We saw Martin and Steve played last night. While Martin Taylor's playing is effortless, Steve seems to rush a bit when he is playing ( at least for the first two pieces).
Martin Taylor is from Scotland. He is currently living in France. He can speak french while Steve does not understand a word in french.
Their concert is refreshing, very nice, and relaxing too. Some blues, some folk, some scottish folk, some pop , some jazz, and some country too. The Jazz way of playing with Martin, combined to a more pop and progressive way of playing with Steve. This mixture is fun when they are playing together. Great complicity, great musicianship, and also a great sens of humor.
Martin Taylor is very funny. He is very talented as a guitarist and with his natural way of playing. He is also talented for telling jokes. He said that maybe he should become a stand up comick for a second carreer. He is right about it, because many times during this concert, we were smiling and laughing. Even the serious Steve was smiling to his friend jokes and to his way of playing the guitar.
I think that playing with his friend Martin make Steve Howe surpass himself, and improve his way of playing. He does not have any other choice, because he knows that his friend Martin is somekind of a good guitarist. Even after a good pieces of Martin, Steve said : What should I play after that ? ( meaning, I know that I can not surpassed it, or it will be difficult to play better...). Steve play a song on the Fragile album.
Anyway, the audience was happy after the show. Steve and Martin came after to sign autograph on items. We did not stay, because we had to go home ( baby sitter...). It's pretty rare that international star comes in our suburban cities, so it was a concert not to miss.
Nice evening
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Steve Howe & Martin Taylor live Canada
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