I went to see Deep Purple a couple of nights ago, and i am still reeling at how good they were. Steve Morse played with such energy, always with a smile on his face, really putting on a show. it was general admission and i stood near the front, in front of what i judged to be the most likely place for steve to be standing when he took the stage. i got it right, and i really wasnt dissappointed.

Steve plays so cleanly, he can execute his runs so perfectly in time, and suiting the music, and go from solo to a riff with no effort. it was my first time seeing a guitarist of that calibre play live. the thing that really made him, and deep purple so great was that they really wanted to be there, and put on a show for our local crowd (from wellington, new zealand)
while i'm not so keen on deep purples latest album, steves soloing has a smooth, almost flawless sound, he uses speed not for speed, not to show off, but to express something, or to use as a bridge in between riffs or parts of a solo. his tone seems more engineered to be nice on the ear, than satriani or vai, who have a more harsh tone (in my opinion - i still like satch and vai the best, im not a hater)
that is engineered towards cutting solo's, and not sounding quite as nice.
at the end of the concert i was able to catch a pick which really made my evening complete, now i'm doing my best to find a steve morse album or two.
so far no luck :rolleyes:

the solo's from "loosen my strings" and "sometimes i feel like screaming" off DP's Purpendicular are what i have in mind when i talk about his soloing.

ANYWAY, i wanted to express how great i thought the concert was, and seeing as it wasnt satriani i put it here....

what do you guys think of Steve? has anyone seen him recently (or at all)
i'm also looking for some Steve Morse CDs, any recommendations? i can't find any, but i still want to know whats good and whats not, i might find one or two.

and what does everyone think of steve's guitar? i thought that was real cool too, i believe one slight variation of it has 4 pickups, or maybe a triple coil humbucker at the bridge (assuming thats possible)

so yeah..... i'm kinda setting off a monster steve morse thread, about everything, but oh well, he's my new idol, and i think he deserves more credit than what i've seen. :lol:

Avalon and myself are big fans of Steve m8, try out Structual damage, thats a Steve Morse band album, also Split Decision, they are brilliant. I agree his technical ability is up there with Satch and Vai, avalon and me watched DP 4yrs back, they are well worth the money(which was about £20). I haven't had the pleasure of seeing them since Don Airey has joined them, but the new album Rapture of the deep is a odd album, although after a good few times listening to it i opened up to some of the songs now ;) Purpendicular is a fantastic album, Sometimes i feel like screaming is superb(hopefully i will cover that soon). If your a big fan of DP m8, check out my cover of Anya on the Memebers' Originals & other covers topic, i play it to Ritchies version of it from the Come hell or high water tour :)

Oh yeah and i think Morses guitar is a Ernie Ball musicman, with his own signature pickups(which are dimarzio) :o

Steve rocks, i've seen him with Purple twice now, back on the Purpendicular tour in '96, and '02 before Banana's was released, both times i was just blown away by him and the whole band.
Deep Purple is all about the live performence, anyone who hasn't heard them live hasn't heard Purple, there is no better live band imo ;)
On the subject of Loosen My Strings and Sometimes i Feel Like Screaming, you may find my backing collection for Purple useful :)
Here's a link:
http://www.guitars101.com/vb/member-create...bt-catalog.html
Both the above are there and quite a few more too :)
Steve's solo work is great too, both with Dixie's Dregs and The Steve Morse band, Split Decision is superb, and master class to anyone who wants to hear how to multi layer guitars :)
Anyway m8, welcome to the fan club ;)

wow. yes the backing tracks are useful, i'd love to give some of his songs a go. i'm giving rapture of the deep a shot, going slowly, for too long i've just tried to be fast, and innaccurate, i think its about time i started being more patient, and do it slowly. thanks for that mate.

i just spotted your cover bahamut, i'll give it a listen. battle rages on is a pretty awesome deep purple album. very heavy mettally compared with ones like machine head.

i got a video of a dixie dregs song - sleeveless in seattle i think it was, although the file is titled just sleeveless. i got it from stevemorse.com, its not really my thing, a little too country western, but maybe it will grow on me.

as far as don airey is concerned, that guy can really play. i can't believe the amount of sounds they can get out of those keyboards. he did starwars, some classical music, and some new zealand maori music (think new zealand natives if you dont know of the maori). the maori music was really not hard rock and it annoyed me that i knew the lyrics, but hell he can put out a lot of notes quickly.

where are you guys? america or europe or somewhere else? i know deep purple are doing a second european leg, i'm tempted to see them again when i move up there in a months time. if you are in europe spend the money and see them, the rapture of the deep songs are better live anyway.

wow i am typing alot. i could'nt really believe i couldnt find any morse solo albums, i've found paul gilbert and other not so popular but still famous in guitar playing circles albums, so i should be able to locate some Morse...

Both in the Uk m8, yeah i wouldn't mind seeing them again :) I might actually try some of Ritchies new stuff, with Blackmores Night. Its very accoustic based, but i love Candices vocals, also Ritchies accoustic ability is superb ;) Also on Ritchies Blackmores rainbow album(the new one), i might try The hall of the Mountain king of there, it sounds great, where main riffs keep speeding up and changing key, makes interesting playing :lol: Ariel is also a decent song of there, although not really much lead work to do :P

Steve Morse blew me away when i first heard him. I thought there was no other guitarist who was as fluent as Eric Johnson in soloing fast till i heard Morse. I actually prefer the Steve Morse Band to Deep Purple. I loved the Streefest album.

