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  • El puto amo!!!

  • 2:10 cockadoodledoo

  • I always thought the clap was multiple guiturs, so hell yes i like it.

    Bugger that I love it.

  • This man is one of the most amazing guitarists I've ever seen/heard.

    And he's also a ROCK STAR!

  • The Rolling Stones magazine didn't put Steve Howe in the top 100 guitarists of all time. Sad..Sad.. Sad people.

  • @steelerfan4317 That is very sad. It makes one wonder who is doing the voting. I think that the mindset today leans more toward metal guitarists and shredders. I seriously doubt that there is a guitarist alive that could hold his own with Steve on the same stage. Maybe Di Meola. Watch his instructional videos. Awesome.

  • @mbreaux72

    It is sad man. The world is falling apart and being controlled by idiots!

  • So this is what a wood elf looks like in real life?

  • YES TAKE ME AWAY!

  • The ultimate bard of his time :)

  • la primera vez que escuche este tema tenia como 5 años y se me erizaron los pelos.han pasado ya 28 años y poder ver como toca howe este mismo tema en vivo es casi orgasmico

  • the fuckingg kingg of the guitar!!!! yeaa stewee!!!!!!!

  • Steve is amazing, beautiful guitarman, master of master FOREVER YES

  • 240p we meet again

  • He messed up half the stuff he wanted to play in the Clap....he warmed up a bit for the Mood.....

  • @Rikk303 He didnt mess up once?

  • @danpoo14 I see your reasoning...nice one m8!

  • this bloke really loves what he's doing.

    such talent, awesome.

  • Man, instint wooooooody  !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • are there any videos on this shite site that are not plastered by adverts from those tossers google ?

  • @sockington1

    Chill, man, that crap is funding all that mind-blowing shite - like FUCKING PROFFESOR STEVE HOWE here - that is a whole new reason to be alive. Anyway, all you gotta do is press that little "x" on the ad - or, better still, save the video to your hard drive

  • love this guy

  • Tremendous talent!!!

  • My favorite part is at 4:14.

  • 4:14 is the best part of this whole video.

  • 4:14 is the best part of this whole video.

  • Elrond

  • At the end of "Clap", when he looks at the audience he seems to be asking: "so you like it?" "how about you" "well, I like it". That moment his music gave me the chills, and I responded with a loud: "HELL YEAH!"

    Freaking awesome!

  • @Pregulira

    i think that this deserves a FUCK YEAH no matter what your morals happen to be, no?

  • best video on youtube

  • 13 people have the clap

  • Elrond playing a couple of songs to encourage the Fellowship to destroy the Ring! =D

  • The man is a lutist in the purest sense, just a cat with a guitar doing amazing things on the fretboard, that no one else can, and Howe refreshing! Inimitable style!

  • Does anyone know what type of guitar that is? (The second one)

    It's so thin like an electric but it sounds so full.

  • @iTzNoxy thinline nylon-strung acoustic-electric is what it's called i think, no idea of the make though :)

  • @polkusin says Gibson right inside it

  • @polkusin says Gibson right inside it

  • @OldHPAT145 so possibly it's Gibson's Chet Atkins model then, they designed a nylon-strung thinline for him

  • Apparently, sometime in the past 8 months, there have been 2 more idiots to add to your list SonicBrunoth-hard to believe, isn't it? How could anyone NOT like this demonstration of the heights that genius and musicianship can rise to produce?

  • This man is beyond a virtuoso at guitar--he is truly great in a way that relatively few musicians can ever become at their respective instruments in this life! Sincerely, BobbyK And to think, Yes was making great music when the Beatles were still together! Simply amazing! BobbyK

  • YES et Steve Howe incontournable également également pour tous les amoureux de la 6 cordes !!!

