![[hand]](/hs-pics/portraits/hands/gillan2.jpg)
![[face]](/hs-pics/portraits/faces/mcbride6.jpg)
Chop it down with the edge of his hand
Steve Morse made a guest appearance on the single by a band called Dead Groove. They recorded a cover of a Jimi Hendrix classic Voodoo Child (Slight Return).
LA’s heavy blues powerhouse return with a stunning cover of Hendrix’s classic for this highly collectible 7″ vinyl!
Features guest appearances from Deep Purple/Dixie Dregs guitar legend Steve Morse as well as southern blues guru Lance Lopez!
Backed with a rare mix of another stone cold classic from guitar giant, Tommy Bolin!
Holly West — Bass/Vocals
Fred Aching — Drums
Steve Morse — Guitar
Lance Lopez — Guitar
The track is now available for streaming, and in physical form as a 7″ vinyl single, backed by Tommy Bolin’s Post Toastee 2024 remix.
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up, and to Uwe for pointing out the full video.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Nice to see Steve bending the strings.
Here’s a keyboard version from Lachy Doley.
February 14th, 2026 at 08:28https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6hwKTeYYe0
Meh…
I suppose Uwe will like it though… with the slightly mannish-looking chick playing a bass guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPZUgfOqAdg
February 14th, 2026 at 08:46Anyone know anything about that Bolin remix?
February 14th, 2026 at 15:34Here‘s the full version:
https://youtu.be/EyE7zVFRvN0?si=57faKkqT7EfWUTRc
Naw, not my favorite Hendrix number either to say the least, kind of plodding, much like Mistreated. I also question the wisdom of having Steve emulate Hendrix, that is a bit like a high school arts teacher copying a Picasso painting for his class with chalk on the blackboard to „show them how it’s done“. 😂 Steve is a fine musician, but he has zero sex in his playing whereas Hendrix went out and banged his Strat before an audience every night. Steve might have childlike wonder for the intricacies of guitar playing, but I miss the voodoo in him. If Hendrix‘ music doesn‘t come from the loins, it‘s kinda pointless.
Now I‘m not sure whether I would call what the great late Terry Kath of Chicago did to his Strat “sex” either – it is perhaps a bit too rushed for that, high school sex maybe … 😂 -, but he at least shared Hendrix‘ pre-orgasmic frenzy.
As for that indie/alt/post-rock/garage blues-thing that Dead Groove seem to be pushing, I can think of more remarkable recent acts such as these two Irish lasses here:
https://youtu.be/zWyrnDhxB5k
February 14th, 2026 at 17:03@4
“I‘m not sure whether I would call what the great late Terry Kath of Chicago did to his Strat “sex” either – it is perhaps a bit too rushed for that…”
I know what you mean; no foreplay… just straight to the main event\money-shot. I always wondered how he would have fared in a straight-up rock & roll setting.
Thanks to the link to Dea Matrona; I liked it. Watched a few others by them on my lunch break. I like the bass player (Orláith?), wouldn’t mind hitting her “red-button”…
Why is there no emoji for lecherous old-man?
February 15th, 2026 at 08:35With his distinctive guitar playing style, one could hardly guess that Steve paid attention a lot to the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Leslie West, Tony Iommi, and George Harrison. His famous guitar-riff parade during the Abandon tour is certainly him paying homage to those classic rock guitarists.
He could play those classic rock songs but with his own recipe, like in the video above. Hence why it will divide people, because it doesn’t even close to the original.
The perfect example of Steve’s recipe of playing of a classic song to the original one is of course that duet with his hero Albert Lee on track “Country Boy”. The polar-opposite guitar styles between the two banjo players, yet it made the song richer and you could really enjoy the performance
It’s unbelievable that single one-off live jam performance like that could hit 1,6 million views, not to mention that the video was 7 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Wv0ZyuLhc
As for ‘guitar-s**’ on stage, I still don’t see anyone get close to that famous Prince’s 2004 performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, that man he really banged his guitar on stage lol.
