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The more the merrier
We welcome a new Steve Morse fan site to the family. It is run by Katya Hast-Ekström of Katya Arts, Steve’s official jeweller, and Marije Essink, admin of the Steve Morse Fan Page group on Facebook. Katya got the original idea for this fan site and created the web design and technical stuff, Marije provided all the contents with discography, biography, gear facts, news, etc.
The new site is located at www.stevemorse.net (caveat: starts playing video without asking, so exercise caution when on a lean connection).
Thanks to Marije for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Do they offer cut-off, printed T-shirts? Just askin’.
December 20th, 2025 at 02:00I hope that Steve will finally come to Europe (not only Germany and France), to perform with his friend Dave LaRue. It would be fantastic to see him in these parts, promoters should make
December 20th, 2025 at 09:17There is an audience here that listens to and attends concerts of jazz rock fusion music. And top guitarists of similar music as Steve..Jan Akerman (Dutch) is well known to everyone..I would add Gianfranco Continenza (Italy) Okan Ersan (Turkey)..of course, above all, the guitar virtuoso from the Balkans Vlatko Stefanovski (North Macedonia)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9Cq_bDjPw
The mind boggles at how the attractive best-age widower has in record time assembled a flock of cooing limerent ladies around him!
https://valmanwill.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/beatlemania1.gif
Darn, Herr MacGregor, we should have picked up learning some guitar too, it can’t really be that hard.
That’s the way you do it, money for nothin’ and the chicks for free …
I’m waiting for Karin to do her own site “Cølœrs øf Iæn Gillæn” any time now. With Anton as the Cerberus of an admin!
December 20th, 2025 at 11:00@3
I’m interested, but why bother Anton? 😄
Guess I’m perfectly fit to take all responsibilities on my narrow shoulders ☺️
December 20th, 2025 at 23:07Being a lead vocalist seems to be the one Uwe, the ladies just go crazy for some reason. No wonder the lead guitarists become so jealous of the lead singer. If a guitarist sings lead and even a bass guitarist as well, that also appears to be the ultimate ‘chicks for free’ card too. Oh well, perhaps in our next life if some of us stop being drummers, keyboard players or players of any other instrument, we may have a chance at enjoying the good life. So get those tonsils in action Uwe, get that vibrato happening and sing a song or two, it is never too late, surely as you are half way there already being bass player. I did say vibrato, as in music. That is NOT a typo at all. Cheers.
December 21st, 2025 at 00:57@5
MacGregor, not all vocalists I have to say 😄
But yeah, some vocalists do possess that certain quality…
December 21st, 2025 at 07:01Vibrato or vibrator, I have to trust your word on this, as a drummer you know all about hardware.
December 21st, 2025 at 08:35@3
December 22nd, 2025 at 11:06Hello Uwe, you are wrong! Steve and “the ladies” have known each other for a long time. Marije has run the FB Steve Mose for years and was involved in Steve’s homepage before it was changed this year. And Katya also had a link to her Steve Morse Jewellery there.
But what concers “the attractive best-age widower”, you are right 😉
Sorry corection: Marije has run the FB Steve Morse FANPAGE for years
December 22nd, 2025 at 14:31@Uwe
I have to ask you something. I just watched a brilliant German movie from 2006. 20 minutes after the movie, starts, a song by Deep Purple Mark I plays. Do you know the name of the movie and what song it is by Mark I .
December 22nd, 2025 at 18:09If you know that too, you really are a King, but it doesn’t matter, you are a King anyway. Cheers
@9: This perhaps?
https://www.thehighwaystar.com/news/2006/05/29/anthem-in-german-movie/
December 22nd, 2025 at 20:17Ohhhh my! 😄
Just received the ‘Seven decades of Deep Purple’, by Martin Popoff…..
6 3 9 pages!
Well now at least I know what to do in these hideous holidays 😃
Thanks to Martin 🙏🏼
December 23rd, 2025 at 07:29@11 Yes, that’s that movie.
