
Simon McBride
Northern Irish blues-rock guitarist who has been Deep Purple's lead guitarist since 2022, succeeding Steve Morse.
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Sep 22, 2026
Reflections on Deep Purple Tour PLUS an Encore of Simon McBride’s 2022 Interview
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Jude GoldHOST
And the tone is important, too I love your tone because it's very aggressive like it's not smooth, like what's your philosophy on a kick-ass hard rock arena tone?

Simon McBrideGUEST
it's got some teeth yeah you have to have well i'm old school in a way so i i don't you know i have a lot of the modern you know gadgets like you know uh quad cortex and stuff which i use in the studio and i think is great but live i'm always that old school kind of a player i'm used to the old you know fire breathing dragon of marshalls or whatnot that you know that kind of thing where basically it's like i'm shouting at you you know how many play um So, yeah, you know, the angle, you know, I started using the angle stuff when I joined Purple, and, you know, they kind of, it was nice.

Simon McBrideGUEST
I used Steve's head for a while, and they're great, but, you know, again, it suits Steve.

Simon McBrideGUEST
It's a bit more compressed and a bit more high gain, and plus there's too many buttons on it for me.
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