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. 🤬
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!
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.
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...
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.
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."
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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! 😂
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
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.
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.
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. ☺
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!
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!
That ES-Artist he’s showing at the end is my favorite. He used a few of them with Asia; you can see them used extensively on the ASIA IN ASIA video from 1983.
@@Jobotubular Not sure, but at least one of them works on the active electronics that came from Moog (this was when Norlin owned both Gibson and Moog). One of the switches was for the built-in compressor. I don't know if Howe ever used that but there's a break in "Open Your Eyes" on ASIA IN ASIA where Howe gets out a quadruple bend with an oblique bend after that. I love those guitars; it's the one vintage electric Gibson I'd hunt down if I could afford it.
Those guitars were very unpopular, they were just TOO different.. The only way to get usable sounds from the active treble and bass knobs was to turn those settings on your amp WAY down and work the guitar tones up to what you like,..if you left your amp on your usual settings,the thing would simply overdrive in a most horrible way...you could get some interesting tones if you put your mind to it though.. The snapping,popping lead which takes out ''HeatOf The Moment'' is absolutely the Es -Artist
@@michaelmakes1225 -- I've long thought it would be handy to have some built-in effects on the guitar itself, especially OD / boost ... and it sounds like the Artist did just that -- and nobody liked it.
@@Jobotubular it has been tried a few times,.Gretsch ,70's had the Super Axe, w phaser & compressor, laid an egg And a Japanese company peddled Electra guitars, one model of which was available with interchangeable effects units,which could be plugged into a compartment down below the tailpiece (a les Paul shape).. This idea gave the best results,effects wise,but the guitars themselves weren't of high quality, so another fizzle.
@@CreeperSkullDZ You're totally right. I've got to know that recently. For me it was a bit strange thinking that he hadn't ever used that special guitar. But happily I was wrong!
Indeed, fantastic musician and a real gentleman. I remember seeing a comment here on TH-cam 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." 🙂
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.
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!
Steve once said if he had to really think about the notes he was playing on the fret board , while playing them , he would lose his concentration . Also he doesn't read music .For me playing 55 years , I started guitar at 11 years old and reading music , and gave up reading 2 years later . use chord charts at the most.
Reading is essential if you need to learn specific tunes for performance, and lots of them, particularly with others in a band or orchestra. No real substitute.
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. :-)
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.
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 remember this when it was first broadcast - it was a show called "Collecting Now" presented by Penny Junor. It was quite a boring show, this being the only content of note, I seem to recall.
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!!!
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.
It turns out that there are also many Guitar Collections. I Like Lifestyle player Guitar Mr STEVE HOWE 🎸 LEGEND MUSICIAN .. Thank's for share GODBLESS YOU .... 🙏❤️👍
Steve howes The les paul has recently been featured on Troglys guitar reviews.... quite interesting for guitar aficionados looking for a little more info
Yes, I saw that vid too. Quite the guitar, those old boys in Kalamazoo would make anything you would pay and wait for, guess they are doing that in Nashvegas, too.
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This woman has a magnetic elegance. A lost quality...And Howe is a master, of course.
Gosh if she showed that level of interest in me I'd be seriously happy.
I think she would prefer to be discussing opera.
Harriet Crawley - very BBC (I think), but as you say, delightful.
I was thinking the same
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. 🤬
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!
That's a great story. Steve was one of the guys who kind of made interested in playing mandolin, in addition to guitar.
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!
That is a good story!
I wish TH-cam would allow you to post a picture of it. I'd love to see it.
@@hamiltonburger4574 I don't know if you're on facebook?
This is like a duchess interviewing a professor in guitars. Super classy.
This has got to be the most pleasant exchange of the english language I've ever seen
I hope you can forgive the lateness of my reply, but I felt it necessary to inform you of my concurrence.
The presenter is Harriet Crawley and she was a total BABE
Complete class
Steve Howe is such an Intelligent and Quite Amazing Musician
YES indeed, a remarkable musical polymath (so is Jon Anderson, of course)! Both as a player, improviser and composer/songwriter.
What a lovely lady he is talking to 👌
and what an amazing collection of rare gems.
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.
@@morbidmanmusic go back to shredding hair metal you hater
He later wrote a book about his collection, lavishly illustrated.
Wouldn't we all have loved to hear Steve play something on the lyres and older guitars just to know what they sounded like?
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...
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... :)
It’s amazing to see him still playing his favourite Gibson 175.
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.
Steve probably knows the sound every fret on every string will make across such an amazing range of instruments.
