Steve Morse´s guitarsolo in this song is John Petrucci´s favorite solo and also one of his main influences when it comes to speedpicking Hard to believe but true

I am proud to say I went to middle school with Steve in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

They loved revamping songs and melodies. Great musicians.

Wow, in 1977, I was privileged to interview the band, including, Twiggs Lyndon, their road manager, and the Allman Brothers band's road manager too! Steve, Andy, Rod, Allen, all super guys. We all had beer during the interview, at Stony Brook University. Afterwards, Twiggs took me and my friend/photographer Bob Towler, into his van for a special treat! Twiggs had "Duane Allman's" 1959 Cherry sunburst Les Paul! He actually let me play it for a good 10 minutes! I havn't been the same since! :^)

Morse was such a beast at young age, amazing guitar player

The precision during Steve's solo is insane

@Wookie8058

6 жыл бұрын

The lick Steve does at 4:24 in this just blow me outta my sneakers, good gawd. And yes, Steve is razor sharp, ALL of these guys are.

@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, 01:50 is just mind blowing!!!

@johng6192

3 жыл бұрын

@@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490 Those are the riffs he's acclaimed for. That cross picking riff is absolutely insane.

@claypage1089

3 жыл бұрын

Good God

@DelEngen

3 жыл бұрын

Not only Steve's precision, and everyone else's precision, but that they all play so precisely TOGETHER, and with such nonchalance.

What is truly amazing is that these guys were all in their early 20's when this video was made.

The Best Guitarist - Composer on this Planet !!! Morse is King !!!

@johng6192

3 жыл бұрын

Word.

@bob5951

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely - Hereafter and Old World prove it.

I have immese respect for Steve Morse. And I have had that same respect for 35 years.

My band opened for the DD in 1977 in a small club near Macon Ga. I was so intimidated to get up there and play with them standing in the back of the audience. This was right after "Freefall" came out and they were really still a southern phenomena. Freefall is still my favorite tune of theirs.

@crashatollah

2 жыл бұрын

I saw them at Suny Albany mayfest in ‘81. One of the greatest shows i’ve ever seen.

Who ain't gonna like this? Wheee......

It's amazing to watch Steve FLY on that fret bar like he does, let alone hear the magic he is capable of! And then there is Alan Sloan.. OMG what he plays on that fiddle/violin is astounding! All Of these musicians are Top Shelf, cream of the crop!!

Steve was on it so hard in this period if time way before tendonitis

HOLY CRAP, Morses interpretation is amazing, I never saw any guitar player do the picking like this, STEVE MORSE FOREVER

Thank you YT algorithm for dropping this in my path today. JFC - such amazing players!!😳😳

HEARD IM FREAKING OUT IN 1980 WENT AND BOUGHT THE ALBUM DREGS OF THE EARTH WOWOWOWOWOWOWW!!!!!!!!

If only Deep Purple fans knew ...

@88omair

8 жыл бұрын

+Elías Baez Tabe Agreed hard. I thought getting into DP would cause fans to check his older material, sadly it still goes under the radar.

@necroyoli08

8 жыл бұрын

Omair Sheikh Exactly !! I mean, Blackmore is great, but whatever his fans would say, Steve is much more innovative, even in Deep Purple, but people get blinded by big names.

@88omair

7 жыл бұрын

The Dixie Dregs has Steve Morse' best music for me

@nazzare79

7 жыл бұрын

Deep Purple fans know and appreciate it. Always and only top players in that band. This video is anyway one of my favourite things from Mr. Morse...

@ankihansen2489

6 жыл бұрын

Elías Baez Tabe Lol, no one can surpass the legendary Blackmore. He has created a lot of rock anthems and made history with two bands (Deep Purple and Rainbow). Sadly, Steve Morse didn't.

Steve is the man - and that fiddler flat out smokes

@marcanglin7127

6 ай бұрын

The great Allen Sloan.

Jaw dropping goodness. Love it.

My older brother brought this home and played it for me when I was 17. steve Morse became my fave guitarist/composer for the next 10 years. If you type my name (Michael Gregory) into KZread, you can see my version of this tune, done in tribute. My band opened for Steve & the Dregs on several occasions. Always an honor and a joy.

I listened to these guys in the late 70's when I lived near Macon, GA. They were fairly popular, but radio airplay was limited to songs like "Take it Off the Top." It's great to see such great musicianship!

Unreal!! The Dregs were absolutely killing it back in the day I had 8 tracks of them in late 70s savage playing!!

Daaaaamn the O. G’s

One of the most intense songs ever written.

Saw these guys at the University of Miami in 1979 on campus. Amazing. Unbelievable.

@SteveKaynan

4 жыл бұрын

Man Miami must have been much different back then cause I've had no luck finding guys to play with down here lol

@mayito714

4 жыл бұрын

@@SteveKaynan Steve graduated from U of Miami he played with the Jazz Ensemble group at UM while I was there. In fact, this entire band formed at the U of Miami school of Music.

