Here is Cassius Morris (if the name sound familiar, there’re a couple of reasons to that) talking to Joe Lynn Turner, It’s a long conversation, at over an hour, and JLT hasn’t changed a single bit, so buckle up.
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Mike Whiteley says:
Aside from the Ritchie reunion, this interview has a large sense of deja vu about it. JLT has stock phrases ready to go. Of course, all of them should be taken with a grain of salt.
Turner with wise words when he says the nonsense of the past with the feuds in DP don’t mean much compared to what the band members accomplished. The memories and bonds of friendship are what matter most at the end of the day.
He confirmed that he hasn’t had any more problems since his heart attack in 2018. talked about Malmsteen apparently stealing Joe’s royalties for the songs on Odyssey!? He was positively impressed by Ritche and Big Ian’s reunion, calling it a lesson for everyone. He said that in S&M he did his job without thinking about the pressure and consequences, and I personally believe him; I consider Joe a great professional. He also called S&M “elegant,” and I think that’s the best description for that album.
Cassius is so cutely doe-eyed – which is ok, when you’re that young (or at least look that young) you are allowed to be.
Actually, as JLT interviews go, this one is low on hyperbole content. He’s mild on Ritchie, not so much on Yngwie, but then we all know the Sweidush Wunderkind can be a handful and of course really has been the greatest gift to contemporary music in the 20th century and beyond.
Say what you will about Joe, he’s still got pipes.
#5 Uwe: Did Yngwie’s ego get into your head while you were writing the post?
In the video, you can clearly hear that he still has a more-than-good vibrato; his voice is excellent for his age.
Stone Cold, It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Roger and Blagona’s production brought the elegance Joe spoke about in the interview to all his albums with Rainbow, right up to Deep Purple’s S&M. and the Blackmore-Turner partnership was highly creative.
but then I met him at a DiMarzio clinic at the Frankfurt Music Fair and chatted with him for about five minutes. I had up to then never met someone who was so full of himself. I think he wore sun protection in his face for fear the light shining from his ass might burn him. 😂
The Lord gave him this amazing set of hands and fingers to play guitar with, but somehow forgot everything else in the process … 🙄
Actually, I have a lot of respect for Yngwie and his work from the 80s.
He was the guitar hero who took up Ritchie’s legacy and pushed it to the limit, a neoclassical heavy metal talent without equal. Odyssey and Trilogy set absolute standards that also influenced guitarists in the burgeoning power metal genre.
He took Ritchie’s alternate picking and elevated it to new horizons, territory Blackmore himself abandoned when he shifted to the lavish AOR sound of the Rainbow era that began with the Bonnet lineup.
Just when tapping was all the rage among guitarists, he was pursuing a Baroque vision of metal.
When I saw him at that small club in Milan called Rainbow—the name itself was already a “sliding doors” moment—it was simply incredible. I think maybe the Magnum Opusc tour, still a good album.
I remember a friend of mine who wrote for Flash Magazine, he brought a bottle of Brunello di Montalcino along for the interview, because otherwise Yngwie wouldn’t answer questions willingly.
After shw my guitarist got his guitar autographed, and Yngwie had a girlfriend who looked like Cindy Crawford!
I also respect the work he did with G3; it was great seeing him alongside Petrucci and Vai, trading licks with a style so distinct from everyone else’s, in a way, it was like watching the Ritchie of 1976 dueling with other guitarists.
Obviously, I thank fate for bringing Steve into Purple, and not Yngwie.
But it reached its peak with the work “Suite for Electric Guitar & Orchestra”, and you’ve got to have balls of steel to pull something like that:
I’m not questioning Yngwie’s chops, but some people can do terrible things really well. These guys here didn’t listen to enough Chuck Berry either if you ask me, when children go bad it’s no cause for celebration … 😑
No-one in the world delivers a better air-kick on-stage than Yngwie…He can also play some extraordinary guitar lines & can put together a riff equal to, or better than the well celebrated riff-meisters we know & love…His guitar sound is also really impressive too imo.
His playing is his own however, I think the filthy-press assimilated a relationship to RB simply because Yngwie stated ( & still states ) DP’s Fireball as a big influence on him when he was young. So it’s a noose we tie around his neck regretfully.
There are for sure over-lays in some phrases here & there with RB, but that’s mainly because of the rig & sound produced, plus the classical inflections from dogma-practice that both share, rather than Yngwie imitating RB in any way imo.
This is likely why many great players tend to avoid Stratocaster’s combined with say Marshall stacks in their younger years. The awesome sound is so good & familiar, people wrongly assume you play like someone else, where rather, you may tend to sound like someone familiar.
Many great players such as Clapton, Townshend, & say Mick Rogers eventually came back to a Stratocaster though… Too good to resist, & life is too short to be working with lesser tools ha-ha !
Even Blackmore himself considered Yngwie a copycat and found it amusing that Yngwie only started to deny that once he found it stunting for his own career.
