STEVE MORSE Interview & Masterclass
You have debilitating arthritis in your picking hand wrist, which has compromised your technique. How is it at the moment?
SM: It’s letting me know that I need to use less wrist action! I’m on an inflammatory reducing diet, and practice almost exclusively with my wrist not moving. Since I’ve strengthened the muscles and tendons from doing that, I’m not needing the brace in order to practice, but will use a glove for gigs. The glove will hold in place a large amount of topical pain killer. Everybody’s got something they work around.
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What artists or bands do you like listening to these days and why?
SM: Big variety. Just yesterday, a friend told me about a band he heard that had bagpipes and guitar, which reminded me that I should listen to that amazing hit single by Big Country. Then, earlier I was listening to Monteverdi played by the
