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Steve Howe - Quantum Guitar Audio CD

A fair review of the Steve Howe "Quantum Guitar" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Steve Howe reviews here, or go back to the Steve Howe tabs.

Steve Howe Band: Steve Howe
Title: Quantum Guitar
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Release Date: 1998-04-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Walk, Don't Run 2: Collector 3: Light Walls 4: Mosaic 5: Suddenly 6: Country Viper 7: Mainland 8: Knights of Carmelite 9: Paradox 10: Momenta 11: Sleep Walk 12: Sovereigns 13: Totality 14: Solid Ground 15: Great Seige 16: Cacti Garden 17: Southern Accent

Uplifting Guitar Instrumentals From A Virtuoso
This album is a great showcase for his talents, and finds him playing all of the instruments except the drums. Steve Howe has to be one of the great guitar players of all time, a "guitar player's" player. It features multi-layered guitar tapestries with uplifting melodies and themes, and his take on "Walk Don't Run" and "Sleep Walk", two guitar classic standards, show his appreciation for the past and his ability to take it a step further with both class and excitement. Highly recommended if you are into guitar instrumentals.


Amazing One-Dimensional

Another word would be: monotonous. One word best describes this album: excess.

Put these two words together and you have one of Steve Howe's most boring solo efforts. Which is too bad, really, because there is such promise in the premise.

Basically this album tends to be explorations on only a couple sets of music ideas: rock and roll. Steve sets up a simple rhythmic foundation (kept in strict metronomic fashion by his son, Dylan, who knows not how to play drums with any style or substance), and then proceeds to noodle around with solos.

It's rather like the most boring jazz. There is little structure and arranging here.

I think the reason why this was such a let-down is because TURBULENCE, his previous all-instrumental album, was such a masterpiece. I expected more of the same.

What I got was triteness disguised as musicianship, all wrapped up in one of the worst album covers imaginable.


Great Music + Great Playing
This is my first Steve Howe solo album - I was quite pleased. What a pleasure to listen to this guy play! The songs are very listenable, and his guitar playing is really thrilling. I've been listening to the CD A LOT lately. The guy is quite talented, and we in the audience are lucky to enjoy it.


One of Steve Howe's finest solo efforts.
What seperates this picker from other players is his unique sense of melody. This, and perhaps The Steve Howe Album, are the stonger solo efforts by this exceptional guitarist. Where he certainly plays a lot of notes it never comes across as overplaying as he never strays too far from the melody. His compositional skills are diverse and eclectic. Howe plays all of the instruments here with the exception of the drum kit. His son Dylan accompanies him here and does a serviceable job. Not yet a musical peer of his Dad but does not detract from the effort. This is a fine recording, one well worth obtaining. . . Simon.


Howe in his element
Steve plays dozens of guitars (and everything else but drums, handled by his son, Dylan) and the textures and tones are astounding. If you like Steve Howe's work wih Yes, as a solo artist, or if you just like great guitar playing, this cd is most definitely for you. His cover of "Walk,Don't Run" rocks very hard and could easily be the theme music at any live sporting event---its that cool. The styles here range from Texas swing to Yes-ish prog. Since you'll never hear any of this great music on the radio---of course---you owe it to yourself to get this marvelous collection of Steve Howe artistry.


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