Steve Howe & Steve Hackett - 1986 - Good Morning America - New York City

[vivelavidarocka]

My God she just can't take her eyes out of Hackett. She barely looks at Howe even while addressing him.

What a let down GTR was. Just an outlet for Hackett to get MTV airplay and be introduced to a new generation.

[vivelavidarocka]

Seeing rock musicians in morning shows is like seeing vampires at Denny's having breakfast

[SPECTRE1961]

Howe ... The best option -> John Wetton !

Hackett ... The best option -> John Wetton/Tokyo Tapes - 1996

Max Bacon ... A nice guy, just a nice guy !

GTR ... With Trevor Rabin ... Who knows ?

[guitarreilly]

i feel really sorry for steve howe this is only in 86 and you can already see how badly hes aging he probably didnt take that much drugs in the 70s although im not sure. i think it must be hard cus when he was younger he was a decent lookin dude can somebody tell me if he had some sort of illness im not makin fun i just wanna know

[TheMusicalBox22]

@guitarreilly Steve Howe always lived very healthy so that's kinda the irony! saw him play live 2 months ago. looking like a corps almost but very very energetic! he's the best! :)

[guitarreilly]

@TheMusicalBox22 yeah i didnt think he was into drugs i think his aging has made him quite bitter i met once on holiday randomly and we were praising him and al that and he was quite rude and seemed to want to get away from us like we were herassing him or something

[TheMusicalBox22]

@guitarreilly ooh you met him! woa so jealous!! i always thought of him to be a silent man, tried to live out of the spotlights, just loves to perform :) but I'm not sure either. I'm only 19 so haven't been around for that long haha!

[guitarreilly]

@TheMusicalBox22 yeah im only 18 met him when i was 16 told him he was an amazing guitarist and my idol and tried to shake his hand and hes slapped it instead i learnt later that he doesnt like to shake fans hands incase his hands get damaged i mean cmon that is bloody weird and ridiculous he hasnt lost me as a fan i still love his music and that

[TheMusicalBox22]

@guitarreilly oh haha I'm even older! didn't expect that. At the Yes concert people asked me if my father forced me to come. lol! but that indeed is strange of him.. good thing ur still a fan though! Saw Hackett a week after i saw Yes, he seemed much more relaxed. He was quit funny! and awesome haha. :)

[guitarreilly]

@TheMusicalBox22 haha yeah i went to a yes concert a year ago with my dad loads of old guys desperately hangin on to their last bit of head hair it was great they sounded so tight but my dad got kinda depressed as he first saw them in 1971 when they pllayed the yes album and now he was watching a bunch of old guys bangin out their back catalogue not even all the mebers were their only steve howe, chris squire and alan white

[moucon]

@guitarreilly I saw them a couple summers ago - sounded fine but honestly one of the most boring concerts I've ever been to. Save their 2-3 rock radio hits, the rest of the stuff is very monotonous - goes nowhere. Steve did play great though - they all did - it's the material that doesn't cut it.

[jsilence418]

If you took all the product off that broads face and hair, her fuckin head would fall off !

[redpola]

I think that's what Frank Zappa referred to as "processed" hair.

[zalpobalpo]

Once off screen, the 2 Steves ended up in a threesome with the backcombed mane chick

[zzzxxyy]

Joan Lunden was a hot, but dumb reporter. She was the worst. Remember her interviewing Frank Zappa for that ABC special around 1987/88? Ugh.

[dfaband]

You gotta love how Steve Howe looks like he has just recently been dragged through a thorn bush by his ankles in this interview. Love both guitarists.

[yairisan1]

@dfaband Look at him now: like he was dragged through a thorn bush by his ankles 35 years ago. He's pleasantly normal in this video. These days he up his own arse and prattles on like some old fart, actually believing what he's crapping on about is of any interest to anyone. Silly old wanker.

[BigWhiteTurkey]

Steve Howe was the driver of creativity... and now you know.

Actually, you can hear it. Just simply listen to the demo tapes - what do they call them - You can hear it. Practice tapes.

[afffred]

funny looking hot girl with weird hair...

[bigbadbob58]

Calling Steve Howe being called a "rock guitar" player is almost an insult. These guys are 2 talented guitar players...

