Howe II Electrifies Musicians Institute: A Must-Watch Throwback Performance! 

Greg is one of the greatest guitar players on planet ever !!!!!!

Greg Howe was the born rock guitarist in the 80s, now he is THE fusion god. Incredible talented musician

The Howe brothers! Greg shredding on guitar and his brother is killin those vocals! 🤘

I was at this gig ! I was a student in 1989-1990 went to a party afterwards with al Howe , a girl was with me then she found out he was a rock star then went with him lmao

Albert got some pipes! 👍

I saw this tour when they came to Chicago and the unadulterated fury of Greg Howe blew out the electricity.

Al Howe is kicking it! He was a great front man. I wish he and Greg would work together again.

Oh my Gawd! Greg and this band in general is SO underrated!

Oh yeah - wicked version of Pat Travers "Snortin' Whiskey, Drinking Cocaine". Greg tore it up for sure. His tone was killer. He had great sound for the Howe ll project. Greg Howe is so versatile and has had a great career. With Howe ll you can really see where he came from - and that is the school of King Edward himself. At this gig they tore up Light Up the Sky. The tone he gets with his Fender Strat and Fender rig is nice. He actually plays with a low level of gain and a lot of mid-range tones. Again, this dude clearly came from the Brown Sound EVH school of tone - which is a great, great place to come from... Great sound, great gig, great band and Greg is a great guy. Thanks for this posting...

Crazy talented and blessed. RIP AH.

Al AL AL...All Hail Al Howe!!!!!!!!!

Great memories!!! Man they were SO good, what a shame they didn’t blow up!!! Greg’s still killing it to this day, he’s a truly amazing guitarist…

This band should reunited , they sound great!

Great show. Greg's performance is just effortless. RIP Al.

Really great guitar player!!! Saw him 30 plis years ago with this band. I saw he was going to play locally and went to see gim live after all these years and he is still an amazing guitar player. Hopefully he plays around here again.

Al sounded great live.

Rest In Peace, Al Howe,

Black Halen in Living Color!!!!

I got to see them in, basically, a small pool hall in Norwalk, Connecticut, around the time Now Hear This came out. They were fuckin incredible!! One of my 5 favorite post VH, guitar heavy, hard rock bands. Severely under-rated, great talent and songs.

Band excellent.. Greg now play jazz but i preferred when he played rock.. Excellent performance Al Howe.. David lee roth evolution ..I have nostalgia Of this rock. 🤘😍

Greg Howe é injustiçado merecia um maior reconhecimento como músico guitarrista fantástico!!!!

Mystical 80' s .. Seeing Mr. Howe play a bit more heavy rock style .. Get a bit nostalgic ... 🙂😋😝/🎼🎵💙🎙️🎸🥁🎶/👍✌🏿👌🏻👋🏽

Great singing, great playing, great memories.

Jesus has Greg matured and become an even better player. Wheelhouse and Soundproof are (pun) proof of this as his technique has gotten cleaner and his compositions just keep getting better!

Greg howe is a great virtuose !

Greg Howe playing Light up the Sky of Van Halen II exactly in the minute 19:20 my god !

. Pretty Dang Amazing...

Yeah man! They were killing it. No exposure and the market was saturated at that time. Too bad but we have this video! Thanks for posting！

This show wasn’t long enough!!!

good old times

Love this band ! Greg Howe is monster. thx for sharring

Great band- Greg Howe has been a leading guitarist since . Their version of Light Up The Sky was absolutely awesome .

Must be cool going to that school.

Howe es uno de los más grandes de todos los tiempos!

Wish I could here the bass on this, or ANY of the videos from these performances.

31:40... Funny to hear this kind of demo version of the Ride (possibly my favorite tune) from their then forthcoming release Now Hear This... and that same pink guitar as in the REH clinic, must be 1989-1990 or something. Thank you Musician Institute for posting, very generous of you to share ; Greg's been part of my musical life for the last 25 years :)

AMAZING!

I saw this tour at blondies in Detroit.' 89. We drank a bit of tequila after the show

Man, love their stuff. I remember seeing them on tour back in the day, wish they would've continued with this format. Instead, Greg focused on his solo instrumental material, great in it's own right. I prefer this shred Van Halen format though, lol.

the solo Howe plays at about 26:00 is the same as his instructional video....always wondered about that solo, very impressive

I was there, too (student 1989/1990), did an interview of the brothers before the show since I was making a little money as a journalist for a French musician's magazine (the same year I also did people like Scott Henderson (a great fusion guitarist but a total asshole imho), Frank Gambale, Al di Meola, Jeff Berlin, Jennifer Batten (who got her record deal after I got her the cover story of the magazine (very underrated musician, she could litterally play anything)), Paul Gilbert (whom I spent a whole afternoon with in his apartment after he came back from Mr Big's first world tour), Bruce Bouillet, Joe Diorio, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour, Gary Hoey... plus a few more I forgot. I remember walking behind MI's main building (that small street behind the Church of Scinetology) and bumping into Ritenour & Carlton who at the time were my favourite axemen and they burst into laughter when they saw my state of shock. Anyway, listening back to this show, I must say it hasn't aged that good, and Greg was so much more impressive throughout the 1990's (especially on his fifth album.... the one starting with "Howe about it"). But it definitely brings back great memories... and that was the end of an era, that's for sure !

Super musician,fajn a úplně zapomenutá palba,dnes se to vůbec nevidí a neslyší..amazing !!!

