Rod Morgenstein drummed for the Dixie Dregs, a rocking fusion band that formed at the University of Miami in the early 1970s, around the time that Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny were there: heady days in the history of fusion. After four really good instrumental albums, the Dregs dropped their “Dixie” to relieve the misconception that they played country music. On their sixth album – titled, with a weary irony, Industry Standard – they made a last-ditch heave at FM viability with the songs “Crank It Up” and “Ridin’ High”: the only two vocal songs that they ever recorded, and quite possibly the two worst songs ever written by a good band.
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