:(10-20-2017, 10:47 AM)sundance7490 Wrote: Tony Dickinson is the new bassist for the east coast. According to his website he's also worked with Jeff Scott Soto on his band's first two albums so he probably joined the group (if he was in the backup band too) through recommendation from Jeff.
He got to know JSS and network with him as he was being groomed by TSO in rehearsals the last few years.
(10-20-2017, 10:47 AM)sundance7490 Wrote: It's really strange to see how many changes the band is going through in just this year. The last six years have seemed so steady and consistent albeit with the show-theme changes, which were quite welcomed.
The West had 4 new singers added just last year...
Oh the singers are never a surprise. They leave, they come back sometimes, they switch groups... or don't come back at all. It's the band that rarely changes. Except for 2008-2010. The band members were bouncing around like crazy, then over half the east coast group didn't come back in 2010, and the violinists changed four years in a row in the west. The only change in band members between 2011 and 2016 was Luci Butler left the east and Mee Eun Kim came back, and Joel Hoekstra missed one year and Bill Hudson came in.