Steve Morse : Break Through

[fbecir]

For the Morse addicts :

New album on 14 November ... two more months to wait

 

[Sweat]

Is that Steve LaRue on bass, Very early Jeff Beck sound to me

 

[fbecir]

Is that Steve LaRue on bass, Very early Jeff Beck sound to me

Yes it's Dave LaRue on bass and Van Romaine on drums.
Steve has a nice plane, but I hope he will buy a bigger one in order to tour in Europe !!!

 

[Razzle]

Thanks for posting that @fbecir!

I'm so glad to hear he's inspired again to make new music after his loss. This is unmistakable Steve! I can definitely hear some characteristic Steve chords in there. I'm really looking forward to the new album, and maybe a tour (although he doesn't come down this way often), I've had the fortune to have seen him twice.

Ya know it's funny, as an EBMM signature artist he's got many iterations of his guitars but yet he still plays his original blue guitar.

Does anyone know what that EBMM flap is at the nut?

Okay, I'm inspired too. Time to go play my SM-Y2D.

 

[gtrnstuff]

I might start a new thread about this, but I'll ask here first.

I see what looks like a curved pad on the back/ top of his guitar, next to where it rests on his abs/ rib cage.
Is that something he rigged up or is it commercially available?
I find the edge of the slab body on my Steve Morse really digs in uncomfortably.

 

[beej]

The "flap" is something he rigged up to mute the strings when he needs. He had to change his picking technique years ago, after he wore out all the cartilage in his wrist, so he can't mute like he used to.

The "curved pad" is a pick holder. It's a strip of velcro plus a leather top. From Tommy, who used to tech for Steve:

"it's simply a strip of velcro w/ a leather top. i make them for all his guitars.just take a 7"x1" piece of male & female velcro........stick it on.....cap it w/ a matching strip of leather on the adheisive top.......& yer done. the pick just gets shoved in between the boy & girl point first. he's used these for decades."

 

[gtrnstuff]

The "flap" is something he rigged up to mute the strings when he needs. He had to change his picking technique years ago, after he wore out all the cartilage in his wrist, so he can't mute like he used to.

The "curved pad" is a pick holder. It's a strip of velcro plus a leather top. From Tommy, who used to tech for Steve:

"it's simply a strip of velcro w/ a leather top. i make them for all his guitars.just take a 7"x1" piece of male & female velcro........stick it on.....cap it w/ a matching strip of leather on the adheisive top.......& yer done. the pick just gets shoved in between the boy & girl point first. he's used these for decades."

Well there it is. Thanks!
I knew about the string mute from the Beato interview.

Guess I'll have to rig something up for my ribs. If I really wanted to follow in Steve's footsteps, I'd just apply a drum sander.
But it's hard for me to do that to a new guitar

 

[banjoplayer]

great video with great shots of Steve working on his #1

 

[Sweat]

Well damn he is only touring what is the North East part of the US, was hoping for a Vegas show, love making Vegas rock n roll trips, saw a lot when I lived there and now my buddy Doug and I plan concert trips to Vegas, well will keep checking

 

[ruger9]

Man, those Engls sound great! I tried to do some digging, he doesn't use dirt pedals? All that gain is coming from the amp? Yowza!