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A delicate dance
Steve Morse was interviewed by the Guitar Interactive Magazine. Steve talks about the importance of jamming, influence of John McLaughlin, praises John Petrucci, reflects on his years in Deep Purple, and shares thoughts on why he prefers the album format for his music.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Ritchie was always complimentary of Steve’s work.
December 18th, 2025 at 00:56At this point I wish Morse later would form a Deep Purple tribute group to do some shows consists of songs from Mark 7 – Mark 8. There are too many great compositions from those formations. Alternating with his solo band performances of course.
From 2000 to 2020 he was involved with so many other bands beside the hectic-scheduled Deep Purple (Flying Colors, SMB, Dixie Dregs, G3, Angelfire, Living Colors), so I think at his current state he could handle at least two bands now.
Songs like Apres Vous, Time for Bedlam, Throw my Bones, Silver Tongue, Vincent Price, Nothing at All, Haunted, Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming, Watching the Sky, The Aviator, Wrong Man, they were too good to be just for listening experience. Need to be performed live in the flesh, in front of audience.
Joe Lynn Turner basically did his half-Deep-Purple tribute in his concerts which included songs from Mark 2 since long time ago.
Steve Augeri (former of Journey, who replaced Steve Perry) also formed his Journey tribute band years ago and are still performing until today.
So why not Steve?
I ever asked about this idea in Steve Morse Facebook group, lack of affirmative responses as they preferred Steve in his current musical endeavor with his solo band. Surely most of them are Steve’s fans long before he joined Purple so they might not share my idea as a Deep Purple fan. I just feel it a great loss of opportunities to perform those great songs, and it’s also regarding Mark 8 setlist.
December 18th, 2025 at 02:00