But our Swedish incarnation of modesty is on record for saying that he believed DP would call him when Ritchie went AWOL – except that no one from the Purple camp ever did. 😂
IMO, those quotes are simply fodder for the filthy-press to bring to our attention, where any-press is good-press. All 3 x parties involved likely took advantage of that scenario imo. ( He said this, & they replied with…And we have a profitable game of tennis going on lol ).
For the record, Steve Morse & Yngwie have more in common at least with their soloing guitar sound, since the general sound produced whilst soloing is nearly 100% front pick-up. And this is a sound that Hendrix often used & brought to everyone’s attention.
Perhaps as far as riff-making goes, for sure there’s a common-ground being covered with RB, Steve, Simon & Yngwie via the rear pick-up use…But that’s what riff-making is all about, & it’s hard to steer away from that common ground.
People like Joe Satriani choose not to be riff-makers per-se, though they can obviously play them easily. I have around 10 of Joe’s albums, & “mostly” you discover a single-note melody line that’s backed by a rhythmic chord sequence that shapes the tune, not a riff…Santana is the same in this regard, along with countless others, even Steve Vai or Zappa. Play me a Dave Gilmour Riff lol ! Even Jimmy Page didn’t play riffs as I’m trying to define them, as quite often he played single-notes that were then backed by a chordal-phrase, & over a couple-of-bars, you had the motif defined, but was it a riff ?…I guess that’s an open door for folks to make their own decision on. There’s no wrongs or rights, simply one’s own definition on things.
To elaborate, I define a Riff as being a melody-line / hook that’s played using generally 2-note-chords, which is what the bulk of DP’s early Mk-II tunes are built around.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Aside from the Ritchie reunion, this interview has a large sense of deja vu about it. JLT has stock phrases ready to go. Of course, all of them should be taken with a grain of salt.
September 3rd, 2026 at 18:35Turner with wise words when he says the nonsense of the past with the feuds in DP don’t mean much compared to what the band members accomplished. The memories and bonds of friendship are what matter most at the end of the day.
September 3rd, 2026 at 23:10Interesting interview with Jolene.
He confirmed that he hasn’t had any more problems since his heart attack in 2018.
September 3rd, 2026 at 23:23talked about Malmsteen apparently stealing Joe’s royalties for the songs on Odyssey!?
He was positively impressed by Ritche and Big Ian’s reunion, calling it a lesson for everyone.
He said that in S&M he did his job without thinking about the pressure and consequences, and I personally believe him;
I consider Joe a great professional.
He also called S&M “elegant,” and I think that’s the best description for that album.
Yo,
@3 said…qt.”I consider Joe a great professional”…
Well said, plus he has a great singing voice too.
Ciao !
September 4th, 2026 at 22:09Cassius is so cutely doe-eyed – which is ok, when you’re that young (or at least look that young) you are allowed to be.
Actually, as JLT interviews go, this one is low on hyperbole content. He’s mild on Ritchie, not so much on Yngwie, but then we all know the Sweidush Wunderkind can be a handful and of course really has been the greatest gift to contemporary music in the 20th century and beyond.
Say what you will about Joe, he’s still got pipes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGsQ5ViZm9Y
September 4th, 2026 at 22:20#5 Uwe:
Did Yngwie’s ego get into your head while you were writing the post?
In the video, you can clearly hear that he still has a more-than-good vibrato; his voice is excellent for his age.
Stone Cold, It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
September 4th, 2026 at 23:34Roger and Blagona’s production brought the elegance Joe spoke about in the interview to all his albums with Rainbow, right up to Deep Purple’s S&M.
and the Blackmore-Turner partnership was highly creative.
Flavio, I was being tongue in cheek, are you now like Mike too and require challenge humor italics whenever I pull my sardonic court jester stunts? 🤣
Yngwie is a talented guitarist. He’s also full of himself. More full than talented, though that is quite a high mark to top.
September 5th, 2026 at 14:39#7 Uwe:
I was joking too, but would it have been a huge surprise to everyone if you loved Yngwie, don’t you think?
September 5th, 2026 at 23:56I loved Yngwie’s guitar playing on the Alcatrazz debut,
https://youtu.be/MjFkdXAgSw8?is=0VSsytWL65r7pA9c
(No one took risks and stretched himself like Bonnet singing live.)
but then I met him at a DiMarzio clinic at the Frankfurt Music Fair and chatted with him for about five minutes. I had up to then never met someone who was so full of himself. I think he wore sun protection in his face for fear the light shining from his ass might burn him. 😂
The Lord gave him this amazing set of hands and fingers to play guitar with, but somehow forgot everything else in the process … 🙄
September 6th, 2026 at 13:04#9 Uwe:
Actually, I have a lot of respect for Yngwie and his work from the 80s.
He was the guitar hero who took up Ritchie’s legacy and pushed it to the limit, a neoclassical heavy metal talent without equal. Odyssey and Trilogy set absolute standards that also influenced guitarists in the burgeoning power metal genre.
He took Ritchie’s alternate picking and elevated it to new horizons, territory Blackmore himself abandoned when he shifted to the lavish AOR sound of the Rainbow era that began with the Bonnet lineup.
