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Ride off into the sunset
An online magazine called eonmusic has an interview with Steve Morse. It was done, like many others these days, on the occasion of Steve’s new solo album Triangulation, but unlike those, it does not shy away from his 28 years with Deep Purple.
I wanted to touch on a little bit of your Deep Purple history; is it hard to believe that you were there for almost three decades?
It’s true. I really thought I was going to be there for the last Purple gig. I didn’t realise that they were outlasting me. There’s something about the British Isles that breeds some very tough customers. These guys survived.
2026 marks 30 years since your debut album with the band, ‘Purpendicular’ was released. There’s some amazing songs on there, from ‘Ted the Mechanic’ to ‘Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming’.
Well, it’s great. I think ‘Purpendicular’ is my favourite album because there was no history between us. We had everything up for grabs. Like the song, ‘Sometimes I feel Like Screaming’ was me noodling around, and Jon [Lord] just returned from a break with tea, and you know in England, it’s always tea! I came to be drinking tea! Every few hours, it was another thing of tea and I’d say; “sure, yeah, I’ll have it!” Anyway, So Jon’s got his tea, and he hears me playing this ditty I was working on for my own album and my own thing, and he just starts noodling along with it. I said; “hey, that sounds good”.
Read more in eonmusic.co.uk.
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Even Steve Morse is talking about ‘swing’. We will no doubt hear more about this from our esteemed ‘swinger’ here at THS. To swing or to not swing, that is the question. Cheers
November 5th, 2025 at 05:53Lieber Steve, I guess I am a Deep Purple fan of sorts and I never hated either “The Aviator” or “A Touch Away”, they are in fact among my favorite songs on Purpendicular, an album that was as epochal for a new era of DP as In Rock, Burn & Come Taste The Band were before. If there is anything about your era that I regret then it is that not more of the choice tracks from the albums with you were played more regularly live. The versatility and variation you brought into DP was never a drawback, but something to be cherished.
November 5th, 2025 at 06:27One Dixie Dregs tune from 1994 sounds a bit like I Feel Like Screaming:
November 5th, 2025 at 08:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbf55eHJKnk&list=RDpbf55eHJKnk&start_radio=1