God be with you.

hope you are still among us!, and not suffering

sending love man!

It is the little moments in life that seem to make it worthwhile,bless you.

Sorry to hear you are dying of Cancer. Your in my prayers !

Funny enough he did not even wanted to go up there. He talks about it in is book.

Definitely accomplished you got to llck It

100% agree. A genius.

I agree cause Steve Howe can play all styles on guitar

One of the most versatile at least.

I love Steve a whole bunch and when I found this performance I was just stunned. Okie-d I so respect that you said " In my opinion". Thank you for saying that....I have to tell you why thats so important to me and my opinion. It stems from people wanting to make a competition out of music, people will say things like this guy leaves that guy in the dust....things like that....I absolutely hate that.....music is NOT a competition!

@@tefenstrat music is NOT a competition! Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rK2Hmaec3ZreqY0.html

If you consider the 1/4 tones in blues and Indian music, there are in fact more than 12 tones in an octave. And _Yes,_ Steve can play them all. ^-^

You all seem to forget the notes that Steve Howe has discovered but mankind has yet to. LOL

YOU ALL MISSED THE POINT -.-

Mosters!

there are 7 notes in an octave lol

One only need listen to The Yes Album to know Howe was a genius.

@@fantasypgatour : My thoughts exactly!!

Les was in fact much hotter than . kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbR1gaSc0besf40.html

@@sambac2053 Mary Ford was the hottest!

@MorbidManMusic Could Les splay Clap or Soon?

This is the best Iridium jam ever

@@sambac2053 That's some mighty fine speedy shreddage !

New to me too, and I'm a big fan.

he does at the end of starship trooper actually but thats one song out of hundreds

@@AdewStudios1 Humm...well, in that case, let me rephrase. This is the first time I've ever NOTICED Steve play a blues lick...ha ha.

Good observation. I was teaching in the 70's and some of my students wanted to learn Steve Howe licks. I told them that I couldn't really pin him down to some licks, but we'd write out (some) of his parts and then see how they related to the musical structure of the song. (As much a lesson for me as for them.) At that time I could play Mood for a Day, but I couldn't do the Chet Atkins style required for Clap.

​@Satanic Panic Fun and Games And it appears that most of the rock/blues scene still does the same licks. It kind of gets boring hearing them all the time. Of course not everyone does them but it's still there.

I bet he taught Les a lot.

Very good that Steve asked Les what key he preferred but after 3 times Les sounds like he's getting pissed!

And Steve actually played a Les Paul guitar unlike many of the other Les and guest videos

@@michaelhogan6770 Have you seen the video where Les yanks out Jeff Beck's cord on stage?!! Ha ha. Les looked like he was loaded for bear when he came out!!!

You nailed it

Steve can play anything well, but much of his style is based around Travis fingerpicking. He's not the lead guitarist of Yes, he's the only guitarist.

He's an Extraordinary finger picker And lead guitar player.

He may be the one of the best guitarists except when playing the solo to "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

#fantasticness

@MrLizardisle And your opinion is relevent, why??? Also its Steve HOWE, not HOW.

@MrLizardisle great players don't always require effects. Steve Howe is a guest here, so no he wouldn't bring his pedal board to Les Paul's gig. Fripp is all about effects and ambience, and he's great at what he does.

He is so cute to very talented young man

Ehh they are definitely using pedals but I agree that there is nothing wrong with a very clean sound.. as long as you are good enough to pull it off!

and innocent looking like butter wouldnt melt ... from the person who brought us siberian khatru lol !!!

The adoration and respect Steve Howe showed by covering two mind blistering Les Paul masterpieces NOTE FOR NOTE brought tears to my eyes. ... I think if you asked him right now what the best night of his life was he would say this jam in Les Paul's New York Jazz Club.

Haha--well said, paulr555!

This was probably the best night of his life.

Steve joyful!!! Yeahhhhh!!!!

ues good luck well said lol steve is a monster i saw him live with asia,one of my favourite guitarists

5 time guitarist of the year😎

Steve never studied music he even said himself he is self taught

Can't no one touch this guy. He can do it all.

​@climey yes correct❤

Well said friend.

BluesLicks101 sure nuff

I bet Les learned a lot.

Craig Parse YES YES but he's only the 74th best guitarist according to Rolling Stones rag what a freaking joke.........

Search KZfaq for Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter. He's cut from the same mould.

He can destroy Clapton any day. And also rollling stone ranked Alex lifeson at #98 or something like that

First of all, thanks for liking this page. Few guitarists could cover this stuff - never mind guitarists that have developed world-class reputations as Howe has. This music style is actually his child-hood music and he caries it off immaculately well. With respect to "Close to the Edge" if you listen to Yesshows live version I have always believed that Howe's guitar is semi-improvised and is one of the most powerful song introductions ever. I would seriously put it with Beethoven's 5th, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

Jeff is a great player but not in the same league as Steve. Not even close.