Im in the UK, i saw them at St George's Hall in Bradford in '96 (proving how big of a fan i am, i mean why go to Bradford if you don't have to lol) and Sheffield City Hall on '02, Steve's extended solo in Cascades was out of this world, if you have heard the Live In Australia '99 CD/DVD you'll know what im talking about :) (although its the end Sometimes i Feel Like Screaming leading into Smoke On the Water on there).
As you say, Dregs is a bit more country style, on The Steve Morse Band there are a couple like that on Structural Damage, but its a great album, the two opening tracks are classics, Stressfest isn't quite as good imo, although Eyes Of A Child and Rising Power are 2 great tracks from that.
Split Decision is my favourite, Mechanical Frenzy is superb, Back Porch is wonderful (impossible to sum it up, but i love it) and Natural Flow is a beautiful accustic track.
As you can probably tell, im a big fan of Steve, he always plays with a smile on his face and it comes across in his music i think.
To quote Ian Gillan (it sounded like his writing to me in the credits of Purpendicular) reguarding what happened when Blackmore left "Thanks to Joe Satriani for leading us to a bridge, thanks to Steve Morse for reminding us what was on the other side".
I like that one :)

Ahh yes Rising power is a excellent song. Plus with the gorgeus melodys of Eyes of a child ;) Have to take a listen to his albums again, haven't heard them for a while :)

just heard man on the silver mountain on the radio. you rarely hear that. someone requested it. its one of the best ''castle rock'' songs. blackmore is a classic. dio can really write and sing ''metal''... not a morse freak , but he really is intelligent in interviews. he called early zeppelin ''ultra precise heavy metal'' . thats a good description.

Lol so is his playing hehe, trying to play some of his riffs is a nightmare at times :lol: Listening to the quality of his layering on the Steve Morse band songs is incredible, mind you the bass work is excellent to(believe the bass player is actually with Satch on tour now) who works with Morse on the SMB songs :o
Don't hear much of rainbow on the radio here, its either Since you've been gone or nothing lol :P

whats really weird is i heard ''rainbow in the dark'' the other day on same station. havent heard that since eighties. that campbel is pretty good.

Dio is a great singer, but im not familar with his work though. I keep meaning to buy some of the earlier Rainbow albums, i probably will one day :lol: Im just wondering what to cover next though, shall i do some more DP tracks or maybe some of Satchs? Afterall this is a satch forum :lol: I might try Sometimes i feel like screaming though, as it reflects diffrent era's from DP's history ;) I am really leaning towards Child in time atm though :o I love the way Ritchie is so freeform with his playing on the live versions, and it was the first DP song i heard live(just blew me away). Perhaps i'll try Steve Morses Eyes of a child :)

Steve Morse's vibrato bugs me. Other than that, he's the perfect guitarist. His music is amazing. High Tension Wires is still my favourite non-Satch or non-Vai instrumental album.

I haven't had the pleasure of listening to that album yet m8, in honesty ive never seen it anywhere :o Probably be able to get it online somewhere though no doubt :P It is weird how you listen to music in your younger days though, i remember hearing Satch when SWTA was released, and thinking it wasn't that good :o :o . But some years later when i started listening to Steve Morse band albums,i watched the G3 video (the original lineup)and really enjoyed it so i went back to SWTA album and i was totally blown away by it :rock2: . Very odd how our musical tastes change isn't it, although i listened to a few things that i didn't like back then and they still sound shite :lol: I think i was so drawn into Blackmores style of playing , i didn't really think anyone could match his technique or ability :unsure: Glad i did find Satch and Vai though, they changed the outlook on how i play even though i play alot like Ritchie :P

I've nothing to do as agree with all opinions :) Steve Morse is for me the best guiitar player on the whole world. Why? The first thing is the way of thinking at playing. There is no other musician, who takes classical influences so clever as he does it. Sometimes I've impression he is incarnation of J.S.Bach. There isn't also better composer to develop the musical horinzonts. No matter what we play. I don't mean such stupid way like for example Malmsteen. Some people think that the essence of baroque and that's just idiotic copy of harromonics progressions. In each piece of Morse there is exact considered structure. The way on which he ties all styles is incredible. For example the connection of Bach and dixie style in tumeni notes blo away... His jazz articulation and chromatic phrases in rock stuff are most original in whole history of guitar music. The other think is just the technic. Long time ago I was satisfied if I could play some difficult piece of Satriani and thought I play really good. Only as I began to practise Steve I recognized how many things I still have to learn. Now i try to play even Tumeni notes and this part with one-note-per-string arpeggio is terrible :D Hehe. So he will be always my master in area of composition, melodic thinking, guitar technic, energy and all what he represents as musician...

Indeed m8, alot of Morse's songs are bloody hard to play , maybe even more so then Joe's :o
With some of Joe's songs you can improvise to the amount that you can get away with it, i couldn't imagine doing that to the intro of Morse's Mechanical Frenzy :o , can't play that then you can't play the song imo :o
I think thats why knowone can cover a decent version of FIABD , because its one of those songs that has to be played close to the original, same with Morse's songs, there so accurate that its hard to improvise to them at all :P
Hehe if you notice not many ppl cover Morse either, mind you not many ppl cover the hard DP stuff either, its just Smoke on the Water, or Black Night :lol:
Thats why i like to cover a wide range of Blackmore stuff, although some of it isn't a bloke shredding like a mad man , to play ballads and not ruin them takes alot of patience and skill imo :P
Anyway i might listen to some Morse songs see what would grab my fancy, his a excellent guitarist and my guess will be that alot of his covers will be challenging :)

Steve Morse Solo Well dressed guitar

realy a beautiful solo

Steve's Solo Well dressed guitar

Great video m8, thanks for sharing :)
Thats the first time ive seen him do Contact lost live(the first part), was well excellent :rock2:
His definetly up there with Satch imo, no doubt ;)