February 15th, 2026 at 14:31I have tried to keep abreast of the deluge of Tommy Bolin releases since his death (not an easy thing to do, the release criteria and policies of the Tommy Bolin Archives, Cleopatra Records etc are about as transparent as those for the Epstein Files 😂), but even I have no idea what that Post Toastee remix is supposed to be. The last “new” Post Toastee release I heard was a very rudimentary and short version of it on “Shake The Devil – The Lost Sessions” from 2021 – captioned “acoustic demo”when it was very clearly Tommy playing electric guitar by himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD65SNWs48A
Hardly the type of material one would put on a B side – for historians only.
So no idea really, perhaps there is a remix of Private Eyes in preparation? 50 years after its initial release and Tommy’s death shortly after, that album is still a consistent seller and has never been deleted from the CBS/Epic catalog.
****************************
Russ, you don‘t need any emojis to signal to us the plunging depths of your cesspool of a mind!
February 15th, 2026 at 15:48@ 6 – thanks for the Biff Baby’s All Star Band clip. I witnessed them in action way back in 1993 in Brisbane, Australia. A wonderful night it was and Albert Lee (General Lee) on the SMB ‘Introduction’ album and also the ‘Stand Up’ album. He gets around Albert, my first encounter with him on a record would probably be Jon Lord’s Gemini Suite. He was also a member of Eric Clapton’s band, 1979/80 era, Just One Night the live album. Cheers.
February 15th, 2026 at 16:54Andre, Prince was terribly underrated as a guitarist. He was a grand musician at everything he did, but his soloing on guitar was something else. Controlled wild abandon if that makes sense.
February 15th, 2026 at 17:13About time too, Uwe. While Teaser saw some deluxe reissue treatment Private Eyes remains in the shadows – and what a gem.it really is!
February 15th, 2026 at 18:27I have frankly no idea whether the masters of Private Eyes still exist. Something tells me that if they still did and had been accessible all along, we would have seen a remix already some time ago. It’s probably the issue of spending the time and money of finding them, it would have to be a dedicated team doing so.
I prefer Private Eyes to Teaser. Not that a teaser was a bad album, but you could hear that it was recorded at various places with various musicians over a longer period of time. Private Eyes was more aus einem Guss and of course it contained all these Purple influences like the pronounced use of Hammond sounds.
February 15th, 2026 at 21:10Bustin’ Out for Rosey (I could have very well imagined Glenn singing that), Post Toastee and Shake the Devil could have all been songs for a never recorded follow-up to CTTB. Coverdale could have even done a fine job with You Told Me That You Loved Me. Not that I don’t like Tommy’s voice on those songs, he had a lot of intimacy in his pipes and his singing voice was unusually similar to his talking voice which is rare.
Why Steve Morse isn’t Jimi Hendrix … 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xDYXthbJ2wU
February 15th, 2026 at 23:05#7: How many copies of Private Eyes are sold annually?
February 16th, 2026 at 05:44“…the plunging depths of your cesspool of a mind!”
Thanks Uwe, that’s the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GodLzq0jmQ4
February 16th, 2026 at 08:19@13 Not sure about the annual numbers, but it eventually went gold in 2000:
February 16th, 2026 at 08:35https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=tommy+bolin#search_section
And deservedly so, it’s a very well-rounded, intimate, varied and mature album for someone in his mid 20s. Tommy was a musicianly soul. Dennis MacKay, who had worked with the Beatles and David Bowie among others, also did a very sympathetic production to Tommy’s music. Tommy certainly left a lasting impression on him:
https://youtu.be/dEtgpp-uA78?si=WfY8FjFUnsNMNt5v
I got to know a lot of people who cared little for Deep Purple, Rainbow, GILLAN or Whitesnake, yet said Tommy’s music was special to them. Women especially are attracted to his music in a
February 16th, 2026 at 16:01way you are not gonna find with any Rainbow album, I think it is Tommy’s inherent playfulness that speaks to them. Private Eyes is for me to this day one of the strongest DP family albums outside of the core band canon.
