How many guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Steve Morse was a guest on the No Cover Charge podcast, spreading nuggets of wisdom and jamming with the host.
Thanks to Guitar World for the heads-up.
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Steve Morse was a guest on the No Cover Charge podcast, spreading nuggets of wisdom and jamming with the host.
Thanks to Guitar World for the heads-up.
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100! 1 to do the change and 99 to say they can do it better!
Really?
Then it has to be guys 😄
Steve Morse is a sweet guy, so humble and still very informative 😊
October 15th, 2025 at 07:32Gotta love that ☺️
How many guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One Hundred. It takes one guitar player to actually screw in the light bulb, and 99 to stand there and say “I could have done that better. 😁
October 15th, 2025 at 12:18Somebody help me with the estuaries of the Morse family delta!
So Steve has a special needs stepdaughter Shauni in her 30s, apparently a great Joan Jett fan,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dg9z8F-W0AAzFfl?format=jpg&name=large
she must then be from an earlier relationship of Janine, right?
And his biological son Kevin is “half Greek”,
https://youtu.be/Y_Q897zI8sY
so Janine had Greek origins? (And Steve and Janine therefore a “big fat Greek weeding”? 🤗)
Referring to the Dixie Dregs and SMB as “chamber music”, as Steve does, really sums it up: I never thought of it that way, but it’s totally descriptive. Fits in with his early love for Jacques Loussier.
https://youtu.be/hzZFBoZTZHs
Applause for Steve’s self-deprecating “I’m doing it wrong!” when playing the SOTW riff with a – shock, gasp, horror, heresy 😱 – bending as the C# power chord. 😂 But I think he’s mistaken with his assumption that he was “very good at alienating 30% of the Purple audience”, I saw Steve at least 20 times with Purple, there was a lot of love for him at the gigs )at least in Germany where we know how to behave, jawohl!). Granted, he didn’t have Ritchie’s outlaw mystique, but no one was expecting that. Appreciation of what he was doing for DP – a few idiots excepted – was always high. I’m fine with Simon now carrying the torch, but the Morse era need not be belittled. Thank you for your service.
PS: These guys doing that ‘No Cover Charge’ podcast are great, love their wacky humor and they’re empathetic interviewers.
October 15th, 2025 at 13:03@3
Hello Uwe,
Steve was married 3 times. Kevin is his (only) son with his 1. wife Celeste.
Janine had two daughters = stepdaughters to Steve.
October 15th, 2025 at 14:04Danke schön, very helpful, I had no idea!
So Celeste
https://www.picclickimg.com/1p0AAeSwqKxox46d/Kansas-1986-Power-tour-Steve-Celeste-Morse.webp
had the Greek heritage, I was wondering – WARNING: stereotypes approaching! – because Janine didn’t look all that Hellenic to me. Not really the Melina Mercouri type.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDHWOymjJhE
October 15th, 2025 at 16:30