Just when tapping was all the rage among guitarists, he was pursuing a Baroque vision of metal.
When I saw him at that small club in Milan called Rainbow—the name itself was already a “sliding doors” moment—it was simply incredible.
I think maybe the Magnum Opusc tour, still a good album.
I remember a friend of mine who wrote for Flash Magazine, he brought a bottle of Brunello di Montalcino along for the interview, because otherwise Yngwie wouldn’t answer questions willingly.
After shw my guitarist got his guitar autographed, and Yngwie had a girlfriend who looked like Cindy Crawford!
I also respect the work he did with G3; it was great seeing him alongside Petrucci and Vai, trading licks with a style so distinct from everyone else’s, in a way, it was like watching the Ritchie of 1976 dueling with other guitarists.
Obviously, I thank fate for bringing Steve into Purple, and not Yngwie.
But it reached its peak with the work “Suite for Electric Guitar & Orchestra”, and you’ve got to have balls of steel to pull something like that:
https://youtu.be/2rF5Kvr9pVo?si=Yga5h3yypShmbGP8
September 7th, 2026 at 20:00Over time, the classical component in Yngwie’s playing became too much for me, it began to sound stilted, like these guys and gals here …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsgmogi-mxQ
I’m old-fashioned, but I firmly believe any rock guitarist – no exceptions – shouldn’t forget the vital roots of it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sagmwSY-ZEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKCt8ssC7cs&list=RDaKCt8ssC7cs&start_radio=1
I’m not questioning Yngwie’s chops, but some people can do terrible things really well. These guys here didn’t listen to enough Chuck Berry either if you ask me, when children go bad it’s no cause for celebration … 😑
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNmz17gnMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDltPLFdkYI
September 8th, 2026 at 16:57(No, your speakers aren’t broke, it’s meant to sound that way. 😂)
Yo,
No-one in the world delivers a better air-kick on-stage than Yngwie…He can also play some extraordinary guitar lines & can put together a riff equal to, or better than the well celebrated riff-meisters we know & love…His guitar sound is also really impressive too imo.
His playing is his own however, I think the filthy-press assimilated a relationship to RB simply because Yngwie stated ( & still states ) DP’s Fireball as a big influence on him when he was young. So it’s a noose we tie around his neck regretfully.
There are for sure over-lays in some phrases here & there with RB, but that’s mainly because of the rig & sound produced, plus the classical inflections from dogma-practice that both share, rather than Yngwie imitating RB in any way imo.
This is likely why many great players tend to avoid Stratocaster’s combined with say Marshall stacks in their younger years. The awesome sound is so good & familiar, people wrongly assume you play like someone else, where rather, you may tend to sound like someone familiar.
Many great players such as Clapton, Townshend, & say Mick Rogers eventually came back to a Stratocaster though… Too good to resist, & life is too short to be working with lesser tools ha-ha !
Ciao !
September 12th, 2026 at 03:09Even Blackmore himself considered Yngwie a copycat and found it amusing that Yngwie only started to deny that once he found it stunting for his own career.
But our Swedish incarnation of modesty is on record for saying that he believed DP would call him when Ritchie went AWOL – except that no one from the Purple camp ever did. 😂
https://youtu.be/OSmYx0kg7bc
I imagine being on a tour bus with Yngwie as one endless Scandinavian horror movie. 🙈
September 12th, 2026 at 21:38Yo,
@13…
IMO, those quotes are simply fodder for the filthy-press to bring to our attention, where any-press is good-press. All 3 x parties involved likely took advantage of that scenario imo. ( He said this, & they replied with…And we have a profitable game of tennis going on lol ).
For the record, Steve Morse & Yngwie have more in common at least with their soloing guitar sound, since the general sound produced whilst soloing is nearly 100% front pick-up. And this is a sound that Hendrix often used & brought to everyone’s attention.
Perhaps as far as riff-making goes, for sure there’s a common-ground being covered with RB, Steve, Simon & Yngwie via the rear pick-up use…But that’s what riff-making is all about, & it’s hard to steer away from that common ground.
People like Joe Satriani choose not to be riff-makers per-se, though they can obviously play them easily. I have around 10 of Joe’s albums, & “mostly” you discover a single-note melody line that’s backed by a rhythmic chord sequence that shapes the tune, not a riff…Santana is the same in this regard, along with countless others, even Steve Vai or Zappa. Play me a Dave Gilmour Riff lol ! Even Jimmy Page didn’t play riffs as I’m trying to define them, as quite often he played single-notes that were then backed by a chordal-phrase, & over a couple-of-bars, you had the motif defined, but was it a riff ?…I guess that’s an open door for folks to make their own decision on. There’s no wrongs or rights, simply one’s own definition on things.
To elaborate, I define a Riff as being a melody-line / hook that’s played using generally 2-note-chords, which is what the bulk of DP’s early Mk-II tunes are built around.
Ciao !
September 12th, 2026 at 23:49