I'm the happy owner of the Gibson F5 mandolin, featured at the beginning of this. Steve sold it to me (in 1993) because he thought '...the instrument is too good to not be played'. He also said 'You're obviously a player and not a collector' and gave me a real good price on it. Bless him. He made me promise to let him know how the mandolin was doing, so after a year or so I sent him a photo of 'Father of Bluegrass'Bill Monroe playing it, when I visited Monroe at his home in Tennessee in 1994. He wrote me back and said he was glad the instrument is in good hands. The mandolin is still in very good shape today, I'm happy to say. Thanks for posting this, Mark!
It's a beautiful mandolin, and you're lucky to have met Bill Monroe. I can't play bluegrass but I've always admired his musicianship. I hope you keep it.
@@jerodbarrett6720 I will keep the mandolin as long as I can and hope to pass it on to the next player when I don't use it anymore. And meeting Bill Monroe and being invited to his home in 1994 and 1995, well...what can I say; they were like religious experiences to me. Precious memories. Thanks for your message!
When women had class and didn’t feel it appropriate to debase themselves by shaking their backsides all over the place with that ridiculous twerking nonsense. 🤬
Can’t say enough about this interview…just a brilliant guy, and doing all of this historical research well before the age of the internet was magnificent.
😂 There are these things which are collections of small bits of paper with words written on them. They are called "books", maybe you will have seen one in a charity shop?
You can really see the joy he has in collecting guitars, talking about guitars, and especially in playing guitars - his face really lights up, and his body language changes, when he starts playing. He eventually did publish a great coffee-table book, The Steve Howe Guitar Collection, with lots of great photos.
Yes, the local public library where I live used to have that one so I've seen and admired it. They no longer have it - guess it was stolen by some rabid Yes fan?
@@louise_rose I ain't gonna lie. I don't really agree with robbing libraries but that is one book I would have stolen. If my local library gets it (doubtful nowadays) it's gone. If I had known yours had it I would have put in an order to get it shipped to mine and then stolen it.
@@uv77mc85 Haha, yes I get the vibe of course I'm not from the UK (or wherever you are), I'm from Sweden, so remote shipping wouldn't have been an option here, but I think you can find it sometimes through Bookfinder... :)
I remember seeing this on a repeat in the early 90s. Steve seems really happy, relaxed and respectful. He certainly knows his stuff. That les paul sounds incredible.
That was part of his collection in the 70’s, imagine what it would be today. I love Steve Howe. You don’t get musicians like him anymore. What is good, are the many recordings we can still listen to.
Don't be silly.. The,are,thousands of players who eat him up. Even I can recreate yes in my bedroom, .. it's not rocket science. Look for morbid man music SoundCloud close to the edge.
Copiers are a dime a dozen. Creative people, with the integrity of Steve, are not. Every man and his dog can "eat up" The Beatles too. I don't see many bands of the calibre of The Beatles.
Absolutely one of the greatest of all time. A musician's musician, named "Best Overall Guitarist" by Guitar Player magazine five years in a row in the late 70s and early 80s. He came to rock guitar from a classical and jazz background, as opposed to the blues players that were so common back in the day. An amazing technical player who still managed to sound so organic... no one else sounds like him.
Steve has been my sensei since I bought "YESSONGS" in 1974. There is no one like Steve...NO ONE! P.S. I used to own a sunburst ES-175 just like Steve's, but I sold it to buy a Custom Shop Tal Farlow...was great to see Steve had one.
Well that's probably the downside to collecting guitars and guitar-like instruments of very old...you cannot lay your hands on them just like that, as you would do with the guitars from "only" the previous century...it's a bit like high calibre philately, I guess...
I think, this transmission was from the year 1979, because Steve played pieces from his newly published at the time - second Soloalbum titled 'The Steve Howe Album' from 1979. Here he'd played, for example excerpts from 'Rondo' (at the beginning) as well as the piece 'The Continental' (in the credits of the show). Steve Howes second Solo Album 'The Steve Howe Album, is a very varied, great Album - an absolute listening pleasure. ☺
I think it’s worth remembering this is in the days before forums and the internet. Makes me even more impressed he picked up so much detailed knowledge.
