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Location: Carle Place, NY | I tried to alert Moody to this, but he seemed uninterested so I'll post it for all of you, especially those who are going to NAMM this weekend.
Steve Morse, who is the BEST guitarist to EVER walk the earth, is playing two shows this weekend. Friday is at The Coach House in San Juan Capristano and Saturday is in San Diego at the North Park Theater.
Anyone who plays guitar can fully appreciate Steve's enormous talents. You don't have to be familiar with his music to enjoy the concert. I guarantee you that you will be blown away when you see and hear him play.
For any of you that are going to NAMM, do whatever you need to do to get your butt into a seat at one of these concerts.
Go to stevemorse.com for more info.
I'm posting this for the benefit of all of you fellow guitarists who are lucky enough to be in SoCal this weekend- DO NOT MISS SEEING STEVE MORSE LIVE, EVEN IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM OR DON'T KNOW A NOTE OF HIS MUSIC!!!
And Moody, if you rather eat lobster at Witko's expense than see one of these concerts, you're beyond hope. |
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Location: GA USA | What kind of Ovations does he play? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Steve does play (or used to) a Legend.
... and the man does have serious chops. |
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Location: NJ | the guitar player for deep purple !!
but more notably for the dixie dregs |
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Location: NJ | When did he play w/Purple??
During the David Coverversion Days??
(I must've missed that)
I remember he did a stint with Kansas for a while . . . |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Mitch,
Is this the same guitar player that you played on the cd player on the way home from Amy and Kim's party? If he is "WOW" nice. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | He's with DP currently, I believe. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Steve is the current guitarist for DP and has been for the past several years. He does huge world tours with that band which is why it's rare that he does concerts of his own music nowadays. All the more reason to see him while you have the opportunity.
Read THIS for more info about Steve Morse. |
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Location: NJ | WoW!!
Ian Gillan's STILL singing with Purple??
Howz he sound?
He was one of my "heroes" as an adolescent rock&roll banshee.
He has(had) a GREAT set o'pipes!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I remember seeing him 20 years ago at a NAMM show after a dinner that the wine bill was more that the food, and that was with 20 people!
I figured out that night how he plays so fast and good, he has eight fingers on each hand. |
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Location: GA USA | Don't forget his stint with Kansas.
Edited: Oops. I just read Cliff's... strange that we would both say "stint". |
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Location: Long Island, NY | Hi folks, Mitchrx here from Andrew's computer.
I don't get real passionate about a lot of things, but a Steve Morse concert is one of them. He now is a regular member of Deep Purple and does world-wide tours that take 6 months to complete, and sometimes more. Once every two years, he takes some time to do a short tour where he plays his own music, with guys he loves to do it with, who also happen to be fantastically talented as well, at small venues, in front of his most faithful fans. He goes all out for these shows to make sure that each note of each song is a work of art.
There's a huge difference between the DP tours and these small relatively local Dixie Dregs/Steve Morse band gigs. The DP tours is where he makes his living. The DD/SMB tours he does for the fun of it and for the sole benefit of his long-time fans. The energy level at the concerts is physical and palpable.
Every time I see him in concert, I feel a renewed appreciation for being a man at this time, on this planet. I'm not religious, but Steve's talents in concert help me to understand the incredible miracle of human life and that we must be here for some purpose, even if it is merely for our own enjoyment of art and music.
It pisses me off to see six pages of NAMM party B.S. here on this site along with "mystery box" crap without anyone realizing that Steve Morse will be in town for the NAMM show. It's not a coincidence that he scheduled the tour to be in SoCal at the same time as NAMM. He's not listed on any program, but you can be sure that he'll be at some of the planned events.
Open your minds and your ears. The set list is posted on his site and it is an incredible showcase of his creative and virtuoso abilities.
If none of you go to either of the shows, all I can say is that you're missing out on something that you will remember forever. |
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Location: Long Island, NY | Originally posted by Phil Wong:
Mitch,
Is this the same guitar player that you played on the cd player on the way home from Amy and Kim's party? If he is "WOW" nice. YUP! |
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Location: Tennessee | OK ... I'm game for the Friday show in Capistrano. Tickets are still available. Anyone in town want to join me? Let me know asap and I'll score the tickets ($40 each). |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, you feel better now? |
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Location: big island | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8tC1s-7U00
Famous Riffs as played by Steve Morse
It just might not be everyone's "cup o' tea" though. |
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Location: big island | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIu7UA-823Y&mode=related&search=
This is more my style as played by Steve Morse. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Mitch, I wish I had your passion for something. Anything. Keep it up. I got as excited as I get after seeing Preston Reed this summer, but others didn't seem to share it. A guy I work with drove 350 miles to see the Who and drove back to see the Rolling Stones the next night. I'm too cheap to buy a ticket to either. |
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Location: Houston, TX | Wish I could be there. Big fan. Seems like he's always ben under the radar, even with most guitar players. Huge talent, and not just a riffin wanker playing speed-of-light scales (although he definitely can). Sounds...like he's always having fun. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | STEVE MORSE!!!!! AWRIGHT!!!!! Wish I could be there. Ritchie Blackmore is great, but Purple is as good as they ever have been with Morse playing lead. Purple's last two albums, "Bananas" and "Rapture Of The Deep" are outstanding. The group's songwriting has gotten better as they've gotten older.
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Location: TO, Canada | I saw him playng with Deep Puprle as far back as in 1996, in London UK. I think he had joined the band shortly before that year. He was great, although for many in the crowd he was just a replacemnt for the great Richie Blackmore. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I'm an old Freak. I love rock-n-roll.
They are both Steve Morse, but I like the one Lanaki picked. |
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Location: SoCal | Steve Morse is a terrific guitarist (even played with Al Dimeola and John McLaughlin for a while), but there are a ton of great guitarists who are going to be at the NAMM show. In the next day or so, we're going to be checking on tickets for the Acoustic Cafe, held on Friday night.
Bobbo, we need to talk tomorrow to firm up some plans. |
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Location: Tennessee | You know my name, look up the number. ;) |
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Location: SoCal | Hell son, I'm a professional.... all I need is your nickname.. |
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Steve Morse in SoCal- READ THIS!!!
