Steve Morse on Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd and why Fender didn't work

Filmed last January, but published only just now. Guitar World’s Matt sat down with Steve at NAMM, to talk about the signature Music Man he’s been refining for 40 years. Steve gets into why Fender and Guild never worked out, how pickup placement shapes his two-pickup blend, and why he treats the volume knob as his main effect rather than something you set and forget.

He also talks about the new album Triangulation with Eric Johnson and John Petrucci, writing with his son, the homemade mute he built to work around his arthritis, and the six months he spent as an airline pilot before a gig he refused to cancel ended that career. Plus getting pulled on stage with Lynyrd Skynyrd, and what he learned watching Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather play behind a singer.