Absolute legend. He knows and loves the guitar so much. That passion shows through unlike those who use the guitar as... Well some sort of extension! 😂
3:28 "....giving them lots of feedback". And now this guitar gives it's feedback back!! :) But, I love Steve Howe, I'm a fan from 1972 on and he was a major influence for me! Nice interview!
This is great. He knows far more about guitars and the history of construction than the majority of his peers, who often don’t know what the heck they are talking about when talking about gear.
Wow, lucky you! I was born in 81, did not discover them until 2004 or 2005. After downloading by a fortunate mistake The Yes Album and finding out who they were, they immediately became my favourite band of all time, and then I went on to buy every single album they recorded in the 60s and 70s, and also Drama. Never got to see them live. Then finally I had a chance to go see them, I bought tickets for a concert they were going to play here in Spain... But then the world went mad with the pandemic. I know it wouldn't have been the same with Jon and Rick being out of the band and Chris gone forever, but damn... I still wanted to see them. Hope 2022 is the year!!!
@@davidjacob5828 First, my comment wasn't meant as an insult, just an observation, and second, you do realize the Monkees, as a musical entity, didn't actually exist, right? The first two records were cut by the Wrecking Crew. Dolenz didn't even know how to play drums and learned to fill the role and it wasn't until the 3rd album that they actually played on it.
Monkees to Yes. My transition in '72 was from Partridge family to Band of Gypsies - Jimi Hendrix. What an era. I started learning Yes off the records in the 70's. To the degree I could. Relayer is the best IMO.
Arguably the most versatile guitarist of all time. You know he's good when he is a student of history behind each particular guitar. This video must've been made shortly before him joining Asia in the very early 80's.
@@morbidmanmusic Well, you seem quite the rude expert. Whose your alternative then? Howe was voted Best Overall Guitarist in Guitar Player magazine for 5 years in a row back in the day, so others seem to think so as well.
Steve Howe: the reason I started playing guitar... and the reason I stopped. I recognize those guitars from their pictures on the gatefold of "The Steve Howe Album."
My favourite guitarist. Best is a subjective accolade. My take is that Steve Howe remains the only guitarist I have ever seen or heard in my lifetime that I would happily argue, can play 'anything on anything.' literally! little more needs to be said really.....
@@morbidmanmusic disagree I have seen the Man do many styles others with big names cant even attempt. e.g. Brian May getting steve howe to sit in with some spanish guitar on the track innuendo. Ps I did not say best. I said my favourite . and morbid as you are, you cant create an argument in an empty room with your sorry assed comment. I know there are very few if any, that can play the styles and range of stringed instruments he can and, to the standard he can. My friend a professional guitar player remarked that his hand has the span of a 747 on the fret board and he gets combinations of notes as a result, most mortals cant even reach.
A few of them are, just the ones you used on the album. He put out a book in the early 90's, which he spent 10 years working on, called The Steve Howe Guitar Collection. FANTASTIC book!
Indeed, fantastic musician and a real gentleman. I remember seeing a comment here on RU-vid last year that ran like: "me and my girlfirend spotted Howe incognito outside a musical instruments store in Manhattan; he was admiring a guitar in the window. After a while, we approached him and asked quietly: "you're Steve Howe, aren't you?". He confirmed it. but soon after he excused himself and disappeared in a waiting limo." 🙂
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I feel very old. I remember driving home from work at top speed to watch this as it was on at tea time and I was far too poor to own a video recorder. He
What a great video - thank you for posting it. The Steve Howe Album is probably my favorite of his, due in part to the fold out photos of the guitars used on the album. Also....the backdrops look suspiciously like the Tardis backdrop, also owned by the BBC. :-)
Getting old mate. My wifey says I used to be all that as well . But according to her it was melanoma that caused me to "change" . Wow, maybe she's just put out that I lived, ya think? (glad she doesnt read these posts)
I have to agree. What I think made YES so successful was all five of them (Fragile/CTTE years) were instantly recognizable in their playing. Howe has been my favorite for over 50 years.
