Jerald Brewer guitar magazine voted Steve best overall guitarist 5 years in a row,that's the limit, along with Les Paul, Chet Atkins Steve Morse, so he is not underrated by musicians just brain dead people with no musical knowledge, that's sad.
"Best Overall Guitarist" in Guitar Player magazine five years in a row (1977-1981) and in 1981 was the first rock guitar player inducted into the Guitar Player Hall of Fame. I still feel he is under rated. Still my favorite guitarist
Steve's guitar playing is so clear & crisp it is truly breathtaking. It is a masterclass of true rock guitar with jazz fusion displaying distinct finger work. There is no distortion, no heavy chords blasting over to cover any lack of true musicianship, Every true rock guitarist should be made to study this... if only to appreciate how to explore crisp, clear chord sequences,without over distortion, can sound so sweet and meaningful. Then they can move and play "stairway to heaven" if that's where their journey will take them :-)
He can play in any guitar style not limited to rock music - jazz, classical, flamenco, folk. He also can play all kinds of stringed instruments - acoustic, electric, ukulele, mandolin, bass guitar, pedal steel, and keyboards (on his solo albums) . So diverse talent.
I'm a lifelong super fan of YES and never saw these Lugano videos before. I'm breathless at the extraordinary power and skill these guys showed both in the studio and live. Greatest progressive rock group of all time.
R.I.P. MR. CHRIS SQUIRE, thank you for your music and inspiration to play bass when I heard roundabout for the first time in 1974, ever science you have been my IDOL and never missed any of your concerts in Chicago science 1978, I always wanted to meet you and when I finally did in your last concert in chicago Copernicus center parking lot I asked you for a quick picture and you told me NO and walked away, still a saw you and alway be missed, my deepest condolences to your FAMILY.
A master performance. What a lineup; The best guitarist in Rock history, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman's wonderful keys, the most underrated bassist, Chris Squire, The best voice in Rock ever, Jon Anderson, all anchored by one great drummer Alan White.
In my early years at the secondary school, my mates earing Yes at the breaks. Wonderful time to discover symphonic rock. The Yes Álbum was my first contact with the band. Bill Bruford. Tony Kaye, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire and Steve Howe. I saw them in Vélez Sarsfield Stadium, in 1985. I"ll never forget that night.
hi dudes, i can read Steve great guitarrist, Chris great bassist, Alan great drummer, Rick great keyboardist but we must see this supergroup in a whole context they´re "together" are YES
phenomenal band. Great lyrics ! What magnificent poetry. Wish I'd been there. Yes is coming to NJ PAC, Holmdel Arts Center, and the Trenton War memorial this summer ! Hurray. Rev. merylee
There's a simple explanation for that. He is a professional musician unlike some of the twits we get on stage today who must dance around and babble on in gibberish to obscure their obvious lack of talent. Just blows me away these guys are still able to play this stuff - their music is SO technical!
I have a hard time listening to this, because Steve Howe's solo on the Yessongs version (the album, not the film) is perhaps the greatest guitar solo of all time.
totally agree,,Yessongs is the most fantastic live album on history..and Yours is No Disgrace on that album is Steve Howe's finest live performance ever..who else has a solo throughout a song that has that degree of musicianship? no one
Agree, but the solo was edited for the album. To listen to it as it was originally played, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QaTLCzJ9jVw.html
A superior later performance! I do hope Yes has selected some allstars from their numerous cover groups and taken them on as apprentices. This music must live forever!
Steve plays really well here. During his solo at the at the 6:50 mark he just goes off into another realm very jazzy- as the festival is named as such but its scary how freaking awesome he played. He was still using his Fender Twins unlike these days with him using those God awful Line 6 amps!
A great blend of musicians. Shades of country from Howe. Classical from Wakeman and the loud but refined metal from Squire. Saw them in 73. And followed Wakeman and got to see him a few times. Then ARM this year. One of the best. Zappa narrows them out in my opinion. But there's enough to go around.
a question in a rockquiz: please name a progrockband, that had 5 to 8 members, that made a fundamental album with only 4 compositions, everyone 20 minutes long, and later, in the eigthies a fantastic hitalbum? little advise: that owners of lonely hearts never had any disgrace..., and another question: who was the man with two thumbs, one eye, who allways liked them? order: then close one eye and direct two thumbs to yourself ... .-)
Zappa. As for Tom Thumb how about 3 fingers. Django Reinhardt. And you can add Ian Anderson for the first question. One song 90+ minutes long. TAAB (Jethro Tull)
Aaah that's more like it! after the 2014 version. Lots of intensity here, must go back to my Yessongs album (incidentally signed by Rick) himself to to check that version out.
Fortunately I saw them ONCE (before they kicked Jon to the curb for ? & Chris died; At Irvine Meadows in 84 - NO f-g Howe just that t*rd rabinon - Yes is gone to me (along with what remains of the civilized/ decent world apparently); glad I knew this music AND that NO women EVER wanted me (they all seemed to HATE prog Rock anway (so ALSO dodged MANY 'bullets' on that front, and unfortunately the family that came with all that 'along-the-way'. I am already dead so nothing really matters now, esp the current WWIII we are ALL in Snapped-in-Half in Hell
The line is not "armies scatter the Earth", but "armies gather near". I found that out after years of singing it wrong out of the rainbow books. Jon just sings near with a different emphasis.
Man, Steve Howe is a great guitarist and all but the man always stands still. At the very least I'm glad he was getting into that jam at 6:30, but I'd love to see him do what I call the Geddy hop (hoping down the stage on one leg). At the very least let's see a smile come from that guy.
Andarillo he doesn't have to jump around,he make's a statement from his playing,he has been around long enough,he doesn't have to be a show stealer or a ham