These guys are awesome. They should have gotten way more attention then they did. Of course GH guitar playing is out of this world,but it over shadows his brothers awesome voice…and the other band members too.

yep greg is an astonishing player ,but i forgot how good his bro was .

Loved Greg's playing in this band when they came out!

So underrated.

Damn I wish the audio quality was better what a tight band,great riffs!

Esse cara merece mto respeito :D

Yeah! That was cool!!

Wow, super cool! Huge fan of GH since the beginning and have never seen this coverage...thanks for posting!!!

Caught a Howe II performance way back (in what almost seems like the stone age). While waiting in line outside the venue you could tell a sound check was happening. I turned a nearby door handle...door was unlocked and I went in. Howe and the drummer were going through some of the most brain frying stuff I've ever heard. Got kicked out after about 10 minutes, but that shit sounded way better than what happened at the show (which was great) a couple hours later.

I love Greg is a great Player!!!

Love their first album (High Gear). Was hoping to hear more songs from that.

Wow!!!! Amazing video. Thanks.

You practically have to be really good before even applying there. Good luck to everyone who goes or considers attending.

🤘🔥 starting from 3rd song

At last I got to MI before anyone else.

superbe video des freres howe thanks thanks thanks

nice!

Sensacional

Muito bom!

No se como decirlo ......abran mucho violeros incluso edchucho y otros...... Pero cuando escucho a greg howe este tipo ....realmente es muy bueno.....técnica.....todo todoo

I remember the howe brothers from growing up in my home town in NJ.

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17:11 - 18:39 is amazing

Pretty cool to hear the song that would eventually become “The Ride” played at 31:42.

I would have liked to put the exact date of the concert.

wow, that's pretty cool. And then you hear the ignorant BS how all shredders sound like Malmsteen....lol. Well done Greg 🤘And great tone, very warm. Great soul- singing too.

Greg Howe should be the guitarist for the EVH tribute show with Sammy Hager and Michael Anthony instead of Joe Satriani in my opinion. This guy has the correct "feel" and "vibe" in his hands. I'm just surprised how this guy wasn't as big as the other bands back it the day. I've always considered him a top tier guitar player. He's right up there with EVH, George Lynch, Nuno Bettencourt, Warren De Martini, etc. I like these musicians too, cause you can hear a little bit of grit and dirt in their playing. Not as clean as Satriani and Vai. I like Satriani and Vai as well, but it sounds more cleaned up and refined with their notes to my ears. Hard to explain.

@Musicians Institute How can I get this video?

A bit like the Van Halen band

this is Howe I immagined Marigold it would have been...

Tina Turner in vocal 😂😂😂

Greg Howe is one of the great guitar pioneers of the 80's, and his instructional video from back in the day is killer. Here, however, he was not at his best... .

That guitar tone is so chewy.

watch this video if you thought you could shred. lmao

When You see those Kind of vídeos dont it make You think how strong Van Hallen influence is present ?

First time getting to see/hear more than one song from these guys. They are awesome players, but out of the four songs I’ve listened to so far, they just weren’t there. I bet they got a lot of respect, but they didn’t have much pf a chance if they didn’t step up the songwriting, which I guess they didn’t before they ended. Al Howe seems great, but he was way more screamy and growly than he needed to be and the incredible Greg Howe’s playing is just TOO busy here. The comparison to the Mighty VH I keep seeing about this band is more about the guitarist’s virtuosity, how animated they are, the number of guys in the band and the fact that the band is named after the brothers in the band. But the songs they’re playing..... Hey wait! Light Up The Sky! But they didn’t write that. Damn. What coulda been.

during those shrapnel yrs greg was doing cleanly what yngwie could do combine with richie kotzen kinds of crazy legato combine arpeggios in a tasty paganini-ish kinda way go lookup Bachmock in his Stratovarious in '89 ,you be shocked ,i even have tabs you can lookup on yt , a guy Ozz does some good stuffs thanx , like his Waiting in Line & kick it all over some cool soulful shit he rips out

I mean, no comments 🤷🏻‍♂️

What Strat model is Greg playin'? It's not a HM Strat. The headstock is different

Greg is a million times better now. I mean I'd out him on par with Guthrie now.

van halen cover rules

What’s that song @ 40:33 cool ballad song

They were better than Van Halen

Boris Johnson on bass

Greg Howe is 超絶 Guy !!

impresionante dominio de Greg Howe y el cantante no se quien es.,me pueden pasar el nombre del cantante.

What does "blow up" even mean??

This drummer is a C at most..... Howe should have picked me!

Wonder what exact year this was?

DLR phoned .....

terrible gracias mejor lo bajo por si lo eliminan saludos xd

Didn't Van Halen do this stuff so much better?

1995?????........

Why is the guitar the only mix that sounds like shit? Otherwise, awesome live performance!

One of my favorite players but, damn, Greg, your guitar tone has always sounded terrible.

And this is why they really didn't make it.....It was already done before. Nothing new.

A try on make Van Halen but No one can do it 😩

My first time seeing Howe II (dumb name btw). Albert looks like he could be a good singer, he has a lot of style. But he is trying to do too much at once and doesnt hold a defined melody. He could have been good if he had gotten vocal training. fun fact: David Lee Roth got vocal training shortly before VH got signed (probably the reason they finally got signed after many years). Seeing them cover Light Up the Sky was interesting, probably the last VH song anyone would think of covering and they added to what I consider to be a filler tune for VH.