@SteveKaynan

4 жыл бұрын

@@mayito714 right on! I left Miami during the holidays, I was very disapointed, don't know what happened lol

Love this band and Steve Morse is still my favorite guitarist.

you can hear how precise Steve Morse is he plays with no distortion so it comes out clean and clear players use to play fast only with distortion so that when the mess up a bit it isn't heard

There was colour TV back in 1978, but black and white TVs were still available. Tuning in to this must have inspired a lot of kids to pick up a guitar.

Country music on speed - Brilliant.

I saw these guys once at UCSB when I was about 14yrs old. I remember that they did this song, it was an unbelievable show!

Dad, Thank you so much for having great musical taste and raising me on band such as the DIxie Dregs

John Petrucci has this listed this song as a huge inspiration for his guitar playing. Love the bluegrass stuff!

Loco me estaba hundiendo hace un rato no más... y esto me está salvando la vida

jaysuuuuuuzs... this makes me happy to discover a new gold mine. enjoy everyone

Bull Bash at The College of Charleston! Thanks for the memories of some FINE playing!

Amazing stuff. Really love this.

Divieto Dregs . Grande gruppo di virtuosi !

As much as I love the musicians and the music, the most amazing thing about this is the camerawork. Truly incredible.

Steve Morse beats all the other great tele-slingers, live, for all to see and hear. Tone, Taste, and Timing, it's all there. One of the best guitar performances ever recorded... Incredible.

@jscordoba3

Жыл бұрын

It is. This performance even for Steve himself is a cut above. He's always been a special player but he was double special this night.

I remember buying their cassette tape specifically for this song. I played it over and over 1000 times...lol! Steve and the band were amazing!

Have no idea how many times I have seen them. Truly blessed!

I've been a Dregs fan for three decades, have listened to this tune for almost as long on Night of the Living Dregs, had pictured what it would have been like to see this live and now to see it...I don't know what to say, it's like a miracle. Never thought it would happen :) Thanks so much for posting!

this is breathtaking

I Still got my button "Dregs Do It With They're Fingers" Great old footage!

LOVE IT.. At 3:56 Alan looks like he is ready to square off in a duel with Steve... lol Incredible talent they ALL are!!

This is the best medicine if you've had a bad day this brings an instant smile. Amazing! Steve morse is an insane guitarist. Every time I watch this I just wait for that violin to catch on fire :D

Amazing!!

I have just witnessed country-fried awesome.

I bought Night of the Living Dregs in '79....wow...this was an album that sounded great LOUD! Thanks!

The first guitar solo is so incredible, maybe the all time best solo from Steve.

@Wookie8058

2 жыл бұрын

It seemed like an endless solo, perfectly done, I don't think there was a note that wasn't meant to be played, incredibly accurate, clean, fast, and oh so tasty.!! Was amazing to hear this, let alone SEE it!! Good GAWD!!

This is much more hadbanging song than most punk or metal songs today (which I preffer usualy). Not to mention instrumental viruosity, which is not only stupid speed scales and arpeggios up and down, but has dynamics and color. Together it hass balls like hell!!!

Amazing group. Grateful to have finally seen them on their latest tour.

Holy Crap! 1 minute and 37 seconds in and I've already died and gone to heaven. God, Steve Morse is such an amazing guitar player.

Steve Morse is always amazing...its just strange seeing him with sleeves on his shirt hahaha

@hazor777

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA!! TRue!

Morse has always had such a unique, very cool combination of pick-ups and the variation between them.. I see the synth he used to trigger, old style, back then! I never thought I would get to "SEE" this song be played, that I first heard when I bought Night of the Living Dregs back in about '78. Then I was hooked... Then I got their album 'What If' ... ....An amzing album, my opinion, their best..

All I can say is, "Holy Mackerel!"

I got the pleasure of seeing these boys that year. Changed the way I've thought about music from that moment on. This is still one of my favorite live songs

There should be a 6 star rating. I've had his solo on this memorized for years. how great to see it

WOW! Stevie Morse is the dawwwwgggggggggg's! \m/

@Bundy1 That is actually a Telecaster Delux. I bought one in '74 only mine had a maple neck. I sold it in '82 and am still kicking myself for it. I think they only made them for a few years. He has a humbucking (or two) and a single coil strat pickup. Mine had two humbuckings, one had a splitter so I could get a great strat sound too. What a fool I was to sell it. Ugh.

they're all just smiling while Steve is playing thinking "hah, this guy is just amazing"

ALLEN SLOAN IS IN DA HOUSE !!!

GG steve morse,and even more GG the gtr+violin unison btw the music is VRY HAPPY N SME WHT FUNNY

Thanks for posting - This is fantastic!!! Morse is just the greatest!

almost speedmetal :) steve morse is great guitarist, hard working, perfect in any genre

I was a diehard fan in the 70s... this causes me to look-up Steve and se what he's cookin' up in the new century.

Forgot how great this band sounds been along time since I heard their music

Steve Morse is the best

@metamorphosis67 I am glad that the music of DP can still be performed! I went to a concert two months ago. And yes, Jon Lord isn't there and Ritchie isn't there, but at least their music survives!

michael angelo and the most shereders only play patterns, sweep, down and upstrokes. this guy can play chicken picking, incredible melodic control, real speed picking, beautyful bending, high speed, clean like a brand ferrari, modes, great taste. very artistic. please mr. morse, leave the purple! i need you in this styles...

