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He knows exactly what he wants
Guitar World has an interview with Steve Morse, and it gets pretty gear-heavy pretty quickly. Here it is, with more details on basic single coils vs stacked coil pickups than most of us ever wanted to know.
If forced to make a choice, would you rather buy a really good electric guitar and a cheap amp, or a cheap guitar and a top-notch high-end guitar amp?
Man, that’s a tough one, but the guitar wins. I need to have various tones coming straight from the instrument. The amp is a big part of things, but the guitar is the biggest. That is partly because some cheap amps sound like 80 per cent as good as a great amp. But most guitars that are cheap can’t do anything like the range of sounds on my guitar.
Read more in Guitar World.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I’m a huge fan of Steve’s albums, “Major Impacts 2”, & “Out Standing In Their Field”. His work with DP is untouchable in my opinion. A master of the guitar & a good natured fellow.
November 13th, 2024 at 02:32Come on you guys, that interview wasn’t thaaaaaaaaaaat badly guitar techie! 😁
Coming from Steve at least. 🤷♂️
November 13th, 2024 at 04:01I almost forgot: Nice – Native American kitsch imagery-free – T-shirt on that pic of him too, tokay gecko in Keith Haring style, not every gas station offers those!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9718af3a13108a9ac5b9244036ac21af/tumblr_mzmnwleIBO1qdg223o1_400.gifv
November 13th, 2024 at 04:10Yo,
That was a good short read, especially for guitarists, as input like that goes a long way into your own rigs considerations.
And if you check-out the interview with Leslie West by clicking on the last tab on the RHS as you read through Steve’s article, you will be even more rewarded !
Adonai !
November 13th, 2024 at 22:48I really like Simon and “= 1” a lot. Deep Purple is still great.
November 13th, 2024 at 23:52Having said this, I really love the Steve Morse era of Deep Purple.
To me, every album was very good, a few, even wonderful.
The tours, really good, especially 1998-1999, GAD!
I was very sad when he left. He saved my favorite band.
Onward to Deep Purple and Steve Morse.
All the best to all these guys.
Deep Purple Forever!
Yep, I said it.
@5
November 14th, 2024 at 17:54I agree with you 👍🏼
Karin keeps spirits and morale high here!
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November 14th, 2024 at 18:36@5
November 14th, 2024 at 18:53I also agree. The best part of this for me, was the cover of the Jeff Beck tune, which I hadn’t seen before. Awesome!
@7
I’m glad to keep up the both spirits and morale high here 😉
I do have a tiny question (forgot it in the other thread The Last Band Standing:
How come so many heavy bands touch profoundly on religious themes? I haven’t any experience in their lyrics, so is it meant as a mocking?
November 14th, 2024 at 21:01“How come so many heavy bands touch profoundly on religious themes?”
Do they really? I guess that lyrics about the devil and the occult or pagan themes lent themselves to darker, dramatic, larger than life music. But it’s mostly escapism or shock value entertainment, few bands really have a serious anti-Christian message (a band like Ghost certainly doesn’t) and there are of course also bands like Stryper that advocate Christianity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEgAs1HwUmE
November 15th, 2024 at 01:38@10
“Do they really?”
– well I don’t know! 🤷🏼♀️
When I compare to the lyrics of Deep Purple and ELO, that I know by heart, there is not much religious content, if any at all!
I guess you’re right here:
“But it’s mostly escapism or shock value entertainment.”
Have a lovely weekend gentlemen and ladies (suffragettes 😆)
The song of the day:
November 15th, 2024 at 07:29https://youtu.be/zi3lxg9SX28?si=Ch72kXnm0D9Cz17c
He was never a fit in Deep Purple.
November 16th, 2024 at 10:01In a way, yes, Henrik, and by the same token a role model in devotion to the cause. Steve gave all he had and that was plenty. But was it always a perfect match?
If there was a cultural or musical disconnect, DP were as much to blame for it as him.
November 16th, 2024 at 18:56Yo,
Leiber Uwe stated…
qt.”If there was a cultural or musical disconnect, DP were as much to blame for it as him”.
Bollox !!!
The issue isn’t with Steve or DP, it’s the fact that DP had a prior history, & so you have a large group of fans that can’t make the adjustment to DP being a completely NEW band, but with the old title / trade name…And they all want RB back, yet he was the asshole that placed the band in such a position in the first place…
Get over it…
This had to be done, & will always leave people divided that knew the band for the decades prior to Steve’s ( or Simon’s ) joining. That’s why we still have foolish people, stuck in a time-warp unwittingly wanting RB & a Mk-II reunion lol !
You must always think of each new Mk as actually being a new band, & give it its worth, for better or worse. If better, stay-on & applaud the new music. If worse, no one will miss your comments, so move on.
I once thought that the world of DP revolved around RB, & eventually discovered what an idiot I had been, with my reasoning having no basis at all with the extraordinary fine new music being created with Steve in the band, but with some stupid ideal that RB was it, & without him, there was no band. I wasn’t listening or giving the new band a chance…Very, very foolish…
We all make mistakes, & certainly one of my biggest mistakes in life was putting all my DP musical eggs in the RB basket, what an idiot I was…But I have to thank RB for putting me through that learning process, & a fool I am no longer. I learned what an even better band DP were without him, that continues to grow & deliver the goods.
DP is dead, long live DP ! They just keep getting better & better if you listen closely, & without prejudice.
Adonai !
November 20th, 2024 at 10:53Do I really look and act like a Blackmore acolyte to you, Gregster? 🤣
I pour derision over most of what Rainbow did and Blackmore’s Night does. I’m a staunch defender of Mk IV (including their bassist/second lead vocalist I might add). I own pretty much any scintilla of what Steve ever played on.
But Ritchie had his strengths (not to the exclusion of everyone after him) as Purple’s lead guitarist and so did Steve Morse. And both had (different) weaknesses too.
November 20th, 2024 at 14:34