Judge Murphy Vocals

Born in Marin County in 1950, Judge began playing in bands at the age of 15 locally at frat parties, rec halls, and bars and developed his own distinct blues style. During the '80's, Judge was the drummer-singer for Murphy's Law and occasionally jammed with John Cipollina who was playing with Zero. John was impressed with Murphy and told Martin Fierro about Judge's vocal ability. Martin later recommended Judge for an audition for the new Robert Hunter songs. Judge joined Zero in January 1992 touring and singing "Home on the Range", "Chance in a Million", "Catalina", and "Roll me Over". Hunter liked Judge's style and wrote more songs that summer with Murphy in mind; "Horses" "End of the World Blues", "Pits of Thunder", "Spoken For" and "Did I Mention".

In June 1994, Judge left Zero to address some important personal issues. During that time, Judge took his vocal part in the Goodman-Murphy Project, fueled by guitar virtuoso, Dave Goodman and keyboardist/cellist, Doug Harman. After some soul searching and alot of R&R, Judge realized he really needed to continue in the pursuit of Zero. After a lot of calls to Steve, Bob Hunter and Greg, he got another shot at the job and took the stage with Zero once again in April of '95. Feeling stronger than ever, Judge is "happy to have the gig back" and makes a special note that, "the love of my buddies is extremely important to me."

Judge is currently involved with Lauren Murphy and Lansdale Station as a vocalist and producer of their latest album Magnolia Heart

Lauren & Judge Murphy with Lansdale Station

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