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Steve Morse on US radio

Steve Morse will guest on the WVOX Metal Mayhem radio show this Friday, July 17, at 9:30pm EDT. WVOX is a New York City area community radio station that broadcasts locally at 1460 kHz AM and worldwide through their website.

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Keep practising and don’t be late

Marking the beginning of the Mexican tour, yesterday, May 26, the band held a press conference in Puebla. Here are various bits and pieces of the proceedings. Ian Paice and Roger Glover comment on “that was then and this is now”, with Ian Gillan chiming in that the band is now looking to start recording […]

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tHis is the tHing#1

The renowned Purple tribute band Purpendicular is releasing an album of original material titled tHis is the tHing#1 on March 6. It is an 11-track concept album featuring guest appearances by Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Don Airey, Steve Morse, and Neil Murray, among others. The release party will be held in Paderborn, Germany, also on […]

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Sound advice from Steve

Music Radar has tips to budding guitarists from Steve Morse. Some of which are very much applicable to life in general. Nothing irritates me more than a lack of professionalism. For example, when somebody says, ‘I’ll be there at 2 pm.’ Does that mean 2:30? Does that person think they can just roll in whenever […]

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Interviews Roundup

Steve Morse features in an interview with Sweetwater’s Guitars and Gears: And Ian Paice features in this months Modern Drummer thanks to Yvonne Osthausen

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Ian Paice onstage with Purpendicular

Ian Paice will feature with Purple tribute band Purpendicular on three of their European dates this October. This will be Ian’s third stint with the band. October 7th – Sono Centrum – Brno – Czech Republic October 8th – Riffelhof – Burgrieden (Ulm) – Germany October 9th – Uhlenspiegel – Rutesheim (Stuttgart) – Germany Purpendicular […]

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Mask Machine

Mascot Records has posted a promo video for Mask Machine — a track from the new Flying Colors album Second Nature. (view inside)

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Steve Morse in tribute to veterans

Steve Morse has contributed a track to the tribute album dedicated to the veterans of American wars. The album, called Guitars For Wounded Warriors, was produced, engineered and composed by Emmy Award winner Brian Tarquin, with contributions from SM, Billy Sheehan, Gary Hoey, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Reb Beach, Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Chris Poland (Megadeth), […]

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US press roundup

Several items appeared in the US press in the last few days that didn’t seem significant enough to warrant separate posts. ABC News Radio has an interview with Steve Morse promoting the tour. There is a generally positive, if superficial review of the opening night of the tour in Scottsdale, Arizona, at AXS.com. VC Star […]

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It worked out well

[Warning: contains setlist spoilers] Cory Frye, who became mildly famous in these quarters after his passionate review of Now what?!, has a feature in Oregon’s Albany Democrat-Herald promoting Purple tour. It is a well written introduction of the state of the band in 2014 for the uninitiated, based on an interview with Steve Morse.

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