“He said, ‘It’s not going to happen.’ He gave me that tough-guy New York thing. I said, ‘How about something that is going to happen?’ It was career suicide, but it felt really good”: How Steve Morse took on a media mogul and got away with it

Steve Morse and Clive Davis.

Having stood down from Deep Purple to care for his late wife Janine – the subject of on Taken By An Angel on his new album Triangulation – Steve Morse regrouped with bassist Dave LaRue and drummer Van Romaine.

“With the Dregs, everybody’s scattered to the winds,” former Kansas guitarist Morse explains. “The most manageable project was the trio stuff, and Van or Dave said we should do something. I’ve been playing with them for close to 40 years, so it’s an extremely comfortable situation, musically and personally.”