  • Steve Howe is a genuine virtuoso on guitar, and one of the greatest guitarists in the world today! Sincerely, BobbyK

  • @bobby7771117 Just one of the greatest?, he is the one

  • =einstein

  • not saying P.Keaggy or Howe is better,I'm not douche,love em both equally for different reasons,and Keaggy has never been in band like Yes, but as guitarist,Keaggy can really do it all,I mean ALL,like all the different types of rock/jazz/classical stuff Howe does,all the different stringed instruments,try em out.and Keaggy does something I've yet seen any guitarist do...he makes up ALL his own tunings..it'll twist your mind,some of his acoustical albums,the tunings

  • got another one for you Steve Howe fans,who can play ALL the stringed instruments and just as good,maybe even a little better cuz he can do the DiMeola/McLaughlin shreds too,...Phil Keaggy..check out HIS body of work..you'll be shocked,,he's been around just as long as Howe too...you actually could compare the two,their similar,apples/apples

  • De puta madre!

  • Love his facial expresions

  • I've been to six Yes shows and enjoyed each one incredibly!!! Saw Steve do his acoustic thing at Massey Hall too - that was wild!! Play on Steve -thanks for the joy!!

  • @MasterTubeTheatre thanks dude definitely looks like something worth buying :)

  • is there a dvd that has this concert footage? and what would its name be?

  • @MrJesseG123 Why yes! That would be An Evening of Yes Music Plus, I have you know :)

  • The best.

  • terrific!!!

  • 12 people in a mood because they got the clap?

  • Awesome

  • I think I would sell my foot to be able to play like that!! xxx

  • @MillieHoppy hell i sell both and my soul

  • What a guitarist-this guy is definitely one of the best out there--even now! Peace, and Steve, keep the great work coming out! Peace and Love, BobbyK

  • Still rockin' and rolling!

  • meeting him tuesday. so excited

  • Steve is just...amazing!!!

    Long live Steve!!!!!!!♥Jack, from Brazil

  • He's the overall best guitarist as voted by Guitar Player Magazine - 5 years in a row, putting in the Hall of Fame. The absolute best IMO! Steve Howe forever!!

  • The only man who can play this.

  • Steve is ONE AMAZING MUSICIAN ! Flat pickin it no less! Then the fingers!

  • Steve is ONE AMAZING MUSICIN ! Flat pickin it no less!

  • Steve is ONE AMAZING MUSICIN !

  • brilliant! I have had the honour of seeing Yes perform live, and Steve Howe blew me away...well the whole band did, but man on man this guy is sooo good!

    love it

  • Happy VD, the clap!

    (valentines day2011)

    can't wait til ash wednesday ;)

  • I saw Steve play this in 1971 or 72. Yes was the front band for Ten Years After at the time. Fragile still hadn't been released. To say we were blown away is an understatement. We made the band come back for 4 encores making Alvin Lee wait 45 minutes. When he came out, he was po'd. You could see it. Yes never opened for anyone again after that tour.

  • All the rest of 'us' average players just dream of being able to play that well! Then when we realize he wrote these tunes also its unbelievable.

  • I do believe Steve Howe won the Rolling Stone Guitarist of the year for quite a few years in a row for his excellence.

    Eddie Van Halen eventually took it..but still Yes and Howe are classic!!

    None can compare!!

  • oh and Steve Hillage is "THE MAN" by the way thebackendofabus

  • well i think its because most of the people that listen to music only want to hear songs about hawt girls or from hawt girls , and well yes sings about love not lust , love is not as hard to sell as lust so love looses the popularity game.

  • The perfect tribute to Americana and the Atkins/Travis picking style, done perfectly by an Englishman. The 7th;s and right hand picking style are spot on. If you get a chance, look up any of the short videos on Merle Travis, Chet Atkins and Joe Maphis, Steve Howe has summed up that amazing indiosyncratic style when it was totally out of favo (in 1971). I haven't listened to this in years. Fantastic.

  • MAESTRO!!!!!

    

  • Steve howe is awesome. But as a composer AND guitarist, Richard Thompson is THE MAN!! Check him out if you haven't heard of him. Often rated the greatest acoustic guitarist in popular music.

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  • @thebackendofabus There are many that consider Tommy Emmanuel as one of the best acoustic guitarists in the world also.

  • Wow

  • 11 people probably listen to Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga

  • Lord, Have Mercy!

