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This might be stupid, but I happen to look up guitarist Steve Morse to see how old he was and just general information. He plays fine I cannot say I am huge listener of his or that his style of playing appeals to me, but he is a fine player. Probably he can play straight up jazz, not that it is important. Well, I notice he recently lost his wife to cancer and he left touring 2 years ago to take care of her.
That hit me because I lost mine beloved, but it has been 5.5 years ago. I was just going to send him a person note or something of that effect that I was sorry about his losing his wife but what great thing he did to take care of her in the otherwise rough life of touring musician. I was going mention I was a jazz guitarist but of course the wife came first I still miss her and hoped he was doing well.
Then i read on the contact page about how he really does not get the messages, and they are filter out by staff. My reaction was not so nice. I thought wow you are this famous and no one has any real connection other than media and tours and such. Then I just gave up. For some reason I just don't see Steve Morse as such and iconic guitarist that his has to have a huge staff of handlers, but I guess if you play jazz guitar you can always say hello to even the greatest players easy.
Jazz guitar must be way down on the humble pie list. In any case though I have a lot of respect for what he did for his wife.
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09-01-2024 02:37 PM
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I don't know the name, but good for him and his late wife that he had both the priority and career flexibility to take care of her. The work culture in America, especially in big corporations, has little compassion or space for people who have problems like serious illness at home. My own similar experience goes back 24 years, and the way I was treated at a major healthcare corporation made a difficult situation much more stressful, and it spilled over to my sick wife.
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I think it speaks well of you that you want to send him that message. But I also think it's understandable that he doesn't want to be so easily accessible to the general public.
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Ya Steve Morse is pretty big, not surprised you couldn't get a hold of him. I mean he was in Dixie dregs, Deep Purple, Kansas as well as a TON of other stuff...G3 with Steve Vai, Satriani, John Patrucci. Hes a pretty big deal among the fusion/rock world
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Yeah, the great jazz musicians play something that breaks your heart or lifts your month, then they go home and take out the trash.
Originally Posted by deacon Mark
For me "famous" means, 'They can walk down any street in the world and be recognized if they want to.' That would be people like Taylor Swift, Vladimir Putin, Barak Obama, Donald Trump . . . not many people. Everybody else -- like, no offense, Steve Morse -- is just 'sorta famous.' By that standard there might have been five 'famous' jazz musicians and four of them are dead.
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The first paragraph is funny, the last sentence, sad. Originally Posted by Sam Sherry
I was watching Jeopardy this year and you had to guess the jazz musicians from photos. Duke Ellington's image was shown and only one contestant guessed, and said Cab Calloway. Ok, they're both handsome light skinned black men w pencil mustaches and slicked back hair.
"Close enough for jazz" I guess
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Just because you wouldn’t recognise him, that doesn’t mean that 1 million of Deep Purple fans wouldn’t recognise him walking down the street. He might have his reasons for filtering out messages.
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Steve Morse was enrolled in University of Miami School of Music at about the same time as Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius
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Yeah, I don't think we're giving Steve enough credit here...50 year career, maybe not a household name, but certainly has achieved enough "fame" to where he's gotta filter out some weirdos when it comes to being contacted by people he doesn't know.
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I wouldn't hold not dealing with social media & PR against anyone. If someone is even mildly successful, they have a social media company take care of all that. Perhaps not so common in Jazz, but pretty common in more popular genres.
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I've heard of Morse from the Dregs but that's about it. I always thought Ritchie Blackmore was DP's guitarist until I googled the band just now. That said, other than Smoke, Highway Star and My Woman from Tokyo and Blackmore I don't know a thing about them.
But last year an older foreign guy came into the club we were working and asked if I knew DP. I said yeah and my organist overheard us. She said yeah too, but knowing her I told her 'not the old standard, the rock band' ....she said 'oh'
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More common in jazz than you might think. Originally Posted by Alter
One guy does social media for a lot of the older guys who'd rather not fool with it themselves.
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Here is what Pat wrote about Steve Pat Metheny : Question & Answer
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I mostly just play around my general area and don't wanna deal with anyone via social media. I make the drummer run all the online stuff which gives me a nice buffer zone between venues, fans, and myself. I do not want to be contacted by anyone unless it's at a show or they are trying to share some footage they took at a show, or are trying to book me at which point they can talk to the drummer. Originally Posted by Alter
I used to runt he band page, then they made you have a personal account in order to run it, so I handed it off. I haven't had a FB account since 2012. Screw FB. Another musicians asked me why I didn't have an account. "Facebook is how you keep in touch" he said. "I don't want to be touched" I replied. The worst is when I tell someone to contact me via FB and they start texting me, which is a dead giveaway I am dealing with someone who can't follow instructions and I def don't wanna deal with them. I don't hand out cards with my personal number on there no more, kinda solved the problem.
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Steve Morse is very successful musician and deservingly so! Even before joining the Deep Purple, a true virtuoso with unique technique. If you never heard of Deep Purple, well, I don't know what to say... Great musicianship should be appreciated no matter the genre I think.
Judging by all videos and interviews Steve is also great guy, humble. And he has a second career, he's a pro pilot! I mean if that's not inspiring I don't know what is! Certainly more than some jazz guy who eternally plays standards in local restaurants. Those would be more approachable for sure, lol.
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Yes, is a monster guitar player and one that someone would find inspiring. However, I personally have zero desire to play the guitar like him or the type of music he plays. HIs music and playing is great but I don't have the envy factor and do not listen much to that music. Just to be sure I find Julian Bream equally great but no desire to play like Bream did. Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
When it comes down to it, I really just have to play the best I can and listen to the music I find enjoyable and interesting. Now Pat Martino that would be quite cool if I could play even something close, I never get tired of Pat's lines and playing. In my case it will only be a faraway dream. On the topic though I met Pat a couple of times and in the jazz guitar world he is a biggie. In the sea of notoriety to the public, Pat probably does figure very low. Thems the breaks............
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He was also the guardian of Duane Allman's Les Paul until it was given to his daughter, Galadriel.
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I've seen Steve in a number of different bands and his playing is top tier,certainly one of the greatest electric guitarists of all time.25 years ago he broke his wrist right before a Dixie Dregs tour.I figured the show would be cancelled.It wasn't,he played the show with a cast on and he played brilliantly.Can't blame him for having his contacts filtered with the amount of morons that permeate our culture today.
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Nobody, famous or otherwise should have to apologise for their desire for privacy.
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I mean.. right?? That's it, you said it, it's just that simple. Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
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A friend of mine once looked up Jimi Henrix's father and chatted with him on the phone for a half hour or so.
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art blakey once tried to hit on my wife.
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Morse probably gets a lot of unsolicited email.
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He'll take messages written in his own dialect - Morse code.
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Stephan Wrembel once tried to steal my date. Originally Posted by djg
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