TODDLER wrote:
This was the first time I had heard Steve Howe play guitar and I have to tell you....it was very intimidating because he just appeared one day in YES with this very hyper energized type of playing and amazing technique. He was a ball of energy on fire. He was a beachball sweating inside a furnace! He was a guitar player in a straight jacket wating to free himself and perform. It was like an explosion and most guitarists had to go home and practice. Between styles/techniques of Ragtime playing, Jazz with some Jim Hall tone, sustaining Rock leads playing technical Progressive Rock note passages at a clean precise speed of no tomorrow....my God..it was time to practice and many guitarists had no idea what they were in store for on the next album. I wasn't too surprised when he began playing Classical nylon string guitar on Fragile. I could tell immediately that he contained other dimensions to his playing because I was trained, but yet many of his shifting patterns were awkward and difficult to master precisely and consistently ..which made him a very technical player. He was a little monster in the 70's and many guitarists were trying to catch up to him. I realize this sounds a bit extreme, but he devastated fine guitarists when he first appeared on The Yes Album.
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Before The Yes Album, I always listened to keyboards/organ over everything else, but Howe got me into guitars as well. I could listen to
Disillusion for days, I love that acustic section!