If there’s another thing about which Steve Morse is as passionate as about his guitar playing, it’s flying planes. Last summer, while on tour in Italy, he managed to find time to slip across the border to Slovenia to visit Pipistrel, a light aircraft manufacturing company of which he’s a happy customer. Of course, it […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2014-02-03
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Mike Portnoy tweeted yesterday that they have finished writing sessions for the second Flying Colors album: Wrapped the writing on FC2! Another magical experience indeed…hopefully we can get it out by the end of 2014! Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-12-13
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Part 2 of the Q&A with Steve Morse and Joe Satriani. The first part appeared last week.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-10-10
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Classic Rock magazine has an audio preview of all 17 tracks from the upcoming Live in Europe album by Flying Colors. It does not seem to be easily embeddable elsewhere, so you’ll have to head over there to listen. Live in Europe is due to be released on October 14 via Mascot Records.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-10-09
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Steve Morse just finished a stint lending support to Joe Satriani on his US tour. Music Radar caught up with them on the last day of the joint tour in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, where they sat down for a chat. Listen to the first part of the podcast (second part is due next week): Thanks […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-10-03
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Flying Colors will release Live in Europe on October 14 via Mascot Records. It is a recording of their performance in Tilburg, Netherlands, on September 20, 2012. Available formats will include: 2CD 3LP (clear vinyl, limited to 1000 copies) Blu-ray DVD Preorders made through Mascot webstore will come with the following bonuses: free MP3 download […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-09-03
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TonePrints created by Steve Morse and Roger Glover are now available from TC Electronics. TonePrint technology is essentially a set of presets stored in a computer file that one can upload to the company’s effect boxes via USB to recreate particular sound. Toneprint sounds can be downloaded from TC Electronics’ web site for free, you […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2013-08-31
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Before the concert in Gävle on August 10, Steve Morse spoke to the Swedish national radio and got a language lesson in the process: Lyssna: Deep Purples gitarrist Steve Morse lär sig svenska Thanks to Joel Peterson for the info.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-08-16
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Steve Morse did this interview during the recent visit to Georgia. He talks about his career, playing with G3, Above and Beyond, why the Y2D has a 5-position switch, Bach as metal, and many other things: Bonus points to everybody who can figure out what Paicey is saying in the background 😉 Thanks to Yvonne […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-06-29
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Guitar World magazine has an interview with Steve Morse: GUITAR WORLD: Now What?! is Deep Purple’s first studio effort in eight years. Why did you decide to make the album now? Actually, I was one of the guys asking the same thing! My vision was every tour we’d do another song and just release it […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-06-26
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