Steve Howe Album: Steve Howe: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Pennants

2. Cactus Boogie

3. All's A Chord

4. Diary Of A Man Who Vanished

5. Look Over Your Shoulder

6. Meadow Rag

7. The Continental

8. Surface Tension

9. Double Rondo

10. Concerto In D (2nd Movement)

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Album Description

CD reissue of this 1980 album. Steve Howe is best known at the guitarist for Yes, Asia and GTR. He also has released a few extraordinary solo albums over the years. The Steve Howe Album was originally issued on Atlantic Records. Guesting on this album are Yes drummer Alan White, vocalist Clair Hammill, drummer Bill Bruford and keyboardist Patrick Moraz.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Varied and Satisfying, Feb 25 2003

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Howie "tomas" (United States) - See all my reviews
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I first heard the opening cut "Pennants" on the college radio station when I was working in the dorm cafeteria washing greasy pots and pans. The drums first caught my ear, and made me wander over to the wall-mounted speaker. "That's Alan White," I thought.

Being a drummer myself, I was naturally tuned to Alan's distinctive style of playing. But, I quickly figured out who was doing the guitar playing. "That's Steve Howe." I didn't know this album was pending (in those pre-internet days, one rarely got a heads-up about new releases; they often just joyously appeared).

When I was done with my work shift I ran to the local record store and bought the album.

The first thing that struck me was the balance. This album is quite varied, and Mr. Howe shows himself as comfortable as a calico cat in many genres. It is also notable in that over half the album is instrumental (and Steve thankfully only sings a couple of the vocal songs).

Some of the songs sound a bit dated today, but "Pennants" is always fun, and it always brings me back to that moment, up to my elbows in greasy pots and pans, when I realized there was another bit of that old Yes Magic on the prowl.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The ideal showcase for Howe's guitar expertise, Feb 3 2003

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Thomas K. Dye (Richmond, CA) - See all my reviews
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As mentioned, Howe only sings during the coda of "All's a Chord", and he employs another singer for "Look Over Your Shoulder." Other than those fairly decent vocal numbers, this is a fine instrumental album, with the solid "Pennants", the chirpily humorous numbers "Cactus Boogie" and "The Continental", the more romantic "Surface Tension" and the syncopated "Diary of a Man Who Vanished". There's a variety of instrumentation here that shouldn't be overlooked by any Yes fan or guitar enthusiast.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Howe and his many magic guitars, Dec 25 2001

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Steven Marks "Prog Harpo" (Petaluma, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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A spreadsheet accompanies this album: what guitar(s) out of 12 or so are played on a given track. Mr. Howe is really showcasing his fantastic abilities. A wide range of guitars is employed as well as a a very broad range of music from ragtime, to classical to Southern US Rock and Roll.

I like "Double Rhondo" the most. a solo electric Les Paul Fender is played like a solo instrument to a Mozart like Concerto that Howe composed and has a 59 piece symphony orchestra play. It is like someone went to the past to Wolfgang Mozart and showed him an electric guitar and Mozart showcased that instrument in a Concerto.

Good work on this album by Howe. he is truely an artist of the first order. His true place in life is with Yes, but this is his best solo work.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good music
I already wrote about other two albums of Steve Howe, but this is special. First of all because it''s one of the first lps that I won - recently I bought in cd. Read more

Published on Sep 21 2000 by hobbitbr

4.0 out of 5 stars No reason for hostility
Except for the inside cover (which advertises Steve Howe's huge guitar collection), there is little immodesty associated with this CD, and consequently not much reason to get... Read more