  • Some heroes underrated such as S.Howe & Anthony Phillips...Who cares!!! They are real talents and guitar masters...

  • i feel sorry for some people that i hear saying that metal guitarist is the best or that hard rock guitarist is the best....they just miss the important part of the music.....maybe is media fault though....i am happy to be able to appreciate the good stuff...

  • @moderator67 I'm a metalhead/metal guitarist, and I totally agree with you. There's a lot of typical and generic playing in the contemporary metal world. And the metal or hard rock guitarists who are more diverse with their sound and technique get it from the old prog. bands/guitarists. Mikael Akerfeldt is a huge example.

  • Howe has always been a guitar hero of mine...One of the Greats.

  • You bunch o' gay '70's mofo's.

    Oh! Steve Howe! I want to blow him in my mothers' basement.

    Yes. He's the best. So what about it!

  • Steve, el más grande de sus tiempos y de todos los tiempos!!! Recuerdo en Rosaenz de Mendoza cuando nos juntábamos a tocar éstos temas!!! Qué buenos recuerdos eh?

  • a true maestro at work. all wannabes get some of this....lord rassy, amen to your comment, i couldn't have said better myself.

  • Steve Howe always melts my face, truly and uber technical talent. He kinda looks like a creepy guy that bagged groceries at a neighborhood market where I went to school.

  • El mejor!!!! Gracias por darnos estas hermosas melodías para nuestro corazón!!!

  • One of the most underrated guitarists of all time, saw them in Huntsville Alabama in 1976 first concert for me, what can I say! Bravo

  • steve howe looks like the crypt keeper now. lol. he's still a god at the guitar

  • 11 people wouldn't see talent and pure skill if it bit them on the arse

  • This must be track 3 from the live ABWH album. I will never understand why this guy is never mentioned with the supposedly great guitarists of our time. I've seen Yes a few times and Steve has the longest fingers that I've ever seen. Most recently was a special concert by the original Yes a couple of years ago. There he sits at a steel guitar playing it like he was born with it. Never broke out the ES 175 but he did play the Martin 000. Fantastic. It just doesn't get any better.

  • @mbreaux72 Never mind great guitarists of our time - one of the great MUSICIANS of our time!

  • @robadude32 Ditto ! It's Steve's knowledge of music and his ability to write it that makes him so great, not to mention he has the longest fingers I've ever seen. Steve, Di Meola, Page, Clapton. These are the true musicians, plus a few more.

  • I saw them in Cordoba , Argentina the last tuesday , he played this , it was AWESOME

  • Didn´t know him.... I don´t even remember how I found this video, but the guy is awesome, even better than me!

  • First rock concert I ever went to changed this 49 year old man's life. Donovan opened, solo, for YES, at Madison Square in NY, 1976. Some of you were what -- negative 15 in age back then?

    Here's to YES, learning what came before us, so we can take it where it needs to go.

    And the youtubes of the world. Where in the NOW, YOU CAN SEE THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.

    Stay well and play well, people.

    J in NY

  • 11 people don't have mood even for a year, and don't know how to clap.

  • @SonicBrunoth Hahahaha

  • @Zoso666  silly

  • @SonicBrunoth Oh come on! How can it be any good, it hasn't got a beat you can dance to!

  • @SonicBrunoth Don't be too hard on the children who don't like this. They've been raised in an age where music wasn't created by musicians but by corporate entities for the purpose of making money. The 3 minute sound bite has come of age, although most of the pap these days has a bit of a job padding out an advertising jingle to the required length; hence the dingbat talking in the middle, sorry rapping.

  • @SonicBrunoth Well played,sir

  • @SonicBrunoth Well they know how to pass around the "Clap" but I don't think a single one has the Mood for the Day.

  • Ok So who in modern rock and roll could do something like this ?

  • un kpo steve howe la verda....nunk lo habia visto....

  • un jour je jouerai comme ca!

  • i've been a Yes fan all my life...this is why. bravo

  • How refreshing!. A REAL band playing REAL instruments and creating REAL MUSIC!