Steve is the reason I play guitar. I heard him when I was a kid and was hooked.
What a treat watching this. He is an elite player among elite players.
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."
Any time I see Steve Howe, I have the Pavlovian impulse to play guitar...
He was my guitar hero in the '70.
And buy another guitar!
His instruments are beautifully depicted on the fold-out cover of his solo album The Steve Howe Album (1979).
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!
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.
Great video. I owned and documented that The Les Paul just a few years ago
one of the many guitar revelations you've been bringing to us guitarheads - many thanks and pls keep'em coming
mate, i was just thinking about sending you the vid like... that's trogly's howe 🤟😝🇦🇺
I’m so happy to find you here Mr. Trogly, Because I was going to copy this and send it to you and hope that you would see it. 🎶🎶🎶
Yes indeed, still one of the coolest things you’ve documented!
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.
His range of music is so complete that he would be the one guitarist to put on a space ark if the Earth were about to be destroyed.
Oh yeah it's already arranged ...
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.
I love his leads in Perpetual Change on that album. Just thrilling stuff- capped off with a Bruford drum solo at the end ? Bliss, man !!
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Thank you for uploading this, it’s impossible to find otherwise.
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.
The Crimson Les Paul he plays on that album is on the troglys guitar YT channel.
Yes, such a great album. Really showcases his amazing range.
His 1st solo album, correct?
@@saberdogface ‘Beginnings’ was his first Solo album, the one I refer to is his second ‘The Steve Howe album.’👍
@@bruxdlux595 That's right! Thank you!
this dude's got all the coolest gibsons
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.
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.
Went to see Yes in 72. Prior to that I was a Monkees fan. The universe exploded for me when they opened with Roundabout.
LOL, that's a big jump, from the Monkees to Yes.
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!!!
Hey Hey, what's wrong with The Monkees🐒?
@@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.
Some wild instruments in there. Cool to hear him talk a little about the history of the instrument.
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?
What a beautiful lady
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! 😂
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
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.
Yeah, extremely arguable....
@@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.
Вот это настоящий музыкант, который живет музыкой и всем что с этим связано. Какой контраст с рокерами наркоманами 70-х.
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.....
You would be very wrong. Take some lessons, and get back to us in a decade when you understand guitar more.
@@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.
He was so sweet!
I've never seen this. So it's a nice surprise. I'm a Howe historian.
1980s with 3 channels obscured show had more views than prime time show on cable in 2022
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. ☺
Clearly the world's greatest guitar player
Mr Howe lived in a mansion block in Maida Vale. I lived a couple of floors below him. My claim to fame.
Outstanding
Steve Howe is the only musician who played on a Queen record. Freddy asked him in Swizerland to play Spanish guitar for the song Innuendo.
I assume you meant “guest” musician…..
@@mmcc8657 Sure
Back to the exact moment when TV switch from black and white to colour ....
Just came from Troglys interview with Steve over The Les Paul. So good to see it alive and well and could listen to Steve talk guitars for hours.
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!
He's been known to call each of those guitars "my precioussssss."
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.
Are you sure? Is there room for four humbuckers on a Les Paul?
@@harseybaber if I’m lyin’ I’m dyin’. th-cam.com/video/icgurLBDZDU/w-d-xo.html
@@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.
You should have seen was Les Paul did to his guitars. In the end they're just instruments for the musician.
@@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!
Brilliant!
Don't touch it! Don't point Don't even look at it!!
Haha!!! Okay Nigel!!🤣
Getcha greasy hands off the guitar.
That ES-Artist he’s showing at the end is my favorite. He used a few of them with Asia; you can see them used extensively on the ASIA IN ASIA video from 1983.
wish he'd actually said what those switches do!
(prob coil tap and phase)
@@Jobotubular Not sure, but at least one of them works on the active electronics that came from Moog (this was when Norlin owned both Gibson and Moog). One of the switches was for the built-in compressor. I don't know if Howe ever used that but there's a break in "Open Your Eyes" on ASIA IN ASIA where Howe gets out a quadruple bend with an oblique bend after that. I love those guitars; it's the one vintage electric Gibson I'd hunt down if I could afford it.
Those guitars were very unpopular, they were just TOO different.. The only way to get usable sounds from the active treble and bass knobs was to turn those settings on your amp WAY down and work the guitar tones up to what you like,..if you left your amp on your usual settings,the thing would simply overdrive in a most horrible way...you could get some interesting tones if you put your mind to it though.. The snapping,popping lead which takes out ''HeatOf The Moment'' is absolutely the Es -Artist
@@michaelmakes1225 -- I've long thought it would be handy to have some built-in effects on the guitar itself, especially OD / boost ... and it sounds like the Artist did just that -- and nobody liked it.
