Music school can be an intimidating place. Just ask former Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse. Enrolling at the University of Miami School of Music was to be the making of him, but not after the occasional humiliation.
In a recent interview with Louder, Morse recanted a story that would be familiar to many a college freshman; he just did not fit in. And unlike regular college, where you could drop geography and take up, y’know, material engineering or astro-physics, Morse couldn’t just swap the guitar for tuba. It doesn’t work like that. Morse had to find his niche with the guitar.