    No lady gaga or rap or computerized noise. Just pure creative Rock 'n Roll at a time when genuine musical talent meant something.

  • @fairmount1935 You do realize that Yes included Rick Wakeman and other keyboardist over the years, using... synthesizers and such, right? Not trying to burst your bubble at all, your statement is still true in any case. :)

  • @fairmount1935 Great..... I agree in gender, number and level with your comment.

  • @fairmount1935 U're overreacting... rap can be very creative, and moustly intensive on it's lyrics... I love rock over all in the world, but maybe U'r too close of mind... just a thought

  • Pound for pound the greatest guitarist ever. A master of rock, blues, country, classical, slide, pedal steel.

  • There are no words for this kind of genius --

  • Steve Howe is awesome....there is no dispute.

  • Why don't we not only hear more about Howe, one of my all time favorite guitarists, but Yes as a band in general. They are certainly up there in leading edge music, musicianship, song craftsmanship . . .. everything.

  • What an icon Steve is. Did you guys know he would actually buy an extra plane ticket so he could sit next to his guitar? That is a serious musician

  • @Xtarax10  I never heard that ...i believe it !

  • @Xtarax10 Or a serious rockstar ha,ha,ha!!

  • i saw Yes around 1979 in new haven ct Steve played this masterpiece the concert was in the round i thought i had crappy seats and when i got there i was six rows back.One of my all time favorite shows!!

  • fanfuckingtastic....... 

  • y para cerrar la velada, STEVE HOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • Wonderful guitar music. Howe is extraordinary and possibly the most unique of all, and I'm including Morse, my all time favorite in there. I saw Yes in early 2010 and they were fantastic. Really really fantastic.

  • el es un dios de la guitarra

  • incredible

  • beautifully amazing, The Greatest Musician of the 20th century for sure.

  • Terrific

  • my god, this video makes me smile

  • His acoustic play is a great mixture of rock, jazz, spanish and folk and many more. I hope I could play like him someday!

  • Blimey.

  • "The Clap" is his tribute to Chet Atkins, which is obvious. I once read an interview with Howe where he was asked why he named this "The Clap"; especially given the term's use as a nickname for an STD. He said the title had nothing to do with that, it was him "clapping" for Chet Atkins, as Chet changed the way he thought about and approached the guitar.

    BRAVO, MR. HOWE!!!!!

  • @dmreeoogdaq Thanks! I wondered for ages.

  • I bow down to you master howe

  • En cuanto a the clap,es una mezcla de picardia,humor y trascendencia..Es que el ser espiritual no excluye al vagabundo de Chaplin que conquista el amor de la ciega obligandose a pasar por rico, o que come de la mesa del rico pagando a cambio con una demostración de principios..Finalmente trasciende tanto que pareciera como si un dios se riese tambien a carcajadas...Sublime composición,.

  • La belleza de este tema se sustenta en su dualidad cual somete sus texturas,Mood for a Day es una suma de lo clásico y lo popular,el sentimiento que evoca es tan personal de Howe como su busqueda de un sonido que se interne en el espíritu humano para lograr su conciliación..Esa tristeza es pasajera,la tristeza no debiera durar mas de un día y va acompañada de la lucha por retirarla y superarla.

  • You didn't need the video to know that is Steve Howe!!!

  • As a first time spectator (i know, stfu) this guy is the fucking pwnage.

  • he's a god - but his clothes...

  • steve howe is a guitar maestro! one of the best ever for sure...YES

  • Un-fa-Nominal!

  • Master Howe is right.

  • casi irreal...

  • Howe is brilliant. I keep banging on about Wakeman to my friends but I can't forget the other members. Even so, what on earth is he wearing? It looks like a cross between a suit and pyjamas.

  • Much as I like and admire Steve Howe, I do wish he would stop messing around with Clap. Why fix something that aint bust? The Yes Album version was the original and best. I have to say that some amateur guitarists on YT are coming very to close to that too. Look in my fav's for a prime example. He should also have stayed away from playing the, nylon strung, classical guitar. He is very clumsy when he ventures in that direction.

