“I took the neck off my Strat, put it on a Tele, and ended up with my ‘FrankenTele’”: Steve Morse modded the heck out of his first serious guitar, and it became the blueprint for his signature Ernie Ball Music Man model

Steve Morse’s relationship with Ernie Ball Music Man goes back a long way, prior to his decades-long tenure in Deep Purplebefore Lynyrd Skynyrd revitalized his career with an onstage guest spot, and, oh, before he took time off his music career to become a pilot.

Despite this now 40-year relationship, though, the seeds for Morse’s Ernie Ball Music Man signature guitar go back further still, to the purchase of his first serious six-string.

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