Fills my heart with joy every time I watch this,Les obviously realises Steves massive talent & Steve is like a starstruck kid with his idol,so special

I loved that, and thought the very same thing.

You forgot stevie ray vaughn

Yes, thanks Chris Lentz for sharing this gem! Makes my day watching it!!

Agree

he is such an inspiration. If only there was a way to put some more soul into him

@@hughmoss9884 If only there was away to put some soul into him, would be far more accurate. When you have musicians composing songs with the main aim to show off their virtuosity then they have no soul. Comparisons with Beck are plainly ridiculous, he never did an Asia or GTR or produced the dross that Howe was involved with. It is well documented that this is the music he grew up with along with the music of Atkins and that comes across on this performance because he is clearly enjoying himself. Very good guitarist, but not particularly an important one and one that lives off of the reputation from his early years.

@@ascending1965 Oh, I completely disagree. The thing that made him amazing was the lack of soul. Or blues playing, as I'm sure you would say. His approach was more classical. That's what sets him apart from a Clapton, et. al. THAT'S what I find interesting in his composing/playing. It doesn't have to be all bendy, bendy, bendy soulful stuff. The technical creativity is FASCINATING. Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper, South Side of the Sky, all incredibly different ways of approaching rock music. Never been done before. Or since. Sometimes you don't need soul. Sometimes you don't need to be able to dance to it. Like bebop. Just need ears and a brain. Thanks for listening.

@@ascending1965 But Beck couldn't play/finger pick what Steve just did in the first 2 songs, let along Travis style picking pieces like Clap

Yes, this one made me slow down and soak it up. Very impressive.

You couldn't have said that better.

Correct since him many times with yes

try ANY YES album...Yessongs-Yours in No Disgrace is his tour de force

Alot of people don't take YES serious. They think their music is too long winded and pretentious. Like alot of progressive bands, their short songs pop songs got them really noticed.

Turn of the Century from Going for the One

PM C U should check out Steve Howe,Chet Atkins and Liona Boyd(classical guitarist).Amazing!✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🌚🌝

Jacoman S lespaul.org

Jacoman S Talented disciplined dedicated wow

In the 60's he used to play (British branch of) rhytm 'n' blues before moving to psychedelia. In the 70's he was already in Yes when he helped out bluesrock group Stone The Crows to fill their tour contracts after Leslie Harvey died to electric shock onstage due to faulty amplifier.

All the greats started with the Blues. Frank Zappa was playing the blues till the day he died but nobody noticed

Blues are the lifeblood of ALL good music..

I still love love love stevie ray vaughn

Howe incorporates so many different styles with his music.. it is why I love Yes so much....

Sure some Les Paul in Steve Howe's country licks, but a whole lotta Wes Montgomery and Jeff Beck too. Steve Howe takes it to another level compositionally. Those guitar solos move Yes songs from one section to another, while most country and blues just jam in one place.

Bo Lerkins Two of the most amazing guitarist who have ever lived playing together for the joy of it. greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey USA

As our old bass player, brother and dear friend likes to say, "SOME PEOPLES TASTE IS ALL IN THEIR ASS".

Bo Lerkins I absolutely agree with you. This video is amazing

Fast Eddie said it best, "Oh well, checkers sells more than chess."

Yeah! Surprising. Les Paul the innovator of guitar technology is unsurpassed.

Steve is a well rounded player, and would also play solo Country guitar shows. We do know that Les loved to play Country,too.

as i get older and wiser im moving from my 1st love ... the bass .. to other instruments ...and im happier for it , learning so much stuff its scary lol.. this ... this is just magical i could watch les every day with a new partner and he always matches him in some way ... never noodles over shit ... thats just class proper and truly a gentleman ... much love for you les i wish more musicians would be as talented and as human

Thanks Chris!!!

...thank you very much, that´s my point.

You read my mind! Les, Howe, and Beck are 1-3 in my book (in no particular order). Jimmy Page and Django have got to be in the convo as well. Derek Trucks has become quite godly as well... And don't forget Zappa! But they all play different styles so I won't bother comparing, I'll just be blessed that we have all of them to choose from!

YES HE IS

There's far more to Steve Howe than what he plays with Yes!

Markus Antonio The greatest guitarist to have ever lived. Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey USA

Laurie Guirguis Sounds good.

And yet all the music media hacks do is fawn all over Jimi, Jimi, JIMI as if there has never been nor will there EVER BE, anyone higher. Steve Howe IS and always will be ‘The Maestro.’

There can't be anyone "higher". Jimi took the electric guitar further than anyone else has, every electric guitarist is playing in his footsteps. That's not to say there can't be "better" guitarists. John Mayer plays "Wait Until Tomorrow" "better" than Jimi, and I think Steve could outplay Jimi on pedal steel, classical, dobro, flamenco, ... ;-)

Wow. That was great! Steve is a legend.

YES, I agree, there should be more of this and LES of the modern mainstream swill ;-)

This is racism.

Chetr Atkins is his hero