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Triangulating without Petrucci
Steve Morse Band (or, rather, their label) has posted another video to promote the new album Triangulation. It is for the title track, featuring John Petrucci (who is not in the video).
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
That has elements that could have made it a nice Mk VIII song!
I like Steve’s shirt (no joke). Is he dating again and is there someone new who has eye for such things? Matching T-shirt color, guitar and even bass finish, I am speechless!
Damn, it really could have made a good DP number.
November 16th, 2025 at 23:04It is a good instrumental track. Good to see them all enjoying themselves and Petrucci’s short cameo wasn’t too over the top as I feared it may be. Thanks for posting. Cheers
November 17th, 2025 at 08:59Uwe, you’re absolutely right… it could’ve. I didn’t watch the video until after I read your comment. I don’t know if it is because of that or not but in my head I faintly heard an organ playing along with them.
November 17th, 2025 at 10:04I’m not the world’s greatest SMB fan, but this grooves along nicely.
It’s nice to see Steve smiling again, the passing of time is not always a bad thing. Hay farmers need wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGMwqo66WGo
November 18th, 2025 at 03:09(Jon wrote this song together with Sam Brown for Frida after she had lost her husband.)
People have been moaning and groaning here, but “Triangulation” is a very good SMB album. The firstly revealed tracks don’t tell as much, since the more the record goes on from track 1 on, the better it gets. And lands really heavy and exciting both on title track and 11 minutes opus “Tumeni Parts”. And just as you want Blackmore to be Blackmore, I don’t understand people here Morse not being Morse. You have to understand you can’t do it. As any consummate musician he hears his music his way and he is in his own typical element on this album. Ideas of a very angular kind with a lot of intriguing and unstably changing chordally melodic. Just pure Steve, having a blast again with Van and Dave. I like it a lot and it sinks in with every next listen. Which means that this good man has cracked in through Purple and beyond to my musical system, which wasn’t much likely in 1996. And, of course, what a guy. Humble and friendly human, one of the kindest you’ll ever meet. Album is on Bandcamp, digital version for a tenner, so most everyone can afford a legal copy. It’s worth it!
November 18th, 2025 at 19:56I’m listening to it right now. It’s pleasant album – with a warm, round sound. Often hilariously nimble in its guitar, bass and drums athletics and histrionics. But melodic. It even sounds happy.
November 20th, 2025 at 04:53@6 Uwe, well summed up, IMO. And that’s what it should be – a happy affair – Steve after his Hiob-like period of parting ways with people he loved and cared about (and I mean both Janine, bless her soul, and Purple here) – truly deserves a rounded bout of happiness and comfort now, for all the good he’s done, with open mind and open arms.
Mind you, he looks splendid in that harmonized turquoise outfit that links both his clothes and his guitar. You just hope he feels the warmth of sunrays again.
“And he told me about injusticies that he had suffered in his life… (…) What a guy!”
November 20th, 2025 at 11:05I might have my slight issues with his phrasing and style in certain color context, but otherwise I will be never able to say bad things about this man.
definitely a good riff and a nice rhythm.
in the airiness of the piece I sense that the years with Don on keyboards had their weight in this song.
the first break and the beginning of the solo are Steve’s usual ones, and here I start to yawn…
November 20th, 2025 at 23:11