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  • Anyone see my jaw? Think I lost it around 1:00.

  • amo este solo ¿no hay tabs ?

  • I was there!!!

  • anybody who knows which amp greg used 1988 for his first album? maybe it's the same as here.

  • got this song stuck in my head. i want to learn but gezz by ear this would take longgggggg

  • lol wtf happened @ 4:48 haha chipmunk stuck in the strings.. any howe i have the whole video from 1988 and ill upload for you guys be sureto peep the video response

  • riffin

  • I Greg around this time at The Atlanta Institute of Music doing a clinic!

  • 2:36 and the rest of the break is especially cool

  • @CraigBarduk I agree! \m/

  • used to see Greg play clubs here in Allentown PA back in the day. Still blows my mind.

  • This reminds me of Paul Gilbert.

  • pretty neat. i love his phrasing.. so dynamic

  • @GuitarRoast your mom.....

  • Gd!Grief, Spiderman on guitar, thank you Universe

  • La maquinita Howe, es un crack este tipo!

  • It seems to be cool on youtube to call anything moderately fast 'playing with no feel'. Sheer jealousy.

  • That blues part he plays at 37sec is nice, never seen that. Will prolly streal it.

  • i fell asleep during this

  • Are there any Greg Howe videos anywhere on the planet that weren't shot with a cell phone camera?

  • @ET505 This was in 1988... There were no cell phone camera's. This was probably shot with, what was at the time, a pretty good camcorder

  • @ET505 Tetsuo Sakarai Concert is on a dvd qual. They play extraction and tetsuo's compositions.

  • wow a 5 minute one-take that perfect

  • seems that there is no feelin in the playing but...i dont now I think there is something..

  • @P00TANARA Poor guy you

  • @09mrhardabs yes poor me, no food, no drink, no speak..fuck me then

  • @P00TANARA Please refrain from talking crap. If you can't hear the feeling then you're the one who's missing something. and for the record, I don't even like this - it's not my thing - but Howe's feeling is not in doubt.

  • @nemesisrogue if read correctly i said "i think there is something" you fuckhead

  • @P00TANARA Lilsten up you broke Greek, if you had any integrity you'd admit that you couldn't identify feeling - it's in your own fucking words. And maybe if your fellow 3rd rate European countrymen stopped trying to talk tough over the internet, and focus on your broke country, you wouldn't be in the mess that you are, begging for the rest of Europe to bail your broke arses out.

    Now fuck off.

  • @nemesisrogue wow mr. nemesis do i sense nerves in your pathetic words or what?? this has nothing to do with countries and politics and economic strategies towards the EU or Greece, these are for politicians...we are here commenting under this video for MUSIC because we love MUSIC!!! got it???? and anyone can say its opinion...there is no right or wrong!!

    I love you too and you can shuv your money

  • What, did he clean his guitar with Crisco?

  • @GuitarRoast, you poor guy.

  • @GuitarRoast FUCK YOU.....CAME TO SEE LADY GAGA!!!

  • @GuitarRoast ...you poor troll...

  • LOL, my good friend, who started playing guitar recently, (we're both 25 years-old, I've been playing since age 2 & he started last year), & he sent me an Instant Message Link to this, saying "Check this guy out, He's a Wicked Shredder & he's playing a Fender Strat" & I told him "1st man, Arguably the best guitarists EVER, played a Strat; The Late GREAT Jimi Hendrix (to say nothing of Stevie Ray Vaughan) & 2nd, that is NOT a garden-variety Strat. that's an HM Strat; 24-Frets, Floyd Rose Trem

  • Amazing....but too many notes!! less is sometimes more!! ;-)

  • never runs outta notes!

  • his very first shrapnel album blow my socks off amazing player,thanks pal.

  • i thought govan and hutchings were good until i saw this guy... unreal

  • @bensooty1

    Yea, but just about all the guys from Shrapnel Records play as well (with their own unique styles). Check out the other guys too. I'll list some for you: Jason Becker, Tony Macalpine, Vinnie Moore, & Joey Tafolla. Look 'em up they are all neo-classical players but you can definitely tell them apart.

  • @TensaZangetsu814 thanks for your reply, i will check them out... this guy is incredible though... its totally mind blowing to see this kind of talent... and from 88...!!

  • what song is this

    

  • He's so BADASS, even the video can't keep up with him (4:48)

  • another raped strat

  • Eddie Van Who? No seriously, not rippin on Eddie but wow this was every bit as amazing if not more.

  • @zeropointpower The famous guys are usually quite bad players whilst the guys who are really good are the ones being looked over.

  • 11 people didn't liked the video quality... 12, with me...

  • HIs guitar liiks dirty. Mine did too when i was eating chikin and playing.

  • Right up there with Vai

  • So many smudges.