    On the Gibson he is unsurpassed!

  • @Gangly1

    Well that's nice, but not everyone agrees.

  • @Gangly1 Well the original may be the best, but I for one hate when musicians play their solos exactly the same way every time. He always plays Mood on nylon.

  • @stalrunner

    Mood is not as difficult as he tries to make it appear. Even I can play it...and I have a day job! His unnecessary opening passage is clumsy and disjointed. Admit it.

  • @Gangly1 I never said it wasn't. I only said that he always plays it on nylon. I find no fault with the opening.

  • well....Clapton is god....

    but Howe is his father.

  • @kraeckerr SRV is The Son and PAGE is The Holy Ghost!!

  • He's not Steve Howe, HE IS APOLLO! Beautiful!

  • troppo forte!!!

  • @nestorbenga80

    STUPENDOOOOO!

  • mess up at 6:53 ?

  • One of the best guitarists EVER!!!!!!

  • He quotes the music from the Fellini film La Strada (by Nino Rota) before he starts "Mood..." Very cool! Its on Youtube...I don't know how to link to video...

  • I can't understand why the media rant & rave about the likes of Hendrix & Clapton, but guys like Howe & Hackett are unheard of by comparison. I only know Steve Howe through my dad.

    Just goes to show, the music media couldn't care less about actual 'music', what's more important is 'image' and 'cultural significance'. Plus, the fact that the music media has waged a war against anything remotely prog rock since the sex pistols came along.

  • @LordRassy maybe because only you and i, and some other few prog lovers are interested in this. most of people likes instead "pop", meant in every way, also as guitar playing. unfortunately the "war" has been done by people who buy records, preferring punk instead of prog, and not by music media or labels. they simply work for people's demands... the problem has always been "our friends don't like our same strange music"

  • @LordRassy Yeah you're absolutely right.

    Do you know why?

    It's all about the looks man, especially these days.

    And Yes is a great band but even in the 80's when they hit it big with Owner of a Lonely Heart most bandmembers were allready 40/50 years old so that was always a problem, Hendrix didn't have that probleem because he became an idol with his upside down guitar ''magical'' clothing and afro hair do.

  • @MrDunkJunk Really sad because I prefer Howe over Hendrix and Clapton anyday.

    Listen to the track Shock to the System and other songs like that.. it isn't always difficult or very technical but the sound that comes out of his guitar is always mindblowing..

  • @LordRassy Well the Pistols were much better than Yes ;-)

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  • @novakproperties

    it's the first time that someone said something like that.......my god......

  • @LordRassy Couldn't agree more! Steve Howe & Dave Gilmour are the real guitar heroes for me, but especially Steve Howe - a bloody genius that guy!

  • @LordRassy

    I wasn't aware that I'd created an account called LordRassy...

    Or can you just read my mind. Howe and Hackett make Hendrix and Clapton appear quite ordinary when it comes to pure ability.

  • @BevelBob just need to stop trying to classify anybody. thank you

  • @LordRassy Apples and oranges man..all are amazing players just with WAY different styles ..Music media haha.,,,they're stupid.. Just look how they passed over RUSH for the R&R hall of fame again this year..37 gold n platinum albums isnt good enough i guess LMAO

  • @LordRassy : so well expressed, and I couldn't agree with you more.

  • @LordRassy

    Howe was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" in Guitar Player magazine five years in a row (1977–1981)

  • @LordRassy yeah same i only heard of steve through my dad id only been exposed to the guitar through the likes of hendrix,clapton ....etc. i know for a fact those guys have nothing on steve howe in terms of the guitar thankgod other generations can now apreciate him through these youtube videos

  • @TheReilly8 thats not true my friend. Hendrix was a genius. You can't compare the mind of a psychadelic player to the mind of a prog guitarist. In terms of technical ability and versatility, sure he's better. But when you look at it, learning and getting good at a lot of styles isn't the same as being a sonic visionary. granted howe had that to a degree, but one listen to All Along the Watch Tower or Bold as Love and you can hear that no one ever did that before Hendrix. He deserves the credit.