December 23rd, 2025 at 08:05@12- Seven Decades is a great read. It took me more than 2 months to finish it.
While I’m here ,and since the lights are up on the THS masthead, Merry Christmas to all of you !
December 23rd, 2025 at 14:29@12
December 23rd, 2025 at 15:22Hello Karin, same here! I ordered as soon as it was announced.
Seems like Steve has found himself a real Morse Harem, je suis impressed.
Pacuha, I never saw Requiem, but based on your recommendation will now!
Anthem, much like April Part 1, did see some airplay on German radio in the 70s. Far from being a hit, it was one of the less obscure songs of Mk I in Germany.
December 23rd, 2025 at 20:43Uwe Hornung has gone quiet online pre xmas, we now know why. Merry xmas Uwe.
https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CS141367
December 23rd, 2025 at 21:04Poor Edith, xmas shopping with Uwe.
https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CX915959
https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CS114797
https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CS617605
https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CS111565
December 23rd, 2025 at 21:22@15
Hallo Beate👋🏼😊
And if it isn’t a good read, at least I can use it for exterminating spiders 😄
Noooo I could never do that with a book about Ian Gillan!
December 24th, 2025 at 07:29Uwe
December 24th, 2025 at 14:18believe me, it’s worth watching..
@19
December 25th, 2025 at 12:29Hello Karin,
I would never use a book – even if it was a boring one! I always catch spiders and bugs etc. with a special tool or a glass and get them out of the window. And this keeps the wall clean…
@21
Beate, you’re right!
I am NOT fond of spiders, I’ve to tell ya, but I have made a pact with them, it’s bilateral: if they stay outside my house, I won’t kill them 😄
I have a dog, Anton, unfortunately he likes to hunt them, play with them and finally let them go…
December 25th, 2025 at 18:06I certainly hope Karin doesn’t use the new book she purchased as a doorstep. We know what male doggies usually do to claim territorial rights. Can you imagine Anton walking past that book and seeing a ‘rival’ on the front cover……………
December 25th, 2025 at 21:14@23
Dear MacGregor, 😊
I can assure you that books always have been sacred to me!
And when it’s about Purple and Ian, I take extra care of it 😁
And Anton is housebroken in all senses of the word ☺️
December 25th, 2025 at 21:37No worries, I’m still around, just currently staying in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the family got together over Christmas. And with a 10-month-baby in tow (= my grandson), it is little Ruben who sort of dictates the days and nights! Plus we all somehow caught colds from another and are only slowly in the process of recuperating.
December 27th, 2025 at 14:48Certainly glad Uwe has returned, Karin was starting to take over the site. Still, we have to admire her quick action once she realised that Uwe was away. Might as well strike while the iron is hot. Now that xmas is over and the new year beckons, what will our resolution be this time. I remember last years from me and it was to nail Uwe to the floor. Unfortunately that didn’t occur (again), so this year I might as well use the same resolution, if that is ok to do. Maybe I will change a word or two, that should confuse him for a while. Cheers.
December 28th, 2025 at 03:48@25
Glad you’re finally back… things got a bit, well maybe not sad, and maybe not boring, and certainly not sinister but there was something missing, I can’t exactly point out the ‘missing link’ but maybe the snarky comments and the overwhelming explanations, which I am terribly fond of, I have to say!
Hope you all get better soon 😃
Until then, I will let you enjoy this wonderful piece of music:
https://youtu.be/b0Upk41P7aw
Yeah yeah…I know 😄 completely overrated!
December 28th, 2025 at 07:31@26
I did certainly not try to take over anything – hot iron or not 😁
I never make New Year’s resolutions, but if I did, it would be something like this:
– attending two (2!) concerts with Purple!
– attending at least one concert with Oasis…
– be kinder to my people
– .. ups this one is quite personal
– .. this too…
– but this is no secret: drink even more lovely coffee
I will never try to nail anyone to the floor, and especially not Uwe!
