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Personally shot video of Jimmy Herring Band, Jazz/Rock Fusion, not Widespread Panic, of which Jimmy is now best known for the "fame" achieved in his role as their lead guitarist. This of course is a COVER of ""Within You Without You" written by George Harrison and released on the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, as performed by the Jimmy Herring Band, Jazz/Rock Fusion, not Widespread Panic of which Jimmy is now best known for the "fame" achieved in his role as their lead guitarist. Jimmy's solo recording "Lifeboat" is a welcome addition for most Jazz/Rock Fusion fans, let's hope for more of the same. My favorite Jimmy Herring recordings were done with Col. Bruce Hampton and The Aquarium Rescue Unit, Project Z, and with T Lavitz (of the Dixie Dregs) on "Endangered Species" and the three Jazz Is Dead releases, which also included T Lavitz, Rod Morgenstein (Dixie Dregs), Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Jeff Sipe, and Alphonso Johnson (Weather Report).

Col. Bruce and T Lavitz both played seminal roles in helping Jimmy gain his initial exposure and well deserved notoriety. T Lavitz recently passed on Oct. 7th, 2010. From Rod Morgenstein's website, some reflections on T Lavitz:

"T was a proud, schooled musician, sometimes to a fault. This pride, on occasion, could lead to frustration, irritation, and complete and utter exasperation. When he joined the jam-band Widespread Panic back in the 90's, one day at rehearsal they were teaching him one of their songs, and T said to the guitarist 'Hey what are the chord changes during your guitar solo'. The guitarist replied, 'How should I know, I'm soloing?' Anyone who knows T can just imagine the excruciating mental anguish he must have experienced in that moment.

And then, when they were showing him another song, one of the band members said, 'T, it's just a blues progression, you know, a 1-3-5'. So, making every effort to contain himself, T diplomatically tries to educate him and says calmly, 'Oh, you mean a 1-4-5'. So the musician loses it and fires back 'There you go again T Lavitz. I don't care what you high and mighty schooled musicians call it. We call it a 1-3-5!' T, always the proud, schooled musician would often respond in these trying moments with exasperated gasps."
( Rod Morgenstein from his reflections on
T LAVITZ April 16, 1956 - October 7, 2010 From: http://www.rodmorgenstein.com/tlavitz.html )

Jimmy Herring Discography below:

Solo

Subject To Change without Notice (August 21, 2012)
Lifeboat (2008)

Col. Bruce Hampton

Arkansas (1987)

Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit

Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit (1992)
Mirrors of Embarrassment (1993)

Aquarium Rescue Unit

Eepeee (1994)
In a Perfect World (1994)
The Calling (1997)

Derek Trucks Band

Out of the Madness (1998)

Jazz Is Dead

Blue Light Rain (1998)
Laughing Water (1999)
Great Sky River (2001)

Frogwings

Croakin' at Toad's (2000)

Joseph Patrick Moore

Decade 1996-2005 (2006)
Soul Cloud (2000)

Project Z

Project Z (2001)
Lincoln Memorial (2005)

Herring, T Lavitz, Richie Hayward, Kenny Gradney

Endangered Species (2001)

Phil Lesh and Friends

There and Back Again (2002)

Widespread Panic

Free Somehow (2008)
Dirty Side Down (2010)
Street Dogs (2015)

Various artists

Fusion for Miles (2005)
Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse (2005)
The Benefit Concert, Volume 1 (2007)