#8 Watching the video started me to explore Albert Lee’s discography. I love folk, country, and bluegrass music
#9 Prince on stage with his guitar, it’s always like he tried his best to channel Jimi Hendrix’s freedom and honesty with the instrument.
February 16th, 2026 at 16:13Unfortunately most music fans only know him as the direct rival of Michael Jackson in the 1980’s charts. It was more about his songs and his vocals. If that George Harrison’s 2004 concert never happened, I’m not sure many would recognize his guitar talent
True, some of those songs could have been a nice part of another DP album… I always prefered Private Eyes too though Teaser has of course strong songs too. It just does sound much harsher. Private Eyes, like PAL, CAT and Play Me Out and Whitesnake, the album, make 1976 a very special year in DP history. Ok…CAT might be 1977.
February 16th, 2026 at 16:25Russ, that ZZ Top Performance you linked (from a 1980 German Rockpalast where they came, saw and conquered) is from their pinnacle era. I think that Deguello stands out among all their albums as songwriting goes, “I Want To Thank You” was their best cover, it was the time when Dusty still sang a lot and the LinnDrum (machines) were yet safely away – as were guitar backing tracks during live gigs, you still heard the pure trio unlike today.
Plus they hadn’t started stealing sharp dressed manly verse riffs from Trapeze yet! 😂
https://youtu.be/AekyCxYUMEI
February 17th, 2026 at 14:38@7
Indeed, a rudimentary and surely not acoustic version. But I do like this take of the main riff. The one that ended up in the album sounds too much like Clapton’s “Cocaine” to my ears
February 17th, 2026 at 15:39“Unfortunately most music fans only know him as the direct rival of Michael Jackson in the 1980’s charts. It was more about his songs and his vocals. If that George Harrison’s 2004 concert never happened, I’m not sure many would recognize his guitar talent.”
Many rock fans are unjustly dismissive of both MJ’s and Prince’s musical abilities. In musical terms, both those guys were giants, no matter how weird and reclusive they both could be and MJ’s dubious attraction to eternal childhood especially.
The little guy from Minneapolis could play a really mean and raunchy rock guitar, not just on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnvV6z1J-KI
February 17th, 2026 at 20:12Not wrong with the dreaded commercial 80’s and onwards ZZ Top. I loathed their commercial ‘attitude’ to the blues etc. The 1980’s strikes again. Cheers.
February 17th, 2026 at 20:39Uhum, that is JJ Cale’s Cocaine please! EC covered it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNUJSuO-lgw
February 18th, 2026 at 00:53Thanks Uwe, that Prince compilation was something else… especially Something in the Water.
February 18th, 2026 at 08:33@23 Uwe
> Uhum, that is JJ Cale’s Cocaine please! EC covered it.
true, true, true!
February 18th, 2026 at 08:34@19
“…that ZZ Top Performance you linked (from a 1980 German Rockpalast…”
That one was from Old Grey Whistle Test. For those of you unfamiliar with the meaning behind the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Grey_Whistle_Test#History
Yes, they were formidable back then. And were still a force to be reckoned with in their post “sell-out” days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDJI52RTOI
February 18th, 2026 at 09:29Russ, you’re of course right, the fact that they wore the same outfits and had that flame logo confused me!
https://youtu.be/PjbaHlTl86Q
I saw them a couple of years ago, still with Dusty. It was entertaining, but there is no improvisation going on and on some songs the Lil Ole Band From Texas was pretty much buried under all the backing tracks: electronic drums, percussion, keyboard sequencer and extra rhythm guitar. When you hear at least three guitars playing, but there is only one Billy Gibbons on stage, it gets conspicuous.
February 18th, 2026 at 15:13