[howedelamitri]

I cherish any old footage like this of Howe or the other bands I love. big thanks for uploading

[xsited1]

I came here to see Ralph Macchio and all I saw was two long-haired hippie guitarists.

[ShiningRedMoon]

@xsited1 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooh poor boy! want a cookie?

[jezkn]

Shocking lack of research - what an ignorant woman. Cringeworthy

[tremblantbear]

What a stupid dumb interviewer, she barely had knowledge of whom she was intterwiewing, In UK and Quebec, the guys are well respected... I guess the Blokes just simply complied, Hey if Britney Spears can make it, let's play the game, pitty rubbish...

[tremblantbear]

F*** BLABALBLA with bling blings and all, I don'tsubsribe to that F* BS. 2 Great Bands YES, and sorry for Genesis, when Steve HAckett left the Band, they sucked.

[tonkertoy1966]

she could eat my ballpark anytime

[miamigroove]

Joan Lunden = HOTT

[harveydents]

@miamigroove OMG yes...i thought i was the only person who thought she washot!

[observer127]

Thanks for posting this...I am asking for anyone if they have Hackett and Howe on MTV when they were Guest VJs on video??? I can't seem to find it on the Web.

[harveydents]

wow....now they have douchebags like the RACIST KAYNE WEST....who calls himself a genius....HACKETT and HOWE didnt call themselves geniuses they ARE GENIUSES their MUSIC SPEAKS FOR THEM.....KAYNE's "MUSIC" is just filled with hate

[BeethovenCDF]

@harveydents

of course he's racist he's black!!



[harveydents]

@BeethovenCDF ummmm no....i have friends that are black..they are not racist....THAT is a racist comment you made!

[cykoaudio777]

steve hackett also one of most underrated guitarists all time..EVH got his tapping thing from Hackett,he said it...and would Howe play w/anyone who wasn't up to his caliber...and for anyone who is wowed by Howes ability to play every stringed instrument and well,check out Phil Keaggy,maybe most underrated guitarist all time

[analogueaddict]

I bet Steve wasn't too happy about the ads that followed the interview: he is a vegetarian.

[analogueaddict]

@analogueaddict that's Steve HOWE btw

[1992Drummer]

Boy, the moment the lady at the end explained what it was like to see a ball park frank plump up, I was like "Damn, I remember the moment I first saw a ball park frank plump!" Ahhhhh, good times, good times

[stokepogue]

Give the Steves a Ball Park Frank.

[maxcohen13]

Joan Lunden looks so sweet and wholesome.

I want to do naughty things to her.

[PeterMayer]

@maxcohen13 love that 70,80s look that woman had. Dresses, skirts...

[fraterlucifer888]

wow this is from when joe piscapo had a career lol

[MatthuStull]

Steve Howe: "that gives us pleasure" .... this is really fun, i'm surprised to see these guys on this show... whoa

[Quantanthead]

Two of my favorite guitarists from two of my favorite groups.

[SPeacock]

Who'd win in a guitar duel/stand-off? Hackett or Howe? :)

[MsBkirk]

@SPeacock There's only one way to find out...FIGHT!

[SPeacock]

@MsBkirk Amusing thought :) If by fight you mean a guitar battle and not an actual hand-to-hand fight.

[MatthuStull]

@SPeacock  i think we would win if we got to see it !!!! :)

[MarcoWriedt]

my two major influences!

[Forsure3333]

She would look better with long hair.

[TheReilly8]

good answers from the lads

[JonWRowe]

What happened to Howe's teeth?  They look better then than now?

[dettigs]

@JonWRowe yeah, steve is a great guitarist and cool as hell, but the last 25 years look like they've been physically rough on him. still a living legend!!!!

[MRDJBUNZ]

@JonWRowe He was much younger back then. That interview was 25 years ago.

[xeractus]

Oh GTR, the biggest dissapointment ever. Yes they made pop music that wasn't that bad really, but when you put Hackett & Howe together in one band you expect sooo much more. A shame it all fell apart so quickly. And odd that the production of the album generally buried the guitars in the mix, heh.

