You have good taste man... Morse is a master (and plays different styles) and he can compose unlike most guitar wankers that cant write to save their lives.

I don't like him in Deep Purple all that much but his solo music and Dregs stuff is killer.

John Mayer?? Just kidding.

he sucks unless you count ripping off SRV licks for a living as being great.

Hopefully this guy will get more attention since there is a documentary coming out about him. Even guitar player magazine called him the greatest unknown player at one point.

He died in the 90s unfortunately.

If you have never heard him play... you are welcome. This is pretty mellow from him, he can melt faces also.

The fact that most of you tube and people in general think guys who play fast are "the greatest" always cracks me up.

That shit was tired in the 80s nevermind 40 years later.

So... I think the point is after your 15th post about it. You don't like Eric Clapton?

Noted. nobody cares. especially him.

I get what you are saying (even about his playing which is pretty lazy and has been forever).

He did his best work when he was in his 20s and traded off it the rest of his life really.

But to say he isn't a major guitarist is just wrong. He is easily one of most influential of all time.

Ed Van Halen even called him his biggest influence and Bonamassa makes a living ripping off the Mayall blues record.

That is some stupid shit right there. Like a circus act.

The double neck solo two hand thing someone posted.

I grew up in the same hometown as this dude and took lessons from him in the 80s just before he signed with Shrapnel records. I was around when he was working on Edge of Insanity and heard early versions of stuff.

This is back when he had big hair and played a white Kramer pacer.

he had kind of a big head even back then. Dude can play though. Crazy good on piano also.

I'm sure like most people he probably just wanted to play his own music. Nobody at that level wants to be in a "cover" band.

His solos I always liked although most are pretty worked out and triple tracked even... one of the few guys I ever learned the solos (Im lazy) because they are so cool.

I knew those two Ozzy records backwards and forwards back then.

Allot of it was pretty composed but I know on the second record he winged more things because he complained in interviews that he couldn't redo them later, ran out of time in the studio.

I think the end of Tonight is one of those where that is just the scratch solo on the end and they ran out of time for him to replace it.

Diary (the whole song) is a badass piece of music.

I think the main issue is people in general expect jokes to be funny... you are about zero for 20 in that regard.