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Archive for October, 2020



He was a mighty guitarist

Craig from the venerable Everyone Loves Guitar podcast has put together a tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen. 16 prominent guitar players speak about EVH. That includes our own Steve Morse starting at 51:16 mark.

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History of rock in 15 minutes

The title says it all. Nothing particularly on-topic, just to make the rest of your weekend a little bit brighter, hopefully. Best watched full screen, at least the second time around.

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Third Stage is out

Flying Colors’ record company has posted a couple more tracks from the latest live release Third Stage: Live In London.

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The story of Frankenstein

Some time during the Whoosh promotional blitz Steve Morse spoke to the Rockin’ Metal Revival show. The interview is now available for listening online. Steve explains how his writing process differs with Deep Purple from his other bands, how he came up with a guitar with four pickups, talks about his influences, how he got […]

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I reckon you’re in

On the strength of the recent interview with Ian Paice, we started digging in the Everyone Loves Guitar back catalogue and discovered a Steve Morse interview originally published in December 2018. This one is over 2 hours long — someone had been doing those long form interviews even before the pandemic! Set some time aside […]

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Soul crushing in Milan

A new episode of Paicey’s Tales from the Bar. “This episode contains a stripper!”

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Big band rock’n’roll

If you liked the latest installment of Tales from the Bar, you gonna love this one. Nearly an hour of Paicey telling stories from his illustrious career for the Everyone Loves Guitar podcast:

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Bed and a book

Ian Gillan was interviewed by The Guardian. The interesting tidbits (among the old anecdotes previously seen elsewhere) are that he is in touch with Blackmore: Ritchie has nothing electronic in his house – no computers, no telephones, nothing like that. So he’s completely unreachable. But we do pass messages, and the atmosphere is quite good. […]

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A little bit uplifted

David Coverdale recently spoke to The Cassius Morris Show podcast, and they’ve discussed how fast the bears move, ostrich eggs, box of tissues, changing wallpaper, revolving doors, baking, common sense of Yorkshiremen, Linda Lovelace, bastard children, and, occasionally, music.

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To preserve it and play it

Joe Bonamassa recently appeared on Guitar magazine live podcast showing several axes from his collection. Among them was the American Flag Les Paul that once belonged to Tommy Bolin. It’s my job not only as a collector, but as a player to keep the legacy going, and make this guitar make music again. It’d been […]

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