@Payin_Attention

6 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it! Purple's relentless touring has destroyed Steve's picking-hand wrist.

and why don't you hear this on radio? even public radio, why doesn't radio play music this good? this is classic just off the charts

stunning

Amazing sound...

WOOOW a younger steve morse O.O

That is fantastic older footage of a dynamic band. Believe me there were very many young axe slingers picking up on Steve Morse's technique and style and he was a profound influence on many future speed and thrash metal guitar players. He was a legend in the hard rock metal community before he joined Deep Purple.

@stephenmartin6733

Жыл бұрын

Yes as Steve was winning every guitar poll.

I hear you! You know whats wild about this....lol..... I got 'What If' when I was about 13 or 14 yrs old.. it wasn't until about a year after I got the album, that one night while listening to it , I smoked a bowl, and I by chance looked at the album upside down, and realized it was an actual photo of a breaking ocean wave going through the centre of the album.. Wha!?!.. blew me away.....I had thought it was just a wierd design until then..

Saw these guys at the Philly Zoo in June of 82 opening for the Hooters. We left after they went off knowing full well there was nothing left to see. Killer show.

It really doesn't get any better than that.

Скрипач просто огонь, супер!, а вот - Морс.. просто морс, от такого не запьянеешь, только ссать охота. 😅

I found this video on KZread---I bought my first Dixie Dregs album "Night of the Living Dregs"---or actually 8-track tape back when I was in Oklahoma City OK--must have been 1991---I had to drive for 14 hours back to NYC and I had an 8-track player in the car---this store had 8 tracks for $1 a piece---so I bought about 12---and I liked the cover---figured it would be country, down home, run over an animal and eat it----wow was I surprised---been a fan of the Dregs ever since---

Sounds like some Jackson Brown shit, Morse has such a unique style, nobody plays like him. He's got the technical skills and he still keeps it very alive and melodic. I always saw him on guitar magazines but until youtube I never heard his shit, now I know what all the hype is about, the man is pure genius.

Yes thanks posting!! I played the heck out of that album from time I bought it when it came out!!

pega! dream theater!

That...is beyond brilliant!!! Thanks so much for posting that.

I remember seeing this live on Long Island at My Fathers Place. Miss this band bad.

This song brought a tear to my eye cause its so awesome Rock on Steve

@DebrisHut - No, it's not a telly deluxe, though the neck might fool a lot of people. It's Steve's famous Frankenstein telecaster that he put together himself. Telly body, Strat neck, Gibson 335 humbucker at the neck, Synth pickup at the bridge, and a twelve string trapeze style tailpiece. Definitely an interesting guitar

nice. just now discovered this band and ...may be life changing.

Steve morse 🤘

old but gold.....

Yeah, that about says it all...

Most people don’t realize how hard it is do play this. I’ve tried for years to play Morse’s part, and still can’t. The amazing part is he was playing this in his early twenties.

@jscordoba3

Жыл бұрын

It's so true! While there's lots of players that can play this genre and play it well mind you... Steve is stylistically unique. He uses a lot of Crosspicking which many acoustic flatpickers do, but Steve is sooo much faster and cleaner with it than anyone by miles. While not a country tune, the best example I can think of is that impossible clean arpeggiated part in "Tumeni Notes". I can fingerpick that part, but to play it with a pick like Steve I've been trying for 30 years and am not even close

@Taylor-kd6lr

Жыл бұрын

@@jscordoba3 I definitely agree. If you are going to try to play a piece like this or Tumeni Notes, you better bring your A game. Morse’s stuff is soo technically demanding, that it’s ridiculous. He has to be the best pure picker I have ever seen. The only player that can play Tumeni Notes or The Bash like Steve, is Andy Wood. I have seen him play Tumeni Notes all the way through on his channel and he nailed it. He too is a huge Morse fan. Even though I can’t play most of his songs, it’s fun to try, and gives me something to strive toward. He is such a great player!

amazing

what if is really an excellent album, each song is so good that i can't pick my favorite; in fact, it changes all the time, one day my favorite is travel tunes, next day take it to the top, then ice cakes, etc

In the mid 80's my boyfriend and I were in Anaheim, California on our way to disneyland and we passed by this redone movie theatre. On the marquis it said 'the Dregs' I yelled out the window to the folks in line, "Is that the Dixie Dregs?" they said "Yyyeeeaaahhh!" "Bill, we gotta see these guys," I said! We stopped went in there and saw the concert...no seats... standing room only! I've regretted a lot of concerts...That was, by far, NOT one of them! They were one of the most exciting groups I have ever seen!

thanks i found it.

and I LOVE the vilolin - guitar duet, is AMAZING

Dregs in Montreux is the top of the live fusion music playing, at all!

Also available on their album "Night of the Living Dregs" with three other songs recorded live there on 23 July 1978 and four studio recordings.

Boogie time!