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Drummer’s album finally out

“Stay Tuned” is the title of Austrian drummer Bernhard Welz’ first solo album released on December 18 2010. It features a slew of prominent guest musicians, including Roger Glover, Steve Morse, Don Airey, Ian Paice (live drum solo 2002) and Jon Lord – along with Neil Murray, Steve Lukather, Mike Stern, Mark King, Katrina (Ex-Katrina […]

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Callouses and Christmas shopping

Steve Morse writes in his blog: Well, it’s been a long time on the road. I’ve been able to use up every minute of every day without ever catching up on all the things I should get done. This tour seems like 2 lifetimes ago that it started, and indeed it’s close to 2 months […]

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Steve Morse on More Metal

During their stay in berlin on November 22, Steve Morse gave a video interview to More Metal. The questions ranged from his motivation to play music, to his opinion on live albums, to Joe Satriani, to the inevitable topic of a new album: Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

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Swinging to Sweet Georgia Brown

Last weekend Steve Morse did a 3-night stint in New York City with his own band, plus sitting in with the Les Paul Trio on the fourth night. Guitar Player magazine has met him which resulted in a brief interview: What is the difference between the way you play with Deep Purple and with your […]

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No spandex required

An article published today on Guitar International starts with Steve Morse is sitting in a studio on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida, chewing on a chocolate chip cookie and waiting patiently for the members of his band to show up for rehearsal. The band that’s he’s waiting for, though, is not made up of his […]

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Gear Run: Steve Morse and Don Airey

Guitar effects company TC Electronic has posted a couple of videos providing inside look into the effect setup for both Steve Morse and Don Airey.

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Steve Morse & Sarah Spencer: Angelfire – a review

While the next DEEP PURPLE album still seems to be  far, far away, a new Purple-related side-project faces the light of day: Steve Morse  joined forces with 22 year old Sarah Spencer to release a vocal album under the “Angelfire”-banner. Accompanied by STEVE MORSE BAND musicians Dave LaRue on bass guitar and Van Romaine on […]

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Steve Morse on Guitar Planet

Steve Morse recently has done a quite entertaining interview for GuitarPlanet.com.au. Ever wanted to know why is that SOTW is banned from the music stores or why the Y2D guitar comes only in 3 colours, watch it. And if you didn’t, watch it as well.

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Steve Morse releases new vocal album, Angelfire

This press release just hit The Highway Star: Acclaimed guitarist/composer Steve Morse has teamed up with breakout singer/songwriter Sarah Spencer to release Angelfire, an album of haunting, harmony-laden acoustic songs. 

Sarah Spencer, 22, grew up in a musical family. She began piano lessons at age six, and was recording original material at ten. At 14, […]

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Meeting third generation fans…

At the end of the first leg of this year’s tour, Steve Morse sends us his update from the road: This tour has been going amazingly well. I am consistently surprised at how many places we find young people mixed with older in the audience. If we keep going, it maybe possible to meet a […]

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