@@Jobotubular it has been tried a few times,.Gretsch ,70's had the Super Axe, w phaser & compressor, laid an egg
And a Japanese company peddled Electra guitars, one model of which was available with interchangeable effects units,which could be plugged into a compartment down below the tailpiece (a les Paul shape).. This idea gave the best results,effects wise,but the guitars themselves weren't of high quality, so another fizzle.
Thanks for sharing this! Fantastic! All time favorite guitarist.
I have never seen him involved with the Portuguese 12 string guitar. Maybe he has but I have never heard of that. Would love to see him playing it.
I’ve found it! Minute 6:50 th-cam.com/video/VH8u5peWsyk/w-d-xo.html
I've seen all good people and wonderous stories
@@CreeperSkullDZ You're totally right. I've got to know that recently. For me it was a bit strange thinking that he hadn't ever used that special guitar. But happily I was wrong!
Incredible collection, and Steve is a real gentleman.
Steve has always been my favourite guitarist.
Splendid clip that was thoroughly enjoyable
Fantastic artist and musician. A monster on guitar. I am a fan of the prog side of Howe. An humble man
Indeed, fantastic musician and a real gentleman.
I remember seeing a comment here on TH-cam 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." 🙂
What i don't understand is why the bifs with Anderson? Bifs of grumpy old folks?
Steve Howe is superb guitarist but Mary poppins is an amazing interviewer !!!
...and very good looking!!!
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.
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!
Steve once said if he had to really think about the notes he was playing on the fret board , while playing them , he would lose his concentration . Also he doesn't read music .For me playing 55 years , I started guitar at 11 years old and reading music , and gave up reading 2 years later . use chord charts at the most.
Reading is essential if you need to learn specific tunes for performance, and lots of them, particularly with others in a band or orchestra. No real substitute.
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. :-)
That woman is beautiful.
Right on, bravo!!!
What a beautiful classy lady
Wow, they filmed it in The Tardis! Cool!
Man is a genius.
The Maestro!
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.
Back when Steve was affable and charming.
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)
Is still one of the best guitarists this country has ever produced.
Slovakia?
……in the world!
@Jim hardiman Slovakia ? 😂 You wish you produced him; he's English .
Great time machine video - thank you for posting this, Mark!
Fun Fact: she has Gibson Girl hair.
I remember this when it was first broadcast - it was a show called "Collecting Now" presented by Penny Junor.
It was quite a boring show, this being the only content of note, I seem to recall.
I’ve met Steve. Class guy.
That's a wonderful old video. 🥰
4:00 future troglys guitar show model
I remember watching this back in the day.
Relayer - His craft may have started with Chet and Merle but for sure new terrain was unleashed on the world with this epic album.
completely agree, the most groundbreaking album they ever did, a unique record within the seventies.
This should be TH-cam's function.
Might be the most underrated rock guitarist and he's a true British gentleman to boot. Fascinating, thanks for posting.
Not really, back in the 70’s, he won a lot of awards.
My gosh, what an amazing video
That red Les Paul is being shipped to a buyer on TH-cam . Check out that video
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!!!
Nobody on guitar plays like him. Remember Soon? A really poem on the guitar part. And the completely "madness" on Tales
The most unique guitarist ever in Rock
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.
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Wonderful guitarist, great interview. A timeless video clip, and I couldn't help notice that it was filmed in the TARDIS: 0:54
Great interview, plus it takes place in the TARDIS.
Steve howes The les paul has recently been featured on Troglys guitar reviews.... quite interesting for guitar aficionados looking for a little more info
Yes, I saw that vid too. Quite the guitar, those old boys in Kalamazoo would make anything you would pay and wait for, guess they are doing that in Nashvegas, too.
Trogly had Steve's personal "The" Les Paul?
Heck, ya!
Steve is such a fine English gentleman showing a very small example of his massive collection to a lady who knows nothing about guitars or Steve...
His english is very upper class and soft whilst conversing with thy ladie. Amazing bit of YES Yestory!!!
Desperate for a innuendo via the posh presenter, pearl inlay came close.
Now now, keep it clean!
Among the greatest
QUE HERMOSA LA VIEJA
Is there anything on YT more English than this clip. Just perfect.
Inside the Tardis
some of those old guitars are amazing. Very ornate.
B&w and color in same post. Fab.