[eddievhfan1984]

@xeractus Dude, the guitars were driving the synths. And hey, after the 70's both of them were trying to distance themselves from prog rock--it became the foot fetish of the music world, you could say. So building a 20-minute epic in 11/8 wasn't exactly what worked for the time. :P

[4321micro]

It was a time when television was television. Today television is garbage.

Besides that Steve Howe is the greatest guitarist.

[westrokker]

what a disgrace cutting to a ballpark franks commercial in the presence of genius! that was embarrassing for them im sure.

[skintrade]

I find steves 80s costumes amusing

[degree7]

80s commercials..... glad we've left those behind.

[torstn]

@degree7 you really think todays are better?

[degree7]

@torstn

For the most part, commercials are f*cking boring, at least here we have hot asian ladies eating sausages.

But have you seen those Mayhem commercials for All State? I LIVE for those!

[gtrDan1963]

Both these guys are legends. Saw GTR back in 1986. Great show...

Though out of her depth topic wise, Joan Lunden was then and still is majorly hot !

[butcherbird52]

Steve "I left my so-called successful band in 1977"

whataguy.

[bstensland]

@butcherbird52 You have to agree. Although the BEST music from Genesis WAS when Hackett was in the band...like him, I believe that once Peter left the band, Phil was fine on vocals, but his Pop ethics made the consecutive albums musically worse, but commercially better. Steve left after the album Wind & Wuthering, and the music left with Hackett. Too bad the success of Genesis was based on the "units moved".So, in closing it wasn't "successful" until he left the band!

[Cerebralcinema]

GTR didn't stand for "guitar" incidentally. Being the gentlemen they were, they didn't correct her.

[DarkeningSkies1]

Two of my all time favorite guitar players- now if only they had made a tasteful instrumental guitar duet record, with a band on a few tracks for some off the wall electric stuff and not the utter garbage that was GTR. I mean, Max Bacon guys? Really?

[jsb779]

4:51 - mmmmmm

[tankerman25]

Both was bad ass Howe was more Genesis

[scitsalcoryp]

I knew I was gonna laugh my ass off before one word was uttered..

JL was a foxy li'l babe 'tho

[itsme111478]

4:49 Holy shit!!! That hot dog was making her wet!

[goosesquash]

Joan Lunden does come off like a total ditz in this interview. I'm sure the guys had a big laugh after this was over!!!

[AragornIsStrider]

There's something always inherently funny about watching a total square interview an artist.

[MsBkirk]

@AragornIsStrider Anne Diamond's 'Is it true you travelled in a breadvan?' question to Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford looms large in this viewer's memory, speaking of total squares and ditzes!

[siremaesta]

That chick had no idea who she was talking to, you could tell she had never heard about Yes or Genesis, ever.

[bluesboy68]

Maybe GTR should have used Ball Park and Jello as sponsors for the tour. LOL

[treetoptop]

Lol, that pretty but ditzy lady didn't have her facts straight. She asked Hackett if he was nervous to have left his successful big band for GTR. Hackett tells her that he left his "big band" in 1977! lol

[matic3060]

Wow...Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, some chick eating a hotdog and Jell-O all in one vid! Can't go wrong with this one! 5 stars and favorited!

[lamecasuelas2]

@matic3060 yes and if you think about it,it seems that was a nice time for guitar "crossovers",a few years before we had andy summers and robert fripp playing together,those are the kind of thigs that make you shit your pants

[pinkfloydrule27]

these 2 collaborating was absolutely amazing, GTR not the best album ever but the tour they did for GTR was absolutely incredible an acoustic set from each a collabarative guitar solo then some genesis and yes songs absolutely amazing

[hawkhandsaw]

Virtuoso ROCK guitarists! Master ROCK guitarists! LOL!

[hawkhandsaw]

First a bubble gum interview with two geniuses and then...Ralph Macchio, Joe Piscopo, Jello and Ball Park Franks! That little groan of delight when the woman bit into the hotdog should have been censored! She enjoyed that a little too much! Mmmmm! Beef, pork and VEEEAAALLLLL!!!!!! Come on Steve and Steve! Step right up and dig in! We prepared these especially for you two! And just for being on our show, as a way of saying thanks and good luck, a year's supply of Jello and Ball Park Franks!!!