Guitar men in a row - Live

I'm gonna do like a farm kid and go 4H

Holdsworth>Hackett>Howe>Hillage

richardh wrote: I've seen Howe 8 times (Yes between 1995 and 2005 and with Dylan his son a couple of times after that and once with Asia on the Phoenix tour), Hackett 3 times with his band and Fripp just the once with the 3 drummers line up. Hard to weigh them up on those numbers.  It's a random thought but I would love to have seen any of them play with Keith Emerson then I would know which I prefer! I find it odd that Howe has almost become a villain in modern prog circles for his apparent vice like grip on Yes. He always comes across as affable and personable as does Hackett. Fripp has always been an odd sort but his marriage to Toyah has done him a power of good and I find myself warming to him. I suppose it's Howe > Hackett > Fripp but really they are all equals.

Richard,

It's interesting that Howe gets the hate for his iron grip on Yes when it was Chris Squire who canned Jon Anderson for monetary demands he made of the band and not being honest about his health which led to Yes cancelling a tour. Yes had waited on Anderson for about 4 years to start touring again and that was the last straw for Squire.

What's interesting is Alan White, by all rights a decent person was in agreement with Squire on firing Anderson ( as was Howe). Anderson seems to get a pass by many when it comes to Anderson not being in Yes. It seems that the band, also didn't particularly care for how demanding Anderson could be or that in some instances undermined members in the band in the studio. Upon Squire's death the rights to the name Yes passed to Howe, which is what Squire wanted.

As for Keith Emerson and you may know this being a fan of Emerson, he stated the one guitarist that he wanted to play in a band with was Howe. Apparently, they had jammed together after guitarist David O'List had been sacked by the band, The Nice, for being unreliable. It went well and Emerson asked Howe to join the Nice. Howe declined for some reason. But both Emerson and Howe had a lot of respect for each other going forward from that jam session.



Edited by Big Sky - 13 hours 30 minutes ago at 21:02