Saw Steve at a dump in Allentown, NJ years ago. About a dozen rows of 10 folding chairs, so we sat in the front. His roadie came out and was placing each guitar case down in a specific place, and opening up each one. I asked him if he was gonna take any out, check the tuning, ect, and he told me, no - Steve doesn't let anyone touch his guitars. OK....
That's actually true, for a long time, Steve insisted on tuning his guitars himself. I dont' think he actually let a guitar tech do that kind of work until the late 90's. I remember he said the reason he used the ES Artist guitars on stage with Asia was because he got tired of having to restring and tune all of the guitars he used to take on tour with Yes.
Steve Howe plays some 12 different styles of guitar in one song. Close to the Edge on the triple album YESSONGS. it's absolutely amazing and one of the main reasons I pick up my Gibson daily.
I love Steve Howe. He’s been my favorite guitarist since I was a child (4 years old!) And I love the fact that for every time another guitarist in the 70s took the stage with a Les Paul or a Strat, Steve had his ES-175D! A fearless performer! …but when I see what he does to some of his Telecasters I genuinely weep! It’s like Dr Jekyll and Mr. Howe! At one point he routed out the body of a 1952 Les Paul Black Beauty to have a FOURTH double-coil pickup added… WHY STEVE? WHY??? Just call them up at Gibson and say “I want a guitar with 4 pickups!” Don’t destroy something historical.
@@harseybaber … and I’m pretty sure I heard another interview where he said that he did that to his Black Beauty. I mean - it’s not nearly as valuable as the burst top that he converted to a midi-rig in the mid 80’s but it’s not a throw away guitar. He is a player I respect immensely - but he seems to have ZERO reckoning as to the value of some of the stuff in his boat… except for the 175-D… that he treats like a national treasure.
@@harseybaber Being a 1954 it could have been 4 P90 pickups! To be honest, three picks is my personal limit, 2 pickups is "OK". That said, give me a LP Jr. or an Esquire with a single pickup and I couldn't be happier. EDIT: I just watched the video Mario Squillacioti posted, you can indeed fit 4 humbuckers on a Les Paul!
I recognize the songs he played. They're all on an album I have simply called "The Steve Howe Album". The cover is typical of YES artwork. The inside has pictures and descriptions of many of the guitars he used on it.
I'm thankful for getting there to see Steve Howe perform with Yes, and also to be graced to see Tal Farlow play a fantastic show. Amazing inspiring music.
I only have a 1960ish sea green blue ish Gibson es 345 that my grandma and I got that I'm pretty good at and not ashamed of, play most classic rock, Rock ability, country, psychedelic rock, blues, from most various artists bands! I would love to have a es 175, byrdland some day!
In 2006 I was made redundant from a job and had around £5k to splash on some new gear. I visited Andy's in Denmark St and they had a blonde Byrdland up for £4k. I'd always wanted one but really couldn't justify spending that much on a guitar that would probably just live under my bed lol. So I ended up buying a Mesa Boogie Roadking Head instead. About two years later, I visited Andy's again and they still had the Byrdland except it was now £8k!!!
Phenomenal guitar player. Howe was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" in Guitar Player magazine five years in a row (1977-1981) - watch him do: Mood for a Day or The Clap ( among many others ). My favorite: Siberian Khatru
Note the interviewers Soft English Voice of long gone. Now we have to endure the Irritating vocal croaking that sounds like they are fighting for their breath!
Yes, a classy lady and a good interviewer. The BBC does have some of these amazing, coolly confident women interviewers and studio anchors - Tanya Beckett and Fiona Bruce are two other examples.
