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Steve Morse gave a brief interview to the New Jersey’s Star-Ledger: This one isn’t going to be orchestra-based so much as: It’s the rock band Deep Purple playing, with strings and horns being added for some color textures. We’re not going to change the songs — I mean, there’ll be a few little cameos and […]
Read more »In anticipation of the June 11 gig in Atlantic City, NJ.com has an interview with Steve Morse: Steve Morse’s idea of a week off from touring as part of the rock band Deep Purple? Putting in 18-hour days at his Florida hay farm. “I am arranging to do a little cutting” of the hay, Morse […]
Read more »Steve Morse plays guitar on the opening track “Lost For Words” on prog legend John Wetton‘s (King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, UK, Asia) new solo album “Raised in Captivity”. A short MP3 clip of the song is available here and a full stream of the song can be found on the Frontiers Records web […]
Read more »According to Neal Morse’s website, Steve will guest on his forthcoming album Testimony 2. His guitar solo will appear on an epic 26 minute track called Seeds of Gold. The album is due on May 23 on Radiant Records. Drummer Mike Portnoy and bassist Randy George also appear on the record. Earlier this year Steve […]
Read more »Deep Purple have finally broken silence about the upcoming tour with an orchestra when Steve Morse spoke to Examiner about it: So Deep Purple is touring with a symphony orchestra? Yeah. It’s not exactly like the symphonic tour that we did where we’re actually playing symphonic music that Don [Airey, Deep Purple keyboardist] had written […]
Read more »Steve Morse has published a brief message on his official site: This disaster is sobering and heart breaking. Having been in Japan and admired their earthquake preparedness, who could have imagined so much tragedy from a Tsunami in Japan? Those folks who are helping others in the face of unknown risks are true heroes. Let’s […]
Read more »Steve Morse and Glenn Hughes both have contributed to an upcoming Tommy Bolin tribute album. The album, yet unnamed, is being put together by producer Greg Hampton of the Tommy Bolin Whips and Roses fame. Fabrizio Grossi (Whips & Roses I & II, Glenn Hughes) is also on board as Associate Producer/Mix Engineer. Other musicians […]
Read more »Classic Rock Revisited has a tribute for Gary Moore with quotes from many rock musicians. Steve Morse: On the last date of our tour a couple of months ago, Gary was playing on Roger’s MP3 player backstage through an amplified speaker. It was Gary and our Don Airey, I think, playing with Colosseum II. They […]
Read more »Steve Morse talked to the Guitar Techniques in an interview that deals with technical aspects of guitar playing. If you ever wanted to know what his favourite picks are, without what pedals he can’t live and which guitar he would save from a fire, here is your chance: What strings do you use, Steve Morse? […]
Read more »Steve Morse have appeared at this year NAMM to do various endorsements and sometime inbetween them gave this quick interview (amidst lots of background noise) to vintagerock.com. Of interest to our readers is his reiteration that Deep Purple are going to start working on the new album “within the next 60 days” and that they […]
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