1. Steve J Morse was born on July 28,1954 and is an American guitarist and songwriter.
29 Facts About Steve Morse
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West and Steve Morse continued to play as a duet billed as the Dixie Dregs until Steve Morse's expulsion from school in the 10th grade for refusing to cut his hair.
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Steve Morse completed 11th grade at a local Catholic school and was eligible for early college enrollment.
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Steve Morse enrolled at the University of Miami School of Music.
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From late 1987 to early 1988, Steve Morse worked as a commercial airline co-pilot.
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Steve Morse has lived in Ocala, Florida since 1991, where he is involved in hay farming.
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Additionally, Morse was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" in the same poll, an honor that he would hold for five consecutive years.
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The group toured Germany in early 1984 with Steve Morse conducting clinics, and the group was signed by Elektra Records, who released The Introduction mid-year.
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Steve Morse toured with Rush as a main opener on their Power Windows tour.
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Steve Morse left the band after touring behind the latter album.
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Steve Morse re-joined the band for part of its 1991 tour.
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In 1994, Steve Morse joined the British hard rock group Deep Purple, replacing Ritchie Blackmore.
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Steve Morse began a collaboration with singer Sarah Spencer in 2007 entitled Angelfire.
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In 2011, Steve Morse joined Flying Colors, an American supergroup composed of Mike Portnoy, Dave LaRue, Casey McPherson and Neal Steve Morse, whose debut eponymous album was released on March 26,2012, and debuted at No 9 on Billboard's Hard Rock chart, and No 11 on the BBC's Rock Album charts.
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In 2012 Steve Morse joined G3 project on their South American and European tour together with Steve Vai, John Petrucci and Joe Satriani.
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Steve Morse has proven himself throughout his career as capable of playing highly complex chord structures in classical sequences, as well as being able to play fast, alternate picked arpeggios.
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Steve Morse is well known for using harmonics and improvising them in songs during live performances, such as in Deep Purple's "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming".
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Steve Morse has been characterized as a musical "jack of all trades".
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Steve Morse is well-versed in a number of techniques - trilling, string skipping, alternate picking, artificial harmonics and legato - which he employs on his solos, guitar riffs and chord progressions.
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Steve Morse is considered one of the hardest working guitarists in the world.
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Steve Morse is widely known for his stylistically diverse compositional skills and was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" by Guitar Player magazine for five years in a row, qualifying him for its "Guitar Player Hall of Fame", the only other members being Steve Howe of Yes and Eric Johnson.
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Steve Morse is regularly cited by John Petrucci as a major influence.
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Steve Morse used a black Fender Lead III circa 1982, being featured on the ads of this guitar series.
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Morse worked with Music Man Guitars to create two signature models: a modernized version of Morse's first "Frankenstein Telecaster" guitar, and the Steve Morse SM Y-2D, is an updated version with quilted maple top.
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Steve Morse has released two signature humbuckers with DiMarzio; the DP 205 Neck model and the DP 200 Bridge model.
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Steve Morse has released a signature model, the ENGL E-656 Steve Morse signature amplifier.
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Steve Morse uses three Ernie Ball expression pedals to blend the fx into the mix.
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Steve Morse's FX are very simple, consisting only of a Boss OC-3 Octaver and two delays: Electro-Harmonix Memory Man now replaced with the newest TC Electronic FlashBack TonePrint delay.
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Steve Morse is using a TC Electronic Polytune Mini guitar tuner.