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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S6E3: Steve Howe

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy get to meet a real-life guitar hero of theirs – the wonderful Steve Howe.

Steve takes us through his journey from psychedelia to prog, from the Syndicats to Yes, to Asia and even his collaboration with Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The Classic Tales of Yes tour returns to the UK in May and includes a special show at the Royal Albert Hall in June. Find out more at www.yesworld.com

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.



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0:00.0

Hello Guy.

0:01.6

And you know 50 years ago today, I've just found this out.

0:04.4

Slaughter on 10th Avenue came out.

0:06.7

Now, I don't know what that means to you.

0:08.4

Mick Ronson-Sellum.

0:09.5

No, I remember Mick Ronson-Sellum.

0:11.0

And it was a very, I remember being a very big deal, it being made to look like a very big deal at the time

0:16.5

but it didn't quite land did it? It didn't quite land but I I loved it and it was a big influence on me I think as a guitar player I particularly

0:25.2

love Slaughter on 10th Avenue the sound of his guitar the sound of his guitar I just thought

0:32.4

was so exquisite so vocal and and I just wanted to mention because I had that most amazing experience

0:39.4

You know because he was one of the big influences in my life as a guitar player.

0:43.0

That I went and found that guitar, you know, years later.

0:47.0

In Monte Carlo, wasn't it?

0:49.0

I did a documentary and I think it was for Sky Arts and it was about Mick Ronson and part of the journey as you say on TV

0:56.0

it was to go and find this guitar and it's a bit of a disappointment when you see it to be honest now

1:00.3

because I remember that guitar looking so sort of strange it was a

1:05.3

blonde front but it was basically raw wood at the front it was a it was a Lespool

1:09.2

custom black that had been stripped it hadn't stripped it and then it had all got smashed up but you know one

1:13.6

he dropped it when he was playing with the inner hunter broke the neck off it was all

1:18.4

strapped and he ended up in the back of milk mid-uea's wardrobe. What? Yes.

1:23.2

In the back of Miduas Wallrobe.

1:26.8

You know, S. Lewis kind of vibe, you know, go to the back of the

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