But at the end of this year I will say this:
Thank you so much for putting up with me. Much appreciated 🤗🤗
And this song is absolutely adorable:
https://youtu.be/OptLnRRFqek
Woah! They are like old fine wine – just getting better and better 💜
December 28th, 2025 at 12:56I never said that CCR are overrated. John Fogerty is both a talented songwriter, greatly contributing to the modern Great American Songbook, and a thoroughly unpleasant, vengeful, belligerent and self-righteous person. One does not exclude the other and we’re all not saints, but not visiting your brother Tom while he is dying of AIDS-related tuberculosis takes some conviction that you are always right and/or the center of the universe. Or as Francis Rossi put it, who met him in Switzerland after Quo’s version of the Fogerty-penned Rockin’ All Over The World had greatly contributed to the latter’s wealth over the decades (Fogerty disliked and belittled the Quo version): A great songwriter and also a very nasty, bitter man.
My favorite Fogerty tune is not a CCR one, but this here, which former Meatloaf side-woman Karla DeVito did ebullient justice
to:
https://youtu.be/DPrwG8PzgeA
Lovely song. And you can just imagine how it would have sounded with CCR.
December 29th, 2025 at 15:39@29
Well, I never said you called CCR overrated… 😃
I never knew anything about John Fogerty, but yeah, some people are just not people persons 😊
Nice cover by Karla DeVito, any relation to Danny? Not that she looks like him, well maybe the hair ☺️
December 29th, 2025 at 22:04How come she never became a star in her own right? She has a lovely voice 😊
@3
Both Katya and myself have known Steve for years, I first met him in 2012. Both of us have also met his late wife Janine several times.
@8 @9
I have been admin for the Steve Morse Fan Page group on Facebook (wwww.facebook.com/groups/stevemorse) since 2012. In 2016 I got involved in his official website and started doing all the news posts there. A year or so later I started running most of his official Facebook page. Most of the official stuff ended for me earlier this year due to organizational changes linked to Steve’s new album and tour he did.
Katya’s and my new fansite is much more informative than Steve’s current/new official website.
December 29th, 2025 at 22:45I thought I read or heard somewhere that John did sort of reconnect (even if only for their mother’s sake) with Tom. As the split of that band did involve the other three musicians including Tom, they also took sides with their (CCR) manager, sidelining John, if I am correct that is. John Fogerty couldn’t or simply didn’t have anymore to do with any of them. Whether that slight linkup from John back to Tom was when Tom was terminally ill, I am not sure. We would hope so. John was the songwriter, lead singer and lead guitarist. Where have we heard similar stories to that one. Dire Straits for example? Band and management and sibling politics eh? Cheers.
December 29th, 2025 at 23:42No idea why Meatloaf’s girls never made it on their own.
Both Ellen Foley (who sang on Bat Out Of Hell)
https://youtu.be/NAR0RYT1YPA
and Karla DeVito (who toured the album with Meatloaf for years because Ellen didn’t want to)
https://youtu.be/P35Z30OiZD8
had their fifteen minutes of fame in the late 70s (Ellen)/early 80s (Karla), but it turned into nothing lasting. Both their solo albums received quite a promo push at the time, Ellen’s even being produced and co-written by no-one less than the great Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson. In fact the Hunter/Ronson band became Ellen’s backing band.
They both laughed about it later on in life and some years ago even collaborated on a heartwarming track as, how shall I put this, I best ask Max … ah, yes … mature women of course …
https://youtu.be/Kh9QXC5SpuQ
I always liked Ellen’s version of Robert Palmer’s Johnny & Mary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgItWf5Je-s
Karla’s power-poppy Cool World saw some airplay at the time:
https://youtu.be/uc-M-9c4sZ0
December 30th, 2025 at 18:27Marije, what took you so long to find us here? Fear of the big bad Blackmorites? I fight them everyday!
December 30th, 2025 at 18:30