  • :-O

  • @3:32 he is thinking.... i need to call the men in black to come and pick me up, home is far far away

  • marty friedman lick? 2:33 - 2:35

  • @Sagalusss Very similar but a little more intricate than Friedman's slide hammer-on lick. Not knocking Friedman in any way though, he's a legend.

  • marty friedman lick? 2:33 - 2:35

  • FUCK!! the diminished sequence on 3:50 is insane!!!

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  • @MrGuitarrica jajjajajaja stupid fender

  • The composition and band is not exciting, but

    Wow.

  • GREG ME HACE VOLVER A PISAR LOS PIES EN LA TIERRA ,, LORD GREG!!

  • 11 people are fake and gay

  • Any time you think you are playing well come and listen to greg , brings you back to earth with a crunch ;)

  • 5 Mins of Pure Joy!!

  • Discipline!

    

  • 4:48, it is confirmed, this guy is definitely from another planet!

  • @chromatic1976 LOL so quick he can just warp time at his own will and teleport across the fretboard

  • It sometimes lookslike hes got 5 fingers playing on the board. Not fair mann haha

  • Wow I just love the way his hands move! His motions are just so fluid and precise. I seriously think he's cheating, though! His hands aren't moving that damn fast and he's getting all those note????

  • @DodKrone The frame-rate is too damn low for Greg.

  • Greg rules...

    Tremendous technique...

  • @whaddeva When Hendrix came out, some said he would be forgotten in 15 years. Same for EVH and Malmsteen. Apparently there's a communal crystal ball utilized by guys like your buddy gillan5 that enables them to state with certainty an artist' legacy and impact. He doesn't know and neither does anyone else. The arrogance to claim he does gives real insight into his critque. "I never get personal" and then calls you a moron. BTW, Howe is stellar, chops and phrasing par excellence. Grand stuff.

  • @whaddeva The whole time I was waiting for personal insultation : and it came! You have to learn to respect other peoples opinons without insulting them - otherwise you will never be a real grown up. I only state my case on the artists performance - that is all. I never get personal. So shut up you moron from this forgotten Island of yours and listen to that phrygian, lydian dominant unmelodic shit all day. However; Alan Holdsworth is the real deal. I listened to him when I was 12!

  • @whaddeva I AM German; so do please not lecture me on BACH. Gys like Howe are all over the place, Petrucci, All the players from Ozzy, Vinnie Moore, etc, etc, etc, I admire these guy for their virtuositiy that`s is all. But they will not be remembered in 15 years from now on (only by some thousand guitar freaks). They can not write rememberable pieces of music. Its just playing their fucking scales over and over. 5 notes from Blackmore or Paul Kossof say more than that. period.

  • @gillan5 fuck petrucci, but all the top 80s guys will live on forever, these guys were the pioneers of electric guitar, hey i listen to shit from the 20's that would blow your mind. And there is no one else like howe out there dude. Who??? you just have really low self asteem and your a extremely negative person, even if they are not remembered, who gives a fuck? not me, not greg, just u mr happydaks,

  • @gillan5 They just play their scales? Hilarious. I think you're forgetting what BACH'S ENTIRE MUSICAL VOCAB WAS BASED OFF OF. Scales, buddy. Variations, motifs, themes but all using scales. Major, minor, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales make up 99% of everything Bach ever created. And then, like now, there was some arrogant critic preaching how he somehow didn't deserve whatever credit he may have achieved. Don't you see? You are that critic. Just shut up and enjoy it, man.

  • @ do you really want to compare BACH to Greg Howe? If so, you are then completely out of whack.

  • If somebody is looking for great virtuosity he is right here. If he is looking for good music he is completely wrong. These virtuosity guys are boring to the core. Public wanking I say.

  • That was VICIOUS....

  • this is such a unique piece of music and he plays it with such feeling and precision. truly one of the most advanced guitarists to date.

  • So cool!

  • His hand looks like a spider running crazy all over the neck!

  • If you look carefully at his guitar. It's not fingerprints adorning his guitar . The guitar he is using is the Marbled Fender Hm version. The rarier version. I have only seen a few of these for sale and that's over a 15 year period.

  • Greg is the Man!!

  • i caught about 10 flies in my gaping mouth watching this

  • WOW! Some kind of a monster! hehehe

    Great!

  • WOW! Great!

  • this has to be fake

  • who sneezed at 4.48 haha

  • Greg"greasy hands" Howe, look at how greasy his guitar looks lol :)

  • oh well lollollollollollollollollollol­lollollollollollollollollollol­lollollolllollollollollollollo­l

  • oh well lollollollollollollollollollol­lollollollol

  • hey, what can you SAY lol

  • He looked pissed off walking away at the end there lol.

  • that guitar is as dirty as a motel 6

  • love those HM strats! Howe has just great technique and creativity too!

  • This HM strat is not one of his typical guitars that he plays...this one has either a rosewood or ebony fretboard which is usually not his choice......he is almost always playing a guitar with a maple fretboard...a Van Halen influence I'm sure!!

