I met Steve several times and I never saw and listened a guitar player playing perfectly ALL guitar style with the perfection...And more of that he created his own style...you can recognize him at the first note. In this vidéo it's soooo great to hear him playnig all his Masterpieces...He has been fabulous in Deep Purple but he can make so much more !...But he let his fingerprints in Deep Purple discography for ever now because he written real classics Deep Purple songs since he joined them. Steve Morse is as important than Eddie Van Halen...Jimi Hendrix...David Gilmour.. Mark Knopfler...Albert Lee...Chet Atkins...Tommy Emmanuel...Randy Rhoads...Gary Moore...Joe Satriani...Steve Vai...Pat Metheny and so many others guitars God... His fantastic feeling and technic could let him playing all the songs of all the fantastic guitar players of all the time... The only one who's in a different music world is Eric Johnson.. and they appreciate each others and even recorded a song together on "Steve Morse Band" album " Stand up" and the title of the song us "Distant star"...Yes...both are so far from all others musicians...really two distant stars.

Stumbled across this vid and was amazed to see my college friend and Luthier extraordinaire Bill Conklin who passed away just a couple years ago. R.I.P. Bill Conklin

My prayers to Steve and his family 🙏🙏🙏

I was happy to see Steve get some fame and fortune with the Deep Purple years, but I always liked him best as a solo artist. His shows in the 80s were amazing. I know he stepped back recently for a variety of issues, and wish him the best going forward.

Love Morse and Henderson for their distinctive apart-from-the-crowd music.

Thanks for upload. Fun stuff.

Love Steve Morse - been a fan since '79 i guess - seen him so many times. Always fantastic - even with a cast on his wrist. Very sad to hear his wife passed.

Wow i remember owning this back in the day and losing it after relocating along with a whole bunch of vhs videos. Thanks so much.

@stratostar250

Жыл бұрын

It's reasons like this that made me want to upload it! Along with that it is practically impossible to find and absolutely packed with great stuff!

This is the most English I've heard from Akira!

I have all 3 Hot Guitarist vhs tapes and the 1 Hot Drummer vhs. That series should have continued.

@stratostar250

Жыл бұрын

My friend and I were given a copy of this from a teacher in high school, and we loved this. I've been thinking about trying to find the others and uploading them, because they are out of print and rare as is.

@joer5571

Жыл бұрын

@@stratostar250 Please do!! Thanks!

Downloaded, just in case. Thanks for posting, this is great!

Due to Steve’s career with the Dixie Dregs, he has so many different types of chops. Rock , country, jazz fusion, blues ect. He can do it all!

@reidwhitton6248

Жыл бұрын

Dregs, not Dreggs.

@spektor88

Жыл бұрын

It's the other way around. The Dregs have so many different styles because of Steve's wide-ranging chops. It was his band. He called the shots.

@reidwhitton6248

Жыл бұрын

@@spektor88 It wasn't Steve's band, it was The Dregs.

@spektor88

Жыл бұрын

@@reidwhitton6248 Functionally the Dregs were/are Steve's band. He's the co-founder, bandleader, sometime producer, and primary and usually sole songwriter. Are the Dregs the Steve Morse Band? No. Are the Dregs functionally Steve's band? Yes.

@reidwhitton6248

Жыл бұрын

@@spektor88 Actually, the Dregs are no more.

Thanks for sharing. I’m a fan of all these cats. What a great mix.

I watched him do a complete show with a broken arm at Ziggy’s in Winston Salem. Xcellant musicianship all evening! Bravo determination!!! Thanks Steve and the Dreggs for a wonderful night!

@hazor777

Жыл бұрын

I saw him on that same tour (2000 maybe?) - he broke his wrist, I think, trying to skateboard Funny thing is , he never missed a beat and I don’t think I heard any noticeable mistakes Guy is a consummate musician!

@danaeverhart6487

Жыл бұрын

@@hazor777 yes he was awesome. I think we had the very best seats at Ziggy’s ( up above stage on right ) stools were great 👍🏻 Steve was flawless start to finish!

Steve is an absolute monster.

@stratostar250

Жыл бұрын

That he is! Steve is unbelievable. Everyone in this video are absolute monsters. Scott henderson is in a league of his own, also.

Great! Thanks Tom.

great upload .

