After the last post, I kinda thought about the song Smoke On The Water and I compared Ritchie Blackmore’s original version guitar playing to his replacement Steve Morse’s playing. Now, I know that Purple is more associated with Blackmore and his enormous ego & guitar playing but just listen & watch to Steve Morse and Deep Purple killing that famous song in concert. Deep Purple never sounded this good with Ritche! STEVE MORSE RULZ!
He kinda destroyed the solo from ‘Heartbreaker’ and intro to ‘Whole Lotta Love’. :) I shouldn’t say anything, though, as I still can’t play that stuff properly after years of trying.
I still maintain that no band should ever attempt to cover a Beatles tune, even if it is only a few bars of ‘Day Tripper’. :)