  • back in good old days of not cleaning your guitar obsessively...

  • @leehamX3 you can clean a guitar? :D

  • theres so many fingerprints on that guitar i thought it was the actual finish o.O

  • he should have continued developing that guitar with fender i have had 5 of them in the past i still have two and they are awesome guitars

  • 3:34 is my fav

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  • @biiiiirdman hey...way better...

  • that´s a clean guitar..

  • genius...

    XD

  • Que Pensaria Malmsteen al escuchar desde el minuto 2:58 ???

  • @danielstevan26 se mojaria las mallas

  • Great view of the fretboard acrobatics of Greg Howe!

  • damn that guitar captures all of Greg's funk and fingerprints.

  • 1 Badass

  • Anyone have tabs for thie first part??

  • I tabbed out that carnival sounding part that starts at about 3:00 . It's on my channel if anyone want to check it out

  • his fingering hand is so low profile the reeli is super accurate

  • One of the most underrated and Best Guitarists in the World!!!

  • I dont think he is underrated,under the radar yes,lol.

    But it amazes me how many "guitarists"have never heard of Greg Howe,mostly mainstream guys.

    Everyone says EVH,YJM,give me a break,Howe/ Lane Have always blown me away and IMO were light years ahead of anything they were doing in their prime,which they are still playing to this day,only a little sloppier.But they put out some good stuff,just nowhere near what Howe @ Lane were doing.Just my opinion but Howe seems to have only gotten better.

  • @ChangGang Agree 100%. He's very soulful and only turns on the gas appropriately.

  • Weird to see him on a rosewood fretboard

  • What is the song?

  • What brand of guitar is this?

  • It's a Fender Heavy Metal (HM) Strat

  • Thanks!! And i really enjoyed your guitar vid!!

  • thanks a ton

  • @waylay00 It's ibanez guitar.

  • @vai6666 No, it's a Fender HM Strat.

  • insane! I quite

  • man.. this is some tasteful playing!

  • oh shit im not sure but i think somewhere in the middle of this solo he took the shape of a unicorn;-P

  • AWESOME!

  • No speed picking there all legato and a lot of up strokes and string skipping

  • amazing

  • Now this is melodic and this is how Monstrous legato playing is done.

  • does anyone know what song this is or if it is on any of his albums? I only have the collection album, I want this song!!!

  • Great!!!

  • This is a great example of his early playing-amazing phrasing, great timing, and unique ideas. Even at high speeds, he never loses that cool blues edge.

  • Agreed. I don't like blues or shred, but I love players like him and could listen to them solo all day.

  • @Gregorypeckory hey cool name!

  • jajaja 4:49

  • @danielstevan26 jajaja 4:49 la cinta no pudo resistir tanto talento u_u

  • was he in a band i aint heard of or something?

  • No, he's been a session musician for a while. He's toured with several successful pop artists.

  • Back then he did have his back called Howe2 with his brother Al..I was fortunate to see him a few times play out back then locally with his band as a cover band called Full Blues Jacket.AWESOME!!

  • thanks man im going to look up that band for sure

  • There are I think 2 releases of Howe2 I believe on Mike Varney label/Shrapnel..Greg is the best teacher one could ask for..His knowledge is incredible..

  • i taught him how to play.......

  • so sad... he's self taught... xD

  • you probably haven't seen Greg evolve his music has a lot of feeling check out his stuff from the late years.

  • what the hell are you talking about!? this is common as for fusion, and it is not what you are thinking of. you are just not into fusion. maybe that is it..

  • This guys a pussy and sucks at guitar. I bet he's also a communist and hates puppies.

    (Yes I'm kidding)

  • about the puppies part or the sucking at guitar...because im pretty sure their both wrong...and the communist part

  • You mean he is a communist guitarist that sucks pussy and hates guitar... :)

  • alot of his improv is just strait 8th and 16th notes but its so creative and interesting!

  • Nothing at all wrong with the bass line. The bass totally complimented Mr. Howe's awesome playing through the entire piece.

  • love the hair & the guitar

  • Hei whose iddiot was playing bass! At 3:54 the bass was so annoying! But Greg is a legend!

  • the bass is totally perfect...you've problems with your ears...

  • No my ears are ok.. maybe you're too often listening to a pitchy player or instrument..

  • At 4.00, the bass got even MORE out of intonation, but I just focussed on Greg's work then instead, hahaha...

  • Yeah.. that is the problem when they tried to play a bass like a guitar lol.. too much bending also can cause that happen. Or maybe the bass itself need a general set up. But Greg Rocks!

  • some of the best legato of all time!!!

  • woowow

  • This is a monster!!!

  • AWESOME

  • I could've played one or two notes of that.

    On second thought, probably not.

  • Beautifully intelligent, wonderful and creative