I love Hendersons playing back then! He played with killer players to

I freakin love Dweezil's Sheik Yerbouti guitar!! Growing up such an iconic record.

What a legend.

Du vrai steve morse comme à l'époque ! Bravo mr morse ! ❤❤❤

Steve is a hot guitarist ;) One of my favourites, absolute legend!

Excelente . las guitarras ...el alma del rock.las amo!!!

I m from malaysia,studied at ohio uni in 1979 till 1983. You played there often.

Thanks for posting this. Steve just lost his wife Janine, to cancer... 😢

@stratostar250

Жыл бұрын

:C I had no idea. So sad. Prayers for him and his family 🙏

@Jedizen07

Жыл бұрын

Hey Matt, has there been an official announcement yet? Didn't see any on his Facebook group. Happy he got to spend some more time with her. Steve is my all time favorite musician. Good man too. Thinking of him and his family today. :(

@kevinprowse406

Жыл бұрын

Oh no so sorry to hear this.

@annunacky4463

Жыл бұрын

Praying for him and family.

@MarijeEssink

Жыл бұрын

@Matt, where did you hear that about Janine passing away??? Early last month (June) she was still very much alive. I'm in touch with Steve every now and then and also am part of his webteam, I have not heard anything...

Oh! Did I mention classical music 🎶 too?? Yes 👏🏻 that too!

I just noticed this. When the camera pans across dweezil zappas guitar. You can see a washburn n4 in the background. I forgot they grew up friends together

Almost lost mine too the ‘c’ monster also!

5:40 nice t-shirt :-)

💪

Darn I was wondering how he was doing. Sad

What year this come out?

@stratostar250

Жыл бұрын

1993!

Tom, can you say when this video magazine came out?

@stratostar250

Жыл бұрын

At the very end, which I cut off accidentally I think, it said ©️ 1993

@GraffitiLA1

Жыл бұрын

@@stratostar250 Thanks!

Morse's picking looks weird. He should join Megadeth.

John Scofield was playing wayyy more bebop than you Scott Henderson with a distorted tone since the 1970's!!

@ruifaustino7940

Жыл бұрын

Scofield plays with a bit of overdrive witch is diferente then distortion, a way before Scofield used those kind of driven sounds, McLaughlin was using a cranked amp in bitches brew getting that overdriven sound that Scofield tried to copy, Henderson uses a very more agressive distorted sound,heavy rock, which is a diferente thing...

@vbassone

Жыл бұрын

@@ruifaustino7940 NOOO moron because Scofield INFLUENCED Scott Henderson, and NOOO Scofield NEVER tried to copy McLaughlin!! You don't know what the fuck you're talking about!! Wrong on ALL points! The point is Scofield used a dirty sound playing bebop lines, so Henderson definitely wasn't the only guy doing that during his time in the 80's and 90's. Scofield's tone was even more dirty in the 70's! DIRTY, NOT CLEAN is the point.

@xebio6

5 ай бұрын

He actually says in the video that he wants to "sound like a horn", for which he needs a very different tone than Sco, more distorted but clean at the same time. The sort of "violin tone" that Holdsworth had for example

@vbassone

5 ай бұрын

yeah, that's all obvious. the point i was making, that you missed, is that Henderson DEFINITELY WAS NOT the first or even close to the first guitarist within "jazz" that wasw playing bebop language with a distorted tone. ok? secondly, it's questionable as to how much actually legit bebop Henderson is playing in general. Henderson refers to what he is sometimes playing as "bebop lines," but the truth is he is barely an actual jazz guitarist in the sense that he never really plays or learned more traditional jazz language on the guitar that much. If you listen to what he plays as a soloist it's more fragments of bebop or post bop language that he then bastardizes into his own little approach. BTW Scott Henderson would tell you this himself that isn't really a jazz guitarist but something else and maybe that's fine etc. The point is, Scofield is a much more legitimate jazz guitarist than someone like Scott Henderson, and Sco was playing much more actual bebop and post bop language on the guitar with a distorted tone over a decade before Scott Henderson. @@xebio6

@vbassone

5 ай бұрын

I didn't say his tone was like Sco's. What I said is he was clearly INFLUENCED by Scofield in terms of the types of lines Henderson sometimes plays in his solos. If you asked Scott about Scofield he would tell you he took a LOT from him!@@xebio6